Volume 1: "Symbolic Computing" Volume 2: "Advanced Techniques" Volume 3: "Beyond Programming" This series is for people--adults and teenagers--who are interested in computer programming because it's f
An adventure story set against the backdrop of a son trying to understand his father.After a 25-year break from boating, Brian Harvey circumnavigates Vancouver Island with his wife, his dog, and a box
Piano tuner Frank Ryan is paid in kind by an aging music teacher with an old manuscript that turns out to be Beethoven’s Tenth Symphony. Launched into a world of intrigue and violence, Ryan, an unlike
Illustrated with photographs from Soviet Venus and Mars probes, images of spacecraft, diagrams of flight paths and maps of landing sites, this book draws on published scientific papers, archives, memo
For piano tuner and jazz musician Frank Ryan, what starts out as a holiday in Japan turns into a painful lesson in cultural differences. A faceless foreigner in a city of thirteen million, Frank finds
Named by Globe and Mail to Globe100, a list of the 100 best and most influential books of 2009 Shedding light on the misuse of science, this investigation presents an innovative form of environmental
The Rebirth of the Russian Space Programlooks at the Russian space programme in 2007, 50 years after Sputnik. Brian Harvey covers all the key elements of the current Russian space program
In October 2003 Yang Liwei made history as the first Chinese citizen in space, orbiting the globe 14 times in the Shenzhou 5. The Chinese space program has sometimes been called the last of the secre
A first, comprehensive account of the development of Europe’s highly successful space programme.- Explains the politics, science and organisation of the European Space Programme and the many technolog
Until the Apollo-Soyuz flight of 1972, the Russian Space Program was shrouded in such complete secrecy that only rumors of failures (or catastrophes) reached the West. This comprehensive history of t
This series is for people—adults and teenagers—who are interested in computer programming because it's fun. The three volumes use the Logo programming language as the vehicle for an exploration of com
This series is for people—adults and teenagers—who are interested in computer programming because it's fun. The three volumes use the Logo programming language as the vehicle for an exploration of com
An introductory level text for students who are not majoring in computer science, as well as for computer science majors with no prior programming experience. This text teaches computer science from a
This series is for people—adults and teenagers—who are interested in computer programming because it's fun. The three volumes use the Logo programming language as the vehicle for an explo
