Auteur: Edmond François Valentin About, né le 14 février 1828 à Dieuze et mort le 16 janvier 1885 à Paris, est un écrivain, journaliste et critique d’art français, membre de l’Académie française.
Le livre est disponible ici
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
La Grèce contemporaine de Edmond About
Ce livre, écrit en 1851, raconte les souvenirs du séjour en Grèce de l’Edmond About (1852-1854). Il décrit les Grecs comme un peuple de moines, de fonctionnaires et de brigands, qui met toute sa finesse à duper l’Europe en exploitant chez elle la religion de l’antique Hellade. Un livre plein d’ironie et de satire, qui reste toujours d’actualité surtout avec la crise de la dette dans ce pays.
Auteur: Edmond François Valentin About, né le 14 février 1828 à Dieuze et mort le 16 janvier 1885 à Paris, est un écrivain, journaliste et critique d’art français, membre de l’Académie française.
Le livre est disponible ici
Auteur: Edmond François Valentin About, né le 14 février 1828 à Dieuze et mort le 16 janvier 1885 à Paris, est un écrivain, journaliste et critique d’art français, membre de l’Académie française.
Le livre est disponible ici
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Dix livres incroyables de Prodinnova
Have you ever wondered why you wouldn’t feel the burn if your arm could extend and reach the Sun? Why maternity clinics would be needed on future interplanetary vessels? Why extraterrestrials, if they exist, would be very different from how they are depicted in science fiction movies? Why these extraterrestrials may have originated from our Earth? This book tries to answer these questions and many others using a scientific approach in a witty style.
First published in 1915, a best-seller in the 1920s and long out of print, Interplanetary Travel is a short excursion into space physics. Using conundrums, entertaining examples, and unexpected comparisons, Yakov Perelman dispelled some of the public prejudice that prevailed against celestial mechanics and physics of being too abstract and unable to nourish the mind. He explored, in a witty style, the opportunity of successfully completing the flights imagined in some novelists’ wildest fantasies. He checked and corrected their boldest ideas. Even today, this book remains a reference for science students around the world.
This book is a collection of several physics and mathematics experiments. Many of them are simple pastimes meant for the recreation of young and old, assembled round the family table. Others, on the contrary, being of a really scientific character, are designed to introduce the reader to the study of Physics and mathematics. Regardless of their nature, all the experiments can be carried out without any special apparatus and are consequently without the least expense. Instruments used include kitchen utensils, corks, matches, glasses, and plates. The book is very useful for the young physicist who wishes to entertain his friends. It will show him not only how to do things by which he can render himself more entertaining than the best talker or the best joker in the company, but will reveal to him a hundred things by which he can amuse and astonish everybody he knows. The book is equally useful for the teacher who wishes to create in his students an interest in science. It will enable him to illustrate scientific principles, and render his instructions as interesting as an Arabian tale.
Published in 1913, a best-seller in the 1930s and long out of print, Physics for Entertainment was translated from Russian into many languages and influenced science students around the world. Among them was Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman, the Russian mathematician (unrelated to the author), who solved the Poincaré conjecture, and who was awarded and rejected the Fields Medal. Grigori’s father, an electrical engineer, gave him Physics for Entertainment to encourage his son’s interest in mathematics. In the foreword, the book’s author describes the contents as “conundrums, brain-teasers, entertaining anecdotes, and unexpected comparisons,” adding, “I have quoted extensively from Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Mark Twain and other writers, because, besides providing entertainment, the fantastic experiments these writers describe may well serve as instructive illustrations at physics classes.” The book’s topics included how to jump from a moving car, and why, “according to the law of buoyancy, we would never drown in the Dead Sea.” Ideas from this book are still used by science teachers today.
You don’t know that much about mathematics and physics. You don’t understand everything about rockets, satellites, or interplanetary flights. But you dream of flying to other planets and want to know everything needed to do it. You want to understand the principles of rockets and spaceships. You want to know why extraterrestrial space stations are needed and why studying other planets helps us understand our Earth. This book simply and clearly answers these questions and much more.
This is another book is Yakov Perelman's successful series of science books. Presented in an easy form, well within the reach of most astronomy amateurs, it is useful introduction to this science. Through five key chapters (the Earth, the Moon, planets, stars, and gravitation), the author analyses the most important aspects of modern astronomy.
The purpose of the book is to initiate the reader into the basic facts of astronomy. Ordinary facts with which you may be acquainted are couched here in unexpected paradoxes, or slanted from an odd and unexpected angle. The theme is, as far as possible, free from “terminology” and technical concepts that so often make the reader shy of books on astronomy. The book contains chapters relating to the Earth, the Moon and other planets. The author has concentrated on materials not usually discussed in works of this nature. This book is written in a witty style and remains a reference for astronomy students around the world.
This book contains hundreds of colorful stories from the field of physics. Despite their entertaining appearance, they address several important and serious notions in this field. This book does not seek to replace school textbooks. Its purpose is to entice the reader to consciously observe physical phenomena, including the simplest ones which we have learned to ignore in our everyday life. It allows the reader to amass evidence about physical laws, and engage in a systematic study of physics.
You don’t know that much about physics. You don’t understand everything about gravity, magnetism, electricity or light, but you are curious and want to know more about these fields. This book helps you reaching this objective using many instructive and entertaining experiments. These are simple enough to be carried out using everyday objects at home or around it. They will fascinate not only teenagers but also adults who want to understand some of nature’s fundamental laws and use them in their daily lives.
Fun with Maths and Physics details a large number of intriguing physics experiments, entertaining mathematics problems, and amazing optical illusions. The book’s main objective is to arouse the reader’s scientific imagination, teach him to think in a scientific manner, and create in his mind a variety of associations between physical knowledge and a large number of real daily life observations. Immensely instructive and entertaining, it has been one of the best sellers in Russia during the first part of last century.
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Physics for entertainment
Published in 1913, a best-seller in the 1930s and long out of print, Physics for Entertainment was translated from Russian into many languages and influenced science students around the world. Among them was Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman, the Russian mathematician (unrelated to the author), who solved the Poincaré conjecture, and who was awarded and rejected the Fields Medal. Grigori’s father, an electrical engineer, gave him Physics for Entertainment to encourage his son’s interest in mathematics. In the foreword, the book’s author describes the contents as “conundrums, brain-teasers, entertaining anecdotes, and unexpected comparisons,” adding, “I have quoted extensively from Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Mark Twain and other writers, because, besides providing entertainment, the fantastic experiments these writers describe may well serve as instructive illustrations at physics classes.” The book’s topics included how to jump from a moving car, and why, “according to the law of buoyancy, we would never drown in the Dead Sea.” Ideas from this book are still used by science teachers today.
The book is available here
Saturday, April 25, 2015
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
La maréchale d'Octave Mirbeau
Présentation de l'éditeur
Dans La Maréchale, Mirbeau-Bauquenne met à profit un fait-divers pathétique sur lequel il a enquêté pour le compte du Gaulois et qui lui a permis de découvrir un personnage exceptionnel, shakespearien même, modèle de l’héroïne éponyme : la princesse de la Moskova (1803-1881), fille du banquier Jacques Laffitte. Ce fait-divers est l’occasion rêvée pour montrer que, dans une société mercantile où tout se vend et s’achète, la liberté aussi a un prix, et que, dans un univers où règne la loi du plus fort, l’innocence doit être inéluctablement sacrifiée à l’injustice établie. Sous son masque de respectabilité, le “monde” apparaît de nouveau comme un repaire de débauchés sans scrupules, qui amassent des millions grâce à de louches spéculations et de pendables trafics, et les jettent par la fenêtre dans des activités dérisoires et de coûteuses représentations, où règne l’hypocrisie. La critique sociale est infiniment plus virulente que chez Daudet !
Biographie de l'auteur
Octave Mirbeau, né le 16 février 1848 à Trévières et mort le 16 février 1917 à Paris, est un écrivain, critique d’art et journaliste français.
Le livre est disponible ici
Saturday, April 18, 2015
"On a transformé la crise américaine en crise européenne de la dette publique" (Piketty) - 17/04/2015
Thomas Piketty a reçu une énième récompense pour son livre "Le capital au XXIe siècle". vendu à plus de 1,5 million d'exemplaires. Jeudi 16 avril, lors d'une matinale de l"économie organisée à l"Assemblée nationale, il s'est vu remettre une édition originale de "L'homme qui valait 40 écus", un conte de Voltaire critiquant de la pression fiscale sur les pauvres dans le royaume français au XVIIIe siècle.
Le livre est disponible ici
Le livre est disponible ici
Sunday, April 12, 2015
Histoire de la Commune de 1871
En 1876, après de longues recherches journalistiques et historiques, Prosper-Oliver Lissagaray publie L’histoire de la commune de 1871, éditée à Bruxelles par Henry Kistemaeckers, mais interdite en France et diffusée sous le manteau. Eleanor Marx, fille cadette de Karl Marx, s’est éprise de lui lors de son exil à Londres, de 1871 à 1880. C’est Eleanor qui va ainsi traduire l’Histoire de la Commune de 1871 en anglais. Dans ce livre, Lissagaray donne un témoignage de premier plan sur la manière dont un acteur de l’événement concevait le rôle de la Commune, ainsi que sur les critiques adressées aux Versaillais. Il brosse également un tableau de tous les courants de la pensée sociale, des affrontements internes et un bilan des réalisations ou des tentatives de mesure de la Commune.
Le livre est disponible ici
Thursday, April 9, 2015
Les malheurs de Sophie de Comtesse de Ségur
L’action se déroule dans un château de la campagne française du Second Empire où Sophie habite avec ses parents M. et Mme de Réan. Curieuse et aventureuse, elle commet bêtise sur bêtise avec la complicité critique de Paul, son cousin, qui est bon et sa tante lui montre le chemin. Elle a pour amies Camille et Madeleine de Fleurville, des petites filles modèles qu’elle peine à imiter.
Le livre est disponible ici
Sunday, April 5, 2015
Mahomet....
Selon Pirenne, l’événement qui provoqua la rupture de la tradition antique fut l’avance rapide et imprévue de l’islam. L’invasion musulmane renversa l’Empire perse 637-644, enleva à l’Empire byzantin, à la fin du VIIe siècle, la Syrie, l’Égypte, le Maghreb oriental, puis, au début du VIIIe siècle, l’Espagne, la Corse, la Sardaigne, une partie de l’Italie. Ce « cataclysme cosmique » eut pour conséquence de séparer définitivement l’Orient de l’Occident en mettant fin à l’unité méditerranéenne. « La Méditerranée occidentale, devenue un lac musulman, cesse d’être la voie des échanges et des idées qu’elle n’avait cessé d’être jusqu’alors...
Saturday, April 4, 2015
Le Livre de Pâtisserie
“Je rappelle dans cet ouvrage un grand nombre de vieilles et excellentes choses qui étaient autrefois fort en honneur dans les grandes maisons et qui n’auraient jamais dû être oubliées, telles que tourtes aux épinards, aux rognons, à la moelle, flans de fruits au riz, et autres préparations tombées en désuétude. Je suis persuadé que, si quelques bonnes maisons de pâtisserie voulaient les faire revivre, la faveur du public encouragerait leur tentative. Ce n’est pas fermer la porte au progrès que de remonter quelquefois aux anciennes traditions et d’emprunter à l’office de nos pères des mets qui ont joui d’une vogue séculaire.”
Le livre est disponible ici
Friday, April 3, 2015
Around the Moon by Jules Verne (English Version)
Having been fired out of the giant Columbiad space gun, the Baltimore Gun Club’s bullet-shaped projectile, along with its three passengers, Barbicane, Nicholl and Michel Ardan, begins the five-day trip to the moon. A few minutes into the journey, a small, bright asteroid passes within a few hundred yards of them, but luckily does not collide with the projectile. The asteroid had been captured by the Earth’s gravity and had become a second moon. The three travelers undergo a series of adventures and misadventures during the rest of the journey, including disposing of the body of a dog out a window, suffering intoxication by gases, and making calculations leading them, briefly, to believe that they are to fall back to Earth. During the latter part of the voyage, it becomes apparent that the gravitational force of their earlier encounter with the asteroid has caused the projectile to deviate from its course..
The book is available here
Le calvaire de Octave Mirbeau
De 1880 à 1883 Octave Mirbeau a été l’esclave consentant de Judith Vimmer (Juliette Roux, dans le roman), femme de petite vertu et de petite intelligence, futile et infantile, qui lui a fait endurer les pires souffrances. Trois ans plus tard, il publiera Le Calvaire qui suscitera un énorme scandale.
Écrit à la première personne, ce roman-confession est, sous le nom de Jean Mintié, le récit de ses propres turpitudes. C’est un acte d’expiation, mais aussi un acte de libération.
Par ailleurs il dénonce avec virulence les atrocités de l’armée française, s’en prend à l’idée même de la Patrie, démystifie la famille, le plaisir, que, comme Baudelaire, il assimile à un fouet ; l’amour dans Le Calvaire n’est pas « l’amour frisé, pommadé, enrubanné », mais « l’Amour barbouillé de sang, ivre de fange, l’Amour aux fureurs onaniques, l’amour maudit, qui colle sur l’homme sa gueule en forme de ventouse, et lui dessèche les veines, lui pompe les moelles, lui décharne les os. »
Le livre est disponible ici
Monday, March 30, 2015
Algebra for Fun
This is a book of entertaining problems that can be solved through the use of algebra, problems with intriguing plots to excite the readers curiosity, amusing excursions into the history of mathematics, unexpected uses that algebra is put to in everyday affairs, and more. Algebra For Fun has brought hundreds of thousands of students into the fold of mathematics and its wonders. It is written in the form of lively sketches that discuss the multifarious and exciting applications of algebra to the world about us. Situations considered are quite diversified and range from a motley collection of conundrums and mathematical stunts to useful practical problems on counting and measuring.
The book is available on Amazon.com here
L'invasion de la Mer de Jules Verne
M. de Schaller, un ingénieur, est chargé, par une société "française de la mer Saharienne", de relancer le projet de l'irrigation du Sahara. Les autochtones, à la tête desquels se sont portés des Touaregs expatriés, lui sont farouchement opposés. Leur chef, Hadjar, vient d'être fait prisonnier et doit être jugé à Tunis mais, grâce à la complicité de sa tribu, de sa mère, de ses frères, il s'évade à temps et rejoint le désert...
Le livre est disponible ici
Le livre est disponible ici
Sunday, March 29, 2015
Algebra for Fun
This is a book of entertaining problems that can be solved through the use of algebra, problems with intriguing plots to excite the readers curiosity, amusing excursions into the history of mathematics, unexpected uses that algebra is put to in everyday affairs, and more. Algebra For Fun has brought hundreds of thousands of students into the fold of mathematics and its wonders. It is written in the form of lively sketches that discuss the multifarious and exciting applications of algebra to the world about us. Situations considered are quite diversified and range from a motley collection of conundrums and mathematical stunts to useful practical problems on counting and measuring.
The book is available on Amazon.com here
Five auto books to read this spring!!!!
In less than a century, Jaguar grew from a tiny motorcycle sidecars manufacturer into one of of the leading luxury carmakers, surviving one World War, one oil crisis, and the Japanese invasion of the luxury segment. But that impressive growth and resiliency came at a price. Marketing replaced good engineering, branding won over product design, mass production and economies of scale took over craftmanship. Is the roaring Jaguar still alive? Will it be able to bounce again despite successive changes of owners? This book is a short account of the carmaker’s story, and the men behind it. The book can be found here.
For many years, Land Rover was synonymous with capable, good-value, and easy-to-maintain vehicles that served farmers and adventurers so well all over the world. But starting from the nineties, successive new owners stole the soul of the brand and made it into another luxury brand making opulent vehicles for "lifestyle" customers with a focus on marketing instead of products. Consequently the new models have lost their simplicity, good value, and reliability. They are now completely out of touch with their owners needs. Will Land Rover be able to recover what made it so original and thrive or will it join Rover, MG, and TVR in the list of extinct British automakers? The book can be found here
The Truth about Toyota and TPS explains how Toyota works and focuses on three areas: the production system and how it is built, the marketing of Toyota cars as being superior in quality and its ability to capitalize on this perception, and lastly the management of its workforce. However, behind the cast-iron reputation of the carmaker lays an obsolete organization struggling for survival in one of the auto industry most serious slumps. Will Toyota, the company that survived and succeeded through sixty years of competitive markets, be able to transform itself and prosper? Will it be able to reinvent the car of the 21st century and recover its supremacy? The book can be found here
In this book, Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, details how he got into business, the strategies that he used to become a wealthy and successful businessman, and what others can do by learning from the examples he has outlined. This book should be read by small business owners, business students and those interested in the history of the automobile. Henry Ford will take you through a journey of history, business and lessons to be learned from which he used to develop his financial empire. The book can be found here
Nord contre Sud de Jules Verne
L’histoire de ce roman se déroule aux États-Unis, en 1862, c’est-à-dire pendant la Guerre de Sécession, qui se terminera par la reddition du général Lee sudiste au général Grant nordiste en 1865. Le théâtre des événements en est la Floride, du septentrion où se trouve la plantation du héros, Camdless-Bay, au méridien où se situe le dénouement du récit dans les Everglades, ces marais insalubres à la navigation difficile. L’action se déroule tout au long du fleuve Saint-John, sur lequel la navigation se fait à bord des grands bateaux à vapeur et roues à aubes pour les riches colons, la population pauvre navigant elle à bords des squiffs. James Burbank, propriétaire d’une plantation en Floride, est un homme de quarante-cinq ans originaire du Nord dans un état du Sud de l’Union. Le colon emploie des noirs sur sa plantation, en appliquant des principes d’humanité et d’égalité des races en avance sur son temps...
Vingt Mille lieues Sous les Mers de Jules Verne
L’apparition d’une bête monstrueuse aux quatre coins des mers défraie la chronique. L’animal rapide, fusiforme et phosphorescent est responsable de plusieurs naufrages, brisant le bois des navires avec une force colossale. De retour d’une expédition dans le Nebraska, Pierre Aronnax, professeur suppléant au Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Paris, émet l’hypothèse d’un Narval géant
Le livre est disponible ici
De la Terre a la Lune
Après la fin de la Guerre de Sécession, le Gun Club de Baltimore, club d'artilleurs, végète par manque d'activité. Son président, Impey Barbicane, propose très sérieusement d'envoyer un boulet de canon sur la Lune. Après plusieurs réunions, le Gun Club s'organise et lance une collecte de fonds en direction de toute la planète. Après avoir récolté l’argent nécessaire, le projet prend forme sous la forme d'un gigantesque canon d'une conception inspirée des Columbiad américains...
Le livre est disponible ici
L'invasion de la Mer de Jules Verne
M. de Schaller, un ingénieur, est chargé, par une société "française de la mer Saharienne", de relancer le projet de l'irrigation du Sahara. Les autochtones, à la tête desquels se sont portés des Touaregs expatriés, lui sont farouchement opposés. Leur chef, Hadjar, vient d'être fait prisonnier et doit être jugé à Tunis mais, grâce à la complicité de sa tribu, de sa mère, de ses frères, il s'évade à temps et rejoint le désert...
Le livre est disponible ici
Le livre est disponible ici
Livres de Jules Verne: l'Agence Thomson and Co
Livres de Jules Verne: l'Agence Thomson and Co
Le roman commence à Londres, où Robert Morgan, professeur de français pauvre, présente sa candidature à l’agence de voyage Baker & Company pour un poste de guide et d’interprète lors d’un tour qui comprend trois archipels: les Açores, Madère et les îles Canaries. Mais, le paisible « voyage organisé » en paquebot va se transformer en une série de dangereuses aventures…
Le livre est disponile ici
Le tour du monde en 80 jours de Jules Verne
Le tour du monde en 80 jours
Phileas Fogg , gentleman anglais, membre éminent du Reform club est un homme curieux, à la fois ponctuel et méticuleux. Il parie 20 000 livres avec les membres de son club qu’il parviendra à boucler le tour de la terre en 80 jours : « un anglais ne plaisante jamais quand il s’agit d’une chose aussi importante qu’un pari. ». Le soir même , accompagné de son fidèle domestique français, Passepartout, il prend le train pour Paris...
Le livre est disponible ici
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Un drame aux Mexique
Présentation de l'éditeur
En octobre 1825, une mutinerie éclate à bord de deux navires espagnols. Elle est menée par le lieutenant Martinez et le gabier José. Leur but est de livrer ces navires au gouvernement mexicain, qui n’en possède encore aucun. Paradoxalement, l’aspirant Pablo et le contremaître Jacopo, pourtant dévoués aux deux capitaines assassinés, rejoignent les rangs des mutins... Comprend: Un drame au Mexique - Gil Braltar - Frritt-Flacc - Les forceurs de blocus - Martin Paz - Les révoltés de la Bounty.
Biographie de l'auteur
Jules Verne (1828 - 1905), est un écrivain français dont une grande partie des œuvres est consacrée à des romans d’aventures et de science-fiction.
Le livre est disponible sur Amazon.fr ici
Un livre à lire absolument...
Published in 1913, a best-seller in the 1930s and long out of print, Physics for Entertainment was translated from Russian into many languages and influenced science students around the world. Among them was Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman, the Russian mathematician (unrelated to the author), who solved the Poincaré conjecture, and who was awarded and rejected the Fields Medal. Grigori’s father, an electrical engineer, gave him Physics for Entertainment to encourage his son’s interest in mathematics. In the foreword, the book’s author describes the contents as “conundrums, brain-teasers, entertaining anecdotes, and unexpected comparisons,” adding, “I have quoted extensively from Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Mark Twain and other writers, because, besides providing entertainment, the fantastic experiments these writers describe may well serve as instructive illustrations at physics classes.” The book’s topics included how to jump from a moving car, and why, “according to the law of buoyancy, we would never drown in the Dead Sea.” Ideas from this book are still used by science teachers today.
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Monday, March 23, 2015
Figures for Entertainment
Discover our new book in the Yakov Perelman series: Figures for Entertainment.
First published in 1925, a best-seller in the 1930s and long out of print, Figures for Entertainment is an easy to read book. With modest knowledge of mathematics, i.e., knowledge of arithmetical rules and elementary geometry and without the need to solve complex equations, readers can enjoy very entertaining problems. The situations considered are quite diversified: the subjects range from a motley collection of conundrums and mathematical stunts to useful practical problems on counting and measuring.
Book details:
- Paperback: 206 pages
- Publisher: Prodinnova
- Language: English
- ISBN-13: 978-2917260227
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
The book is available on Amazon at the following link: http://amzn.com/291726022X
Vingt Mille Lieues sous les Mers: un livre à lire absolument!!!
L’apparition d’une bête monstrueuse aux quatre coins des mers défraie la chronique. L’animal rapide, fusiforme et phosphorescent est responsable de plusieurs naufrages, brisant le bois des navires avec une force colossale. De retour d’une expédition dans le Nebraska, Pierre Aronnax, professeur suppléant au Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Paris, émet l’hypothèse d’un Narval géant
Le livre est disponible ici
SAAB: A SHORT STORY
decouvrez une aventure en Inde... par Jules Verne
Le colonel en retraite Edward Munro vit à Calcutta dans le souvenir du bonheur perdu, sa jeune épouse Laurence ayant disparu lors des massacres perpétrés à Cawnpore par les troupes d’un chef indigène, implacable ennemi des Britanniques, Nana Sahib. Depuis cet épisode, on a perdu la trace de Nana Sahib, réfugié au Népal et dont la rumeur de la mort a circulé. En fait, il n’est pas mort et les autorités de Bombay ont même signalé sa présence : il travaille en fait à susciter une nouvelle révolte. L’ami de Munro, l’ingénieur en chemins de fer Banks, lui propose de faire un voyage d’agrément dans l’Inde du nord dans un véhicule extraordinaire qu’il a conçu et construit pour le rajah de Bhoutan et qu’il a pu racheter à bas prix après la mort du commanditaire...
Le livre est disponible ici
Dix livres amusants en anglais a lire pour ce printemps
Have you ever wondered why you wouldn’t feel the burn if your arm could extend and reach the Sun? Why maternity clinics would be needed on future interplanetary vessels? Why extraterrestrials, if they exist, would be very different from how they are depicted in science fiction movies? Why these extraterrestrials may have originated from our Earth? This book tries to answer these questions and many others using a scientific approach in a witty style.
First published in 1915, a best-seller in the 1920s and long out of print, Interplanetary Travel is a short excursion into space physics. Using conundrums, entertaining examples, and unexpected comparisons, Yakov Perelman dispelled some of the public prejudice that prevailed against celestial mechanics and physics of being too abstract and unable to nourish the mind. He explored, in a witty style, the opportunity of successfully completing the flights imagined in some novelists’ wildest fantasies. He checked and corrected their boldest ideas. Even today, this book remains a reference for science students around the world.
This book is a collection of several physics and mathematics experiments. Many of them are simple pastimes meant for the recreation of young and old, assembled round the family table. Others, on the contrary, being of a really scientific character, are designed to introduce the reader to the study of Physics and mathematics. Regardless of their nature, all the experiments can be carried out without any special apparatus and are consequently without the least expense. Instruments used include kitchen utensils, corks, matches, glasses, and plates. The book is very useful for the young physicist who wishes to entertain his friends. It will show him not only how to do things by which he can render himself more entertaining than the best talker or the best joker in the company, but will reveal to him a hundred things by which he can amuse and astonish everybody he knows. The book is equally useful for the teacher who wishes to create in his students an interest in science. It will enable him to illustrate scientific principles, and render his instructions as interesting as an Arabian tale.
Published in 1913, a best-seller in the 1930s and long out of print, Physics for Entertainment was translated from Russian into many languages and influenced science students around the world. Among them was Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman, the Russian mathematician (unrelated to the author), who solved the Poincaré conjecture, and who was awarded and rejected the Fields Medal. Grigori’s father, an electrical engineer, gave him Physics for Entertainment to encourage his son’s interest in mathematics. In the foreword, the book’s author describes the contents as “conundrums, brain-teasers, entertaining anecdotes, and unexpected comparisons,” adding, “I have quoted extensively from Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Mark Twain and other writers, because, besides providing entertainment, the fantastic experiments these writers describe may well serve as instructive illustrations at physics classes.” The book’s topics included how to jump from a moving car, and why, “according to the law of buoyancy, we would never drown in the Dead Sea.” Ideas from this book are still used by science teachers today.
You don’t know that much about mathematics and physics. You don’t understand everything about rockets, satellites, or interplanetary flights. But you dream of flying to other planets and want to know everything needed to do it. You want to understand the principles of rockets and spaceships. You want to know why extraterrestrial space stations are needed and why studying other planets helps us understand our Earth. This book simply and clearly answers these questions and much more.
This is another book is Yakov Perelman's successful series of science books. Presented in an easy form, well within the reach of most astronomy amateurs, it is useful introduction to this science. Through five key chapters (the Earth, the Moon, planets, stars, and gravitation), the author analyses the most important aspects of modern astronomy.
The purpose of the book is to initiate the reader into the basic facts of astronomy. Ordinary facts with which you may be acquainted are couched here in unexpected paradoxes, or slanted from an odd and unexpected angle. The theme is, as far as possible, free from “terminology” and technical concepts that so often make the reader shy of books on astronomy. The book contains chapters relating to the Earth, the Moon and other planets. The author has concentrated on materials not usually discussed in works of this nature. This book is written in a witty style and remains a reference for astronomy students around the world.
This book contains hundreds of colorful stories from the field of physics. Despite their entertaining appearance, they address several important and serious notions in this field. This book does not seek to replace school textbooks. Its purpose is to entice the reader to consciously observe physical phenomena, including the simplest ones which we have learned to ignore in our everyday life. It allows the reader to amass evidence about physical laws, and engage in a systematic study of physics.
You don’t know that much about physics. You don’t understand everything about gravity, magnetism, electricity or light, but you are curious and want to know more about these fields. This book helps you reaching this objective using many instructive and entertaining experiments. These are simple enough to be carried out using everyday objects at home or around it. They will fascinate not only teenagers but also adults who want to understand some of nature’s fundamental laws and use them in their daily lives.
Fun with Maths and Physics details a large number of intriguing physics experiments, entertaining mathematics problems, and amazing optical illusions. The book’s main objective is to arouse the reader’s scientific imagination, teach him to think in a scientific manner, and create in his mind a variety of associations between physical knowledge and a large number of real daily life observations. Immensely instructive and entertaining, it has been one of the best sellers in Russia during the first part of last century.
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