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Provides motivation for developing mathematical models for
telecommunications network power and energy efficiency modelling.
Discusses factors impacting overall network power consumption.
Includes types of network equipment and their power consumption
profiles. Reviews basics of network power modelling including
network segmentation, top-down and bottom-up models. Explores
application of metrics for equipment, networks, and services.
Life in Nature, first published in 1862, is a series of papers by
the nineteenth-century English surgeon and popular science writer
James Hinton. About a third of the material, though revised and
reworked for this book, had appeared previously under the title
'Physiological Riddles' in the Cornhill Magazine, in which Hinton
explained biological phenomena for non-scientific readers. Hinton
wrote this thirteen-chapter book to present a concise overview of
the human body, informed by the latest scientific insights, that
would be more easily intelligible for the general population than
the scientific physiological data of his day. His intention was
also to demonstrate the similarity between patterns occurring in
the organic world and in the rest of nature. This book will be of
value to historians of Victorian culture and science as an example
of how authors and publishers responded to the growing middle-class
interest in scientific discoveries.
History remembers James Hinton as a successful surgeon and author
of books and articles on physiology and ethics. A gifted thinker
and communicator, Hinton was well placed to address the
relationship between science and religion in an age when the two
were pitted against each other. First published in 1859, the same
year as the Origin of Species, Man and His Dwelling Place takes an
ambitiously broad view of the human condition, addressing difficult
topics from science, religion, philosophy and ethics. Hinton's
arguments against outdated ways of thinking and his approach to
human nature were revolutionary, and he took pains to address
readers' doubts in a series of question-and-answer dialogues at the
end of the book. Hinton's impassioned plea for a bolder spirit of
enquiry to better interpret human existence assures this book an
important place in the history of science and the understanding of
Darwin's intellectual context.
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The Mystery of Pain
James Hinton
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R1,485
R1,403
Discovery Miles 14 030
Save R82 (6%)
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What do people believe about death and the afterlife? How do they
negotiate the relationship between science and religion? How do
they understand apparently paranormal events? What do they make of
sensations of awe, wonder or exceptional moments of sudden
enlightenment? The volunteer mass observers responded to such
questions with a freshness, openness and honesty which compels
attention. Using this rich material, Mass Observers Making Meaning
captures the extraordinarily diverse landscape of belief and
disbelief to be found in Britain in the late 20th-century, at a
time when Christianity was in steep decline, alternative
spiritualities were flourishing and atheism was growing. Divided as
they were about the ultimate nature of reality, the mass observers
were united in their readiness to puzzle about life’s larger
questions. Listening empathetically to their accounts, James Hinton
– himself a convinced atheist – seeks to bring divergent ways
of finding meaning in human life into dialogue with one another,
and argues that we can move beyond the cacophony of conflicting
beliefs to an understanding of our common need and ability to seek
meaning in our lives.
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