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Learn how your life connects to the latest discoveries in physics
with MODERN PHYSICS FOR SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS. This updated
fifth edition offers a contemporary, comprehensive approach with a
strong emphasis on applications to help you see how concepts in the
book relate to the real world. Discussions on the experiments that
led to key discoveries illustrate the process behind scientific
advances and give you a historical perspective. Included is a
thorough treatment of special relativity, an introduction to
general relativity, and a solid foundation in quantum theory to
help you succeed. An updated WebAssign course features a
mobile-friendly ebook and a variety of assignable questions to
enhance your learning experience. WebAssign for MODERN PHYSICS FOR
SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS helps you prepare for class with
confidence. Its online learning platform helps you unlearn common
misconceptions, practice and absorb what you learn and begin your
path as a future physicist or engineer. Tutorials walk you through
concepts when you're stuck, and instant feedback and grading let
you know where you stand--so you can focus your study time and
perform better on in-class assignments and prepare for exams. Study
smarter with WebAssign!
This book is about a lost world, albeit one less than 50 years old.
It is the story of a grand plan to demolish most of Whitehall,
London's historic government district, and replace it with a
ziggurat-section megastructure built in concrete. In 1965 the
architect Leslie Martin submitted a proposal to Charles Pannell,
Minister of Public Building and Works in Harold Wilson's Labour
government, for the wholesale reconstruction of London's
'Government Centre'. Still reeling from war damage, its eighteenth-
and nineteenth-century palaces stood as the patched-up headquarters
of an imperial bureaucracy which had once dominated the globe.
Martin's plan - by no means modest in conception, scope or scale -
proposed their replacement with a complex that would span the roads
into Parliament Square, reframing the Houses of Parliament and
Westminster Abbey. The project was not executed in the manner
envisaged by Martin and his associates, although a surprising
number of its proposals were implemented. But the un-built
architecture is examined here for its insights into a distinctive
moment in British history, when a purposeful technological future
seemed not just possible but imminent, apparently sweeping away an
anachronistic Edwardian establishment to be replaced with a new
meritocracy forged in the 'white heat of technology'. The Whitehall
plan had implications well beyond its specific site. It was
imagined by its architects as a scientific investigation into ideal
building forms for the future, an important development in their
project to unify science and art. For the political actors, it
represented a tussle between government departments, between those
who believed that Britain needed to discard much of its Victorian
and Edwardian decoration in the name of 'professionalization' and
those who sought to preserve its ornate finery. Demolishing
Whitehall investigates these tensions between ideas of technology
and history, science and art, socialism and el
This book is about a lost world, albeit one less than 50 years old.
It is the story of a grand plan to demolish most of Whitehall,
London's historic government district, and replace it with a
ziggurat-section megastructure built in concrete. In 1965 the
architect Leslie Martin submitted a proposal to Charles Pannell,
Minister of Public Building and Works in Harold Wilson's Labour
government, for the wholesale reconstruction of London's
'Government Centre'. Still reeling from war damage, its eighteenth-
and nineteenth-century palaces stood as the patched-up headquarters
of an imperial bureaucracy which had once dominated the globe.
Martin's plan - by no means modest in conception, scope or scale -
proposed their replacement with a complex that would span the roads
into Parliament Square, reframing the Houses of Parliament and
Westminster Abbey. The project was not executed in the manner
envisaged by Martin and his associates, although a surprising
number of its proposals were implemented. But the un-built
architecture is examined here for its insights into a distinctive
moment in British history, when a purposeful technological future
seemed not just possible but imminent, apparently sweeping away an
anachronistic Edwardian establishment to be replaced with a new
meritocracy forged in the 'white heat of technology'. The Whitehall
plan had implications well beyond its specific site. It was
imagined by its architects as a scientific investigation into ideal
building forms for the future, an important development in their
project to unify science and art. For the political actors, it
represented a tussle between government departments, between those
who believed that Britain needed to discard much of its Victorian
and Edwardian decoration in the name of 'professionalization' and
those who sought to preserve its ornate finery. Demolishing
Whitehall investigates these tensions between ideas of technology
and history, science and art, socialism and el
In today's world, businesses have mission statements that tell the
public what to expect of their company. Mission statements tell the
public the goals, the hopes, and what the company wants to
accomplish. The kingdom of God is no different. It too has a
mission statement. "The Spirit of the LORD is upon me..." (Jesus).
In two short sentences Jesus sums up what the world should expect
from His kingdom. The preaching of the gospel, the healing of the
brokenhearted, and recovery of sight to the blind are just some of
what we can expect God to do for us.
Generally remembered as a notorious diarist rather than a serious
political figure, Richard Crossman's imposing presence in Harold
Wilson's Cabinet during the 1964-1970 Labour governments proved,
not least to himself, a disappointment. However, in this new
reassessment, Stephen Thornton rescues Crossman's political
achievements from obscurity. From 1955 to the end of his life in
1974, Crossman was committed to a radical scheme that promised to
break Britain free from the existing Beveridge model of welfare
provision and transform the social security regime in the UK.
Although the scheme as Crossman envisaged it was not directly
implemented, his actions did prompt highly significant
modifications to both Labour and, more surprisingly, Conservative
social security policy. Here Crossman's reputation as a towering
figure of the patrician Left is rehabilitated as Thornton argues
that in the era of New Labour the lessons Crossman learned from his
project of welfare reform are more valuable and relevant than ever.
Conclusion: Crossman's legacy.
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