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Quantum Optics and Nanophotonics consists of the lecture notes of the Les Houches Summer School 101 held in August 2013.

This book is primarily intended to accompany an advanced undergraduate course in atomic physics.

Why does a piano sound like a piano?

This book addresses the analysis of musical sounds from the viewpoint of someone at the intersection between physicists, engineers, piano technicians, and musicians.

Holograms have been in the public eye for over a half-century, but their influences have deeper cultural roots.

Holograms have been in the public eye for over a half-century, but their influences have deeper cultural roots.

Push: Software Design and the Cultural Politics of Music Production shows how changes in the design of music software in the first decades of the twenty-first century shaped the production techniques and performance practices of artists working across media, from hip-hop and electronic dance music to video games and mobile apps.

Push: Software Design and the Cultural Politics of Music Production shows how changes in the design of music software in the first decades of the twenty-first century shaped the production techniques and performance practices of artists working across media, from hip-hop and electronic dance music to video games and mobile apps.

Do you want to learn everything you need to know to be a fantastic video game music composer?

Do you want to learn everything you need to know to be a fantastic video game music composer?

Our day-to-day musical enjoyment seems so simple, so easy, so automatic.

Our day-to-day musical enjoyment seems so simple, so easy, so automatic.

Sesame Street has taught generations of Americans their letters and numbers, and also how to better understand and get along with people of different races, faiths, ethnicities, and temperaments.

Sesame Street has taught generations of Americans their letters and numbers, and also how to better understand and get along with people of different races, faiths, ethnicities, and temperaments.

Space is again in the headlines.

Essential reading on how technology empowers rogue actors and how society can adapt.

Essential reading on how technology empowers rogue actors and how society can adapt.

Psychology is the science that will determine who wins and who loses the wars of the 21st century, just as physics ultimately led the United States to victory in World War II.

Psychology is the science that will determine who wins and who loses the wars of the 21st century, just as physics ultimately led the United States to victory in World War II.

This series of fifteen books - The Food Service Professional Guide TO Series from the editors of the Food Service Professional magazine are the best and most comprehensive books for serious food service operators available today.

With this all-in-one manual, students and teachers have an easy-to-read reference that provides a reliable and current rundown of the world of sound production, from planning a recording session to mastering the final product.

With this all-in-one manual, students and teachers have an easy-to-read reference that provides a reliable and current rundown of the world of sound production, from planning a recording session to mastering the final product.

Finally, the non-commercial food service director has a comprehensive manual to aid them in their day-to-day operations.

With the ongoing development of algorithmic composition programs and communities of practice expanding, algorithmic music faces a turning point.

Incorporating technology in music classrooms can take the mystery out of improvisation.

Incorporating technology in music classrooms can take the mystery out of improvisation.

Creating Sounds from Scratch is a practical, in-depth resource on the most common forms of music synthesis.

The atrocities of civil wars present us with many difficult questions.

The atrocities of civil wars present us with many difficult questions.

Since the end of World War II, there have been 181 insurgencies around the world.

Since the end of World War II, there have been 181 insurgencies around the world.

Whether social, cultural, or individual, the act of imagination always derives from a pre-existing context.

Whether social, cultural, or individual, the act of imagination always derives from a pre-existing context.

Whether social, cultural, or individual, the act of imagination always derives from a pre-existing context.

Whether social, cultural, or individual, the act of imagination always derives from a pre-existing context.

Learn 3D graphics programming with OpenGL and Java using this comprehensive guide.

Military and defense-related procurement has been an important source of technology development across a broad spectrum of industries that account for an important share of United States industrial production.

Sound art has long been resistant to its own definition.

Sound art has long been resistant to its own definition.

In Max/MSP/Jitter for Music, expert author and music technologist V.

In Max/MSP/Jitter for Music, expert author and music technologist V.

With the ongoing development of algorithmic composition programs and communities of practice expanding, algorithmic music faces a turning point.

Beam is the story of the race to make the laser, the three intense years from the birth of the laser idea to its breakthrough demonstration in a California laboratory.

Against the backdrop of four decades of continuous conflict in Afghanistan, the Pashtun male protagonists of this book carry out their daily effort to internally negotiate, adjust (if at all), and respond to the very strict cultural norms and rules of masculinity that their androcentric social environment enjoins on them.

Against the backdrop of four decades of continuous conflict in Afghanistan, the Pashtun male protagonists of this book carry out their daily effort to internally negotiate, adjust (if at all), and respond to the very strict cultural norms and rules of masculinity that their androcentric social environment enjoins on them.

AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERDiscover space as you've never seen it before, with these awe-inspiring, breathtakingly restored images of our first missions to the Moon'The next best thing to being there' Charlie Duke, Apollo 16 astronaut'One of the best records of Apollo history ever produced' David R.

'Brilliant.

An awe-inspiring, unforgettable journey of scientific exploration from Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw, the top ten bestselling authors of The Quantum Universe.

The Hoi An, a wreck deep beneath the waves of the South China Sea.

Mailer's superb account, written as it was happening, of the first attempt to land men on the moon'Houston, Tranquility Base here.