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Author
Publisher
Academic Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Nonlinear Fiber Optics, Sixth Edition, provides an up-to-date accounting of the nonlinear phenomena occurring inside optical fibers in telecommunications infrastructure and in the medical field. This new edition includes a general update to reflect the most recent research, extensive updates to chapter 13 on Supercontinuum Generation that reflect the use of chalcogenide fibers that extend Supercontinuum into the mid-infrared region, and a new chapter...
Author
Publisher
Restless Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Andrea Chapela, one of Granta's Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists of 2021, breaks down literary and scientific conventions in this prize-winning collection of experimental essays exploring the properties and poetics of glass, mirrors, and light as a means of understanding the self. In powerful, formally inventive essays, The Visible Unseen disrupts the purported cultural divide between arts and science. As both a chemist and an award-winning...
Author
Publisher
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"While there are many books that teach the "how-to" of photography, Science for the Curious Photographer is a book for those who also want to understand how photography works. Beginning with an introduction to the history and science of photography, Charles S. Johnson, Jr. addresses questions about the principles of photography, such as why a camera needs a lens, how lenses work, and why modern lenses are so complicated. Addressing the complex aspects...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, an imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"It only takes a small spark to ignite a child's mind! Written by an expert, Optical Physics for Babies is a colorfully simple introduction to optical physics. Babies (and grownups!) will discover how light is refracted and reflected, and even how rainbows are made. With a tongue-in-cheek approach that adults will love, this installment of the Baby University board book series is the perfect way to introduce basic concepts to even the youngest scientists....
6) Rainbows
Author
Series
Publisher
AV2 by Weigl
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the meteorological optical phenomenon called a rainbow.
Author
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Mirages have long astonished travelers of the sea and beguiled thirsty desert voyagers. Chinese and Japanese poetry and images depicted mirages as the exhalations of clam-monsters. Indian sources related them to the 'thirst of gazelles,' a metaphor for the futility of desire. From the late eighteenth century to the present, mirages became a symbol of 'Oriental despotis,' a malign, but also enchanted, emblem. But the mirage motif is rarely simply...
8) Light
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"This book details the science of light. It explains where this energy comes from, how it affects life on Earth, what uses people have found for it, and more."--
10) The field guide to natural phenomena: the secret world of optical, atmospheric and celestial wonders
Author
Series
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Profiles the life and work of a devout Muslim who was the first to hypothesize that vision occurs when light beams travel through the lens of a human eye.
During the golden age of science, knowledge, and invention in Muslim civilization, Ibn al-Haytham discovered how we see. His discoveries set the stage for the methods we now know as the scientific process.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
One day, down by the pond, Simon meets another dog just like him. And that dog has a bone just like his, only better! How will Simon ever get him to trade, when the other pup knows all the same tricks? Using the same innovative format as his Caldecott Honor winner, Mel Fell, Corey R. Tabor reimagines Aesop's "The Dog and His Reflection" in a clever, charming tale of empathy and generosity.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
"Zapped tells the story of all the light we cannot see, tracing microwaves, X-rays, gamma rays, radio waves, infrared, ultraviolet, and other forms of radiation from their historic, world-altering discoveries in the nineteenth century to their central role in modern life"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Nomad Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Imagine a world without light. What would it be like? Dark, cold, and lifeless! In Explore Light and Optics, readers find out why light is so important to our world. We use light to communicate. Because of light, there are natural phenomena such as rainbows and the auroras. And it's light that provides living things with the energy they need to exist. In this book, readers learn how light travels, how the eye works, and why we can see objects. They...
Author
Publisher
McSweeney's
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
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Description
"You may have heard of ships. You may have also heard of the sea and the night. But did you realize there's nothing more beautiful than a ship and its lights on the sea at night? In warm and witty prose, this book asks the reader to consider the splendor of glowing lights cast by ships on a shimmering waterway. Meet a trawler, a paddlewheel ferryboat, and icebreaker, and something called a RoRo--all richly illustrated to illuminate the gorgeous explosion...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The world of 5G, the next generation of telecommunication technology, will be as different from what came before as the world after the advent of electricity. The massive amounts of data we'll be able to stream through fiber-optic connections will enable a degree of virtual presence that will radically transform health care, education, urban administration and services, agriculture, retail sales, and offices. Yet all of those transformations will...
19) Rainbows
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Kids
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"This book teaches kids about what rainbows are and how water, sunlight, and a little bit of science creates them. The book is complete with labeled images when needed, simple text, and more facts." --
20) I see myself
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Shows kids the science behind light and reflection, explaining why they can see themselves in a shiny doorknob or a puddle on the street.
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