Meant for HR professionals, a student, or a foreign national, this book includes information on immigration rules and regulations. It covers topics as: the category of visa needed to suit the circumstances; facts about the UK Education System; housing, tax, and healthcare; what to do on getting there; and the information to live in the UK. Whether you are a HR professional responsible for bringing in staff from overseas, a student or a foreign national interested in coming to the UK, this book is for you.
Dark Energy Does it really exist? Or does Earth occupy a very unusual place in the universe? Also in this issue: • Color Vision: Our Eyes Reflect Primate Evolution • Green Lasers: The Next Innovation in Chip-Based Beams • Soldiers' Stress: What Doctors Get Wrong about PTSD • Virus Watch: Preventing the Next Pandemic • Solving the Mystery of the Vanishing Bees
This incredibly funny trilogy starts with Only You Can Save Mankind in which Johnny Maxwell gets caught up in the ultimate fantasy (or nightmare) of the computer-mad child - as the game becomes real! In Johnny and the Dead Johnny makes the alarming discovery that he can actually see the dead. When the dead realize this they make use of his talents to prevent developers building on their graves. The final part, Johnny and the Bomb, sees Johnny and friends travelling back in time to 1941 (on a bag lady's shopping trolley!) and trying to warn people about a bomb that is about to drop
The two towering achievements of modern physics are quantum theory and Einstein's general theory of relativity. Together, they explain virtually everything about the world we live in. But, almost a century after their advent, most people haven't the slightest clue what either is about. Did you know that there's so much empty space inside matter that the entire human race could be squeezed into the volume of a sugar cube? Or that you grow old more quickly on the top floor of a building than on the ground floor? And did you realize that 1% of the static on a TV tuned between stations is the relic of the Big Bang? These and many other remarkable facts about the world are direct consequences of quantum physics and relativity. Quantum theory has literally made the modern world possible. Not only has it given us lasers, computers and nuclear reactors but it has provided an explanation of why the sun shines and why the ground beneath our feet is solid. Despite this, however, quantum theory and relativity remain a patchwork of fragmented ideas, vaguely understood at best and often utterly mysterious. They have even gained a reputation of being beyond the understanding of the average person. Author Marcus Chown emphatically disagrees. As Einstein himself said, "Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone."
If you think that the marvels of modern physics have passed you by, it is not too late. In Chown’s capable hands, quantum physics and relativity are not only painless but downright fun. So sit back, relax, and get comfortable as an adept and experienced science communicator brings you quickly up to speed on some of the greatest ideas in the history of human thought.
