Alex James

There is nothing that can touch the sound made by a close-knit group of people who have been playing together for years and years and years, playing as though their lives depended on it. For many years, all our lives did, and actually, I’d suddenly realised, they did still. One winter’s night, Alex James received an unexpected call. Blur had been invited to play their biggest gig ever: Wembley Stadium. The only trouble was, he and his bandmates hadn’t spoken to – or even shouted at – each other for years. And he now had five children, an out-of-control menagerie of cats, and a sprawling farm to run. This is the story of what happened next. Taking us behind the scenes of a raucous, rollercoaster year, Alex describes how the band made a surprise – and emotional – return, recording an acclaimed album and playing sold-out shows around the world, from Colchester to Colombia and beyond. Plus: how he went on a crash diet to fit back into his ‘Britpop Trousers,’ somehow organised an entire festival of his own, and tried to perfect the recipe for a giant Frazzle. Over the Rainbow is a heartfelt and hilarious account of what it feels like to be catapulted back into the limelight with one of the world’s biggest bands. It is a love letter to Blur, to friendship and to music. And it shows us all that, however old – or hungover – we might feel, nothing’s ever truly over: it’s always just the start of the next thing.

This book is a straightforward guide for researchers, engineers, and technology enthusiasts interested in memristors. It covers the fundamentals of memristors, including what they are and how they work, and explores different materials used in them, like binary oxides, perovskites, and new materials like transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs). It also explains how memristors are made using methods like physical vapor deposition (PVD) and electrochemical deposition. The book also shows the different types of memristor devices such as non-volatile, spintronic, ferroelectric, polymeric, and molecular memory devices. The book discusses important things like how well memristors work over time, how consistent they are, and how fast they can switch on and off. It also talks about where memristor technology is headed in the future, beyond what's possible with current computer chips.

Tiesitkö, että iso osa internetiä makaa merenpohjassa? Tai että huonosti kirjoitettu koodi on kuin kasa sotkuista spagettia? Haluatko tietää, mitä on sumea logiikka tai ystävälliset lukuparit, tai miten salakirjoituksia tehdään ja miten niitä ratkaistaan? Suositun lasten tietokirjasarjan kuudes osa kertoo sata hämmästyttävää seikkaa luvuista, tietokoneista ja koodaamisesta. Teos kuljettaa lapsen tietotekniikan maailmaan sekä pohtimaan matemaattisia ilmiöitä. Mutkikkaitakin asioita selostetaan kirjassa selkeästi ja kiehtovasti. Havainnollistava kuvitus elävöittää tuhtia tietopakettia. Teos koukuttaa aikuisenkin!