wyszukanych pozycji: 12
Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc
ISBN: 9780061824739 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the spirit of A Short History of Nearly Everything comes Periodic Tales. Award-winning science writer Hugh Andersey-Williams offers readers a captivating look at the elements--and the amazing, little-known stories behind their discoveries. Periodic Tales is an energetic and wide-ranging book of innovations and innovators, of superstition and science and the myriad ways the chemical elements are woven into our culture, history, and language. It will delight readers of Genome, Einstein's Dreams, Longitude, and The Age of Wonder.
In the spirit of A Short History of Nearly Everything comes Periodic Tales. Award-winning science writer Hugh Andersey-Williams offe...
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87,11 zł |
In Search of Sir Thomas Browne: The Life and Afterlife of the Seventeenth Century's Most Inquiring Mind
ISBN: 9780393241648 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) was an English writer, physician, and philosopher whose work has inspired everyone from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Jorge Luis Borges, Virginia Woolf to Stephen Jay Gould. In an intellectual adventure like Sarah Bakewell's book about Montaigne, How to Live, Hugh Aldersey-Williams sets off not just to tell the story of Browne's life but to champion his skeptical nature and inquiring mind. Mixing botany, etymology, medicine, and literary history, Aldersey-Williams journeys in his hero's footsteps to introduce us to witches, zealots, natural wonders,... Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) was an English writer, physician, and philosopher whose work has inspired everyone from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Jorge ... |
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217,88 zł |
Flut : Das wilde Leben der Gezeiten
ISBN: 9783446254978 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2017 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Eine Biographie der Gezeiten - Hugh Aldersey-Williams liefert das erste umfassende Werk über den Einfluss von Ebbe und Flut auf den Menschen.
Eine Biographie der Gezeiten - Hugh Aldersey-Williams liefert das erste umfassende Werk über den Einfluss von Ebbe und Flut auf den Menschen.
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108,61 zł |
Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe
ISBN: 9781509893355 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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55,97 zł |
Irregular Safari
ISBN: 9780994433961 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A nineteen year old is catapulted out of an 1890s rural lifestyle into the 'cradle of terrorism, genocide and reprisals', in a strange land. Thanks to some military type training, he is able to survive wounding, capture, escape and emergency surgery and rescue a business while fighting as an 'irregular' to help hasten the end of the Boer war. He encounters the slave trade, mass murder reprisals and terrorism. During this time, he falls in love with a very beautiful girl of mixed race and has the prejudice of a 'mixed' marriage, false accusation and relentless victimization to overcome. About...
A nineteen year old is catapulted out of an 1890s rural lifestyle into the 'cradle of terrorism, genocide and reprisals', in a strange land. Thanks to...
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102,94 zł |
Know Your Enemy
ISBN: 9780994187130 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Know Your Enemy is the sequel to Irregular Safari and follows the same family through two world wars and the Great Depression. Renewed terrorist activity, reprisal attacks and political pressure force the sale of the family interests in South Africa and after much difficulty, a gun battle and tragedy they are able to consolidate back in Britain. On the outbreak of WW I the family become involved and some are posted to the Western Front in France. The horrors of trench warfare and a field hospital are experienced. (Based on a diary written in the trenches by the author's father.) The countries...
Know Your Enemy is the sequel to Irregular Safari and follows the same family through two world wars and the Great Depression. Renewed terrorist activ...
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109,81 zł |
Tide: The Science and Lore of the Greatest Force on Earth
ISBN: 9780241967980 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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66,14 zł |
Dutch Light
ISBN: 9781509893331 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Hugh Aldersey-Williams transports us to the Dutch Golden Age - a time of immense scientific and artistic innovation - in this histo-biography of Christiaan Huygens, one of Europe's leading, yet unsung, thinkers.
Hugh Aldersey-Williams transports us to the Dutch Golden Age - a time of immense scientific and artistic innovation - in this histo-biography of Chris...
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86,51 zł |
The Most Beautiful Molecule: The Discovery of the Buckyball
ISBN: 9780471193333 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Most Beautiful Molecule
"The molecule, buckminsterfullerene, is beautiful physically and intellectually. Its qualities, and even some of its properties, can be appreciated instantly and intuitively by nonscientists. Its uniqueness is bound to lead to novel applications-superconductivity is the leading contender at the moment." "The commercial potential of buckminsterfullerene has heightened the excitement and controversy in recent years, while the exact nature of the discovery process in 1985 has been the subject of a heated feud between the British and American... The Most Beautiful Molecule
"The molecule, buckminsterfullerene, is beautiful physically and intellectually. Its qualities, and even some... |
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114,61 zł |
The Tide: The Science and Stories Behind the Greatest Force on Earth
ISBN: 9780393354805 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Half of the world's population today lives in coastal regions lapped by tidal waters. But the tide rises and falls according to rules that are a mystery to almost all of us. In The Tide, celebrated science writer Hugh Aldersey-Williams weaves together centuries of scientific thinking with the literature and folklore the tide has inspired to explain the power and workings of this most remarkable force. Here is the epic story of the long search to understand the tide from Aristotle, to Galileo and Newton, to classic literary portrayals of the tide from Shakespeare to Dickens,... Half of the world's population today lives in coastal regions lapped by tidal waters. But the tide rises and falls according to rules that are a my... |
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113,07 zł |
Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements
ISBN: 9780141041452 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Everything in universe is made of them, including you. Like you, elements have personalities, attitudes, talents, shortcomings, stories rich with meaning. This book is packed with stories and unexpected information about the building blocks of our universe.
Everything in universe is made of them, including you. Like you, elements have personalities, attitudes, talents, shortcomings, stories rich with mean...
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66,14 zł |
Anatomies : The Human Body, Its Parts and The Stories They Tell
ISBN: 9780670920723 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Sunday Times Science Book of the Year, Anatomies by Hugh Aldersey-Williams, author of bestseller Periodic Tales, is a splendidly entertaining journey through the art, science, literature and history of the human body. 'Magnificent, inspired. He writes like a latter-day Montaigne. Stimulating scientific hypotheses, bold philosophic theories, illuminating quotations and curious facts. I recommend it to all' Telegraph ***** 'Splendid, highly entertaining, chock-full of insights ... It inserts fascinating scientific snippets and anecdotes about our organs into the wider history of our...
The Sunday Times Science Book of the Year, Anatomies by Hugh Aldersey-Williams, author of bestseller Periodic Tales, is a splendidly entertaining jour...
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87,31 zł |