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Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them
ISBN: 9780195336115 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Archimedes to Hawking takes the reader on a journey across the centuries as it explores the eponymous physical laws--from Archimedes' Law of Buoyancy and Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and Hubble's Law of Cosmic Expansion--whose ramifications have profoundly altered our everyday lives and our understanding of the universe.
Throughout this fascinating book, Clifford Pickover invites us to share in the amazing adventures of brilliant, quirky, and passionate people after whom these laws are named. These lawgivers turn out to be a fascinating,... Archimedes to Hawking takes the reader on a journey across the centuries as it explores the eponymous physical laws--from Archimedes' Law of ...
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185,61 zł |
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Strange Brains and Genius: The Secret Lives of Eccentric Scientists and Madmen
ISBN: 9780688168940 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Never has the term mad scientist been more fascinatingly explored than in internationally recognized popular science author Clifford Pickover's richly researched wild ride through the bizarre lives of eccentric geniuses. A few highlights: "The Pigeon Man from Manhattan" Legendary inventor Nikola Tesla had abnormally long thumbs, a peculiar love of pigeons, and a horror of women's pearls."The Worm Man from Devonshire" Forefather of modern electric-circuit design Oliver Heaviside furnished his home with granite blocks and sometimes consumed...
Never has the term mad scientist been more fascinatingly explored than in internationally recognized popular science author Clifford Pickover...
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82,35 zł |
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Artificial Intelligence: An Illustrated History: From Medieval Robots to Neural Networks
ISBN: 9781454933595 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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101,36 zł |
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Dreaming the Future: The Fantastic Story
ISBN: 9781573928953 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 458 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For countless generations people have practiced a broad range of dramatic techniques to peer into the future. Here Pickover presents an exhaustive list of fortune telling techniques, from the ominous practice of human sacrifice to reading clues on the internet. Illustrations.
For countless generations people have practiced a broad range of dramatic techniques to peer into the future. Here Pickover presents an exhaustive lis...
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143,06 zł |
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The Science of Aliens
ISBN: 9780465073153 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. If extraterrestrials ever landed on Earth, they would find us extremely strange. Their first intimation of our existence might well be a Super Bowl broadcast or a stray transmission from the Playboy channel. But, of course, they might seem equally strange to us. How strange? Their senses could be entirely different from ours--they might see in the infrared or "hear" radio waves.What would aliens look like? An intelligent octopus-like creature is certainly plausible. What about odd numbers of limbs--a three-legged alien with three arms and three eyes? What about an entire planet of...
If extraterrestrials ever landed on Earth, they would find us extremely strange. Their first intimation of our existence might well be a Super Bowl br...
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127,66 zł |
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Time: A Traveler's Guide
ISBN: 9780195120424 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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404,33 zł |
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Kniha o matematice
ISBN: 9788073633684 / Czeski / 2012 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Autor nás ve 250 stručných kapitolách provádí důležitými milníky historie matematiky a otevírá před námi svět plný nesmírných záhad a krásy. Fundovaně a s láskou představuje nejvýznamnější matematické poznatky a teorie spolu s jejich geniálními objeviteli od Pythagora a Eukleida přes Newtona, Eulera a Gausse po Gödela, Mandelbrota a Tegmarka.
Najdeme zde ale i ty nejpodivuhodnější hádanky a hříčky, jaké kdy lidé vymysleli. Každou zastávku doprovázejí kvalitní ilustrace, které dokládají tajemství a nádheru matematického světa. Pickover... Autor nás ve 250 stručných kapitolách provádí důležitými milníky historie matematiky a otevírá před námi svět plný nesmírných záhad...
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131,66 zł |
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The Science Book: From Darwin to Dark Energy, 250 Milestones in the History of Science
ISBN: 9781454930068 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. This illustrated compendium includes 250 entries on science selected from titles in the `Sterling Milestones' series.
This illustrated compendium includes 250 entries on science selected from titles in the `Sterling Milestones' series.
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126,69 zł |
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The Girl Who Gave Birth to Rabbits: A True Medical Mystery
ISBN: 9781573927949 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Mary Toft was a young woman with a peculiar passion and an ordinary life that was forever changed when she gave birth to something nonhuman. This incredible story can justifiably be called history's most fascinating medical mystery, a dark, true-life Alice in Wonderland tale with a streak of horror. With numerous illustrations, this is an engrossing and thoroughly unique introduction to eighteenth-century science and its metaphor for today's scientific superstitions and politics.
Mary Toft was a young woman with a peculiar passion and an ordinary life that was forever changed when she gave birth to something nonhuman. This incr...
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125,76 zł |
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Kniha o medicíně
ISBN: 9788073637835 / Czeski / 2021 / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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131,66 zł |
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The Heaven Virus
ISBN: 9781430329695 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The New York Times writes, "Pickover contemplates realms beyond our known reality." From one of the most original voices in imaginative nonfiction comes a stunning novel of speculation on the afterlife, immortality, and the existence of the human soul. "The Heaven Virus" is inspired by virtual universes making headlines today and offers readers a glimpse of ultimate spiritual technologies for the 22nd century and a mystic encounter in an age of electronic gods. "The Heaven Virus" blends humor, psychedelia, and hope in a meditation on the outer limits of our culture, evolutionary destiny, and...
The New York Times writes, "Pickover contemplates realms beyond our known reality." From one of the most original voices in imaginative nonfiction com...
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123,60 zł |
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Time: A Traveler's Guide
ISBN: 9780195130966 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Bucky Fuller thought big," Wired magazine recently noted, "Arthur C. Clarke thinks big, but Cliff Pickover outdoes them both." In his newest book, Cliff Pickover outdoes even himself, probing a mystery that has baffled mystics, philosophers, and scientists throughout history--What is the nature of time?
In Time: A Traveler's Guide, Pickover takes readers to the forefront of science as he illuminates the most mysterious phenomenon in the universe--time itself. Is time travel possible? Is time real? Does it flow in one direction only? Does it have a beginning and an end? What is eternity?... "Bucky Fuller thought big," Wired magazine recently noted, "Arthur C. Clarke thinks big, but Cliff Pickover outdoes them both." In his newest book, Cl...
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109,44 zł |
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Artificial Intelligence: An Illustrated History: From Medieval Robots to Neural Networks
ISBN: 9781454955788 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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81,04 zł |
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Death and the Afterlife: A Chronological Journey, from Cremation to Quantum Resurrection
ISBN: 9781454914341 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Throughout history, the nature and mystery of death has captivated artists, scientists, philosophers, physicians, and theologians. This eerie chronology ventures right to the borderlines of science and sheds light into the darkness. Here, topics as wide ranging as the Maya death gods, golems, and seances sit side by side with entries on zombies and quantum immortality. With the turn of every page, readers will encounter beautiful artwork, along with unexpected insights about death and what may lie beyond."
Throughout history, the nature and mystery of death has captivated artists, scientists, philosophers, physicians, and theologians. This eerie chronolo...
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91,17 zł |
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Visualizing Biological Information
ISBN: 9789810214272 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The emphasis of this book is on the graphic representation of information-containing sequences in biology - such as DNA and amino acids - in order to help the human analyst find interesting patterns. A broad range of topics are considered. Recent proposals to sequence the entire 3-billion base sequence of the human genome, recent advances in understanding viral sequences that induce cancer, and in understanding the mechanisms by which oncogenes are activated in tumours, and recent improved gene mapping techniques (with accompanying proliferation of sequence data) should ensure that this text...
The emphasis of this book is on the graphic representation of information-containing sequences in biology - such as DNA and amino acids - in order to ...
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518,70 zł |
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A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection
ISBN: 9781560259848 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A Beginner's Guide to Immortality is a celebration of unusual lives and creative thinkers who punched through ordinary cultural norms while becoming successful in their own niches. In his latest and greatest work, world-renowned science writer Cliff Pickover studies such colofrul characters as Truman Capote, John Cage, Stephen Wolfram, Ray Kurzweil, and Wilhelm Rontgen, and their curious ideas. Through these individuals, we can better explore life's astonishing richness and glimpse the diversity of human imagination. Part memoir and part surrealistic perspective on culture, A Beginner's Guide...
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality is a celebration of unusual lives and creative thinkers who punched through ordinary cultural norms while becoming s...
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139,81 zł |
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Wonders of Numbers: Adventures in Mathematics, Mind, and Meaning
ISBN: 9780195157994 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Who were the five strangest mathematicians in history? What are the ten most interesting numbers? Jam-packed with thought-provoking mathematical mysteries, puzzles, and games, Wonders of Numbers will enchant even the most left-brained of readers.
Hosted by the quirky Dr. Googol--who resides on a remote island and occasionally collaborates with Clifford Pickover--Wonders of Numbers focuses on creativity and the delight of discovery. Here is a potpourri of common and unusual number theory problems of varying difficulty--each presented in brief chapters that convey to readers the essence of... Who were the five strangest mathematicians in history? What are the ten most interesting numbers? Jam-packed with thought-provoking mathematical myste...
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116,81 zł |
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The Physics Book: From the Big Bang to Quantum Resurrection
ISBN: 9781454957805 / Angielski / 18-02-2025 Książka dostępna od: 18-02-2025 |
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120,36 zł |
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The Mathematics of Oz: Mental Gymnastics from Beyond the Edge
ISBN: 9780521700849 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Thought-provoking mysteries, puzzles, and problems ranging from zebra numbers and circular primes to Legion's number.
Thought-provoking mysteries, puzzles, and problems ranging from zebra numbers and circular primes to Legion's number.
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104,53 zł |
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The Paradox of God and the Science of Omniscience
ISBN: 9781403964571 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In his most ambitious book yet, Clifford Pickover bridges the gulf between logic, spirit, science, and religion. While exploring the concept of omniscience, Pickover explains the kinds of relationships limited beings can have with an all-knowing God. Pickover's thought exercises, controversial experiments, and practical analogies help us transcend our ordinary lives while challenging us to better understand our place in the cosmos and our dreams of a supernatural God. Through an inventive blend of science, history, philosophy, science fiction, and mind-stretching brainteasers, Pickover... In his most ambitious book yet, Clifford Pickover bridges the gulf between logic, spirit, science, and religion. While exploring the concept of omn... |
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99,70 zł |
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