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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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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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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 Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension
ISBN: 9781454957782 / Angielski / 18-02-2025 Książka dostępna od: 18-02-2025 |
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120,36 zł |
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The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars: An Exhibition of Surprising Structures Across Dimensions
ISBN: 9780691115979 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 413 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Humanity's love affair with mathematics and mysticism reached a critical juncture, legend has it, on the back of a turtle in ancient China. As Clifford Pickover briefly recounts in this enthralling book, the most comprehensive in decades on magic squares, Emperor Yu was supposedly strolling along the Yellow River one day around 2200 B.C. when he spotted the creature: its shell had a series of dots within squares. To Yu's amazement, each row of squares contained fifteen dots, as did the columns and diagonals. When he added any two cells opposite along a line through the center square, like... Humanity's love affair with mathematics and mysticism reached a critical juncture, legend has it, on the back of a turtle in ancient China. As Clif... |
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191,10 zł |
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The Stars of Heaven
ISBN: 9780195171594 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Do a little armchair space travel, rub elbows with alien life forms, and stretch your mind to the furthest corners of our uncharted universe. With this astonishing guidebook, you don't have to be an astronomer to explore the mysteries of stars and their profound meaning for human existence. Clifford A. Pickover tackles a range of topics from stellar evolution to the fundamental reasons why the universe permits life to flourish. He alternates sections that explain the mysteries of the cosmos with sections that dramatize mind-expanding concepts through a fictional dialog between futuristic...
Do a little armchair space travel, rub elbows with alien life forms, and stretch your mind to the furthest corners of our uncharted universe. With thi...
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143,84 zł |
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The Medical Book: From Witch Doctors to Robot Surgeons, 250 Milestones in the History of Medicine
ISBN: 9781402785856 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Following his hugely successful The Math Book and The Physics Book, Clifford Pickover now chronicles the advancement of medicine in 250 entertaining, illustrated landmark events. Touching on such diverse subspecialties as genetics, pharmacology, neurology, sexology, and immunology, Pickover intersperses obvious historical milestones--the Hippocratic Oath, general anesthesia, the Human Genome Project--with unexpected and intriguing topics like truth serum, the use of cocaine in eye surgery, and face transplants. "
Following his hugely successful The Math Book and The Physics Book, Clifford Pickover now chronicles the advancement of medicine in 250 ...
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126,69 zł |
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Calculus and Pizza: A Cookbook for the Hungry Mind
ISBN: 9780471269878 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. CALCULUS + PEPPERONI / FUN = MATH SUCCESS
Do you want to do well on your calculus exam? Are you looking for a quick refresher course? Or would you just like to get a taste of what calculus is all about? If so, you've selected the right book. Calculus and Pizza is a creative, surprisingly delicious overview of the essential rules and formulas of calculus, with tons of problems for the learner with a healthy appetite. Setting up residence in a pizza parlor, Clifford Pickover focuses on procedures for solving problems, offering short, easy-to-digest chapters that allow... CALCULUS + PEPPERONI / FUN = MATH SUCCESS
Do you want to do well on your calculus exam? Are you looking for a quick refresher course? Or ... |
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81,85 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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