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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. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc
ISBN: 9780061824739 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe
ISBN: 9781509893355 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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Monarchy Or Republic?: A Worldwide Overview
ISBN: 9781535562904 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Monarchy has been man's natural form of government in almost every civilisation since the dawn of recorded time. Yet, over the past two hundred and fifty years, this historic system has entered into seemingly irreversible decline in favour of the republic across almost all of the world's cultures and regions. Hugh Williams follows and analyses a truly remarkable series of events which started with the American and French revolutions in the late 18th century and which still have not yet run their course. The enduring personal popularity of monarchy, as evidenced by media hunger for royal...
Monarchy has been man's natural form of government in almost every civilisation since the dawn of recorded time. Yet, over the past two hundred and fi...
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How to Run a Limited Company: A Practical Guide to the Procedures to Follow and Records to Keep
ISBN: 9781910143216 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe
ISBN: 9781509893331 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements
ISBN: 9780141041452 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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The Quest for the Chalice of Power
ISBN: 9781624204562 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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The Trek to Elysium Chronicles: Volume 1: 2nd Edition: A Zombie Apocalyptic Tale
ISBN: 9781533073174 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This is the 2nd edition of Volume 1 of a zombie apocalyptic trilogy. It traces the adventures of four friends who attempt to escape the government, the zombie apocalypse, and the evil corporation who caused the crisis.
This is the 2nd edition of Volume 1 of a zombie apocalyptic trilogy. It traces the adventures of four friends who attempt to escape the government, th...
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The Incident: The Alpha
ISBN: 9781982041885 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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The Most Beautiful Molecule: The Discovery of the Buckyball
ISBN: 9780471193333 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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The Trek to Elysium Chronicles: Volume 1: A Zombie ApocalytpicTale
ISBN: 9781512234992 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Imagine what you would do if The Zombie Apocalypse, a long time favorite topic of authors in the Zombie genre, finally happened? Would you be prepared at all and have a chance to survive or would you be unprepared and quickly die or become a Zombie? This book is the first of three that I plan to write for this series. It tracks the travels of myself and 3 friends as we attempt to escape the Zombie apocalypse. Our journey begins in Southern Illinois, in a town named Carbondale. We travel across the country attempting to reach Elysium, which one of the larger safe havens in the United States....
Imagine what you would do if The Zombie Apocalypse, a long time favorite topic of authors in the Zombie genre, finally happened? Would you be prepared...
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Tide: The Science and Lore of the Greatest Force on Earth
ISBN: 9780241967980 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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The Tide: The Science and Stories Behind the Greatest Force on Earth
ISBN: 9780393354805 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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180 Days: The Book of Affirmations
ISBN: 9781735916743 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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Advances in Cryptology: Proceedings of Crypto '85
ISBN: 9783540164630 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In the summer of 1981 Allen Gersho organized the first major open co,ifcrcncc c~ci devoted to cryptologic research This meeting, Crypto '81, was held at the Universitc nl California campus in Santa Barbara Since then the Crypto' conference has become dii annual event These are the proceedings of the fifth1 of these confercnces, Crypt0 XS Each section of this volume corresponds to a session at the meeting. Thr paperk were accepted by the program committee, sometimes on the basis of an abstract only. and appear here without having been otherwise refereed. The last section contains papers lor...
In the summer of 1981 Allen Gersho organized the first major open co,ifcrcncc c~ci devoted to cryptologic research This meeting, Crypto '81, was held ...
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Revival: The Women Bonapartes vol. I (1908): The Mother and Three Sisters of Napoleon I
ISBN: 9781138552524 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) It will therefore, I think be admitted that the present volumes, in which I have endeavoured to give a full and unprejudiced history of the Women Bonapartes, call for no apology; and I may even venture to believe that, whatever their shortcomings, they will be welcomed by the English and American public as an attempt to fill a place in our Napoleonic literature which has been long vacant.
It will therefore, I think be admitted that the present volumes, in which I have endeavoured to give a full and unprejudiced history of the Women Bona...
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Revival: The Women Bonapartes Vol. II (1908): The Mother and Three Sisters of Napoleon I
ISBN: 9781138552579 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) It will therefore, I think be admitted that the present volumes, in which I have endeavoured to give a full and unprejudiced history of the Women Bonapartes, call for no apology; and I may even venture to believe that, whatever their shortcomings, they will be welcomed by the English and American public as an attempt to fill a place in our Napoleonic literature which has been long vacant.
It will therefore, I think be admitted that the present volumes, in which I have endeavoured to give a full and unprejudiced history of the Women Bona...
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Travels in Italy, Greece, and the Ionian Islands, in a series of letters ... with engravings, etc.
ISBN: 9781241522650 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 938 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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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 (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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