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Passionate Minds: The Inner World of Scientists
ISBN: 9780198549048 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this endlessly engaging volume, biologist Lewis Wolpert lets readers sit in as he talks with 23 of the world's leading scientists. What is day-to-day life like for a scientist? How have they hit upon their most important discoveries? What is the nature of scientific creativity?
Here, in this stimulating series of conversations, such eminent scientists as Murray Gell-Man, Jared Diamond, Gerald Edelman, Richard Lewontin, Roald Hoffman, and Carlo Rubbia talk candidly about their backgrounds, their careers, the people who have influenced or inspired them, and their most significant... In this endlessly engaging volume, biologist Lewis Wolpert lets readers sit in as he talks with 23 of the world's leading scientists. What is day-to-d...
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280,21 zł |
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Developmental Biology: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 9780199601196 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From a single cell--a fertilized egg--comes an elephant, a fly, or a human. How does this astonishing feat happen? How does the egg "know" what to become? How does it divide into the different cells, the separate tissues, the brain, the fingernail--every tiniest detail of the growing fetus? In this Very Short Introduction, renowned scientist Lewis Wolpert shows how the field of developmental biology seeks to answer these profound questions. A distinguished developmental biologist himself, Wolpert offers a concise and highly readable account of what we now know about development, discussing...
From a single cell--a fertilized egg--comes an elephant, a fly, or a human. How does this astonishing feat happen? How does the egg "know" what to bec...
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49,75 zł |
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The Unnatural Nature of Science
ISBN: 9780674929814 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. How is it that nobody--except maybe scientists--sees science for what it is? In this entertaining and provocative book, Lewis Wolpert draws on the entire history of science, from Thales of Miletus to Watson and Crick, from the study of eugenics to the discovery of the double helix. The result is a scientist's view of the culture of science, authoritative and informed and at the same time mercifully accessible to those who find cohabiting with this culture a puzzling experience. Science is arguably the defining feature of our age. For anyone who hopes to understand its nature, this lively and...
How is it that nobody--except maybe scientists--sees science for what it is? In this entertaining and provocative book, Lewis Wolpert draws on the ent...
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165,73 zł |
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The Triumph of the Embryo
ISBN: 9780486469294 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Each of us begins our path in life as a single cell.Just thinking about this common process can fill us with a sense of wonderand raise a host of questions. How does an eggcell multiply to develop into a human being, an animal, or a plant? How do cells form abrain, a face, a hand? And how does the pattern continue generation after generation? With great insight and unwavering enthusiasm, biology professor Lewis Wolpert presents this complex subject in a "clear and engagingly written book" (Nature) that even the layman can understand.
Illuminating the subject with twelveremarkable... Each of us begins our path in life as a single cell.Just thinking about this common process can fill us with a sense of wonderand raise a host of ques...
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56,70 zł |
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How We Live and Why We Die: The Secret Lives of Cells
ISBN: 9780393339383 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Everything about our existence-movement and memory, imagination and reproduction, birth, and ultimately death-is governed by our cells. They are the basis of all life in the universe, from bacteria to the most complex animals. In the tradition of the classic Lives of a Cell, but with the benefit of the latest research, Lewis Wolpert demonstrates how human life grows from a single cell into a body, an incredibly complex society of billions of cells. Wolpert goes on to examine the science behind topics that are much discussed but rarely understood stem-cell research, cloning, DNA, cancer and... Everything about our existence-movement and memory, imagination and reproduction, birth, and ultimately death-is governed by our cells. They are th... |
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96,11 zł |
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Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief
ISBN: 9780393332032 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Why do 70 percent of Americans believe in angels, while others are convinced that they were abducted by aliens? What makes people believe in improbable things when all the evidence points to the contrary? And don't almost all of us, at some time or another, engage in magical thinking?In Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast, evolutionary biologist Lewis Wolpert delves into the important and timely debate over the nature of belief, looking at its psychological foundations to discover just what evolutionary purpose it could serve. Wolpert takes us through all that science can tell us about the...
Why do 70 percent of Americans believe in angels, while others are convinced that they were abducted by aliens? What makes people believe in improbabl...
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96,11 zł |
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How We Live and Why We Die: the secret lives of cells
ISBN: 9780571239122 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Cells are the basis of all life in the universe. Our bodies are made up of billions of them. When we age, it is because our cells slow down; when we get ill, it is because our cells mutate or stop working. In 'How We Live and Why We Die', Wolpert provides a clear explanation of the science that underpins our lives.
Cells are the basis of all life in the universe. Our bodies are made up of billions of them. When we age, it is because our cells slow down; when we g...
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57,00 zł |
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Principles of Development
ISBN: 9780198800569 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 768 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. All the key principles of developmental biology that students need to know, underpinned by experimental evidence, and an exploration of the molecular basis of the subject.
All the key principles of developmental biology that students need to know, underpinned by experimental evidence, and an exploration of the molecular ...
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324,98 zł |
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Science and Mathematics in Ancient Greek Culture
ISBN: 9780198152484 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Ancient Greece was the birthplace of science, which developed in the Hellenized culture of ancient Rome. This book, written by seventeen international experts, examines the role and achievement of science and mathematics in Greek antiquity through discussion of the linguistic, literary, political, religious, sociological, and technological factors which influenced scientific thought and practice.
Ancient Greece was the birthplace of science, which developed in the Hellenized culture of ancient Rome. This book, written by seventeen international...
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1064,58 zł |
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