wyszukanych pozycji: 45
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Unnatural : The Heretical Idea of Making People
ISBN: 9780099551836 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Traces the threads that link the legendary inventor Daedalus, Goethe's tragic "Faust", the automata-making magicians of "E.T.A. Hoffman" and Mary Shelley's "Victor Frankenstein". This title argues that these old tales and myths are alive and well, subtly manipulating the current debates about assisted conception, embryo research and human cloning.
Traces the threads that link the legendary inventor Daedalus, Goethe's tragic "Faust", the automata-making magicians of "E.T.A. Hoffman" and Mary Shel...
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83,61 |
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Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different
ISBN: 9780226755106 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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78,44 |
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Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler
ISBN: 9780099581642 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 'Serving the Reich' tells the story of three world-renowned physicists working under Hitler against the background of the attempt by Nazi scientists to create 'German physics' - an Aryan science that excluded any 'Jewish ideas', in particular Einstein's theory of relativity.
'Serving the Reich' tells the story of three world-renowned physicists working under Hitler against the background of the attempt by Nazi scientists t...
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83,61 |
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The Book of Minds: Understanding Ourselves and Other Beings, From Animals to Aliens
ISBN: 9781529069167 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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66,14 |
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How to Grow a Human: Reprogramming Cells and Redesigning Life
ISBN: 9780008331818 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A cutting-edge examination of what it means to be human and to have a 'self' in the face of new scientific developments in genetic editing, cloning and neural downloading.
A cutting-edge examination of what it means to be human and to have a 'self' in the face of new scientific developments in genetic editing, cloning an...
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50,87 |
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The Elements: A Visual History of Their Discovery
ISBN: 9780500024539 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The first fully illustrated history of the chemical elements.
The first fully illustrated history of the chemical elements.
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127,28 |
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Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour
ISBN: 9780099507130 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Discusses 'colour in art', its inception, the progress made, and its influences on art.
Discusses 'colour in art', its inception, the progress made, and its influences on art.
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86,51 |
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The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination
ISBN: 9780226823843 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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87,89 |
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Beautiful Experiments: An Illustrated History of Experimental Science
ISBN: 9780226825823 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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130,73 |
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The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science
ISBN: 9780099457879 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 435 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Philip Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim - known to later ages as Paracelsus - stands on the borderline between medieval and modern. This book reveals this complex man - who used his eyes and ears to learn from nature how to heal, and who wrote influential books on medicine, surgery, alchemy and theology while living a vagabond life.
Philip Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim - known to later ages as Paracelsus - stands on the borderline between medieval and modern. This ...
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99,30 |
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Curiosity : How Science Became Interested in Everything
ISBN: 9780099554271 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. By examining the rise of curiosity from the dawn of modern science to today, this book examines how it functions in science, how it is spun, packaged and sold, and how the changing shape of science influences the kinds of questions it may ask.
By examining the rise of curiosity from the dawn of modern science to today, this book examines how it functions in science, how it is spun, packaged ...
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88,84 |
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H2O: A Biography of Water
ISBN: 9780753810927 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. This volume takes us on a gloriously offbeat and intelligent investigation into exactly what we do and do not know about water, the substance which sustains life.
This volume takes us on a gloriously offbeat and intelligent investigation into exactly what we do and do not know about water, the substance which su...
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66,14 |
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Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics Under Hitler
ISBN: 9780226829340 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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97,65 |
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The Water Kingdom
ISBN: 9781784701543 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. China's history is an epic tapestry of courtly philosophies, warring factions and imperial intrigue. Yet, over five thousand years, one ancient element has so dramatically shaped the country's fate that it remains the key to unlocking China's story. That element is water. The author takes us on a tour of China's defining element.
China's history is an epic tapestry of courtly philosophies, warring factions and imperial intrigue. Yet, over five thousand years, one ancient elemen...
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66,14 |
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Critical Mass
ISBN: 9780099457862 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Is there a 'physics of society'? Ranging from Hobbes and Adam Smith to modern work on traffic flow and market trading, and across economics, sociology and psychology, this title shows how much we can understand of human behaviour when we cease to try to predict and analyse the behaviour of individuals.
Is there a 'physics of society'? Ranging from Hobbes and Adam Smith to modern work on traffic flow and market trading, and across economics, sociology...
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61,06 |
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Neither Up Nor Down: The British Army and the Campaign in Flanders 1793-1795
ISBN: 9781913118907 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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178,20 |
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Bright Earth
ISBN: 9780226036281 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From Egyptian wall paintings to the Venetian Renaissance, impressionism to digital images, Philip Ball tells the fascinating story of how art, chemistry, and technology have interacted throughout the ages to render the gorgeous hues we admire on our walls and in our museums.
From Egyptian wall paintings to the Venetian Renaissance, impressionism to digital images, Philip Ball tells the fascinating story of how art, chemist...
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104,58 |
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Designing the Molecular World: Chemistry at the Frontier
ISBN: 9780691029009 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Some of the most exciting scientific developments in recent years have come not from theoretical physicists, astronomers, or molecular biologists but instead from the chemistry lab. Chemists have created superconducting ceramics for brain scanners, designed liquid crystal flat screens for televisions and watch displays, and made fabrics that change color while you wear them. They have fashioned metals from plastics, drugs from crude oil, and have pinpointed the chemical pollutants affecting our atmosphere and are now searching for remedies for the imperiled planet. Philip Ball, an editor... Some of the most exciting scientific developments in recent years have come not from theoretical physicists, astronomers, or molecular biologists b... |
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124,19 |
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The Book of Minds: Understanding Ourselves and Other Beings, From Animals to Aliens
ISBN: 9781529069143 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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101,83 |
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Universe of Stone: Chartres Cathedral and the Invention of the Gothic
ISBN: 9780061154300 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Chartres Cathedral, south of Paris, is revered as one of the most beautiful and profound works of art in the Western canon. But what did it mean to those who constructed it in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries--and why was it built at such immense height and with such glorious play of light, in the soaring manner we now call Gothic? In this eminently fascinating work, author Philip Ball makes sense of the visual and emotional power of Chartres and brilliantly explores how its construction--and the creation of other Gothic cathedrals--represented a profound and dramatic shift in... Chartres Cathedral, south of Paris, is revered as one of the most beautiful and profound works of art in the Western canon. But what did it mean to... |
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