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Nazis, Women and Molecular Biology: Memoirs of a Lucky Self-Hater
ISBN: 9780966456301 / Angielski / Twarda / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What prompts a well-renowned scientist in molecular biology to write memoirs about a part of his life? In the case of Gunther Stent, it was not to reflect on his career as a scientist, but to come to an understanding of his own soul. In his seventies, he had come to see that he had been, throughout his life, an emotional sleepwalker, especially as regards women and, in addition, that he had been troubled by Jewish self-hatred. His story may have more to do with St. Augustine's Confessions than with a scientist's memoirs. Stent provides insight into the power of political...
What prompts a well-renowned scientist in molecular biology to write memoirs about a part of his life? In the case of Gunther Stent, it was not to ref...
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Providence of a Sparrow: Lessons from a Life Gone to the Birds
ISBN: 9781400033850 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. --William Shakespeare, Hamlet
B fell twenty-five feet from his nest into the life of Chris Chester. The encounter was providential for both of them. B and Chester spent hours together playing games like bottle-cap fetch or hide-and-seek. They learned words in each other s vocabularies. B developed a fetish for nostrils and a dislike of the color yellow. He grew anxious if Chester came home late from work. At bedtime he would rub his sleepy eyes on Chester s thumb and settle to sleep in his palm. Chester ended up... There s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. --William Shakespeare, Hamlet
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60,98 |
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The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World
ISBN: 9781400047635 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thomas Edison's greatest invention? His own fame. At the height of his fame Thomas Alva Edison was hailed as "the Napoleon of invention" and blazed in the public imagination as a virtual demigod. Starting with the first public demonstrations of the phonograph in 1878 and extending through the development of incandescent light and the first motion picture cameras, Edison's name became emblematic of all the wonder and promise of the emerging age of technological marvels. But as Randall Stross makes clear in this critical biography of the man who is arguably the most... Thomas Edison's greatest invention? His own fame. At the height of his fame Thomas Alva Edison was hailed as "the Napoleon of inventio... |
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Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist
ISBN: 9781400076864 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What makes a child decide to become a scientist?
For Robert Sapolsky Stanford professor of biology it was an argument with a rabbi over a passage in the Bible. Physicist Lee Smolin traces his inspiration to a volume of Einstein s work, picked up as a diversion from heartbreak. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a psychologist and the author of Flow, found his calling through Descartes. Murray Gell-Mann, Nicholas Humphrey, Freeman Dyson . . . 27 scientists in all write about what it was that sent them on the path to their life's work. Illuminating memoir meets superb... What makes a child decide to become a scientist?
For Robert Sapolsky Stanford professor of biology it was an argument with a rabbi over a ... |
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Light This Candle: The Life and Times of Alan Shepard
ISBN: 9781400081226 / Angielski / Miękka / 533 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alan Shepard was the brashest, cockiest, and most flamboyant of America's original Mercury Seven, but he was also regarded as the best. Intense, colorful, and dramatic, he was among the most private of America's public figures and, until his death in 1998, he guarded the story of his life zealously.
"Light This Candle, based on Neal Thompson's exclusive access to private papers and interviews with Shepard's family and closest friends--including John Glenn, Wally Schirra, and Gordon Cooper--offers a riveting, action-packed account of Shepard's life. Alan Shepard was the brashest, cockiest, and most flamboyant of America's original Mercury Seven, but he was also regarded as the best. Intense, color...
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102,91 |
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Rudolf Magnus: Physiologist and Pharmacologist (1873-1927)
ISBN: 9781402004612 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most medical doctors have probably during their studies heard of the Magnus and De Kleijn reflexes' and may have been aware of their relation to posture. But they know little about their significance and nothing about the man who unravelled the complex physiology of these reflexes and about his work. Rudolf Magnus lived from 1873 until 1927. His work on the physiology of posture was initiated during a short period of work with Sherrington in Liverpool in 1908. Though Magnus was also an authority in the field of pharmacology, it was particularly his neurophysical work on posture... Most medical doctors have probably during their studies heard of the Magnus and De Kleijn reflexes' and may have been aware of their relation to po... |
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403,47 |
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Doctor's Son
ISBN: 9781403320131 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a book of thwarted goals. Intending to become a doctor like his father, Mann Jr. instead became a professor. He met Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia victim, and married a Scottish girl on their third date. That marriage lasted 51 years.
This is a book of thwarted goals. Intending to become a doctor like his father, Mann Jr. instead became a professor. He met Elizabeth Short, the Black...
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Idylls and Idols
ISBN: 9781403377654 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Creating the New World: Stories
ISBN: 9781403390875 / Angielski / Miękka / 373 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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90,49 |
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Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age
ISBN: 9781403988157 / Angielski / Twarda / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When William Shockley invented the transistor, the world was changed forever and he was awarded the Nobel Prize. But today Shockley is often remembered only for his incendiary campaigning about race, intelligence, and genetics. His dubious research led him to donate to the Nobel Prize sperm bank and preach his inflammatory ideas widely, making shocking pronouncements on the uselessness of remedial education and the sterilization of individuals with IQs below 100. Ultimately his crusade destroyed his reputation and saw him vilified on national television, yet he died proclaiming his work on...
When William Shockley invented the transistor, the world was changed forever and he was awarded the Nobel Prize. But today Shockley is often remembere...
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The Algebra of Mohammed Ben Musa
ISBN: 9781410204400 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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104,59 |
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Nikolai Zhukovsky: Founder of Aeronautics
ISBN: 9781410205797 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,26 |
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The Life of John Ericsson
ISBN: 9781410209221 / Angielski / Miękka / 692 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The life of the brilliant marine designer and naval architect, John Ericsson (1803 - 1889), who designed and built the Civil War ironclad Monitor which defeated the Confederate Merrimac. Ericsson's propeller is still the main form of marine propulsion 150 years later. It replaced the inefficient and vulnerable steam-driven oars and paddle wheels. Ericsson also developed a calorific engine designed to use solar energy.
The life of the brilliant marine designer and naval architect, John Ericsson (1803 - 1889), who designed and built the Civil War ironclad Monitor whic...
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119,49 |
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Sophia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya: Her Life and Work
ISBN: 9781410209283 / Angielski / Miękka / 77 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The outstanding Russian mathematician Sophia Kovalevskya lived and worked in the second half of the 19th century. Her talents were outstanding. She lived in a century when Russia was making great strides in many branches of knowledge: the brilliant chemist Dmitry Mendeleyev put forward his periodical system of elements, the basis of modern chemistry; Ivan Sechenov became famous for his research in physiology and the cerebral reflexes, while Alexander Stoletov laid the foundations of electronics.Russian mathematics also achieved great successes. At the turn of the 19th century the celebrated...
The outstanding Russian mathematician Sophia Kovalevskya lived and worked in the second half of the 19th century. Her talents were outstanding. She li...
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Aiming at Targets: The Autobiography of Robert C. Seamans, Jr.
ISBN: 9781410218315 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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85,17 |
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Beehives of Invention: Edison and His Laboratories
ISBN: 9781410218827 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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63,99 |
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Li Shih-chen: Great Pharmacologist of Ancient China
ISBN: 9781410220202 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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46,91 |
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Eminent Engineers: Brief Biographies of Thirty-two of the Inventors and Engineers Who Did Most to Further Mechanical Progress
ISBN: 9781410222992 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. CONTENTS Benjamin Franklin John Fitch Nathan Read Oliver Evans Robert Fulton John Stevens Robert L. Stevens Eli Whitney Thomas Blanchard Elias Howe John Ericsson Peter Cooper George H. Corliss Alexander L. Holley William R. Jones James B. Eads Richard Arkwright Thomas Newcomen James Watt Matthew Boulton William Murdock William Symington Richard Trevithick Henry Maudsley George Stephenson I. K. Brunel James Nasmyth Alfried Krupp Charles Babbage Sir Joseph Whitworth Sir Henry Bessemer Sir William Siemens
CONTENTS Benjamin Franklin John Fitch Nathan Read Oliver Evans Robert Fulton John Stevens Robert L. Stevens Eli Whitney Thomas Blanchard Elias Howe Jo...
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85,33 |
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Creating the New World: Stories
ISBN: 9781410703330 / Angielski / Twarda / 373 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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131,31 |
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Playing the Hand I Was Dealt
ISBN: 9781410749130 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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