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Evolution's Captain: The Story of the Kidnapping That Led to Charles Darwin's Voyage Aboard the Beagle
ISBN: 9780060088781 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. This is the story of the man without whom the name Charles Darwin might be unknown to us today. That man was Captain Robert FitzRoy, who invited the 22-year-old Darwin to be his companion on board the Beagle . This is the remarkable story of how a misguided decision by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, precipitated his employment of a young naturalist named Charles Darwin, and how the clash between FitzRoy's fundamentalist views and Darwin's discoveries led to FitzRoy's descent into the abyss. One of the great ironies of history is that the famous... This is the story of the man without whom the name Charles Darwin might be unknown to us today. That man was Captain Robert FitzRoy, who invited th... |
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66,15 zł |
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Coming of Age in the Milky Way
ISBN: 9780060535957 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. From the second-century celestial models of Ptolemy to modern-day research institutes and quantum theory, this classic book offers a breathtaking tour of astronomy and the brilliant, eccentric personalities who have shaped it. From the first time mankind had an inkling of the vast space that surrounds us, those who study the universe have had to struggle against political and religious preconceptions. They have included some of the most charismatic, courageous, and idiosyncratic thinkers of all time. In Coming of Age in the Milky Way, Timothy Ferris uses his unique blend of... From the second-century celestial models of Ptolemy to modern-day research institutes and quantum theory, this classic book offers a breathtaking t... |
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70,29 zł |
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They All Laughed...: From Light Bulbs to Lasers: The Fascinating Stories Behind the Great Inventions
ISBN: 9780060924157 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. An enlightening, fun look at scientific discoveries and the often wacky andac cidental ways in which they have led to some of the most important inventions. "An entertaining and informative tour of the laboratoris, institutes, and beauty salons of science".--New York Times Book Review.
An enlightening, fun look at scientific discoveries and the often wacky andac cidental ways in which they have led to some of the most important inven...
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66,15 zł |
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Don't Know Much about the Universe: Everything You Need to Know about Outer Space But Never Learned
ISBN: 9780060932565 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Who dug those canals on Mars? What was the biblical Star of Bethlehem? Were the pyramids built by extraterrestrials? From the ancients who charted the heavens to Star Trek, The X-Files, and Apollo 13, outer space has intrigued people through the ages. Yet most of us look up at the night sky and feel totally in the dark when it comes to the basic facts about the universe. Kenneth C. Davis steps into that void with a lively and readable guide to the discoveries, theories, and real people who have shed light on the mysteries and wonders of the cosmos.... Who dug those canals on Mars? What was the biblical Star of Bethlehem? Were the pyramids built by extraterrestrials? From the ancients who ch... |
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66,15 zł |
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Handbook of Special Education: Emerging Programs
ISBN: 9780080408170 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. This fourth volume of the
This fourth volume of the
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603,14 zł |
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The OECD, Globalisation and Education Policy
ISBN: 9780080434490 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Hardbound. The increasing significance of the OECD in the development of national education policies has received much attention in recent years. Although it is recognised that certain international agencies such as the OECD as key 'globalising agencies', have acquired the capacity to 'persuade' nation states towards certain policy priorities, little attention has been paid to making clear how these processes of persuasion may work.This volume investigates such processes, drawing on a study of the relationship between the OECD and educational policy directions in Australia. It investigates...
Hardbound. The increasing significance of the OECD in the development of national education policies has received much attention in recent years. Alth...
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484,56 zł |
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Multimedia Learning: Cognitive and Instructional Issues
ISBN: 9780080438542 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Hardbound. With the increased dissemination of information technologies in education, the issue of how learners deal with multimedia information systems has become critical. New research questions have emerged such as: How well do people learn from multimedia documents? How do they achieve integration between text and any other media? How can you make computerised information systems fit user information processing strategies and styles? And what is the potential of hypermedia applications for education, training and work?This volume is based on a selection of papers presented at the first...
Hardbound. With the increased dissemination of information technologies in education, the issue of how learners deal with multimedia information syste...
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1024,19 zł |
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Laser Pioneers
ISBN: 9780123360304 / Angielski / Twarda / 298 str. This work presents the intriguing story of laser technology development through interviews with the scientists who made history with their groundbreaking research. Laser Pioneers, Revised Edition, describes a race for innovative laser technologies that resulted in several Nobel Prizes and one of the most bitter patent fights of the twentieth century. This book makes fascinating reading for anyone involved with physics, engineering, optics, lasers, or the history of science--or anyone simply interested in the process of invention.
This work presents the intriguing story of laser technology development through interviews with the scientists who made history with their groundbreak...
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233,09 zł |
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Vital Forces: The Discovery of the Molecular Basis of Life
ISBN: 9780123618108 / Angielski / Twarda / 364 str. Vital Forces tells the history of the 'biochemical revolution', a period of unprecedentedly rapid advance in human knowledge that profoundly affected our view of life and laid the foundation for modern medicine and biotechnology. The story is told in a clear, engaging, and absorbing manner. This delightful work relates the fascinating and staggering advances in concepts and theories over the last 200 years and introduces the major figures of the times. Vital Forces also describes the discovery of the molecular basis of life through the stories of the scientists... Vital Forces tells the history of the 'biochemical revolution', a period of unprecedentedly rapid advance in human knowledge that profoundly... |
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387,81 zł |
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Vital Forces: The Discovery of the Molecular Basis of Life
ISBN: 9780123618115 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Combining science and biography into a seamless chronological narrative, the author of Vital Forces brings to life the successes and failures, collaborations and feuds, and errors and insights that produced the revolution in biology. The story is told in a clear, engaging, and absorbing manner. This delightful work relates the fascinating and staggering advances in concepts and theories over the last 200 years and introduces the major figures of the times.
Combining science and biography into a seamless chronological narrative, the author of Vital Forces brings to life the successes and failures, ...
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176,38 zł |
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Active Control of Sound
ISBN: 9780125154253 / Angielski / Twarda / 452 str. Recent technological advances in the development of fast digital signal processors have made the active control of sound a practical proposition. This book brings together results from research in the two disciplinesof acoustics and signal processing and presents the fundamentals of noise control in a unified manner. Practical applications are presented wherever possible although the emphasis is on the algorithmic principles which form the foundation of practical systems. The volume is written in textbook style and aimed at both undergraduate and postgraduate students of acoustics... Recent technological advances in the development of fast digital signal processors have made the active control of sound a practical proposition. T... |
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264,02 zł |
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Hitler's Scientists: Science, War, and the Devil's Pact
ISBN: 9780142004807 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. An eye-opening account of the rise of science in Germany through to Hitler's regime, and the frightening Nazi experiments that occurred during the Reich
A shocking account of Nazi science, and a compelling look at the the dramatic rise of German science in the nineteenth century, its preeminence in the early twentieth, and the frightening developments that led to its collapse in 1945, this is the compelling story of German scientists under Hitler's regime. Weaving the history of science and technology with the fortunes of war and the stories of men and women whose discoveries brought both... An eye-opening account of the rise of science in Germany through to Hitler's regime, and the frightening Nazi experiments that occurred during the Rei...
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74,47 zł |
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Hiding in the Mirror: The Quest for Alternate Realities, from Plato to String Theory (by Way of Alicei N Wonderland, Einstein, and the Twili
ISBN: 9780143038023 / Angielski / Miękka / 277 str. An exploration of mankind's fascination with worlds beyond our own-by the bestselling author of The Physics of Star Trek
Lawrence Krauss -an international leader in physics and cosmology-examines our long and ardent romance with parallel universes, veiled dimensions, and regions of being that may extend tantalizingly beyond the limits of our perception. Krauss examines popular culture's current embrace (and frequent misunderstanding) of such topics as black holes, life in other dimensions, strings, and some of the more extraordinary new theories that propose the existence... An exploration of mankind's fascination with worlds beyond our own-by the bestselling author of The Physics of Star Trek
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70,33 zł |
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A World on Fire: A Heretic, an Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygen
ISBN: 9780143038832 / Angielski / Miękka / 414 str. Like Charles Seife's Zero and Dava Sobel's Longitude, this passionate intellectual history is the story of the intersection of science and the human, in this case the rivals who discovered oxygen in the late 1700s. That breakthrough changed the world as radically as those of Newton and Darwin but was at first eclipsed by revolution and reaction. In chronicling the triumph and ruin of the English freethinker Joseph Priestley and the French nobleman Antoine Lavoisier--the former exiled, the latter executed on the guillotine--A World on Fire illustrates the perilous place of...
Like Charles Seife's Zero and Dava Sobel's Longitude, this passionate intellectual history is the story of the intersection of science a...
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66,19 zł |
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First You Build a Cloud
ISBN: 9780156006460 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. For many of us, physics, like math, has always been a thing of mystery and complexity. In First You Build a Cloud, K. C. Cole provides cogent explanations through animated prose, metaphors, and anecdotes, allowing us to comprehend the nuances of physics-gravity and light, color and shape, quarks and quasars, particles and stars, force and strength. We also come to see how the physical world is so deeply intertwined with the ways in which we think about culture, poetry, and philosophy. Cole, one of our preeminent science writers, serves as a guide into the world of such legendary scientific...
For many of us, physics, like math, has always been a thing of mystery and complexity. In First You Build a Cloud, K. C. Cole provides cogent explanat...
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61,85 zł |
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The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention That Changed the World
ISBN: 9780156007535 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. The story of the compass is shrouded in mystery and myth, yet most will agree it begins around the time of the birth of Christ in ancient China. A mysterious lodestone whose powers affected metal was known to the Chinese emperor. When this piece of metal was suspended in water, it always pointed north. This unexplainable occurrence led to the stone's use in feng shui, the Chinese art of finding the right location. However, it was the Italians, more than a thousand years later, who discovered the ultimate destiny of the lodestone and unleashed its formidable powers. In Amalfi sometime in the...
The story of the compass is shrouded in mystery and myth, yet most will agree it begins around the time of the birth of Christ in ancient China. A mys...
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61,85 zł |
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The Advent of the Algorithm: The 300-Year Journey from an Idea to the Computer
ISBN: 9780156013918 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Simply put, an algorithm is a set of instructions-it's the code that makes computers run. A basic idea that proved elusive for hundreds of years and bent the minds of the greatest thinkers in the world, the algorithm is what made the modern world possible. Without the algorithm, there would have been no computer, no Internet, no virtual reality, no e-mail, or any other technological advance that we rely on every day.
In The Advent of the Algorithm, David Berlinski combines science, history, and math to explain and explore the intriguing story of how the algorithm was finally... Simply put, an algorithm is a set of instructions-it's the code that makes computers run. A basic idea that proved elusive for hundreds of years and b...
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86,67 zł |
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Dark Light: Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-Ray
ISBN: 9780156032445 / Angielski / Miękka / 357 str. The modern world imagines that the invention of electricity was greeted with great enthusiasm. But in 1879 Americans reacted to the advent of electrification with suspicion and fear. Forty years after Thomas Edison invented the incandescent bulb, only 20 percent of American families had wired their homes. Meanwhile, electrotherapy emerged as a popular medical treatment for everything from depression to digestive problems. Why did Americans welcome electricity into their bodies even as they kept it from their homes? And what does their reaction to technological innovation then have to teach us...
The modern world imagines that the invention of electricity was greeted with great enthusiasm. But in 1879 Americans reacted to the advent of electrif...
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82,53 zł |
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Eurekas and Euphorias: The Oxford Book of Scientific Anecdotes
ISBN: 9780192804037 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. The march of science has been marked through the years by episodes of drama and comedy, of failure as well as triumph, by outrageous strokes of luck, deserved and undeserved, and sometimes by human tragedy. In Eurekas and Euphorias, Walter Gratzer captures the human face of discovery as he relates many intriguing tales of scientific adventures spanning over two thousand years.
Open this book at random and you may chance on the clumsy chemist named Sapper who broke a thermometer in a reaction vat and made the discovery that launched the modern dyestuff industry. Or the physicist who... The march of science has been marked through the years by episodes of drama and comedy, of failure as well as triumph, by outrageous strokes of luck, ...
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417,52 zł |
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Ben Franklin Stilled the Waves: An Informal History of Pouring Oil on Water with Reflections on the Ups and Downs of Scientific Life in General
ISBN: 9780192804945 / Angielski / Miękka / 269 str. Benjamin Franklin was the first to report the phenomenon of oil's power to still troubled waters and to speculate on why it happened. A century later Lord Rayleigh performed an identical experiment. Irving Langmuir did it with minor variations in 1917, and won a Nobel Prize for it. Then Langmuir's work was followed by a Dutch pediatrician's in 1925. p Each experimenter saw a little more in the result than his predecessor had seen, and the sciences of physics, chemistry and biology have all been illuminated by the work. p Charles Tanford reflects on the evolving nature of science and of...
Benjamin Franklin was the first to report the phenomenon of oil's power to still troubled waters and to speculate on why it happened. A century later ...
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