Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech
ISBN: 9780226359182 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became the overnight darling of Wall Street, raising over $38 million in its initial public stock offering. Lacking marketed products or substantial profit, the firm nonetheless saw its share price escalate from $35 to $89 in the first few minutes of trading, at that point the largest gain in stock market history. Coming at a time of economic recession and declining technological competitiveness in the United States, the event provoked banner headlines and ignited a period of speculative frenzy over...
In the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became the overnight darling of Wall Street, raising over...
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Big and Bright: A History of the McDonald Observatory
ISBN: 9780292707627 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By day, every year over 40,000 visitors pour in. Across the Rio Grande, a hundred miles away, Mexican mountaineers use the white domes as landmarks. By night, perched almost 7,000 feet above the sleeping, earthbound world, astronomers probe the secrets of the night sky. This is the University of Texas McDonald Observatory, one of the world's largest university-operated astronomical installations. Big and Bright: A History of the McDonald Observatory is the story of a remarkable collaboration between two major universities, one a prestigious private school, the other a... By day, every year over 40,000 visitors pour in. Across the Rio Grande, a hundred miles away, Mexican mountaineers use the white domes as landmarks... |
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Robert Recorde: Tudor Polymath, Expositor and Practitioner of Computation
ISBN: 9780857298614 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 16th-Century intellectual Robert Recorde is chiefly remembered for introducing the equals sign into algebra, yet the greater significance and broader scope of his work is often overlooked. Robert Recorde: Tudor Polymath, Expositor and Practitioner of Computation presents an authoritative and in-depth analysis of the man, his achievements and his historical importance. This scholarly yet accessible work examines the latest evidence on all aspects of Recorde's life, throwing new light on a character deserving of greater recognition. Topics and features: presents a... The 16th-Century intellectual Robert Recorde is chiefly remembered for introducing the equals sign into algebra, yet the greater significance and b... |
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All the Fish in the Sea: Maximum Sustainable Yield and the Failure of Fisheries Management
ISBN: 9780226249667 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between 1949 and 1955, the State Department pushed for an international fisheries policy grounded in maximum sustainable yield (MSY). The concept is based on a confidence that scientists can predict, theoretically, the largest catch that can be taken from a species' stock over an indefinite period. And while it was modified in 1996 with passage of the Sustained Fisheries Act, MSY is still at the heart of modern American fisheries management. As fish populations continue to crash, however, it is clear that MSY is itself not sustainable. Indeed, the concept has been widely criticized by... Between 1949 and 1955, the State Department pushed for an international fisheries policy grounded in maximum sustainable yield (MSY). The concept i... |
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Cultural History in Europe: Institutions--Themes--Perspectives
ISBN: 9783837617245 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is the current state of discussion in cultural history? Which European institutions specialize in cultural history and which topics do they address? And how will cultural history develop in the future? These and other questions are raised by European scholars in the discussion of Institutions, Themes and Perspectives of cultural history in this volume. It provides an overview of contemporary developments in Scandinavia, Finland, Great Britain, Latvia, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, and Spain.
What is the current state of discussion in cultural history? Which European institutions specialize in cultural history and which topics do they addre...
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Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control
ISBN: 9780231144131 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As alarm over global warming spreads, a radical idea is gaining momentum. Forget cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, some scientists argue. Instead, bounce sunlight back into space by pumping reflective nanoparticles into the atmosphere. Launch mirrors into orbit around the Earth. Make clouds thicker and brighter to create a "planetary thermostat." These ideas might sound like science fiction, but in fact they are part of a very old story. For more than a century, scientists, soldiers, and charlatans have tried to manipulate weather and climate, and like them, today's climate engineers...
As alarm over global warming spreads, a radical idea is gaining momentum. Forget cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, some scientists argue. Instead, bou...
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Astronomy at the Frontiers of Science
ISBN: 9789400716575 / Angielski / Twarda / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Describes the relations/interactions of astronomy with other sciences, as well as technology, industry, politics, philosophy and superstition, underlining what it means to be an astronomer, the history of astronomy, and the place of astronomy in society today.
Describes the relations/interactions of astronomy with other sciences, as well as technology, industry, politics, philosophy and superstition, underli...
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Defending Einstein: Hans Reichenbach's Writings on Space, Time and Motion
ISBN: 9780521371162 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hans Reichenbach, a philosopher of science who was one of five students in Einstein's first seminar on the general theory of relativity, became Einstein's bulldog, defending the theory against criticism from philosophers, physicists, and popular commentators. This book chronicles the development of Reichenbach's reconstruction of Einstein's theory in a way that clearly sets out all of its philosophical commitments and its physical predictions as well as the battles that Reichenbach fought on its behalf, in both the academic and popular press. The essays include reviews and responses to...
Hans Reichenbach, a philosopher of science who was one of five students in Einstein's first seminar on the general theory of relativity, became Einste...
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Geschichte Der Botanik: Leben Und Leistung Grosser Forscher
ISBN: 9783642393990 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 359 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wie fur alle Wissenschaftsgebiete gilt auch fur die Botanik, dass ein vertieftes Verstandnis des gegenwartigen Standes dieser Disziplin nur durch die Kenntnis ihrer historischen Entwicklung moglich ist. Die zweite, bearbeitete Auflage der Geschichte der Botanik beschreibt in uber 20 Kapiteln den Werdegang der Botanik von Aristoteles uber Linne bis ans Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts. Der Schwerpunkt der Darstellung liegt dabei in der biographischen Wurdigung uberragender Forscher dieses Faches. Der Hauptteil des Werkes wird durch einen umfangreichen Anmerkungsteil erganzt, der genaue... Wie fur alle Wissenschaftsgebiete gilt auch fur die Botanik, dass ein vertieftes Verstandnis des gegenwartigen Standes dieser Disziplin nur durch d... |
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Evolution: The First Four Billion Years
ISBN: 9780674062214 / Angielski / Miękka / 1008 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spanning evolutionary science from its inception to its latest findings, from discoveries and data to philosophy and history, this book is the most complete, authoritative, and inviting one-volume introduction to evolutionary biology available. Clear, informative, and comprehensive in scope, Evolution opens with a series of major essays dealing with the history and philosophy of evolutionary biology, with major empirical and theoretical questions in the science, from speciation to adaptation, from paleontology to evolutionary development (evo devo), and concluding with essays on the... Spanning evolutionary science from its inception to its latest findings, from discoveries and data to philosophy and history, this book is the most... |
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A Journal of the Plague Year
ISBN: 9781617205811 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The novel is a fictionalised account of one mans experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London. Although it purports to have been written only a few years after the event, it actually was written in the years just prior to the books first publication in March 1722. Defoe was only five years old in 1665, and the book itself was published under the initials H. F. The novel probably was based on the journals of Defoes uncle, Henry Foe.
The novel is a fictionalised account of one mans experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London. Although it purpor...
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Six Lectures on Light: Delivered in America in 1872-1873
ISBN: 9781108038430 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born in Leighlinbridge in Ireland, John Tyndall (1820 93) was a brilliant nineteenth-century experimental physicist and gifted science educator. He worked initially as a draughtsman, then spent a year teaching at an English school before attending the University of Marburg to study physics and chemistry. Tyndall carried out important research on magnetism, light and bacteriology. Among his many significant achievements, he demonstrated the greenhouse effect in Earth's atmospheric gases using absorption spectroscopy. He was a skilled and entertaining educator and as Professor of Natural...
Born in Leighlinbridge in Ireland, John Tyndall (1820 93) was a brilliant nineteenth-century experimental physicist and gifted science educator. He wo...
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New Fragments
ISBN: 9781108038447 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born in Leighlinbridge in Ireland, John Tyndall (1820 93) was a brilliant nineteenth-century experimental physicist and gifted science educator. He worked initially as a draughtsman, then spent a year teaching at an English school before attending the University of Marburg to study physics and chemistry. Tyndall carried out important research on magnetism, light and bacteriology. Among his many significant achievements, he demonstrated the greenhouse effect in Earth's atmospheric gases using absorption spectroscopy. He was a skilled and entertaining educator and as Professor of Natural...
Born in Leighlinbridge in Ireland, John Tyndall (1820 93) was a brilliant nineteenth-century experimental physicist and gifted science educator. He wo...
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Humphry Davy
ISBN: 9781108038508 / Angielski / Miękka / 526 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sir Humphry Davy (1778 1829) was a hugely influential chemist, inventor, and public lecturer who is recognised as one of the first professional scientists. His apprenticeship to an apothecary in 1795 led to his introduction to chemical experiments. A chance meeting with Davis Giddy in 1798 introduced Davy into the wider scientific community, and in 1800 he was invited to a post at the Royal Institution, where he lectured to great acclaim. This two-volume memoir was published by his brother, Dr John Davy, in 1836, in response to Paris' biography of 1831, authorised by Lady Davy (also reissued...
Sir Humphry Davy (1778 1829) was a hugely influential chemist, inventor, and public lecturer who is recognised as one of the first professional scient...
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Newton on Matter and Activity
ISBN: 9780268013431 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Newton on Matter and Activity shows persuasively that while the Principia remains within the first two stages of inquiry (mathematical and physical) into nature, Newton spent the next forty years of his life making a philosophical analysis of matter, force, and transmission of force. Close attention is paid to methodological issues, especially Newton's move beyond inductivism and toward a reproductive theoretical schema of interpretation required to treat of attraction, hardness, and impenetrability. --Cross Currents
Newton on Matter and Activity shows persuasively that while the Principia remains within the first two stages of inquiry (mathematical and physical) i...
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Passages from the Life of a Philosopher
ISBN: 9781108037884 / Angielski / Miękka / 516 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The mathematician and engineer Charles Babbage (1791 1871) is best remembered for his 'calculating machines', which are considered the forerunner of modern computers. Over the course of his life he wrote a number of books based on his scientific investigations, but in this volume, published in 1864, Babbage writes in a more personal vein. He points out at the beginning of the work that it 'does not aspire to the name of autobiography', though the chapters sketch out the contours of his life, beginning with his family, his childhood and formative years studying at Cambridge, and moving through...
The mathematician and engineer Charles Babbage (1791 1871) is best remembered for his 'calculating machines', which are considered the forerunner of m...
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Working Knowledge: Making the Human Sciences from Parsons to Kuhn
ISBN: 9780674065741 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The human sciences in the English-speaking world have been in a state of crisis since the Second World War. The battle between champions of hard-core scientific standards and supporters of a more humanistic, interpretive approach has been fought to a stalemate. Joel Isaac seeks to throw these contemporary disputes into much-needed historical relief. In Working Knowledge he explores how influential thinkers in the twentieth century's middle decades understood the relations among science, knowledge, and the empirical study of human affairs. For a number of these thinkers,... The human sciences in the English-speaking world have been in a state of crisis since the Second World War. The battle between champions of hard-co... |
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The Malthusian Moment: Global Population Growth and the Birth of American Environmentalism
ISBN: 9780813552712 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962) is often cited as the founding text of the U.S. environmental movement, in The Malthusian Moment Thomas Robertson locates the origins of modern American environmentalism in twentieth-century adaptations of Thomas Malthus's concerns about population growth. For many environmentalists, managing population growth became the key to unlocking the most intractable problems facing Americans after World War II--everything from war and the spread of communism overseas to poverty, race riots, and suburban sprawl at home.Weaving together the...
Although Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962) is often cited as the founding text of the U.S. environmental movement, in The Malthusian Mome...
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The Malthusian Moment: Global Population Growth and the Birth of American Environmentalism
ISBN: 9780813552729 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962) is often cited as the founding text of the U.S. environmental movement, in The Malthusian Moment Thomas Robertson locates the origins of modern American environmentalism in twentieth-century adaptations of Thomas Malthus's concerns about population growth. For many environmentalists, managing population growth became the key to unlocking the most intractable problems facing Americans after World War II--everything from war and the spread of communism overseas to poverty, race riots, and suburban sprawl at home.Weaving together the...
Although Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962) is often cited as the founding text of the U.S. environmental movement, in The Malthusian Mome...
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187,49 zł |
James Clerk Maxwell: A Commemoration Volume 1831-1931
ISBN: 9781107670952 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This 1931 book is comprised of ten essays dealing with various aspects of James Clerk Maxwell's life and achievements.
This 1931 book is comprised of ten essays dealing with various aspects of James Clerk Maxwell's life and achievements.
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