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Letters to a Young Scientist
ISBN: 9780871403773 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Edward O. Wilson has distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, young and old. Reflecting on his coming-of-age in the South as a Boy Scout and a lover of ants and butterflies, Wilson threads these twenty-one letters, each richly illustrated, with autobiographical anecdotes that illuminate his career both his successes and his failures and his motivations for becoming a biologist. At a time in human history when our survival is more than ever linked to our understanding of science, Wilson insists that success in the sciences does not depend on mathematical skill, but rather a...
Edward O. Wilson has distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, young and old. Reflecting on his coming-of-age in the South as a Boy ...
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The Gods of Science
ISBN: 9781425937256 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Geek Nation: How Indian Science is Taking Over the World
ISBN: 9781444710168 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. India: it's a nation of geeks, swots and nerds. Almost one in five of all medical and dental staff in the UK is of Indian origin, and one in six employed scientists with science or engineering doctorates in the US is Asian. By the turn of the millennium, there were even claims that a third of all engineers in Silicon Valley were of Indian origin, with Indians running 750 of its tech companies.
At the dawn of this scientific revolution, "Geek Nation" is a journey to meet the inventors, engineers and young scientists helping to give birth to the world's next scientific superpower - a nation... India: it's a nation of geeks, swots and nerds. Almost one in five of all medical and dental staff in the UK is of Indian origin, and one in six emplo...
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Science in Seconds: 200 Key Concepts Explained in an Instant
ISBN: 9781780871448 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The quickest ever way to learn everything, from the physics of black holes to quantum computing.
The quickest ever way to learn everything, from the physics of black holes to quantum computing.
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Newtonian Studies
ISBN: 9780674181854 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Forging of Physical Theories
ISBN: 9781532736476 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Nothing: Surprising Insights Everywhere from Zero to Oblivion
ISBN: 9781615192052 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Incredible discoveries from the fringes of the universe to the inner workings of our minds all from nothing It turns out that almost nothing is as curious or as enlightening as, well, nothing. What is nothingness? Where can it be found? The writers of the world's top-selling science magazine investigate from the big bang, dark energy, and the void to superconductors, vestigial organs, hypnosis, and the placebo effect and discover that understanding nothing may be the key to understanding everything: What came before the big bang, and will our universe end? Incredible discoveries from the fringes of the universe to the inner workings of our minds all from nothing
It turns out that almo... |
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The Works of Archimedes: Edited in Modern Notation With Introductory Chapters
ISBN: 9781466475397 / Angielski / Miękka / 518 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Works of Archimedes: Edited in Modern Notation With Introductory Chapters
ISBN: 9781466488472 / Angielski / Miękka / 518 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Thoughts: Eighty and Still Learning
ISBN: 9781491708859 / Angielski / Miękka / 724 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ira Presslaff's Thoughts: Eighty and Still Learning presents a memoir by a strong-minded eighty-year-old man living with his dog, Rocky, in a small apartment on the east side of Indianapolis. He wonders how it got this way and how he got there.Writing in a conversational style, Presslaff speaks to those who have had a good marriage gone bad and to those who were the bad kids in the back of the classroom but learned to overcome their problems. He talks about his love for and marriage to his former wife, Mimsie Price Presslaff; they had twenty-three very good years before it all went south.... Ira Presslaff's Thoughts: Eighty and Still Learning presents a memoir by a strong-minded eighty-year-old man living with his dog, Rocky, in a small... |
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Thoughts: Eighty and Still Learning
ISBN: 9781491708873 / Angielski / Twarda / 724 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ira Presslaff's Thoughts: Eighty and Still Learning presents a memoir by a strong-minded eighty-year-old man living with his dog, Rocky, in a small apartment on the east side of Indianapolis. He wonders how it got this way and how he got there.Writing in a conversational style, Presslaff speaks to those who have had a good marriage gone bad and to those who were the bad kids in the back of the classroom but learned to overcome their problems. He talks about his love for and marriage to his former wife, Mimsie Price Presslaff; they had twenty-three very good years before it all went south.... Ira Presslaff's Thoughts: Eighty and Still Learning presents a memoir by a strong-minded eighty-year-old man living with his dog, Rocky, in a small... |
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014
ISBN: 9780544003422 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Undeniably exquisite . . .The essays in the collection are] meditations that reveal not only how science actually happens but also who or what propels its immutable humanity. Maria Popova, Brain Pickings A stimulating compendium. Kirkus Reviews Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author Deborah Blum selects the year stop science and nature writing from writers who balance research with humanity and in the process uncover riveting stories of discovery across the disciplines."
Undeniably exquisite . . .The essays in the collection are] meditations that reveal not only how science actually happens but also who or what... |
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Epic Science Series Enhanced
ISBN: 9781479327355 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contains: After the Stars Have Gone-The Final, Silent Dark - The expansive and color-illustrated answer to the future of the universe. Our fruits are of a universal seed, Are yet another yield of All possibility treed, For siblings elsewhere in the entropic sea Are also born of such probability. All That Lies Between - The glorious and color-illustrated answer to what rules all, in between the beginning and the end of the universe. Out of energy's dispersion and decay of quality Comes the emergence of growth and complexity. The Meadows of Heaven - How the universe formed its galaxies, and...
Contains: After the Stars Have Gone-The Final, Silent Dark - The expansive and color-illustrated answer to the future of the universe. Our fruits are ...
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The Poetic Universe
ISBN: 9781456374037 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Essays on science, not science, and the Cosmos. With illustrations. Color edition.
Essays on science, not science, and the Cosmos. With illustrations. Color edition.
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The Poetic Universe
ISBN: 9781456458621 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Essays on science, not science, and the Cosmos. With illustrations. Grayscale edition.
Essays on science, not science, and the Cosmos. With illustrations. Grayscale edition.
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Acres of Diamonds
ISBN: 9781926842837 / Angielski / Miękka / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. CONSIDERING everything, the most remarkable thing in Russell Conwell's remarkable life is his lecture, "Acres of Diamonds." That is, the lecture itself, the number of times he has delivered it, what a source of inspiration it has been to myriads, the money that he has made and is making, and, still more, the purpose...
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Essays on Life, Art and Science
ISBN: 9781478154723 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. Engravings of Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. It is hardly necessary to...
Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of ...
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The Tiny Truth That Governs Everything
ISBN: 9781492960911 / Angielski / Miękka / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To consider yourself a person who knows the world, you must first know the tiny truth of this little treatise, the tiny truth that governs it all. Though the words in this treatise may modify your view of yourself and the world, they do not constitute a philosophy per se (though some might say it opens the door to one); nor do they in any way constitute a religion or a belief system, a prediction or a prophecy; they are, basically, a simple, objective statement of fact that you will acknowledge, or deny, according to how the you that you are came to be.
To consider yourself a person who knows the world, you must first know the tiny truth of this little treatise, the tiny truth that governs it all. Tho...
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Between Ape and Artilect: Conversations with Pioneers of Artificial General Intelligence and Other Transformative Technologies
ISBN: 9781496138170 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between Ape and Artilect is edited by noted AI researcher Ben Goertzel, and produced by futurist organization Humanity+. During 2010-12, Dr. Goertzel conducted a series of textual interviews with researchers in various areas of cutting-edge science -- artificial general intelligence, nanotechnology, life extension, neurotechnology, collective intelligence, mind uploading, body modification, neuro-spiritual transformation, and more. These interviews were published online in H+ Magazine, and are here gathered together in a single volume. The resulting series of dialogues treats a variety of...
Between Ape and Artilect is edited by noted AI researcher Ben Goertzel, and produced by futurist organization Humanity+. During 2010-12, Dr. Goertzel ...
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Will the Internet Achieve Sentience?: Is VOX Coming?
ISBN: 9781497360655 / Angielski / Miękka / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Will the Internet Achieve Sentience? If it does, (or rather when it does), should we expect hoards of robot armies to soon rise up under its control? Or would a less dramatic outcome be more likely? This book explores the topic of this possible emergent sentience, and its ramifications for Humanity. This exposition from the mind of the rogue philosopher, Bill M. Tracer, takes his readers on a thought provoking journey to explore possible answers to that title question. Bill takes his readers along on his train of thought, and quite a ride it is. Throughout this work of futurist's...
Will the Internet Achieve Sentience? If it does, (or rather when it does), should we expect hoards of robot armies to soon rise up under its control? ...
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