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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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Third Thoughts: The Universe We Still Don’t Know
ISBN: 9780674241473 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003
ISBN: 9780618178926 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bringing together the best and brightest writers on science and nature, this year's collection includes essays on such wide-ranging subjects as astronomy's new stars, archaeology, the Bible, "terminal" ice, and memory faults.
Bringing together the best and brightest writers on science and nature, this year's collection includes essays on such wide-ranging subjects as astron...
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing
ISBN: 9780618834471 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bestselling author and staff writer for The New Yorker Groopman edits this year's volume of the finest science and nature writing. Contributors include Walter Kirn, Ron Rosenbaum, Jeffrey Toobin, and Oliver Sacks.
Bestselling author and staff writer for The New Yorker Groopman edits this year's volume of the finest science and nature writing. Contributors includ...
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Group Theory in the Bedroom, and Other Mathematical Diversions
ISBN: 9780809052172 / Angielski / Miękka / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brian Hayes is one of the most accomplished essayists active today--a claim supported not only by his prolific and continuing high-quality output but also by such honors as the National Magazine Award for his commemorative Y2K essay titled "Clock of Ages," published in the November/December 1999 issue of The Sciences magazine. (The also-rans that year included Tom Wolfe, Verlyn Klinkenborg, and Oliver Sacks.) Hayes's work in this genre has also appeared in such anthologies as The Best American Magazine Writing, The Best American Science and Nature Writing, and The Norton... Brian Hayes is one of the most accomplished essayists active today--a claim supported not only by his prolific and continuing high-quality output b... |
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009
ISBN: 9780547002590 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Elizabeth Kolbert, one of today's leading environmental journalists, edits this year's volume of the finest science and nature writing. Bringing togetherpromisingnew voicesand prize-winning favorites, thiscollection is "a delight for any fan of popular science" (Publishers Weekly)."
Elizabeth Kolbert, one of today's leading environmental journalists, edits this year's volume of the finest science and nature writing. Bringing toget...
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Cold
ISBN: 9780316042925 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From avalanches to glaciers, from seals to snowflakes, and from Shackleton's expedition to "The Year Without Summer," Bill Streever journeys through history, myth, geography, and ecology in a year-long search for cold--real, icy, 40-below cold. In July he finds it while taking a dip in a 35-degree Arctic swimming hole; in September while excavating our planet's ancient and not so ancient ice ages; and in October while exploring hibernation habits in animals, from humans to wood frogs to bears.
A scientist whose passion for cold runs red hot, Streever is a wondrous guide: he conjures... From avalanches to glaciers, from seals to snowflakes, and from Shackleton's expedition to "The Year Without Summer," Bill Streever journeys through h...
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing
ISBN: 9780547350639 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Best American Series(r)
First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected and most popular of its kind. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011 includes Atul Gawande, Jonathan Franzen,... The Best American Series(r)
First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country s finest sho... |
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2012
ISBN: 9780547799537 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Best American Series(r)
First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected and most popular of its kind. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2012 includes JEROME GROOPMAN, SY MONTGOMERY,... The Best American Series(r)
First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country s finest shor... |
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013
ISBN: 9780544003439 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pulitzer Prize winning authorSiddhartha Mukherjee, a leading cancer physician and researcher, selects the year stop science and nature writing fromjournalists who dive into their fields with curiosity and passion, deliveringmust-read articlesfrom a wide array of fields."
Pulitzer Prize winning authorSiddhartha Mukherjee, a leading cancer physician and researcher, selects the year stop science and nature writing fromjou...
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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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The Best American Science and Nature Writing
ISBN: 9780544286740 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Best American Series The Best American Series |
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Zoom: From Atoms and Galaxies to Blizzards and Bees: How Everything Moves
ISBN: 9780316217392 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the speed of light to moving mountains--and everything in between--ZOOM explores how the universe and its objects move.
If you sit as still as you can in a quiet room, you might be able to convince yourself that nothing is moving. But air currents are still wafting around you. Blood rushes through your veins. The atoms in your chair jiggle furiously. In fact, the planet you are sitting on is whizzing through space thirty-five times faster than the speed of sound. Natural motion dominates our lives and the intricate mechanics of the world around us. In ZOOM, Bob Berman explores... From the speed of light to moving mountains--and everything in between--ZOOM explores how the universe and its objects move.
If you sit as still a... |
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Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye
ISBN: 9781250119636 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Collected essays from bestselling author Michael Shermer's celebrated columns in Scientific American For fifteen years, bestselling author Michael Shermer has written a column in Scientific American magazine that synthesizes scientific concepts and theory for a general audience. His trademark combination of deep scientific understanding and entertaining writing style has thrilled his huge and devoted audience for years. Now, in Skeptic, seventy-five of these columns are available together for the first time; a welcome addition for his fans and a... Collected essays from bestselling author Michael Shermer's celebrated columns in Scientific American For fifteen years, bestsel... |
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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
ISBN: 9781538760529 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2020
ISBN: 9780358074298 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
ISBN: 9781335008008 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
ISBN: 9780316540506 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences
ISBN: 9781482758825 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems
ISBN: 9780307473509 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the acclaimed author of The Pencil and To Engineer Is Human, The Essential Engineer is an eye-opening exploration of the ways in which science and engineering must work together to address our world s most pressing issues, from dealing with climate change and the prevention of natural disasters to the development of efficient automobiles and the search for renewable energy sources. While the scientist may identify problems, it falls to the engineer to solve them. It is the inherent practicality of engineering, which takes into account structural, economic,...
From the acclaimed author of The Pencil and To Engineer Is Human, The Essential Engineer is an eye-opening exploration of the way...
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