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The Best American Science Writing 2012
ISBN: 9780062117915 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Best American Science Writing 2012 is yet another endlessly fascinating and mind-expanding installment of the popular science series that Kirkus Reviews calls, "Superb brain candy." Edited by renowned theoretical physicist and bestselling author Michio Kaku, co-founder of string field theory, this collection contains the most engaging and provocative science writing of the year--gathering in one volume enthralling and eye-opening essays about the latest developments in biochemistry, physics, astronomy, genetics, evolutionary theory, cognition, and more.
The Best American Science Writing 2012 is yet another endlessly fascinating and mind-expanding installment of the popular science series that...
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78,02 zł |
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Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think
ISBN: 9780199214662 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the publication of the international bestseller The Selfish Gene some thirty years ago, Richard Dawkins powerfully captured a newly emerging way of understanding evolution--a gene's eye view. Dawkins went on to publish five more bestselling books, including The Blind Watchmaker and Unweaving the Rainbow. He is one of the most high profile public intellectuals today and any attempt to understand the scientific view of the world must grapple with his ideas.
Now, in this exciting collection of original essays, some of the world's leading thinkers offer their take on how Dawkins has... With the publication of the international bestseller The Selfish Gene some thirty years ago, Richard Dawkins powerfully captured a newly emerging way ...
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89,79 zł |
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Future Science : Essays from the cutting edge
ISBN: 9780199699353 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From 19 talented young scientists comes a volume of essays about the future of science. Including cutting edge research across a wide range of fields, we make exciting new discoveries about some of the most interesting scientific problems today, from neuroscience and evolutionary psychology to plant populations and oceanography.
From 19 talented young scientists comes a volume of essays about the future of science. Including cutting edge research across a wide range of fields,...
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60,01 zł |
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10 Questions Science Can't Answer (Yet): A Guide to Science's Greatest Mysteries
ISBN: 9780230622845 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Considering questions such as 'Where did language come from?' and 'Do animals know they exist?', Michael Hanlon explores possible theories and dispatches a few of the less likely ones in his quest to fill the gaping holes that science is littered with.
Considering questions such as 'Where did language come from?' and 'Do animals know they exist?', Michael Hanlon explores possible theories and dispatc...
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191,40 zł |
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The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader
ISBN: 9780822349570 / Angielski / Miękka / 494 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For twenty years, the renowned philosopher of science Sandra Harding has argued that science and technology studies, postcolonial studies, and feminist critique must inform one another. In The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader, Harding puts those fields in critical conversation, assembling the anthology that she has long wanted for classroom use. In classic and recent essays, international scholars from a range of disciplines think through a broad array of science and technology philosophies and practices. The contributors reevaluate conventional accounts of the West s...
For twenty years, the renowned philosopher of science Sandra Harding has argued that science and technology studies, postcolonial studies, and feminis...
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134,81 zł |
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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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86,11 zł |
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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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110,90 zł |
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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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55,70 zł |
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Newtonian Studies
ISBN: 9780674181854 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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291,35 zł |
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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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227,67 zł |
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Wonder: When and Why the World Appears Radiant
ISBN: 9781937650230 / Angielski / Miękka / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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89,85 zł |
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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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64,83 zł |
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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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113,79 zł |
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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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136,55 zł |
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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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168,90 zł |
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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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212,27 zł |
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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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95,36 zł |
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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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181,90 zł |
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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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159,14 zł |
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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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36,20 zł |
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