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The Best Australian Science Writing, 2015
ISBN: 9781742234410 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How does dust connect the cosmos with our bed sheets? Why do lobsters do the Mexican Wave backwards? And what makes us feel wetness when there s no such thing as wet nerve receptors? Now in its fifth year, "The Best Australian Science Writing 2015" draws on the knowledge and insight of Australia s brightest thinkers in examining the world around us. From our obsession with Mars to the mating habits of fish, this lively collection delights in challenging our perceptions of the planet we think we know."
How does dust connect the cosmos with our bed sheets? Why do lobsters do the Mexican Wave backwards? And what makes us feel wetness when there s no su...
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Creative Hypotheses: my creative contributions to the creative phase of science
ISBN: 9781514825211 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This ground-breaking book not only clearly illustrates the value of, roll of, and place for creativity in science (and why), but it is also an innovative and entertaining compendium of original creative hypotheses on the frontiers of science (the author's attention being drawn in this book to particle physics, cosmology, geology, genetics, psychology, paleontology, and microbiology. All this by the world's foremost creative thinker and the world's most humorous person (so says he).
This ground-breaking book not only clearly illustrates the value of, roll of, and place for creativity in science (and why), but it is also an innovat...
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The American Scene
ISBN: 9781519602244 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016
ISBN: 9780544748996 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Science writers get into the game with all kinds of noble, high-minded ambitions. We want to educate. To enlighten," notes guest editor Amy Stewart in her introduction to The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016. "But at the end of the day, we're all writers . . . We're here to play for the folks." The writers in this anthology brought us the year's highest notes in the genre. From a Pulitzer Prize-winning essay on the earthquake that could decimate the Pacific Northwest to the astonishing work of investigative journalism that transformed the nail salon industry, this is a...
Science writers get into the game with all kinds of noble, high-minded ambitions. We want to educate. To enlighten," notes guest editor Amy Stewart in...
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Lights Out in Chernobyl: Account of a Nuclear Meltdown
ISBN: 9781519780829 / Angielski / Miękka / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On April 28, 1986, the explosion of Reactor Number Four dwarfed the bombs dropped a quarter century earlier at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Chernobyl's shadow looms larger than those nuclear events that ended humanity's bloodiest war. When the thinnest of Chernobyl's nuclear reactor casings cracked, it pumped into the atmosphere thirty to forty times more radiation than both bombs put together. That hot spray continued burning unabated for three days, creating a radiating cloud which eventually circled the globe. The Swedish saw it first, then the wind reversed and easterly winds shrouded most of...
On April 28, 1986, the explosion of Reactor Number Four dwarfed the bombs dropped a quarter century earlier at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Chernobyl's sha...
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Biology: The Ultimate Self Teaching Guide - Introduction to the Wonderful World of Biology
ISBN: 9781523479009 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Your Introductory Guide to Biology - 2ND EDITION Free bonus inside (Right after Conclusion) - Get limited time offer, Get your BONUS right NOW If you have ever wanted to know more about biology, but thought it would too confusing, then this is the book for you. We take the concepts of biology and put them in simple terms, allowing you to better understand the amazing diversity of our planet With An Introduction to the Wonderful World of Biology, you'll learn about how cells do the work that supports life. You will also come to appreciate the cycle of life, how species...
Your Introductory Guide to Biology - 2ND EDITION Free bonus inside (Right after Conclusion) - Get limited time offer, Get your BONUS right NOW I...
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The Fairyland of Geometry and Other Essays in Science
ISBN: 9781772440201 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Simon Newcomb rose from poverty to become one of the most distinguished and widely known scientists of the late 19th century. He was also one of the most accomplished science popularizers of his day, writing on everything from the canals of Mars to the geometry of hyperspace. This new collection of his most enduring work is designed to introduce Newcomb to a new generation - indeed, century - of readers. Among the pieces included are his famous essay on the impossibility of heavier-than-air flight, which remains a compelling example of the pitfalls of technological prognostication; "The...
Simon Newcomb rose from poverty to become one of the most distinguished and widely known scientists of the late 19th century. He was also one of the m...
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The God Question
ISBN: 9781523987603 / Angielski / Miękka / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The God Question was originally written as a response to Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion and the Naturalist's hypothesis of existence without God. Can we know that God exists? What evidence is there that God exists? This rational look at the God question is written for the honest seeker of truth. Christ said, "Seek and you will find." As the late Francis Schaeffer said in the title of one of his books, "He Is There and He Is Not Silent."
The God Question was originally written as a response to Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion and the Naturalist's hypothesis of existence without God. C...
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Know This: Today's Most Interesting and Important Scientific Ideas, Discoveries, and Developments
ISBN: 9780062562067 / Angielski / Miękka / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today's most visionary thinkers reveal the cutting-edge scientific ideas and breakthroughs you must understand. Scientific developments radically change and enlighten our understanding of the world -- whether it's advances in technology and medical research or the latest revelations of neuroscience, psychology, physics, economics, anthropology, climatology, or genetics. And yet amid the flood of information today, it's often difficult to recognize the truly revolutionary ideas that will have lasting impact. In the spirit of identifying the most significant... Today's most visionary thinkers reveal the cutting-edge scientific ideas and breakthroughs you must understand. Sci... |
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Anthology in the Scientific Age
ISBN: 9781533251305 / Angielski / Miękka / 50 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Walden: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
ISBN: 9781534951907 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Interplay of Scientific Ideas
ISBN: 9781534948273 / Angielski / Miękka / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Through the Magic Door
ISBN: 9781533531070 / Angielski / Miękka / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Basic Common Sense: Further Radical Ecological Thought Experiments
ISBN: 9780911385687 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These short thought experiments address the things that are causing stress and damage to our urban civilization, from sex and restrooms to unfinished science writing. From religion and diet to population limits and wilderness reservation. From our problems with logic to making healthy images of our place in the planet (and universe). From fetal economics to ecological economics. From clueless or dangerous design to global ecological design. There are many more experiments that we can make to try to outline good actions and their connections and long-term consequences-we have not been very...
These short thought experiments address the things that are causing stress and damage to our urban civilization, from sex and restrooms to unfinished ...
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Is the Universe a Hologram?: Scientists Answer the Most Provocative Questions
ISBN: 9780262535250 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Questions about the physical world, the mind, and technology in conversations that reveal a rich seam of interacting ideas.
Questions about the physical world, the mind, and technology in conversations that reveal a rich seam of interacting ideas.
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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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AGI Revolution: An Inside View of the Rise of Artificial General Intelligence
ISBN: 9780692756874 / Angielski / Miękka / 614 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is the quest for the sci-fi AI dream: AI with mental autonomy, generality, adaptiveness and imagination equal to and ultimately exceeding that of humans. After decades of R&D struggles, the time for AGI is now finally near. Since the early aughts, Dr. Ben Goertzel has been the leading force advancing the concept of AGI in the research community and the public sphere. Here he gives an insider's account of the rise of AI and AGI from relative obscurity to their current status as the focus of large corporate and government initiatives. He presents his...
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is the quest for the sci-fi AI dream: AI with mental autonomy, generality, adaptiveness and imagination equal to...
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The Farmer's Guide to Astronomy
ISBN: 9781524619862 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book is meant for people with little knowledge of astronomy or space exploration and will give them a basic understanding of the disciplines by examining their most interesting aspects and combining them with the human experience; such as explaining how a person can walk at 18,000 miles an hour or telling the story of a woman who after she was struck by an asteroid was determined to sell the space rock and become rich but instead lost everything because of her greed or the first account of the man who fell to Earth, 20 miles above the surface traveling more than 800 miles an hour while... The book is meant for people with little knowledge of astronomy or space exploration and will give them a basic understanding of the disciplines by... |
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The Best Australian Science Writing 2016
ISBN: 9781742235035 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the furthest reaches of the universe to the microscopic world of our genes, science offers writers the kind of scope other subjects simply can't match. Good writing about science can be moving, funny, exhilarating or poetic, but it will always be honest and rigorous about the research that underlies it. Now in its sixth year, The Best Australian Science Writing 2016 brings together knowledge and insights from Australia s brightest thinkers as they explore the intricacies of the world around us. This lively collection of essays covers a wide range of subjects and challenges our...
From the furthest reaches of the universe to the microscopic world of our genes, science offers writers the kind of scope other subjects simply can't ...
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Metaspace
ISBN: 9781537053516 / Angielski / Miękka / 24 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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