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From Counterculture to Cyberculture(2008) TURNER, FREDDetails the story of a group of San Francisco Bay Area entrepreneurs - Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth network. While tracing the transformation of how our networked culture came to be, this book reminds us that the distance between the Grateful Dead anVezava: Mehka32,31 €
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Hackers & Painters(2010) GRAHAM, PAULWritten in clear, narrative style, Hackers & Painters examines issues such as the rightness of web-based applications, the programming language renaissance, spam filtering, the Open Source Movement, internet startups and more.Vezava: Mehka28,03 €
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Darwin's Ghosts(2013) STOTT, REBECCAAn electrifying account of the extraordinary untold history behind Darwin's theory of evolutionVezava: Mehka23,82 €
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Quantum Mechanics and Experience(1994) ALBERT, DAVID ZThis lively account of the foundations of quantum mechanics is at once elementary and deeply challenging. It is an introduction accessible to anyone with high school mathematics and, at the same time, a rigorous discussion of the most important recent advVezava: Mehka46,09 €
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Brownian Motion Calculus(2008) WIERSEMA, UBBO F. (UNIVERSITY OF READING, UK)There are not many calculus books that are very accessible to students without a strong mathematical background and the large majority of financial derivatives students do not have a strong quantitative background. This book provides a short introductionVezava: Mehka65,85 €
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On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods(2010) LATOUR, BRUNOBuilding on his earlier book We Have Never Been Modern, Bruno Latour develops his argument about the Modern fetishization of facts, or the creation of factishes.Vezava: Mehka36,58 €
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Spark of Life(2013) ASHCROFT, FRANCESFrom before birth to the last breath we draw, from consciousness to sexual attraction, fighting infection to the beating of our hearts, electricity is essential to everything we think and do. This title reveals the secrets of ion channels, which produce tVezava: Mehka15,41 €
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Connectome(2013) SEUNG, SEBASTIANWhat really makes us who we are? This book shows that our identity does not lie in our genes, but in the connections between our brain cells - our own particular wiring, or 'connectomes'. It reveals the secrets of the brain, showing how our connectome makVezava: Mehka15,41 €
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Quantum World(2005) FORD, KENNETH W.The laws governing the very small and the very swift defy common sense and stretch our minds to the limit. Drawing on a deep familiarity with the discoveries of the twentieth century, Ford gives an appealing account of quantum physics that will help the sVezava: Mehka41,31 €
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Animate Earth(2009) HARDING, STEPHANAnimate Earth argues that we need to establish a right relationship with the planet as a living entity in which we are indissolubly embedded - and to which, in the final analysis, we are all accountable.Vezava: Mehka32,30 €
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Introduction to Science and Technology Studies(2009) SISMONDO, SERGIO (QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY, ONTARIO, CANADA)Distinctive in its attention to both the underlying philosophical and sociological aspects of science and technology, the second edition of this popular textbook provides students with an up-to-date road map of the complex interdisciplinary terrain of sciVezava: Mehka49,81 €
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We Need to Talk About Kelvin(2010) CHOWN, MARCUSLook around you. The reflection of your face in a window tells you that the universe is orchestrated by chance. In this book, the author takes familiar features of the world we know and shows how they can be used to explain profound truths about the ultimVezava: Mehka15,41 €