2727 rezultatov

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    Insulin - The Crooked Timber(2022) HALL, KERSTEN T. (SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION AND HISTORY OF SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS)
    One hundred years after a milestone medical discovery, 'Insulin - The Crooked Timber' tells the story of how insulin was transformed from what one clinician called 'thick brown muck' into the very first drug to be produced using genetic engineering, one w
    Vezava: Trda
    57,86 €
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    Disaster by Choice(2022) KELMAN, ILAN (PROFESSOR OF DISASTERS AND HEALTH, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON, AND PROFESSOR II, UNIVERSITY OF AGDER)
    We speak of earthquakes, floods, and wildfires as 'natural disasters'. In this provocative book, Ilan Kelman argues that the true disaster is not caused by natural phenomena, but by human choices which leave people unprepared and at terrible risk. He expl
    Vezava: Mehka
    14,57 €
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    First Steps(2022) DESILVA, JEREMY
    Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is an illogical development, as it slows us down. But here we are, suggesting there must have been something tremendous to gain from bipedalism.
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    15,27 €
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    Evolution(2017) CHARLESWORTH, BRIAN (SENIOR HONORARY PROFESSORIAL FELLOW, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH),CHARLESWORTH, DEBORAH (SENIOR HONORARY PROFESSORIAL FELLOW, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, AND FRS)
    This book is about the central role of evolution in shaping the nature and diversity of the living world. It describes the processes of natural selection, how adaptations arise, and how new species form, as well as summarizing the evidence for evolution.
    Vezava: Mehka
    12,50 €
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    Man in the Monkeynut Coat(2022) HALL, KERSTEN T. (VISITING FELLOW, VISITING FELLOW, SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION AND HISTORY OF SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS)
    Tells the story of the English physicist and molecular biologist William T. Astbury and how his work forms a previously untold chapter in the story of the discovery of the structure of DNA.
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    36,74 €
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    One Plus One Equals One(2016) ARCHIBALD, JOHN (PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY; AND FELLOW OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH, INTEGRATED MICROBIAL BIODIVERSITY PROGRAM)
    John Archibald chronicles the revolutionary insights provided by modern molecular biology, especially rapid DNA sequencing. These tools demonstrate the unity of all life, and show that complex life originated in ancient mergers between microbes.
    Vezava: Mehka
    16,66 €
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    Astronomer and the Witch(2015) RUBLACK, ULINKA (PROFESSOR OF EARLY MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE)
    The extraordinary tale of Johannes Kepler, one of the most admired astronomers of all time, and the six long years spent defending his mother from her neighbours' accusations of witchcraft. A story which takes us to the heart of Kepler's changing world.
    Vezava: Trda
    31,95 €
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    History of Chemistry(2016) BROCK, WILLIAM H. (EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF HISTORY OF SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER)
    This Very Short Introduction maps the historical development of chemistry from man's earliest exploration in the Stone Age to the nanotechnology of today's materials science. In this succinct but comprehensive overview Brock balances the approaches to - a
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    12,50 €
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    Menagerie(2018) GRIGSON, CAROLINE (UCL INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY, HONORARY PROFESSOR)
    The story of the panoply of exotic animals that were brought into Britain from time immemorial until the foundation of the London Zoo. A tale replete with the extravagant, the eccentric, and -- on occasion -- the downright bizarre
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    20,83 €
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    Dinosaur Hunters(2021) HISTORY, AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATIONAL,DINGUS, LOWELL
    The story of intrepid palaeontologists, the discoverers of prehistoric life, and the revelations found through their research.
    Vezava: Trda
    27,79 €
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    Animal Behaviour(2017) WYATT, TRISTRAM D. (SENIOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)
    Animal behaviour is a central topic of zoology, and with the development of ideas concerning the role of genes as well as environment the subject has been transformed. Tristram Wyatt gives a modern view, including a sense of the power of gene knock-outs,
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    12,50 €
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    World Before Us(2022) HIGHAM, TOM
    Vezava: Mehka
    15,27 €
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    Evolution of Moral Progress(2018) BUCHANAN, ALLEN (JAMES B. DUKE PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY, JAMES B. DUKE PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY, DUKE UNIVERSITY),POWELL, RUSSELL (ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY, BOSTON UNIVERSITY)
    Vezava: Trda
    71,65 €
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    Industry Unbound(2021) WALDMAN, ARI EZRA (NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, BOSTON)
    Using rich first-hand sources, Waldman provides an unprecedented account of how tech companies undermine privacy law from the inside. Industry Unbound brings together seemingly separate issues–discourse, law, and design–to reveal tech companies' strategie
    Vezava: Trda
    34,45 €
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    Access Rules(2022) MAYER-SCHONBERGER, VIKTOR,RAMGE, THOMAS
    Vezava: Trda
    32,80 €
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    Mathematics to the Rescue of Democracy(2020) SERAFINI, PAOLO
    This book explains, in a straightforward way, the foundations upon which electoral techniques are based in order to shed new light on what we actually do when we vote.
    Vezava: Mehka
    41,33 €
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    The Perfect Tonic - The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits and Cocktails(2022) CAMPER ENGLISH
    Vezava: Trda
    27,32 €
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    Maladies of Empire - How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine(2021) JIM DOWNS
    Vezava: Trda
    40,86 €
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    Afterlives of Data - Life and Debt under Capitalist Surveillance(2022) MARY F.E. EBELING
    Vezava: Mehka
    30,41 €
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    Under a White Sky - Can we save the natural world in time?(2022) KOLBERT, ELIZABETH
    Now she investigates the immense challenges humanity faces as we scramble to reverse, in a matter of decades, the effects we've had on the atmosphere, the oceans, the world's forests and rivers - on the very topography of the globe. In Under a White Sky
    Vezava: Mehka
    13,88 €

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