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History of Time(2005) HOLFORD-STREVENS, LEOFRANC (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS)Leofranc Holford-Strevens explores time measurement and the organisation of time into hours, days, months and years using a range of fascinating examples from Ancient Rome and Julius Caesar's Leap Year, to the 1920s' project for a fixed Easter.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Myth of Mars and Venus(2008) CAMERON, DEBORAH (UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)Cameron debunks the myths about language and the sexes propagated in recent popular writing by drawing on more than 30 years of scientific research in language and gender studies. She explains what the findings really say about men and women and the way tVezava: Mehka19,62 € -
How to Cut a Cake(2006) STEWART, IAN (PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS, THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK)Welcome back to Ian Stewart's magical world of mathematics! This is a strange world of never-ending chess games, empires on the moon, furious fireflies, and, of course, disputes over how best to cut a cake. Each quirky tale presents a fascinating mathematVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Brain(2005) O'SHEA, MICHAEL (, DIRECTOR, SUSSEX CENTRE FOR `EUROSCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX)This book provides a fascinating introduction to the main issues and findings in current brain research. It describes the historical developments behind our understanding of what the brain is and what it does, and explores the key questions neuroscientistVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies(2014) NICK BOSTROMDATUM IZIDA ZA FF NEZNANVezava:33,63 € -
Earth(2003) REDFERN, MARTIN (, SCIENCE PRODUCER AT THE BBC SCIENCE RADIO UNIT)Exploring the geological research, this title explains how advances in the understanding of plate tectonics, seismology, and satellite imagery have enabled us to see the Earth for what it is. It introduces the concepts of continental drift, the earth's stVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Math Hysteria(2004) STEWART, IAN (, PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS, UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK)Presents magical puzzles, each one of which is spun around a tale such as: Counting the Cattle of the Sun; The Great Drain Robbery; and Preposterous Piratical Predicaments; to name but a few. This work also features many curious characters.Vezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Bright Earth(2008) BALL, PHILIPColour in art - as in life - is both inspiring and uplifting, but where does it come from?Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Darwin(2001) HOWARD, JONATHAN (PROFESSOR OF CELL GENETICS, INSTITUTE OF GENETICS, PROFESSOR OF CELL GENETICS, INSTITUTE OF GENETICS, UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE, GERMANY)Darwin's theory that our ancestors were apes caused a furore in the scientific world and outside it when The Origin of Species was published in 1859. Analysing Darwin's major insights and arguments, this work reasserts the importance of his work for the dVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Emperor Of Scent(2004) BURR, CHANDLERIn the tradition of Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief and James Gleick's Genius, The Emperor of Scent tells the story of Luca Turin, an utterly unusual, stubborn scientist, his otherworldly gift for perfume, his brilliant, quixotic theory of how we smell, aVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Galaxies(2008) GRIBBIN, JOHN (VISITING FELLOW IN ASTRONOMY, UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX)Galaxies are the building blocks of the Universe: standing like islands in space, they are where the stars are born and where many extraordinary and little-understood phenomena can be observed. Here, renowned science writer John Gribbin explores what we hVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Universe Within(2014) SHUBIN, NEILWhat links the birth of the moon to our body clocks? How did the creation of the Atlantic Ocean affect how we have children? What does the water inside us and on Earth have to do with the deepest stretches of space? This book deals with these questions.Vezava: Mehka18,21 €
