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A Brief History of Timekeeping(2022) ORZEL, CHADFrom Stonehenge to atomic clocks, this is how we’ve used science to work out the time across the centuriesVezava: Mehka16,81 € -
History of Physics(2018) HEILBRON, J.L. (PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, EMERITUS, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY)How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalised enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry - link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece? John Heilbron's crisp and witty book tells the 2500-year story and higVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Apocalypse Factory(2022) OLSON, STEVEA thrilling narrative of scientific triumph, decades of secrecy and the unimaginable destruction wrought by the creation of the atomic bombVezava: Mehka24,94 € -
Chasing the Moon(2020) STONE, ROBERT,ANDRES, ALANIn a world divided by the ideological struggles of the Cold War, the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, more than one-fifth of the people on the planet paused to watch the live transmission of the Apollo 11 mission. To watch as humanity took a giaVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Silent Witnesses(2014) MCCRERY, NIGELThrowing open the casebook, it introduces us to such luminaries as 'The Wizard of Berkeley' Edward Heinrich, who is credited with having solved over 2000 crimes, and Alphonse Bertillon, the French scientist whose guiding principle 'no two individuals sharVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Invention of the Modern Dog(2022) WORBOYS, MICHAEL (CHSTM, UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER),STRANGE, JULIE-MARIE (PROFESSOR, DURHAM UNIVERSITY),PEMBERTON, NEIL (CHSTM, UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER)Vezava: Mehka33,86 € -
History of Global Health(2016) PACKARD, RANDALL M. (DIRECTOR, THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY)Designed to be read and taught, the book offers a critical historical view, providing historians, policy makers, researchers, program managers, and students with an essential new perspective on the formation and implementation of global-health policies anVezava: Mehka58,81 € -
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Mathematicians and their Gods: Interactions between mathematics and religious beliefs(2015) SNEZANA LAWRENCEVezava: Trda85,74 € -
Reading the Rocks(2018) MADDOX, BRENDAA rich and exuberant group biography of the first geologists, the people who were first to excavate from the layers of the world its buried history.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
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Tea on the Terrace(2022) SHEPPARD, KATHLEENA history of travel, tourism, and Egyptology, Tea on the terrace examines what Egyptologists did between home and the field site and how their activities in hotels and on dahabeahs impacted the development of the discipline at the turn of the twentieth ceVezava: Trda121,60 € -
Immeasurable Wilds(2022) MITCHELL, ALASTAIRIn 18th century the attention of mapmakers, explorers and travellers turned to the north of Scotland. This book follows the fortunes of early mapmakers who gradually revealed the area, including Timothy Pont and Alexander Bryce who published the first accVezava: Mehka29,33 €
