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Beautiful Ending(2022) MARTIN, JOHN JEFFRIESAn award-winning historian’s revisionary account of the early modern world, showing how apocalyptic ideas stimulated political, religious, and intellectual transformationsVezava: Trda47,78 € -
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Indescribable(2017) GIGLIO, LOUIEIndescribable: 100 Devotions About God and Science will engage curious minds and help them discover that God’s design truly is awe-inspiring. In 100 devotions on topics such as creation, the universe, our amazing bodies, and weather, kids will understandVezava: Trda18,05 € -
Flying Mathematicians of World War I(2020) ROYLE, TONYSet in the context of a new field of engineering, driven apace by conflict, this fascinating history follows the mathematicians and scientists who learnt to fly in order to expand our understanding of aeronautics. Tony Royle makes accessible the mathematiVezava: Trda65,46 € -
Exact Thinking in Demented Times(2017) SIGMUND, KARLA dazzling group biography of the early twentieth-century thinkers who transformed the way the world thought about math and scienceVezava: Trda62,48 € -
Technology and Society(2019) EDE, ANDREW (UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA)Technology and Society: A World History, ranging from the age of stone tools to the digital revolution, offers an introduction to the history of technology for students in history programs; science, technology and society (STS) programs; and engineering-hVezava: Trda60,10 € -
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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: Mehka15,27 € -
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: Mehka13,88 € -
Strange Glow(2017) JORGENSEN, TIMOTHY J.More than ever before, radiation is a part of our modern daily lives. We own radiation-emitting phones, regularly get diagnostic x-rays, such as mammograms, and submit to full-body security scans at airports. We worry and debate about the proliferation ofVezava: Mehka28,10 € -
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Mentalizing and Epistemic Trust(2021) DUSCHINSKY, ROBBIE,FOSTER, SARAHMentalizing and Epistemic Trust offers a critical overview of MBT, exploring its roots in attachment theory, and more broadly. The main theories and concepts in the work of Fonagy and colleagues are placed in an historical and social context, and changesVezava: Trda120,21 € -
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Understanding Metaphors in the Life Sciences(2022) REYNOLDS, ANDREW S.Written for a general audience interested in how metaphorical language and thinking is used by life scientists to conceptualize and understand subjects from molecular genetics and cell biology to evolution, ecology, and biomedicine. It reveals the positivVezava: Mehka20,66 € -
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: Mehka13,88 € -
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Physics of The Healing(2010) AVICENNAPart of the encyclopedia of science and philosophy, "The Healing", this first volume represents arguably the most brilliant mind of late antiquity grappling with and rethinking the entire tradition of natural philosophy inherited from the Greeks as well aVezava: Trda122,12 € -
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: Mehka15,27 € -
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: Mehka35,32 €
