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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 € -
Arsenic Century(2011) WHORTON, JAMES C. (PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE ,UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, SEATTLE)The story of arsenic in Victorian Britain, looking both at its widespread presence in everything from candles to curtains, and also its more sinister use for murder and suicide.Vezava: Mehka23,11 € -
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 € -
The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time(2016) JIMENA CANALESVezava: Mehka40,39 € -
Maladies of Empire - How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine(2021) JIM DOWNSVezava: Trda42,27 € -
Four Pillars of Radio Astronomy: Mills, Christiansen, Wild, Bracewell(2017) FRATER, R. H.,GOSS, W. M.,WENDT, H. W.This is the story of Bernie Mills, Chris Christiansen, Paul Wild and Ron Bracewell, members of a team of radio astronomers that would lead Australia, and the world, into this new field of research.Vezava: Mehka49,88 € -
Newton the Alchemist - Science, Enigma, and the Quest for Nature's "Secret Fire"(2018) WILLIAM R. NEWMANVezava: Trda62,48 € -
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Book of Phobias and Manias(2022) SUMMERSCALE, KATEA thrilling compendium of our deepest fears and obsessions by the bestselling author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Vera Rubin(2021) MITTON, JACQUELINE,MITTON, SIMONJacqueline Mitton and Simon Mitton offer the first biography of Vera Rubin, an astronomer who made vital contributions to our understanding of dark matter. An outstanding scientist herself, Rubin also championed women in science, by mentoring, advocatingVezava: Trda42,91 € -
Alan Turing's Manchester(2022) SWINTON, JONATHANTuring's involvement in the world's first computer and his life in ManchesterVezava: Mehka28,04 € -
Youniverse(2021) BURCH DONALD, ELSIEWhat are you, who are you and where are you going? - the beginner’s guide to modern scienceVezava: Trda14,01 € -
User's Guide to Melancholy(2021) LUND, MARY ANN (UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER)A User's Guide to Melancholy takes Robert Burton's encyclopaedic masterpiece The Anatomy of Melancholy as a guide to melancholy, from cause to cure. Through case studies, it explores a Renaissance disease of the mind that inclined its sufferers towards saVezava: Trda44,55 €
