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Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal(2022) MILLAS, JUAN JOSE,ARSUAGA, JUAN LUISVezava: Trda20,83 € -
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: Mehka18,05 € -
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: Trda41,48 € -
Alan Turing's Manchester(2022) SWINTON, JONATHANTuring's involvement in the world's first computer and his life in ManchesterVezava: Mehka27,79 € -
Youniverse(2021) BURCH DONALD, ELSIEWhat are you, who are you and where are you going? - the beginner’s guide to modern scienceVezava: Trda13,88 € -
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: Trda43,05 € -
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Slow Moon Climbs(2021) MATTERN, SUSANA surprising look at the role of menopause in human history - and why we should change the ways we think about it.Vezava: Mehka26,54 € -
Place in History(2020) WASSARMAN, PAUL M. (PROFESSOR OF CELL, DEVELOPMENTAL, AND REGENERATIVE BIOLOGY IN THE ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, PROFESSOR OF CELL, DEVELOPMENTAL, AND REGENERATIVE BIOLOGY IN THE ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, MOUNT SINAI)A Place in History: The Biography of John C. Kendrew is the story of the influential 20th century scientific pioneer and winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in chemistry.Vezava: Trda64,30 € -
British Women Surgeons and their Patients, 1860–1918(2017) BROCK, CLAIRE (UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER)Drawing upon a rich archive, Brock explores the cultural, social and self-representation of the woman surgeon in Britain from 1860 to the end of the Great War. This book is essential reading for those interested in medical history, providing wide-rangingVezava: Trda146,46 € -
Copernicus(2016) GINGERICH, OWEN (PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF ASTRONOMY AND HISTORY OF SCIENCE, PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF ASTRONOMY AND HISTORY OF SCIENCE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY)In this Very Short Introduction, leading historian of science Owen Gingerich offers a fascinating portrait of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), who developed the concept of a heliocentric universe and is a pivotal figure in the birth of modern science.Vezava: Mehka13,88 € -
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 wVezava: Trda57,86 € -
Relativity Principles and Theories from Galileo to Einstein(2021) DARRIGOL, OLIVIER (RESEARCH DIRECTOR AT CNRS AND RESEARCH SCHOLAR AT OHST, RESEARCH DIRECTOR AT CNRS AND RESEARCH SCHOLAR AT OHST, CNRS, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, FRANCE, AND OHST, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY, USA)This book is a full, long-term history of relativity thinking in physics, from Galileo's early reflections on the proper reference of mechanical motion to Einstein's exploitation of relativity principles in his theories of special and general relativity.Vezava: Trda88,20 € -
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: Trda31,95 € -
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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 - aVezava: Mehka13,88 € -
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 bizarreVezava: Mehka20,83 € -
Galileo's Finger(2004) ATKINS, PETER (, PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, AND FELLOW, LINCOLN COLLEGE, OXFORD)Any literate person should be familiar with the central ideas of modern science. This book introduces the author's choice of the ten great ideas of science. It aims to lead the reader through the emergence of the concepts, and then present them in an effeVezava: Mehka16,66 € -
With Stars in Their Eyes(2022) BRECKINRIDGE, JAMES B. (ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, COLLEGE OF OPTICAL SCIENCES, ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, COLLEGE OF OPTICAL SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA),PRIDGEON, ALEC M. (FORMER SAINSBURY ORCHID FELLOW, FORMER SAINSBURY ORCHID FELLOW, ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW)Vezava: Trda67,05 €
