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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: Mehka27,45 € -
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: Mehka14,01 € -
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: Trda64,61 € -
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: Trda35,04 € -
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: Mehka14,01 € -
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: Mehka22,42 € -
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: Mehka18,21 € -
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: Trda58,68 € -
Computer Meets Theoretical Physics(2020) BATTIMELLI, GIOVANNI,CICCOTTI, GIOVANNI,GRECO, PIETROVezava: Trda49,21 € -
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Einstein's War - How Relativity Conquered Nationalism and Shook the World(2020) MATTHEW STANLEYVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane(2015) S. FREDERICK STARRVezava: Mehka32,31 € -
Briefest History Of Time, The: The History Of Histories Of Time And The Misconstrued Association Between Entropy And Time(2016) BEN-NAIM, ARIEH (THE HEBREW UNIV OF JERUSALEM, ISRAEL)The aim of this book is to explain in simple language what we know about time and about the history of time. It is shown that the briefest (as well as the lengthiest) history of time can be described in one or two pages.Vezava: Mehka35,64 €
