Carti Stiinte exacte si Matematici - pagina 14

How Long is Now?

How long is 'now'? The short answer is 'somewhere between 2 and 3 seconds'. The long answer involves an incredible journey through neuroscience, our subconscious

Evidence of Extraterrestrials

Discover detailed analysis of thirty-six UFO encounters that prove once and for all that extraterrestrials are visiting the Earth. Beginning with historical cases such as...

In Real Life: Love, Lies & Identity in the Digital Age

From the host of MTV's No.1 show Catfish comes the definitive guide to connecting with people authentically in today's digital world. If there's anyone who

Factfeed

FACTFEED... is an awesome book of lists, reinvented for the YouTube and Buzzfeed generation. Find out the coolest animal facts, the most unbelievable science info

Why Balloons Rise and Apples Fall

'Everything we do is touched by physics. Whether we're on the motorway, at the beach or in the pub, its laws tell us what happens

The Secret Life of the Brain

'In the long history of the study of anatomy, neuroscience is a relatively new field and there are plenty of mysteries yet to be uncovered.

Terror Within

We live in an age of terrorism and like to think that the United Kingdom is a reasonably peaceful place, largely untroubled by the atrocity

Back to Basics

Don't know Midas from Oedipus? Wouldn't recognize a concerto from a sonata?Many of us wish that we could fill in the gaps in our education

Our Choice: A Plan To Solve The Climate Crisis

Al Gore has been a passionate advocate of action to halt climate change for many years. In his best-selling book, An Inconvenient Truth, he wrote

Theoretical Numerical Analysis

Concise text focuses on fundamentals of functional analysis and approximation theory, the major results of theoretical numerical analysis, and specific topics that illust...

Michael Faraday & The Electrical Century

Michael Faraday is one of the most recognisable names in the history of science. Faraday's forte was electricity, a revolutionary force in nineteenth-century society. T...

Introducing: Evolution (Graphic Guide)

In 1859, Charles Darwin shocked the world with a radical theory - evolution by natural selection. One hundred and fifty years later, his theory still

64 Geeks: The Brains Who Shaped Our World

See the greatest minds in history like never before rendered in the greatest way imaginable: 8-bit pixel art! This book celebrates the 64 Best. Brains.

Beginning and the End of Everything

13.8 billion years ago, something incredible happened. Matter, energy, space and time all suddenly burst into existence in a cataclysmic event that's come to be

Launch a Rocket Into Space

Solve problems using 3D shapes and degrees of rotation and blast off on a mission to outer space! Featuring maths problems from addition and decimals

From 0 to Infinity in 26 Centuries

Packed full of fascinating stories and amazing facts about the history of maths, from the Stone Age to the Internet era, this text explains the

Evolution Isn't What It Used to Be

This work looks at current technology and biological advances, which serves to highlight how rapidly we have progressed as a species. The book has a

Book of Wonders

Thirteen volumes of mathematical definitions, propositions and proofs. Writing in 300 BC, Euclid could not have known his logic would go unsurpassed until the nineteenth...

A Down To Earth Guide To The Cosmos

Pentru un începător, un cer plin de stele poate părea misterios și de neînțeles. Dar cu această carte ca ghid, natura minunată a Cosmosului este

Introducing Anthropology: A Graphic Guide

Antropologia a apărut ca studiul culturilor „primitive”. Dar noțiunea de „primitiv” expune prezumțiile de superioritate „civilizată” și dreptul Occidentului de a vorbi p...

The Science of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials

The amazing true science behind the fiction of His Dark Materials , ideal for fans of the original trilogy and The Book of Dust, with

Artificial Intelligence and Work

Welcome to the world of artificial intelligence AI From robot cooks to media news bots AI is changing the way we get work done. Now

Choked

Every year, air pollution prematurely kills seven million people around the world, in rich countries and poor ones. It is strongly linked to strokes, heart

Secrets in the Skies

Secrets in the Skies delves deep into the life and discoveries of the world's most famous stargazer, Galileo Galilei, and the star-studded history of astronomy,

Maths Hacks

The perfect introduction to algebra, logic, probability and much more, this is a great new way to learn about the most important mathematical ideas and

What Do You Think You Are?

Popular science master Brian Clegg’s new book is an entertaining tour through the science of what makes you you. From the atomic level, through life

Astroquizzical: A Curious Journey Through Our Cosmic Family Tree

How did the Earth get to be the way it is? Just like all of us, it's a product of its ancestors.In this enthralling cosmic

Problem Solved!

Robert Snedden explores the great mathematical breakthroughs in history in this beautiful, full-colour, hardback volume, featuring nearly 200 illustrations and diagrams....

The 15-Minute Mathematician, by Anne Rooney

The 15-Minute Mathematician introduces the reader to the main ideas of mathematics. Mathematics is all around us. It governs how information is presented to us

Cosmic Impact: Understanding the Threat to Earth from Asteroids and Comets

As end-of-the-world scenarios go, an apocalyptic collision with an asteroid or comet is the new kid on the block, gaining respectability only in the last

Human Cloning and Genetic Engineering

What is heredity? Who is Dolly the Sheep? From zygotes to DNA, from stem cells to GMOs, this book traces the journey so far of

Endure: Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

How high or far or fast can humans go? And what about individual potential: what defines a person's limits? From running a two-hour marathon to

100 Great Scientists Who Changed the World

The attractive, elegant design makes this title an ideal gift for all those fascinated by science history.

The Glass Universe

The Economist #1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel returns with a captivating, little-known true story of women in science.

Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World

Totul este făcut din ceva ... De la obiectele de zi cu zi din casele noastre la cele mai extraordinare materiale noi care ne vor

The Intimate Universe: How the Stars Are Closer than You Think

The scale of the cosmos can be baffling, with distances so vast and timescales to long that it's easy to dismiss them as being completely

Project Project Apollo: The Moon Odyssey Explained

The Apollo missions to the Moon are some of the most successful and well-remembered manned spaceflights that NASA has ever accomplished, taking place in the

What Came Before the Big Bang?

Kids love asking tricky questions about the world around them, and this first title in a new series of science question-and-answer books will provide the

Secret Network of Nature

An exploration of the invisible connections sustaining the entire natural world from the bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees. Did you know that

100 Things to Know about Inventions

How do you sum upthe world's amazing inventions in just 100 words? This striking book takes on the challenge! From helicopters to fireworks, each of

Mad Science 2: Experiments You Can Do At Home, But STILL Probably Shouldn't

Timp de aproape un deceniu, Theodore Gray a demonstrat principiile de bază ale chimiei și fizicii prin experimente incitante, uneori temerare, pe care le execută,

Quantum

For most people, quantum theory is a byword for mysterious, impenetrable science. And yet for many years it was equally baffling for scientists themselves. Manjit

The Science of Fate

Leading neuroscientist Hannah Critchlow draws vividly from everyday life and other experts in their field to show the extraordinary potential, as well as dangers, which

Bad Elements

'I believe that Communist Party rule will end in China sooner or later all dynasties do. But when or how, I cannot say...It was with

30-Second Numbers

Counting and measuring when we're shopping, travelling, studying or playing are just the beginning the applications of numbers are endless, from assessing variables and...

Women Who Changed Science

From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked, their stories lost, distorted,

Introducing Fractals: A Graphic Guide

Fractal Geometry is the geometry of the natural world - animal, vegetable and mineral. It's about the broken, wrinkled, wiggly world - the uneven shapes

Testosterone

The biological source of masculinity has inspired fascination, investigation and controversy since antiquity. From the eunuchs in the royal courts of ancient China to th...

Frankenstein and the Birth of Science

Romanul lui Mary Shelley „Frankenstein” a fost creat concomitent cu schimbarea rapidă a lumii științifice. „Frankenstein” și „The Birth of Science” îți oferă o perspecti...

Human body

What do you think is the most amazing machine in the universe? A superconductor? The modern computer? A rocket ship? Think again: It s the

THE BIG QUESTIONS IN SCIENCE

What are the great scientific questions of our modern age and why don't we know the answers? The Big Questions in Science takes on the

The Cosmos (Idiot's Guide)

Major new discoveries in space are made almost weekly and there is so much for any new enthusiast to learn and explore. Beginning with the

Britain's DNA Journey

In an epic narrative, sometimes moving, sometimes astonishing, always revealing, Moffat writes an entirely new history of Britain. Instead of the usual parade of the

The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks

The Mind's Eye este un testament al complexității simțului vederii, a creierului în sine, și a puterii creativității și adaptării. Cartea oferă o perspectivă cu

A BRIEF HISTORY OF EVERYONE WHO EVER LIVED

This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to you,

Success Elementary Workbook and CD Pack - Success

All students want to succeed. All teachers want to create great lessons. Success gives them the opportunity.

Hottest Places on the Planet

Journey to places where it can get very hot. In this book, you'll learn more about citites that are very hot and what causes this

Language and the African American Child

How do children acquire African American English? How do they develop the specific language patterns of their communities? Drawing on spontaneous speech samples and data

On the Edge of Infinity: Encounters with the Beauty of the Universe

From the award-winning, bestselling German science author Stefan Klein An original way into the most thought-provoking scientific theories and ideas, On The Edge of Infi...

The Book of Why

'Correlation does not imply causation.' For decades, this mantra was invoked by scientists in order to avoid taking positions as to whether one thing caused

ALPHABETS: A Miscellany of Letters

Through the exploration of this grouping of 26 symbols, it becomes clear that each letter has its own persona and history, and the alphabets presented

The Tangled Tree

n The Tangled Tree, acclaimed science writer David Quammen chronicles these discoveries through the lives of the researchers who made them – such as Carl

Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science

For over 700 years the international language of science was Arabic. Surveying the golden age of Arabic science, Jim Al-Khalili reintroduces such figures as the

Coca Wine

A lavishly illustrated history of coca wine and the revolutionary advertising methods that made it a world-wide success • Follows 19th-century pharmacist Angelo Mariani’s...

At Sixes and Sevens

An engaging, accessible introduction into how numbers work and why we shouldn't be afraid of them, from maths expert Rachel Riley.

Breakfast with Einstein

Beginning at sunrise, Chad Orzel reveals the extraordinary science that underpins the simplest activities we all do every day, from making toast to shopping online.

Genesis

What if the ancient Greeks were right, and the universe really did spring into being out of chaos and the void? How could we know?

Cutting-Edge Science

How did the atom bomb help save the elephant? Have we found the secret to eternal youth? Could a parasite be manipulating you right now?

Superhuman

In this inspirational book, New Scientist Managing Editor Rowan Hooper takes us on a tour of the peaks of human achievement. We sit down with

DK Eyewitness Planets

Packed with stunning photography, Eyewitness Planets explores Earth's neighbourhood, space and the Solar System. Become an eyewitness to the fascinating world of ou...

Astroquizzical

In this enthralling cosmic journey through space and time, astrophysicist Jillian Scudder locates our home planet within its own 'family tree'. Our parent the Earth

Hidden Spring

How does the mind connect to the body? Why does it feel like something to be us? For one of the boldest thinkers in neuroscience,

Look up

Our story with the stars Most of us have never been to space. To date, of the more than 100 billion humans that have ever

Criminology: A Complete Introduction (Teach Yourself)

Scris de Peter Joyce, lector de criminologie și cercetător principal, Criminology - A complete introduction este gândită pentru a oferi tot ce aveți nevoie pentru

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

The journey to the centre of the earth is a voyage like no other we can imagine. Over 6300 km below the earth's surface an

The Globotics Upheaval

'It might just save your life - and your children's lives. The Globotics Upheaval is a manifesto for future-proofing our jobs and prosperity' Sunday Times

A Study of Numbers

We lack direct consciousness of Space and Time. We can know of them only indirectly by mass, force, and energy, and by the intermediary of

30-Second Numbers

30-Second Numbers highlights 50 key topics for understanding numbers and how we use them, each explained in half a minute. 30-Second Numbers explores number categories,t...

QI: The Third Book Of General Ignorance

The Third Book of General Ignorance adună laolaltă 180 de întrebări, atât noi cât și unele care au figurat deja în seria populară despre QI

Really Good Day

When a small vial arrives in her mailbox from 'Lewis Carroll,' Ayelet Waldman is at a low point. Her mood storms have become intolerably severe

New Scientist: The Origin of (almost) Everything

Introduction by Professor Stephen Hawking. When Edwin Hubble looked into his telescope in the 1920s, he was shocked to find that nearly all of the

Jung: The Key Ideas

Jung- The Key Ideas te va familiariza cu gândirea revoluționară a acestui faimos om. Te va învăța totul despre conceptele lui fundamentale, de la inconștientul

Space Exploration

'Explorarea Spațiului' de Carolyn Collins Petersen este o explorare convingătoare a călătoriei umanității în cosmos. Prin povestiri vii și ilustrații bogate, Petersen îi...

Apollo 11: The Moon Landing in Real Time

Journey back in time and feel the excitement build in the days before launch and then experience the tension of the dramatic lunar landing and