Knihy so štítkom science

100 Photographs That Changed the World
Collective of Authors From the Editors of Life Magazine. The power of pictures is celebrated in this portfolio of the most forceful still images of all time. Robert Capa's dispatches from the beach at Normandy and Joe Rosenthal's photographic report of Iwo Jima stirred a nation, as did-in quite an viac

100 Things to Know About Science
Alex Frith   Minna Lacey   Jerome Martin   Jonathan Melmoth   Jorge Martin   Federico Mariani Science is a huge topic, but this friendly book breaks it down into bite-sized chunks, making it an accessible introduction for anyone who wants to find out about this fascinating subject. Highly illustrated, in a pictorial, 'infographics' style, with snippets of information abou viac

A Curious Beginning
Deanna Raybourn London, 1887. As the city prepares to celebrate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, Veronica Speedwell is marking a milestone of her own. After burying her spinster aunt, orphaned Veronica is free to resume her world travels in pursuit of scientific inquiry—and the occasional romant viac

A Lady's Formula for Love
Elizabeth Everett Lady Violet Hughes is keeping secrets. First, she founded a clandestine sanctuary for England's most brilliant female scientists. Second, she is using her genius on a confidential mission for the Crown. But the biggest secret of all? Her feelings for protection officer Arthur Kne viac

A Murderous Relation
Deanna Raybourn Veronica Speedwell and her natural historian colleague Stoker are asked by Lady Wellingtonia Beauclerk to help with a potential scandal so explosive it threatens to rock the monarchy. Prince Albert Victor is a regular visitor to the most exclusive private club in London, known as viac

A Treacherous Curse
Deanna Raybourn London, 1888. As colorful and unfettered as the butterflies she collects, Victorian adventuress Veronica Speedwell can’t resist the allure of an exotic mystery—particularly one involving her enigmatic colleague, Stoker. His former expedition partner has vanished from an archaeol viac

An Unexpected Peril
Deanna Raybourn viac

Black Hole Survival Guide
Janna Levin Black holes are found throughout the universe. They can be microscopic. They can be billions of times larger than our Sun. They are dark on the outside but not on the inside. Anything that enters them can never escape, and yet they contain nothing at all. In Black Hole Surviva viac

Bohemia docta
Martin Franc   Antonín Kostlán   Alena Míšková The book maps the development of Czech non-university science from the beginnings in the humanist learned societies to the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences transformation into a new institution of the Czech Academy of Sciences. A team of experienced authors bring in attractively viac

Cats Who Changed the World
Dan Jones The cat-tastic companion to Dogs Who Changed the World. 50 awe-inspiring stories of cats who have altered history, inspired art and literature, reunited lost lovers, saved lives, or just ruined everything. These inspiring, humorous, heart-breaking, or just plain weird stories rev viac

David Suzuki's Green Guide
David Suzuki Everyone knows that the planet is in trouble, but is there a solution? This timely book identifies the most effective ways individuals can be more green in four key areas: home, travel, food, and consumerism. It also describes how citizens can ensure that governments take the act viac

Deep In Love
Nicole Cubba Three weeks at sea. Two researchers. One chance to evolve. “What would Charles Darwin do?” In Charlie Bowen’s twenty-six years of life, the motto has never failed her. Until now. She’s confident the naturalist wouldn’t know what to do if he were stuck at sea with Mateo Alvarez. viac

Earth-Shattering Events - The science behind natural disasters
Robin Jacobs An atlas of the most extreme meteorological and geological disasters that nature has to offer! We humans take our domination of the planet for granted, but sometimes nature reminds us that this is an illusion. Tectonics rip open the earth, vast waves sweep away coastal towns, viac

Gene machine
Venki Ramakrishnan Venki Ramakrishnan tells the story of the race to uncover the ribosome’s enormously complex structure, a fundamental breakthrough that resolves an ancient mystery of life itself and could lead to the development of better antibiotics. A fascinating insider account, Gene Machine c viac

Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Exc viac

Love, Theoretically
Ali Hazelwood The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she’s an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. By other day, Elsie makes up for her non-existent paycheck by offer viac

Madness in Civilization
Andrew Scull A Cultural History of Insanity from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine This ambitious volume, worldwide in scope and ranging from antiquity to the present, examines the human encounter with Unreason in all its manifestations, the challenges it poses to so viac

Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy
Myra J. Wick From the childbirth experts at the Mayo Clinic comes the newly revised guide on planning for a healthy pregnancy. With detailed information about fertility, prenatal care, common pregnancy symptoms, and childbirth, this comprehensive guide will be your go-to source for answering viac

Not In Love
Ali Hazelwood A forbidden, secret affair proves that all's fair in love and science - from Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Ali Hazelwood. Rue Siebert might not have it all, but she has enough: a few friends she can always count on, the financial stability she yearned for as viac

On a Beam of Light
Jennifer Berne A boy rides a bicycle down a dusty road. But in his mind, he envisions himself traveling at a speed beyond imagining, on a beam of light. This brilliant mind will one day offer up some of the most revolutionary ideas ever conceived. From a boy endlessly fascinated by the wonders viac

Paleo Solution
Rob Wolf Asserting that "modern life causes diabetes, autoimmunity, cancer, neurodegeneration, and infertility," the first-time author Wolf, a former student of The Paleo Diet's Lauren Cordain, takes on grains, carbs, vegetarians, misinformation, and other aspects of modern life with a ca viac

Particle Physics
Frank Close viac

Plant Heavy Metal Stress
Rishikesh Upadhyay Increase in environmental pollution as well as contamination of water by heavy metals, associated with plants and other food products due to increase in human anthropogenic activities, has resulted in damages to natural resources. Plants, be aquatic or submerged ones, are the bes viac

Postures: Body Language in Art
Desmond Morris From the ever-provocative author of The Naked Ape, a pioneering and lively exploration of the importance of body language in art Every time an artist portrays a human subject, a decision has to be made about the posture of the figure. Will they be standing, sitting or reclinin viac

Pulse
Jeremy Robinson Imagine a world where soldiers regenerate and continue fighting without pause, and where suicide bombers live to strike again. This is the dream of Richard Ridley, founder of Manifold Genetics, and he has discovered the key to eternal life: an ancient artifact buried beneath a Gr viac

Science Fictions
Stuart Ritchie A major exposé that reveals the absurd and shocking problems that pervade and undermine contemporary science. So much relies on science. But what if science itself can’t be relied on? Medicine, education, psychology, health, parenting – wherever it really matters, we look t viac

Tau Zero
Poul Anderson Tau Zero follows the crew of the starship Leonora Christine, a colonization vessel crewed by 25 men and 25 women aiming to reach the nearby star Beta Virginis. The ship is powered by a Bussard ramjet, which was proposed 10 years before Anderson wrote the book. This engine is not viac

The Atlas Paradox
Olivie Blake Discover The Atlas Paradox, the electric dark academia sequel to viral sensation The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake - a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller. Inside the Alexandrian Society alliances will be tested, hearts will be broken and all must pick a side. Six magicians were offered viac

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Steven Pinker This acclaimed book by Steven Pinker, author of "The Language Instinct" and "The Blank Slate", argues that, contrary to popular belief, humankind has become progressively less violent, over millenia and decades. Can violence really have declined? The images of conflict we see dai viac

The Every
Dave Eggers When the world's largest search engine/social media company, the Circle, merges with the planet's dominant ecommerce site, it creates the richest and most dangerous--and, oddly enough, most beloved--monopoly ever known: the Every. Delaney Wells is an unlikely new hire at the E viac

The Evolution of Claire
Tess Sharpe The year is 2004, and Claire has been given the chance of a lifetime: the opportunity to intern at the Jurassic World theme park less than a year before it opens to the public. She is laser-focused, with her sights set on bettering the lives of animals worldwide. But life at the viac

The Fall of Five
Pittacus Lore The Garde are finally reunited, but do they have what it takes to win the war against the Mogadorians? John Smith—Number Four—thought that things would change once the Garde found each other. They would stop running. They would fight the Mogadorians. And they would win. But viac

The First Fossil Hunters
Adrienne Mayor Griffins, Centaurs, Cyclopes, and Giants--these fabulous creatures of classical mythology continue to live in the modern imagination through the vivid accounts that have come down to us from the ancient Greeks and Romans. But what if these beings were more than merely fictions? W viac

The Greatest Show on Earth
Richard Dawkins viac

The Invisible Rainbow
Arthur Firstenberg The most misunderstood force driving health and disease The story of the invention and use of electricity has often been told before, but never from an environmental point of view. The assumption of safety, and the conviction that electricity has nothing to do with life, are b viac

The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy
Brigitte Knightley The first in a slow burn, enemies-to-lovers romantasy duology featuring a scholarly healer and a gentleman assassin, set in an exquisite fantasy world, perfect for fans of The Love Hypothesis and Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries. Osric Mordaunt, member of the Fyren Order o viac

The Love Hypothesis
Ali Hazelwood As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationships--but her best friend does, and that's what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive is dating and well on her way to a happily ever after was always going to take more tha viac

The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind
Barbara K. Lipska All we think, feel and dream, how we move, if we move, everything that makes us who we are, comes from the brain. We are the brain. So what happens when the brain fails? What happens when we lose our mind? In January 2015 renowned neuroscientist Barbara Lipska's melanoma sprea viac

The Precipice
Toby Ord If all goes well, human history is just beginning. But this vast future is under threat. Oxford philosopher Toby Ord explores the risks to humanity, from climate change and nuclear war, to the arguably greater threats on the horizon, including engineered pandemics and unaligned a viac

The Psychology Book
Kindersley Dorling How do our minds influence the way we behave? How do our bodies and minds work together? Do we have free will?Exploring and explaining the big ideas and groundbreaking theories in psychology clearly and simply, The Psychology Book answers these questions and more and is the perfe viac

The Relationship Between Theology, Philosophy and Science
Adrian Lemeni   Adrian Sorin Mihalacha „Orthodox theology engages in the dialogue with science and philosophy not only with a view to the exchange of information, but also in pursuit of the missionary and social responsibilities of the Church. This perspective underscores the relevance of ecclesial knowledge in the di viac

The Secret of Plants in the ENVIRONMENT
Rishikesh Upadhyay Plants are sessile organisms that are unable to move but face the challenge of ever-changing or adverse environments. The study of the development of environmental changes in tolerant plants is fundamental for the maintenance and streamlining of high crop yields and plant adaptat viac

The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets
Simon Singh You may have watched hundreds of episodes of The Simpsons (and its sister show Futurama) without ever realizing that cleverly embedded in many plots are subtle references to mathematics, ranging from well-known equations to cutting-edge theorems and conjectures. That they exist, viac

The Soulmate Equation
Christina Lauren Single mom Jess Davis is a data and statistics wizard, but no amount of number crunching can convince her to step back into the dating world. Raised by her grandparents--who now help raise her seven-year-old daughter, Juno--Jess has been left behind too often to feel comfortable viac

The Time Machine - Graphic Novel
Herbert George Wells   Mathieu Moreau At the turn of the nineteenth century, a group of friends listen to the adventures of a man who claims to be the world’s first time traveler. His story begins in the year 802,701. Earth is inhabited by the Eloi, descendants of men, who live in harmony, spending their time playing viac

The Undying of Obedience Wellrest
Nicholas Bowling To the horror of young gravedigger, Ned, body-snatchers have been visiting his churchyard in the dead of night. Until now, he'd been daydreaming about another visitor – daughter of the manor, Obedience Wellrest. But 16-year-old Obedience has troubles of her own: her loving but o viac

The Working Brain
Aleksandr Romanovič Lurija This important book, by the most distinguished Soviet psychologist of our time, is the product of almost forty years of extensive research aimed at understanding the cerebral basis of human psychological activity. The main part of the book describes what we know today about the i viac

Thing Explainer
Randall Munroe Have you ever tried to learn more about some incredible thing, only to be frustrated by incomprehensible jargon? Randall Munroe is here to help. In Thing Explainer, he uses line drawings and only the thousand (or, rather, “ten hundred”) most common words to provide simple expla viac

This Is Vegan Propaganda (And Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)
Ed Winters Every time we eat, we have the power to radically transform the world we live in. Our choices can help alleviate the most pressing issues we face today: the climate crisis, infectious and chronic diseases, human exploitation and, of course, non-human exploitation. Undeniably, viac

What if? 2
Randall Munroe WHAT IF... one man decided to answer all the unanswerable questions, using science. The Sunday Times-bestselling author and xkcd creator, Randall Munroe is here to provide the best answers yet to the important questions you probably never thought to ask The millions of people aro viac