Birth of Science

With 2018 marking 200 years since }Frankenstein{'s first publication, Levy provides an engrossing insight into the fascinating world of science in ...

'A delightful and utterly fascinating work of intellectual history.' - Joshua Foer, author of Moonwalking with EinsteinIllustrations: 16 pages full...

The techniques of early astrology are shown to have been at the foundation of science in this reclaiming of the alleged pseudoscience's value acros...

Mathematical genius Villani takes the reader on an imaginative journey through the discovery of a new mathematical theorem. Combines passion and im...

Michel Serres is one of the most influential living theorists in European philosophy. This volume makes available a work which has a foundational p...

Reducere. So begins The Birth of a Universe, a profound exegesis by Apabyan Tew, a K'iche Maya midwife and daykeeper. We are bound to the ancient 260-day May...

Reducere. In a story that is both of its time and timeless, Evan I. Schwartz tells a tale of genius versus greed, innocence versus deceit, and independent br...

Reducere. Winner of the Gold Dagger Award A fascinating true crime story that details the rise of modern forensics and the development of modern criminal inv...

The follow-up to the BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Other Minds A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The scuba-d...

Reducere. DescriptionUntil the sixteenth century, people believed in magic as a way of explaining how the world worked. Indeed Queen Elizabeth I had a court ...

Reducere. Enthralling . . . breathtaking . . . Metazoa brings an extraordinary and astute look at our own mind's essential link to the animal world. --The Ne...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michael RiordanAuthor: Lillian HoddesonOn December 16, 1947, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, physicists at Bell Laborator...

Reducere. Astrophysicist George Smoot spent decades pursuing the origin of the cosmos, "the holy grail of science, " a relentless hunt that led him from the ...

Reducere. To modern sensibilities, nineteenth-century zoos often seem to be unnatural places where animals led miserable lives in cramped, wrought-iron cages...

Reducere. We know it simply as "the pill, " yet its genesis was anything but simple. Jonathan Eig's masterful narrative revolves around four principal charac...

Reducere. While most numerology books focus only on birthdays, The Secret Language of Your Name analyzes both name and birth date to guide readers to happine...

When the ancient Greeks saw deposits of giant fossils, they knew they had discovered the battle fields where the gods had vanquished the Titans. Wh...

Reducere. Leonhard Euler's polyhedron formula describes the structure of many objects--from soccer balls and gemstones to Buckminster Fuller's buildings and ...

Reducere. Now in paperback, the life and legacy of the much-overlooked yet highly influential Robert Goddard--the brilliant, eccentric, and controversial pio...

Reducere. Sometimes our understanding of our universe is given a huge boost by one insightful thinker. Such a boost came in the first half of the twentieth c...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

DescriptionAn eye-opening book that reveals crucial information every woman taking hormonal birth control should know This groundbreaking book shed...

An indispensable guide to the revolutionary advances in pregnancy and childbirth, Taking Charge of Your Pregnancy contains trailblazing science tha...

Provocative, funny and brilliantly reported, join Jenny Kleeman as she meets the strange people who are creating our future and changing what it me...

Provocative, funny and brilliantly reported, join Jenny Kleeman as she meets the strange people who are creating our future and changing what it me...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Is it Really Possible to make Laws of Attraction Work for you? Do you want to see the Applications of Quantum Physics in the real World and Univers...

Is it Really Possible to make Laws of Attraction Work for you? Do you want to see the Applications of Quantum Physics in the real World and Univers...

Contributor(s): Author: Joanne SouzaAuthor: Paul M. BinghamA new biological theory of human uniqueness and theory of everything based in human evol...