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  • Black Holes

    The Key to Understanding the Universe

    door Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw ...
    By the star physicist and author of multiple #1 Sunday Times bestsellers, a major and definitive narrative work on black holes and how they can help us understand the universe.At the heart of our galaxy lies a monster so deadly it can bend space, throwing vast jets of radiation millions of light years out into the cosmos. Its kind were the very first inhabitants of the universe, the black holes ... Meer lezen

    Was 11,99 € Nu 7,79 €

  • The Quantum Universe

    Everything that can happen does happen

    door Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw ...
    The Quantum Universe brings together two authors on a brilliantly ambitious mission to show that everyone can understand the deepest questions of science.But just what is quantum physics? How does it help us understand the world? Where does it leave Newton and Einstein? And why, above all, can we be sure that the theory is good?The bizarre behaviour of the atoms and energy that make up the ... Meer lezen

    9,49 €

  • Four Thousand Weeks

    Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.

    door Oliver Burkeman ...
    A life-changing gift of a book: What if you tried to stop doing everything, so you could finally get round to what counts?**The instant Sunday Times bestseller**Rejecting the futile modern obsession with 'getting everything done,' Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing rather than denying their limitations.Drawing on the insights of both ... Meer lezen

    10,99 €

  • Optimal Design of Experiments

    A Case Study Approach

    door Peter Goos, Bradley Jones ...
    "This is an engaging and informative book on the modern practice of experimental design. The authors' writing style is entertaining, the consulting dialogs are extremely enjoyable, and the technical material is presented brilliantly but not overwhelmingly. The book is a joy to read. Everyone who practices or teaches DOE should read this book." - Douglas C. Montgomery, Regents Professor, Department ... Meer lezen

    70,99 €

  • Récoltes et semailles d'Alexander Grothendieck

    "Les Fiches de Lecture d'Universalis"

    door Encyclopaedia Universalis ...
    Quelque huit ans après le décès du mathématicien, la parution dans la collection « Tel » des deux tomes de Récoltes et semailles (Gallimard, 2022) d’Alexandre Grothendieck (1928-2014) est un événement unique pour le monde des mathématiciens et pour tous ceux qui s’intéressent aux aspects psychologiques et sociologiques de la création scientifique. Écrit entre 1983 et 1986, ce texte avait d’abord ... Meer lezen

    6,99 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • The Demon-Haunted World

    Science as a Candle in the Dark

    door Carl Sagan ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the renowned astronomer and author of Cosmos comes a “powerful [and] stirring defense of informed rationality” (The Washington Post Book World) in a world where fake news stories and Internet conspiracy theories play to a disaffected American populace.LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER • “Glorious . . . A spirited defense of science . . . From the first page to ... Meer lezen

    6,56 €

  • Power and Progress

    Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity | Winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize for Economics

    door Simon Johnson, Daron Acemoglu ...
    WINNERS OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE FOR ECONOMICSLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZEA FINANCIAL TIMES TECHNOLOGY BOOK OF THE YEARUPDATED WITH A NEW PREFACE'The blueprint we need for the challenges ahead' Shoshana Zuboff</str... ... Meer lezen

    7,99 €

  • Life 3.0

    Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

    door Max Tegmark ...
    **'This is the most important conversation of our time, and Tegmark's thought-provoking book will help you join it' Stephen HawkingTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. DAILY TELEGRAPH AND THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEARSELECTED AS ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2018AI is the future - but what will that future look like? Will superhuman intelligence be our slave, or become our god?Taking us to the ... Meer lezen

    9,49 €

  • The Alchemy of Air

    A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler

    door Thomas Hager ...
    A sweeping history of tragic genius, cutting-edge science, and the Haber-Bosch discovery that changed billions of lives—including your own.At the dawn of the twentieth century, humanity was facing global disaster: Mass starvation was about to become a reality. A call went out to the world’ s scientists to find a solution.This is the story of the two men who found it: brilliant, self-important ... Meer lezen

    11,12 €

  • Infinite Powers

    How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

    door Steven Strogatz ...
    From preeminent math personality and author of The Joy of x, a brilliant and endlessly appealing popular science explanation of calculus—how it works and why it makes our lives immeasurably better.Without calculus, we wouldn’t have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn’t have unraveled DNA or discovered Neptune or figured out how to put 5,000 songs in your pocket.Though many of us were ... Meer lezen

    10,99 €

  • Kentukis

    door Samanta Schweblin ...
    Serie series Biblioteca Breve
    Una novela visionaria sobre nuestro presente interconectado.Se han infiltrado en hogares de Hong Kong, en tiendas de Vancouver, en las calles de Sierra Leona, en plazas de Oaxaca, en dormitorios alemanes. Están por todas partes. No son mascotas, ni fantasmas, ni robots. Son personas reales, pero ¿cómo puede alguien desde Lima caminar libremente por el salón de una casa en Erfuhrt? ¿Cómo puede un ... Meer lezen

    9,99 €

  • Meaning of Life, Human Nature, and Delusions

    How Tales about Love, Sex, Races, Gods and Progress Affect Our Lives and Earth's Splendor

    door Rui Diogo ...
    Serie series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Whatever are your beliefs, background, education, political views or interests, one thing is sure: this book will engage you, teach you something new, and more importantly make you to re-think deeply about critical aspects of your daily-life, including sex, love, food, physical activities, diseases, work and stress, and how you see and deal with other people, other animals, and the planet in ... Meer lezen

    34,97 €

  • A Minimal Metaphysics for Scientific Practice

    door Andreas Hüttemann ...
    What are the metaphysical commitments which best 'make sense' of our scientific practice (rather than our scientific theories)? In this book, Andreas Hüttemann provides a minimal metaphysics for scientific practice, i.e. a metaphysics that refrains from postulating any structure that is explanatorily irrelevant. Hüttemann closely analyses paradigmatic aspects of scientific practice, such as ... Meer lezen

    32,16 €

  • Invisible Women

    The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller exposing the gender bias women face every day

    door Caroline Criado Perez ...
    *THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER**A TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE 21st CENTURY**OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD*Discover the shocking gender bias that affects our everyday lives in this groundbreaking gift of a book.'Nothing delights me more than a well-written and well-researched book that teaches you and never bores you' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie'... ... Meer lezen

    10,99 €

  • Wisdom, Information and Wonder

    What is Knowledge For?

    door Mary Midgley ...
    In this book one of Britain's leading philosophers tackles a question at the root of our civilisation: What is knowledge for? Midgley rejects the fragmentary and specialized way in which information is conveyed in the high-tech world, and criticizes conceptions of philosophy that support this mode of thinking. ... Meer lezen

    54,23 €

  • Still No Miracles Needed

    How Today's Technology Can Save Our Climate and Clean Our Air

    door Mark Z. Jacobson ...
    What if we don't need 'miracle technologies' to solve the climate problem? What if the technologies we need are already available? And what if we can use those existing technologies to ensure reliable electricity, heat supplies, and energy security? In a revised and updated edition of his award-winning climate bestseller, No Miracles Needed, the world's premier thinker on energy futures and one of ... Meer lezen

    21,02 €

  • Stefan Gates on E Numbers

    door Stefan Gates ...
    'Stefan Gates on E Numbers' is a myth-busting celebration of 'E's--the additives and preservatives that make up Britain's most feared ingredients. Most of the food we eat has them yet we are hugely suspicious of them and believe that they cause everything from twitchy eyelids to colon cancer. In this book Stefan discusses just how bad our food would taste, how wrong it would look and how ... Meer lezen

    4,49 €

  • Evolution Evolving

    The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity

    door Kevin N. Lala, Tobias Uller, Nathalie Feiner, Marcus W. Feldman, Scott F. Gilbert ...
    A new account of the central role developmental processes play in evolutionA new scientific view of evolution is emerging—one that challenges and expands our understanding of how evolution works. Recent research demonstrates that organisms differ greatly in how effective they are at evolving. Whether and how each organism adapts and diversifies depends critically on the mechanistic details of how ... Meer lezen

    Was 34,33 € Nu 22,89 €

  • Newton à la plage

    Les grandes idées de la physique dans un transat

    door Yann Mambrini ...
    Pourquoi une pomme tombe-t-elle de l’arbre ? Comment prévoir la trajectoire d’une balle de tennis ou celle d’une planète ? Qu’est-ce qu'une force ? Quelle est la nature de la lumière?Génie de la science, Isaac Newton est connu pour avoir fondé la mécanique classique ainsi que pour sa théorie de la gravitation. En optique, il a observé la décomposition de la lumière. Ses découvertes sont au cœur de ... Meer lezen

    9,99 €

  • Iedereen liegt!

    Hoe leugens werken en hoe je ze kan achterhalen

    door Yann Van den Branden ...
    Politici, bankiers, autoverkopers, vrienden, uw kinderen en uzelf: iedereen liegt! Zo'n zes keer per dag. Grote leugens of leugentjes om bestwil: liegen is zo oud als de mens. Dit boek neemt u mee op een fascinerende ontdekkingstocht en beantwoordt vragen als: Waaraan kan ik zien of iemand liegt? Hoe kan ik mezelf beter wapenen tegen leugenachtig gedrag van anderen? Is het altijd verkeerd, of zijn ... Meer lezen

    12,50 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • Hoop voor de aarde

    Hoe we samen het klimaat kunnen redden

    door Katharine Hayhoe ...
    Vertaald door Martine Krabbendam ...
    Niemand kan het probleem van de klimaatverandering zo goed onder woorden brengen als Katharine Hayhoe in haar boek Hoop voor de aarde: hoe we samen het klimaat kunnen redden. De klimaatverandering is even urgent als complex. We benoemen het en zuchten erover, maar het lukt ons moeilijk om samen tot concrete actie te komen. Katharine Hayhoe legt daar de vinger bij en geeft aan hoe we vanuit een ... Meer lezen

    13,99 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • Aéropostale

    door Édouard Bobrowski ...
    L’Aéropostale... quinze mille kilomètres, par-dessus les tempêtes d’Espagne, les sables hostiles du Sahara, l’Atlantique-Sud inconnu, les forêts vierges du Brésil, la pampa argentine, la cordillère des Andes enfin, où le frêle avion de bois, de toile et de colle, devra se hisser à 5 000 mètres d’altitude pour atteindre Santiago du Chili, sur le versant Pacifique. Tout cela avec des « coucous » qui ... Meer lezen

    9,49 €

  • The Sun

    A Biography

    door Dr David Whitehouse ...
    In The Sun, David Whitehouse takes us on a journey to the heart of our local star and beyond, relating how it was born, the many ways it influences life on Earth and how it will die. He recounts the many myths surrounding the Sun and the fascinating stories of scientists throughout history who have attempted to discover its secrets - occasionally at the price of their lives.The Sun explores the ... Meer lezen

    3,99 €

  • The Quantum Moment

    How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty

    door Robert P. Crease, Alfred Scharff Goldhaber ...
    "A very fun way to learn about where quantum physics comes from and the strange, even astonishing places it has gone." —Peter Galison, Harvard University, author of Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s MapsFrom multiverses and quantum leaps to Schrödinger’s cat and time travel, quantum mechanics has irreversibly shaped the popular imagination. Entertainers and writers from Lady Gaga to David Foster ... Meer lezen

    17,59 €