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  • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

    'Truly mind-expanding... Ultra-topical' Guardian

    door Yuval Noah Harari ...
    **THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER**In twenty-one bite-sized lessons, Yuval Noah Harari explores what it means to be human in an age of bewilderment.How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What should we teach our children?The world-renowned historian and intellectual ... Meer lezen

    10,99 €

  • 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 2018**AI is the future - but what will that future look like? Will superhuman intelligence be our slave, or become our god?Taking us to ... Meer lezen

    9,49 €

  • De meeste mensen deugen

    door Rutger Bregman ...
    Al eeuwen is de westerse cultuur doordrongen van het geloof in de verdorvenheid van de mens. Maar wat als we het al die tijd mis hadden? In dit fascinerende boek herschrijft Rutger Bregman de geschiedenis van de mens. Rutger Bregman (1988) is historicus. Hij brak internationaal door met zijn bestseller Gratis geld voor iedereen. De meeste mensen deugen is in 46 talen vertaald, wereldwijd zijn er ... Meer lezen

    10,00 €

  • De laatste lente van de dinosauriërs

    De dinosaurus, van uitsterving tot ontdekking

    door Melanie During ...
    De rockster van de paleontologie schijnt nieuw licht op de uitsterving van dinosauriërs. Triceratops, Tyrannosaurus en Brachiosaurus… We kennen ze allemaal, maar toch weten we alleen wat hun botten over hen vertellen. Wat zou een oermens hebben gedacht bij het vinden van een dinosaurusskelet? En waarom fascineert hun massale uitsterving ons zo? Paleontoloog Melanie During neemt ons mee door de ... Meer lezen

    Was 11,99 € Nu 6,99 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • 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 €

  • A Short History of Nearly Everything 2.0

    The bestselling popular science book of the 21st Century, now fully updated

    door Bill Bryson ...
    In this fully revised and updated edition of the best-selling popular science book of the 21st century, Bill Bryson makes complex subjects clear and compelling for everyone with an interest in the world around them.NOW FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED.'Possibly the best scientific primer ever published.' Economist'Truly impressive...It's hard to imagine a better rough guide to science.' Guardian<s... ... Meer lezen

    14,99 €

  • Hoe leven ontstaat

    op het snijvlak van biologie en kwantumleer

    door Jim Al-Khalili, Johnjoe McFadden ...
    Vertaald door Robert Vernooy ...
    Leven is het bijzonderste en raadselachtigste gegeven van het universum. Nog nooit heeft iemand leven kunnen opwekken uit dode materie. Hoe ontstaat leven? Wat is die 'spark of life'? Niemand weet het antwoord. 'Hoe leven ontstaat' brengt ons daar dichterbij. Met grote helderheid en aan de hand van eenvoudige vragen – hoe weten trekvogels waar ze naartoe moeten vliegen? Hoe ruiken we de geur van ... Meer lezen

    9,99 €

  • The Confidence Code

    The Science and Art of Self-Assurance---What Women Should Know

    door Katty Kay, Claire Shipman ...
    The New York Times bestseller, now in paperback and updated with a new introductionConfidence. We want it. We need it. But it can be maddeningly enigmatic and out of reach. The authors of the New York Times bestseller Womenomics deconstruct this essential, elusive, and misunderstood quality and offer a blueprint for bringing more of it into our lives.Is confidence hardwired into the DNA of a lucky ... Meer lezen

    10,99 €

  • The Ego Tunnel

    The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self

    door Thomas Metzinger ...
    A "groundbreaking" (Booklist) investigation of the mind and consciousness that asks whether the self even existsIn The Ego Tunnel, philosopher and cognitive scientist Thomas Metzinger argues that neuroscience’s picture of the “self” as an emergent phenomenon of our biology—and the attendant fact that the self can be manipulated and even experimentally controlled—raises novel and serious ethical ... Meer lezen

    11,99 €

  • A Brief History of the Universe (and our place in it)

    door Sarah Alam Malik ...
    We have always looked up at the sky and wondered.The desire to explore and understand what lies beyond us is at the heart of scientific discovery. Ever since the ancient Babylonians tracked celestial objects on clay tablets, the search for meaning in an infinitely vast universe has been a profoundly human pursuit.In this spellbinding book, Dr Sarah Alam Malik takes us on a journey through the ... Meer lezen

    16,04 €

  • 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 €

  • Cosmos

    door Carl Sagan ...
    Renowned astronomer Carl Sagan’s classic bestseller that “dives into the past, present, and future of science, dealing with the mind-staggering enormity of the cosmos in which we exist” (Associated Press)—with an Introduction by Ann Druyan and a Foreword by Neil deGrasse Tyson“Sagan dazzles the mind with the miracle of our survival, framed by the stately galaxies of space.”—CosmopolitanTHE ... Meer lezen

    6,88 €

  • Voyage à travers les climats de la Terre

    door Gilles Ramstein ...
    Quels ont été les climats tout au long de l’histoire de la Terre ? Comment s’est organisée l’alternance des périodes froides et des périodes plus chaudes pendant ces quelques milliards d’années ? Y a-t-il des leçons à tirer de cette longue évolution du climat, pour mieux comprendre le réchauffement climatique actuel ? La perturbation en cours est-elle inédite dans l’histoire de la Terre ? En quoi ... Meer lezen

    19,99 €

  • The Code Book

    The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking

    door Simon Singh ...
    The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum CryptographyFrom the best-selling author of Fermat’s Last Theorem, The Code Book is a history of man’s urge to uncover the secrets of codes, from Egyptian puzzles to modern day computer encryptions.As in Fermat’s Last Theorem, Simon Singh brings life to an anstonishing story of puzzles, codes, languages and riddles that reveals man’s continual ... Meer lezen

    7,79 €

  • 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 €

  • Neomania

    How Our Obsession With Innovation is Failing Science, and How to Restore Trust

    door Krist Vaesen ...
    Contemporary science faces a profound poly-crisis: replication failures, weak theories, poor generalizability, and declining public trust. Neomania contends that these symptoms stem not merely from flawed practices or institutional pressures, but from a deeper cultural pathology—our collective obsession with innovation. This valorization of the new for its own sake has reshaped the scientific ... Meer lezen

    6,99 € of Gratis met Kobo Plus

  • Every Living Thing

    The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life (WINNER OF THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY)

    door Jason Roberts ...
    WINNER OF THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHYAn Economist book of the year 2024.The dramatic, globe-spanning and meticulously-researched story of two scientific rivals and their race to survey all life.In the 18th century, two men dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing all life on Earth. Their approaches could not have been more different. Carl Linnaeus, a ... Meer lezen

    3,99 €

  • Blood

    An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce

    door Douglas Starr ...
    Essence and emblem of life--feared, revered, mythologized, and used in magic and medicine from earliest times--human blood is now the center of a huge, secretive, and often dangerous worldwide commerce. It is a commerce whose impact upon humanity rivals that of any other business--millions of lives have been saved by blood and its various derivatives, and tens of thousands of lives have been lost. ... Meer lezen

    Was 8,58 € Nu 7,52 €

  • Il était sept fois la révolution. Albert Einstein et les autres…

    door Étienne Klein ...
    Certaines révolutions sont lentes et ne font pas couler de sang. Entre 1925 et 1935, la physique connaît un tel bouleversement : les atomes, petits grains de matière découverts quelques années plus tôt, n’obéissent plus aux lois de la physique classique. Il faut en inventer de nouvelles. C’est ce que firent, avec d’autres, les sept physiciens hors du commun auxquels Étienne Klein rend ici hommage ... Meer lezen

    7,99 €

  • Evolution Evolving

    The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity

    door Kevin N. Lala, Tobias Uller, Nathalie Feiner, Marcus 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

    34,33 €

  • Bad Medicine

    Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates

    door David Wootton ...
    Just how much good has medicine done over the years? And how much damage does it continue to do? The history of medicine begins with Hippocrates in the fifth century BC. Yet until the invention of antibiotics in the 1930s doctors, in general, did their patients more harm than good. In this fascinating new look at the history of medicine, David Wootton argues that for more than 2300 years doctors ... Meer lezen

    15,25 €

  • Der stärkste Stoff

    Psychedelische Drogen: Waffe, Rauschmittel, Medikament

    door Norman Ohler ...
    LSD: Wie alles begann und was in der Gegenwart daraus wurdeWie Norman Ohler in seinem internationalen Bestseller »Der totale Rausch« am Beispiel der NS-Zeit gezeigt hat, spielen Drogen und Drogenpolitik eine dramatische, immer noch unterschätzte Rolle in der Geschichte der Menschheit. In seinem neuen Buch nimmt der Autor diesen Faden wieder auf und untersucht, wie Entwicklung, Produktion und ... Meer lezen

    19,99 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €