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  • From the Earth to the Moon

    Annotated for Our Spacefaring Age

    podle Jules Verne ...
    Překlad: Walter James Miller ...
    Série série Imagination, Annotated
    A new, annotated edition of Jules Verne’s classic, which considers the past, present, and future of spaceflight from scientific as well as humanistic angles.In an age when the idea of a “planet B” seems tempting, this edition of Jules Verne’s classic From the Earth to the Moon (1865) offers a complete and unabridged translation into English alongside extensive annotations and essays from ... Přečtěte si více

    405,69 Kč

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  • 18 Miles

    The Epic Drama of Our Atmosphere and Its Weather

    “With wit and a humbling sense of wonder, this is a book that can be shared and appreciated by a wide audience who now religiously check their phones for daily forecasts.” — Publishers Weekly Starred Review“This terrific, accessible, and exciting read helps us to better understand the aspects of weather and the atmosphere all around us.” —Library Journal Starred ReviewWe live at the bottom of an ... Přečtěte si více

    208,69 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

  • Atlantis the Great Flood and the Asteroid

    podle Prescott Rawlings ...
    Atlantis the Great Flood and the Asteroid examines the evidence for an asteroid impact in early human prehistory which interrupted the progression of human development. It considers whether a large asteroid caused the Earth to shift its axis the Great Flood a Mass Extinction Event and possibly sank the island of Atlantis right where Plato said it was. Clues come from geology physics archeology ... Přečtěte si více

    145,85 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

  • Mountains of Fire

    The Secret Lives of Volcanoes

    podle Clive Oppenheimer ...
    **SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOARDMAN TASKER AWARD FOR MOUNTAIN LITERATURE'If Michael Palin had been a volcanologist, this is the book he would have written' LITERARY REVIEW**'Gripping' THE ECONOMIST'Wonderful' PETER FRANKOPAN'Like a thriller ... This is terrific' SPECTATOR'Beautiful ... bursting with poetry, with storytelling' WERNER HERZOGWe are made of the same stuff as the breat... ... Přečtěte si více

    283,59 Kč

  • A Crack in the Edge of the World

    America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906

    podle Simon Winchester ...
    The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative informative look at the tumultuous subterranean world that produces earthquakes, the planet's most sudden and destructive ... Přečtěte si více

    214,69 Kč

  • Maps & Civilization

    Cartography in Culture and Society

    A concise introduction to the history of cartography.In Maps & Civilization: Cartography in Culture and Society, Norman J. W. Thrower charts the intimate links between maps and history from antiquity to the present day. A wealth of illustrations, including the oldest known map and contemporary examples made using Geographical Information Systems (GIS), illuminate the many ways in which various ... Přečtěte si více

    276,29 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

  • A Crack in the Edge of the World

    The Great American Earthquake of 1906

    podle Simon Winchester ...
    A burgeoning new city is built on the dreams of the American gold rush. It is also built upon a landscape that has been stretching, sliding and breaking apart for millennia. In 1906 the dreams of this city came crashing down beneath the rippling wave of a horrifying earthquake that turned roads into great rippling rivers, that set buildings ablaze for days on end, that made homes collapse upon ... Přečtěte si více

    221,59 Kč

  • The Big Ones

    How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About Them)

    podle Dr. Lucy Jones ...
    By the world-renowned seismologist, a riveting history of natural disasters, their impact on our culture, and new ways of thinking about the ones to comeEarthquakes, floods, tsunamis, hurricanes, volcanoes--they stem from the same forces that give our planet life. Earthquakes give us natural springs; volcanoes produce fertile soil. It is only when these forces exceed our ability to withstand them ... Přečtěte si více

    255,49 Kč

  • Starborn

    How the Stars Made Us - and Who We Would Be Without Them

    podle Roberto Trotta ...
    **A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKA NEW SCIENTIST BOOK OF THE YEAR**'A stunning and unforgettable voyage through the stars' STEPHEN FRY'Trotta writes like a poet' WALL STREET JOURNAL'Illuminating' Robin Ince'Will leave readers viewing the stars with fresh eyes' MARTIN REESA sweeping inquiry into how the night sky has shaped what it means to be human.</... ... Přečtěte si více

    248,19 Kč

  • From the Earth to the Moon

    podle Jules Verne ...
    Série série Extraordinary Voyages
    Written almost a century before the daring flights of the astronauts, Jules Verne’s prophetic novel of man’s race to the stars is a classic adventure tale enlivened by broad satire and scientific acumen.When the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves lacking any urgent assignments at the close of the Civil War, their president, Impey Barbicane, proposes that they build a gun big ... Přečtěte si více

    44,03 Kč

  • The Flat Earth Conspiracy

    podle Eric Dubay ...
    Wolves in sheep’s clothing have pulled the wool over our eyes. For almost 500 years, the masses have been thoroughly deceived by a cosmic fairy-tale of astronomical proportions. We have been taught a falsehood so gigantic and diabolical that it has blinded us from our own experience and common sense, from seeing the world and the universe as they truly are. Through pseudo-science books and ... Přečtěte si více

    151,59 Kč

  • The Lost Art of Finding Our Way

    podle John Edward Huth ...
    Long before GPS, Google Earth, and global transit, humans traveled vast distances using only environmental clues and simple instruments. John Huth asks what is lost when modern technology substitutes for our innate capacity to find our way. Encyclopedic in breadth, weaving together astronomy, meteorology, oceanography, and ethnography, The Lost Art of Finding Our Way puts us in the shoes, ships, ... Přečtěte si více

    390,59 Kč