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  • Better Than Yesterday

    by Jay Matthew ...
    This is a must for all doctors new to emergency medicine in South Africa. Written by a seasoned emergency medicine doctor, that has worked both in emergency departments and in the prehospital environment, it goes into detail about problems that doctors may encounter during daily practice. It offers quirky commentary and useful insights to help junior doctors cope in the field. Experienced doctors ... Read more

    R114,48 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gene

    The story of the gene: our past, our future, ourselves.

    by Siddhartha Mukherjee ...
    An epic, dazzling history of the idea that defines us.From Gregor Mendel’s pea plants to the discovery of DNA and the CRISPR revolution in gene-editing, The Gene tells the story of how we came to understand heredity – to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans – land how that knowledge now allows us to rewrite life itself. Siddhartha Mukherjee combines scientific insight with ... Read more

    R284,27

  • The Dangerous Art of Alchemy

    A fascinating free e-short accompaniment to The Raven's Head

    by Karen Maitland ...
    A free e-short from 'Queen of the Dark Ages' Karen Maitland, author of Company of Liars, which explores medieval Dark Arts practices and the mysterious history of alchemy.**Includes real recipes devised by medieval alchemists and a free sample of Karen's gothic historical thriller, The Raven's Head**'An atmospheric and dark story' The Times on The Raven's Head</st... ... Read more

    Free

  • Reader, Come Home

    The Reading Brain in a Digital World

    by Maryanne Wolf ...
    The author of the acclaimed Proust and the Squid follows up with a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative book that considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection as we become increasingly dependent on digital technologies.A decade ago, Maryanne Wolf’s Proust and the Squid revealed what we know about how the brain learns to read and how ... Read more

    R231,71

  • Why Do Golf Balls Have Dimples?

    A Book of Weird and Wonderful Science Facts

    by Wendy Sadler ...
    Have you ever wondered why golf balls have dimples or why your hair goes frizzy in the rain? Scientist Wendy Sadler has the answers in her book of Weird and Wonderful facts. Broken down into user-friendly chapters like sport, going out, the great outdoors, food and drink and the downright weird, Wendy gives the scientific answers to life's intriguing questions, likeWhy toast always lands butter ... Read more

    R57,15

  • What's Gotten Into You

    The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner

    by Dan Levitt ...
    For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Siddhartha Mukherjee, a wondrous, wildly ambitious, and vastly entertaining work of popular science that tells the awe-inspiring story of the elements that make up the human body, and how these building blocks of life travelled billions of miles and across billions of years to make us who we are.Every one of us contains a billion times more atoms ... Read more

    R353,73

  • Basics of … Beekeeping

    by Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth and Others ...
    This classic work has been greatly enhanced and extended with both photographs and images to illustrate the many facets of Beekeeping.A guide for the aspiring apiarist. All you need to know to get started in beekeeping. In this updated edition, a compilation of advice from Langstroth, Quinby, Huber, and a number of contemporary contributors, you will find everything you need to know about ... Read more

    R76,26

  • Die technologische Singularität

    by Murray Shanahan ...
    Translated by Nadine Miller ...
    ›Technologische Singularität‹ bezeichnet den Zeitpunkt, an dem von künstlicher Intelligenz gesteuerte Maschinen sich fortlaufend selbst so zu verbessern imstande sind, dass sie sich der Beherrschung durch Menschenhand entziehen. Der Robotikspezialist Murray Shanahan beschreibt die unterschiedlichen derzeit weltweit vorangetriebenen technologischen Entwicklungen, die zu einem solchen Ereignis ... Read more

    R419,00

  • Modern Scientific Thought

    by P.C.Chandrasekharan ...
    This book is a compendium of essays on various science related topics which are at the cutting edge of modern science and technology. Sixteen different science topics are discussed in the book, which include origin and evolution of the universe, the microscopic world of the atom, unification of the forces of nature, our planet earth and its neighbors, modern developments in synthetic biology, ... Read more

    R35,71

  • World of Five

    The Universal Number

    by Louis Komzsik ...
    In this enjoyable and lightheaded volume, he gathers a plethora of cultural, biological, geometrical, algebraic, and planetary phenomena of our lives related to the number five. He investigates these occurrences in various facets of life on earth and seeks plausible explanations for some of them and hypothesizes about some others while widening your horizon. ... Read more

    R57,95

  • Crafting your Research Future

    A Guide to Successful Master's and PhD Degrees in Science & Engineering

    by Charles X. Ling, Qiang Yang ...
    Series series Synthesis Lectures on Engineering
    What is it like to be a researcher or a scientist? For young people, including graduate students and junior faculty members in universities, how can they identify good ideas for research? How do they conduct solid research to verify and realize their new ideas? How can they formulate their ideas and research results into high-quality articles, and publish them in highly competitive journals and ... Read more

    R397,43

  • The Utterly, Completely, and Totally Useless Science Fact-o-pedia

    A Startling Collection of Scientific Trivia You’ll Never Need to Know

    by Wendy Leonard, Ph.D., MPH ...
    Calling all trivia buffs! Loaded with over 200 entries and almost 2,000 bits of trivia, this book will arm you with hundreds of useless scientific tidbits – perfect for curious minds.Organized from A (“Amino Acids”) to Z (“Zombie Etiquette”), and packed with great cartoons, The Useless Science Fact-o-Pedia is a treasure trove of fun facts for the inquiring mind. It’s perfect, whether you’re ... Read more

    R212,85

  • Il futuro della Terra è scritto nella Luna

    by Roberto Madrigali ...
    Edizione aggiornata con documenti importanti scientifici nati dalla collaborazione con il fisico e climatologo inglese Dr. Clive B.- Sotto i nostri occhi scorre la storia climatica del pianeta Terra fra alternanza di peruodi freddi e caldi. “Il signore dei venti e correnti” il jet Stream o corrente a getto della libera atmosfera, riveste un ruolo decisivo nei mutamenti climatici. Altri due ... Read more

    R132,79 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Compendium of Terminology in Analytical Chemistry

    Edited by D Brynn Hibbert ...
    How do you describe an analytical method, measure the purity of the new chemical that you have just synthesized, or report the proper units of measurement? For analytical chemists, the principal tool of the trade, or source of terms, is this book - the so-called Orange Book. First published in 1978, this latest edition takes into account the explosion of new analytical procedures and, at the same ... Read more

    R4 204,85

  • La migración laboral en Europa

    Crísis, políticas y movilidades en el case de latinoamericanos en España

    by Fabiola Pardo ...
    En Europa la migración laboral ha hecho un aporte fundamental al desarrollo industrial y económico, y ha sido un factor estratégico determinante de las transformaciones de los mercados laborales y de las formas de producción. En la primera década del siglo XXI esta migración aumentó en todo el mundo sin que se hayan producido procesos de reconocimiento político o social. La migración laboral en ... Read more

    R119,00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Die Entstehung der Arten durch Naturauslese

    oder die Erhaltung der begünstigten Rassen im Kampf ums Dasein (Premium Ebook)

    by Charles Darwin ...
    **** PREMIUM EBOOK (fürs digitale Lesen optimiert) ****Während ich als Naturforscher an Bord von Ihrer Majestät Schiff »Spürhund« war, wurde ich durch gewisse Vorkommnisse in der Verteilung des organischen Lebens in Südamerika und in den geologischen Beziehungen der gegenwärtigen Bewohnerschaft dieses Erdteils zu der vergangenen sehr in Erstaunen gesetzt. Ich hatte den Eindruck, als ob diese ... Read more

    R49,69 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Applied Mathematical and Physical Formulas

    by Vukota Boljanovic ...
    The new and revised version of this comprehensive pocket reference guide is ideal for anyone who deals with physics, chemistry, mathematics, finance, and computer systems and needs to review or quickly refresh their memory of what they studied in school. It covers the fundamentals of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and analytical geometry, and statistics, and presents the application ... Read more

    R993,13

  • Aproximación A Las Neuromatemáticas: El Cerebro Matemático

    by Juan Moisés De La Serna ...
    Mucho se ha hablado de las matemáticas en los últimos años sobre todo en cuanto a la necesidad de una educación aplicada a edades tempranas, por ejemplo en el caso de la economía, como forma de preparar a los menores para su futuro desempeño como ciudadano.Incluso se han producido mejoras en los procesos de aprendizaje relacionados con la incorporación de nuevas herramientas pedagógicas importadas ... Read more

    R82,93 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fisica: metodo scientifico e sistemi metrici

    by Simone Malacrida ...
    In questo libro sono presentati i seguenti argomenti di fisica di base:metodo scientifico e sue applicazionisistema metrico internazionale e definizione delle unità di misuraaltri sistemi metrici usati a livello applicativo ... Read more

    R66,31

  • Les visages de la réalité

    La mathématique du monde aux limites de la compréhension humaine

    by Barnabas Bartfai ...
    Translated by DeepL AI ...
    La physique a aujourd’hui prouvé que la réalité est loin d’être ce que nous en percevons. Mais qu’est-ce que nous voyons, et qu’est-ce qui existe réellement ?Ce livre vous entraîne dans un voyage de réflexion, où l’on découvre étape par étape à quel point la perception humaine déforme la réalité, et que le monde que nous expérimentons n’est pas identique à celui qui existe véritablement. Il ... Read more

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  • Smart Spaces and Places

    Edited by Ling Bian ...
    Smart technologies have advanced rapidly throughout our society (e.g. smart energy, smart health, smart living, smart cities, smart environment, and smart society) and across geographic spaces and places. Behind these "smart" developments are a number of seminal drivers, such as social media (e.g. Twitter), sensors (drones, wearables), smartphone apps, and computing infrastructure (e.g. cloud ... Read more

    R1 205,58

  • The New York Times Second Book of Science Questions and Answers

    225 New, Unusual, Intriguing, and Just Plain Bizarre Inquiries Into Everyday Scientific Mysteries

    by C. Claiborne Ray ...
    What would kill you if you fell into a black hole? Once people finally get to Mars, how will they get back? What makes the holes in Swiss cheese? Are there any carnivorous plants that are harmful to humans? Are there really caterpillars that scream to protect themselves? How do birds have sexual intercourse? Why don’t woodpeckers damage their brains? What is the function of ear wax? Why don’t you ... Read more

    R109,70

  • Space - Our Universe: Knowledge Encyclopedia For Children

    by Wonder House Books ...
    Ever looked up into the sky and wondered what’s out there in the universe? Do you often wonder how the Universe began? What does the Universe comprise of? This Encyclopaedia will answer these and more whys for you. Learning is made simpler with well-labelled diagrams and an extensive glossary of difficult words. Bonus: This book comes loaded with Isn’t It Amazing – a section of fun facts on each ... Read more

    R38,03

  • The Science of Breaking Bad

    by Dave Trumbore, Donna J. Nelson ...
    All the science in Breaking Bad—from explosive experiments to acid-based evidence destruction—explained and analyzed for authenticity.*Breaking Bad'*s (anti)hero Walter White (played by Emmy-winner Bryan Cranston) is a scientist, a high school chemistry teacher who displays a plaque that recognizes his “contributions to research awarded the Nobel Prize.” During the course of five seasons, Walt ... Read more

    R305,08