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This is a book that contains very few numbers. Instead, it is about meeting people who have opened my eyes.It was facts that helped him explain how the world works. But it was curiosity and commitment that made the late Hans Rosling, author of worldwide bestseller...
Editeur : Sceptre
Parution : 2020-11-05
Format(s) : ePub
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This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Michael Gordin, Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University.This thought-provoking, extensive conversation examines the strange case of Immanuel...
Editeur : Ideas Roadshow
Parution : 2020-10-01
Format(s) : ePub sans DRM
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For more than sixty years on the air, From Our Own Correspondent has been one of BBC Radio's flagship programmes. It takes listeners to parts of the world they've never been, and perhaps never would go in their lives: war zones, refugee camps, elite universities, space...
Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2020-06-11
Format(s) : ePub
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Explore the laws and theories of physics in this accessible introduction to the forces that shape our Universe, our planet, and our everyday lives.Using a bold, graphic-led approach The Physics Book sets out more than 80 key concepts and discoveries that have defined...
Editeur : Dk
Parution : 2020-03-05
Format(s) : ePub
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What does it take to be an inventor? Judging by the ingenious individuals who have come into The Life Scientific studio in the last eight years, there is no simple answer. Mathematicians, electricians, molecular biologists and mechanics can all transform lives. Some...
Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2019-11-14
Format(s) : ePub
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DNA. The double helix; the blueprint of life; and, during the early 1950s, a baffling enigma that could win a Nobel Prize. Everyone knows that James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the double helix. In fact, they clicked into place the last piece of a huge jigsaw...
Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2019-04-18
Format(s) : ePub
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An electrifying memoir of one woman's extraordinary effort to save her husband's life-and the discovery of a forgotten cure that has the potential to save millions more."A memoir that reads like a thriller." -New York Times Book Review"A fascinating and terrifying peek...
Editeur : Hachette Books
Parution : 2019-02-26
Format(s) : ePub
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The life and the story of one of the great astronomers !Among the ranks of the great astronomers it would be difficult to find one whose life presents more interesting features and remarkable vicissitudes than does that of Galileo Galilei.Discover a biography of the...
Editeur : Noblishing
Parution : 2019-01-25
Format(s) : ePub sans DRM
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A Nobel Prize-winning biologist tells the riveting story of his race to discover the inner workings of biology's most important molecule"Ramakrishnan's writing is so honest, lucid and engaging that I could not put this book down until I had read to the very...
Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2018-11-06
Format(s) : ePub
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Inspiring life stories from BBC Radio 4's hit series The Life Scientific'In showing non-scientists why science offers so many paths to discovery it has no equal' Gillian Reynolds, TelegraphBased on Jim Al-Khalili's ground-breaking interviews, The Life Scientific:...
Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2018-09-27
Format(s) : ePub
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Every physicist agrees quantum mechanics is among humanity's finest scientific achievements. But ask what it means, and the result will be a brawl. For a century, most physicists have followed Niels Bohr's Copenhagen interpretation and dismissed questions about the...
Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2018-05-31
Format(s) : ePub
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'Completely compelling and powerful, and hard to put down.' Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, prize-winning author of Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain- Who are we if our brain fails?- How do we think?- How do we feel?- How do we move, if we move at all? -...
Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2018-04-05
Format(s) : ePub
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"A thorough, illuminating exploration of the most consequential controversy raging in modern science." --New York Times Book ReviewAn Editor's Choice, New York Times Book ReviewLonglisted for PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science...
Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2018-03-20
Format(s) : ePub
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A dazzling group biography of the early twentieth-century thinkers who transformed the way the world thought about math and science Inspired by Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and Bertrand Russell and David Hilbert's pursuit of the fundamental rules of...
Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2017-12-05
Format(s) : ePub
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The definitive biography of the brilliant, charismatic, and very human physicist and innovator Enrico Fermi In 1942, a team at the University of Chicago achieved what no one had before: a nuclear chain reaction. At the forefront of this breakthrough stood Enrico Fermi....
Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2017-12-05
Format(s) : ePub
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Born into poverty in Japanese-occupied Taiwan, Ruey Yu overcame near-starvation during the Second World War. Destiny, however, had other plans for him: he was to become an award-winning biochemist, then the co-founder of what would soon become the multi-million-dollar...
Editeur : Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa
Parution : 2017-11-14
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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From the Nasa astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station – what it’s like out there and what it’s like now, back here. Enter Scott Kelly's fascinating world and dare to think of your own a little differently.As soon as you realize...
Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2017-10-19
Format(s) : ePub
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'Hugely enjoyable' - Spectator'A lucid, elegantly written and thought-provoking social and intellectual history' - Evening Standard'As a historian trying to put Darwin in the context of his time, there is surely no better biographer than Wilson' - The Times'A work of...
Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2017-09-07
Format(s) : ePub
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life of Albert Einstein in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the life and career of Albert Einstein. Einstein’s name has become synonymous with genius,...
Editeur : 50Minutes.com
Parution : 2017-08-11
Collection :
History
Format(s) : ePub sans DRM
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"Get off your phone and read Jess Kimball Leslie's funny book!" -- Andy Cohen, host of Bravo's Watch What Happens LiveILove My Computer Because My Friends Live in it is a hilarious memoir of growing up in the early days of the Internet and celebrating technology's role...
Editeur : Running Press Adult
Parution : 2017-04-25
Format(s) : ePub
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