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Shortlisted for the 2020 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book PrizeNamed a Best Book of 2020 by The Guardian * The Telegraph * The Times"One of America's most courageous young journalists" and the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2019-11-05
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This book tells the human story of one of man's greatest intellectual adventures - how it came to be understood that light travels at a finite speed, so that when we look up at the stars, we are looking back in time. And how the search for a God-given absolute frame of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-10-14
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In 1633 the Roman Inquisition condemned Galileo as a suspected heretic for defending the astronomical theory that the earth moves, and implicitly assuming the theological principle that Scripture is not scientific authority. This controversial event has sent ripples...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-26
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In 1633 the Roman Inquisition condemned Galileo as a suspected heretic for defending the astronomical theory that the earth moves, and implicitly assuming the theological principle that Scripture is not scientific authority. This controversial event has sent ripples...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-26
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This non-fiction short-form eBook features content which is adapted from the audiobook Harry Potter: A History of Magic – inspired by the British Library exhibition of the same name.
Well-known folkloric creatures like giants, dragons and merpeople, and lesser-known...
Editeur :
Pottermore Publishing
Parution :
2019-08-22
epub sans DRM
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Dieses kurze Sachbuch-E-Book ist an das Hörbuch Harry Potter: A History of Magic angelehnt, welches durch die gleichnamige Ausstellung in der British Library inspiriert wurde.
Bekannte Sagengestalten wie Riesen, Drachen oder Wassermenschen, aber auch weniger bekannte...
Editeur :
Pottermore Publishing
Parution :
2019-08-22
epub sans DRM
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Questo breve eBook di saggistica include contenuti adattati dall'audiolibro Harry Potter: A History of Magic, ispirato all'omonima mostra della British Library.
Le creature magiche, da quelle più comuni del folklore come giganti, draghi e sirene a bestie meno note...
Editeur :
Pottermore Publishing
Parution :
2019-08-22
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This unique book presents the story of the pioneering manufacturing company Ferranti Ltd. – producer of the first commercially-available computers – and of the nine end-user organisations who purchased these machines with government help in the period 1951 to 1957. The...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-07-06
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This is the first-ever English translation of Daniele Barbaro’s 1567 Italian translation of and commentary on Vitruvius’s Ten Books of Architecture, an encyclopaedic treatment of science and technology whose influence extended far beyond its day. Intended to both...
Editeur :
Birkhäuser
Parution :
2019-07-05
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Philosophers and poets in times past tried to figure out why the stainless moon "smoothly polished, like a diamond" in Dante's words, had stains. The agreed solution was that, like a mirror, it reflected the imperfect Earth. Today we smile, but it was a clever way to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-07-04
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Philosophers and poets in times past tried to figure out why the stainless moon "smoothly polished, like a diamond" in Dante's words, had stains. The agreed solution was that, like a mirror, it reflected the imperfect Earth. Today we smile, but it was a clever way to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-07-04
ePub
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This non-fiction short-form eBook features content which is adapted from the audiobook Harry Potter: A History of Magic – inspired by the British Library exhibition of the same name.
How to become invisible, to make someone fall in love with you, to transform into...
Editeur :
Pottermore Publishing
Parution :
2019-06-27
epub sans DRM
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Questo breve eBook di saggistica include contenuti adattati dall'audiolibro Harry Potter: A History of Magic, ispirato all'omonima mostra della British Library.
Diventare invisibili, far innamorare qualcuno, trasformarsi in un'altra creatura: sono tutte cose che, nel...
Editeur :
Pottermore Publishing
Parution :
2019-06-27
epub sans DRM
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Dieses kurze Sachbuch-E-Book ist an das Hörbuch Harry Potter: A History of Magic angelehnt, welches durch die gleichnamige Ausstellung in der British Library inspiriert wurde.
Zaubertränke werden schon seit Jahrtausenden gebraut – man stelle sich geheimnisvolle...
Editeur :
Pottermore Publishing
Parution :
2019-06-27
epub sans DRM
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Dieses kurze Sachbuch-E-Book ist an das Hörbuch Harry Potter: A History of Magic angelehnt, welches durch die gleichnamige Ausstellung in der British Library inspiriert wurde.
Unsichtbar werden, jemanden dazu bringen, sich in dich zu verlieben, sich in ein anderes...
Editeur :
Pottermore Publishing
Parution :
2019-06-27
epub sans DRM
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In the late nineteenth century, dreams became the subject of scientific study for the first time, after thousands of years of being considered a primarily spiritual phenomenon. Before Freud and the rise of psychoanalytic interpretation as the dominant mode of studying...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-13
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This posthumous publication attempts to answer the question of what moral code is the most reasonable. Philosophers often turn to consequentialism or deontological ethics to address this issue. As the author points out, each has valid arguments but each is unable to get...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-05-21
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Changes in the present challenge us to reinterpret the past, but historians have not yet come to grips with the convergence of computing, media, and communications technology. Today these things are inextricably intertwined, in technologies such as the smartphone and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-04-30
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Cambridge is now world-famous as a centre of science, but it wasn't always so. Before the nineteenth century, the sciences were of little importance in the University of Cambridge. But that began to change in 1819 when two youngCambridge fellows took a geological...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-02-15
ePub
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Cambridge is now world-famous as a centre of science, but it wasn't always so. Before the nineteenth century, the sciences were of little importance in the University of Cambridge. But that began to change in 1819 when two youngCambridge fellows took a geological...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-02-14
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