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* * * Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books * * * FROM THE TEA-CUP TO THE JET ENGINE, STUFF MATTERS IS A UNIQUE, INSPIRING EXPLORATION OF HUMAN CREATIVITY. 'Enthralling. A mission to re-acquaint us with the wonders of the fabric that sustains our lives' Guardian 'I stayed up all night reading this book' Oliver Sacks ____________ Everything is made of something. The everyday objects: paper clips, the textiles that make your clothes and the cups you drink from. The extraordina...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2013-06-06 9,49 €

Full of spleen, this will be a hilarious, invigorating and informative journey through the world of Bad Science. When Dr Ben Goldacre saw someone on daytime TV dipping her feet in an 'Aqua Detox' footbath, releasing her toxins into the water, turning it brown, he thought he'd try the same at home. 'Like some kind of Johnny Ball cum Witchfinder General', using his girlfriend's Barbie doll, he gently passed an electrical current through the warm salt water. It turned brown. In his words: 'before m...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2008-12-07 Genre:Wissenschaft und Natur 7,99 €

What if life isn't just a part of the universe . . . what if it determines the very structure of the universe itself? The theory that blew your mind in  Biocentrism  and  Beyond Biocentrism  is back, with brand-new research revealing the startling truth about our existence. What is consciousness? Why are we here? Where did it all come from—the laws of nature, the stars, the universe? Humans have been asking these questions forever, but science hasn't succeeded in providing ...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2020-11-17 9,99 €

'A necessary book for our times. But also just great fun' Saul Perlmutter, Nobel Laureate The world is awash in b******t, and we're drowning in it. Politicians are unconstrained by facts. Science is conducted by press release. Start-up culture elevates hype to high art. These days, calling b******t is a noble act. Based on a popular course at the University of Washington, Calling B******t gives us the tools to see through the obfuscations, deliberate and careless, that dominate every realm of ou...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2020-08-04 Genre:Wissenschaft und Natur 9,49 €

Roundworld is in trouble again, and this time it looks fatal. Having created it in the first place, the wizards of Unseen Univeristy feel vaguely responsible for its safety. They know the creatures who lived there escaped the impending Big Freeze by inventing the space elevator - they even intervened to rid the planet of a plague of elves, who attempted to divert humanity onto a different time track. But now it's all gone wrong - Victorian England has stagnated and the pace of progress would emb...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2011-06-30 8,49 €

Over 150 of the world's leading scientists and thinkers offer their choice of the ideas, strategies and arguments that will help all of us understand our world, and its future, better. Includes contributions from: Richard Dawkins, Stephen Pinker, Daniel Dennett, Clay Shirky, Daniel Goleman, Sam Harris, Lee Smolin, Matt Ridley, Mark Henderson, David Rowan, Sir Martin Rees, Craig Venter, Brian Eno, Jaron Lanier and David Brooks . . . among others. With his organisation Edge.org, the literary agent...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2012-03-01 9,49 €

From Jim Holt, the New York Times bestselling author of Why Does the World Exist? , comes an entertaining and accessible guide to the most profound scientific and mathematical ideas of recent centuries in When Einstein Walked with Gödel : Excursions to the Edge of Thought . Does time exist? What is infinity? Why do mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down? In this scintillating collection, Holt explores the human mind, the cosmos, and the thinkers who’ve tried to encompass the latte...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2018-05-15 10,99 €

The fourth book in the Science of Discworld series, and this time around dealing with THE REALLY BIG QUESTIONS, Terry Pratchett’s brilliant new Discworld story Judgement Day is annotated with very big footnotes (the interleaving chapters) by mathematician Ian Stewart and biologist Jack Cohen, to bring you a mind-mangling combination of fiction, cutting-edge science and philosophy. Marjorie Daw is a librarian, and takes her job – and indeed the truth of words – very seriously. She doesn’t...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2013-04-11 8,49 €

Drawn from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, This Explains Everything will revolutionize your understanding of the world. What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"—The Guardian), posed to the world's most influential minds. Flowing from the horizons of physics, economics, psychology, neuroscience, and more, This Explains Everything presents 150 of the most surprising and brillian...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2013-01-22 Genre:Wissenschaft und Natur 9,99 €

An all-encompassing guide to skeptical thinking from podcast host and academic neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine Steven Novella and his SGU co-hosts, which Richard Wiseman calls "the perfect primer for anyone who wants to separate fact from fiction." It is intimidating to realize that we live in a world overflowing with misinformation, bias, myths, deception, and flawed knowledge. There really are no ultimate authority figures-no one has the secret, and there is no place to look ...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2018-10-02 10,99 €

In this pioneering book Rupert Sheldrake shows how science helps validate seven practices on which all religions are built, and which are part of our common human heritage: · Meditation · Gratitude · Connecting with nature · Relating to plants · Rituals · Singing and chanting · Pilgrimage and holy places. The effects of spiritual practices are now being investigated scientifically as never before, and many studies have shown that religious and spiritual practices generally make people hap...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2017-11-02 Genre:Wissenschaft und Natur 3,99 €

EU.L.E.N-SPIEGEL 1-2/2013: Hirngespinste Editorial: Post aus der Anstalt • Gehirnwäsche • Erzähl mir was vom Pferd • Kleinvieh macht auch Mist • Katz und Maus • Das Herodes-Bakterium  Sonderthema • 5-am-Tag-Kampagne: Es gärt  Facts & Artefacts • Der Tod lauert im Darm • Quicklebendige Plastiktütenwelt • Wenn der Eber nach Wein müffelt • Was Madame Gorilla gegen die Wechseljahre nascht Der EU.L.E.N-SPIEGEL ist ein Informationsdienst für alle, die mehr ...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2014-04-30 11,99 €

The acclaimed Science of Discworld centred around an original Pratchett story about the Wizards of Discworld. In it they accidentally witnessed the creation and evolution of our universe, a plot which was interleaved with a Cohen & Stewart non-fiction narrative about Big Science . In The Science of Discworld II our authors join forces again to see just what happens when the wizards meddle with history in a battle against the elves for the future of humanity on Earth. London is replaced by a ...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2011-06-30 6,99 €

Giulia Enders, jeune doctorante et nouvelle star allemande de la médecine, rend ici compte des dernières découvertes sur un organe sous-estimé. Elle explique le rôle que jouent notre “deuxième cerveau” et son microbiote (l’ensemble des organismes l’habitant) dans des problèmes tels que le surpoids, la dépression, la maladie de Parkinson, les allergies... Illustré avec beaucoup d’humour par la sœur de l’auteur, cet essai fait l’éloge d’un organe relégué dans le coin t...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2015-03-31 12,99 €

Pulitzer Prize–winning biologist Edward O. Wilson imparts the wisdom of his storied career to the next generation. Edward O. Wilson has distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, young and old. Reflecting on his coming-of-age in the South as a Boy Scout and a lover of ants and butterflies, Wilson threads these twenty-one letters, each richly illustrated, with autobiographical anecdotes that illuminate his career—both his successes and his failures—and his motivations for b...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2013-04-15 7,49 €

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND THE PERFECT READ FOR FANS OF UNNATURAL CAUSES What happens to your body after you have died? Fertilizer? Crash Test Dummy? Human Dumpling? Ballistics Practise? Life after death is not as simple as it looks. Mary Roach's Stiff lifts the lid off what happens to our bodies once we have died. Bold, original and with a delightful eye for detail, Roach tells us everything we wanted to know about this new frontier in medical science. Interweaving present-day explorations...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2012-09-06 9,49 €

Bessere Diagnosen und effizientere Therapien durch künstliche Intelligenz? Das große Thema: Wie sieht die Zukunft der Medizin aus und was bedeutet sie für die Patienten? Der Einsatz von Artificial Intelligence und Big Data in Diagnostik und Therapie hat das Potenzial, das Selbstverständnis der Mediziner in seinen Grundfesten zu erschüttern. Was über Jahrhunderte als ärztliche Kunst bezeichnet wurde, können Maschinen zum Teil schon jetzt besser: Krankheiten diagnostizieren, individuelle B...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2020-03-10 15,99 €

New York Times Bestseller A luminous companion to the phenomenal bestseller Astrophysics for People in a Hurry. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has attracted one of the world’s largest online followings with his fascinating, widely accessible insights into science and our universe. Now, Tyson invites us to go behind the scenes of his public fame by revealing his correspondence with people across the globe who have sought him out in search of answers. In this hand-picked collection of 101 le...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2019-10-08 8,49 €

Weighing in from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, today’s most forward-thinking minds explore the rise of “machines that think.” Stephen Hawking recently made headlines by noting, “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” Others, conversely, have trumpeted a new age of “superintelligence” in which smart devices will exponentially extend human capacities. No longer just a matter of science-fiction fantasy (2001, Blade Runner, The ...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2015-10-06 Genre:Wissenschaft und Natur 9,99 €

Welcome to the world of alternative medicine. Prince Charles is a staunch defender and millions of people swear by it; most UK doctors consider it to be little more than superstition and a waste of money. But how do you know which treatments really heal and which are potentially harmful? Now at last you can find out, thanks to the formidable partnership of Professor Edzard Ernst and Simon Singh. Edzard Ernst is the world's first professor of complementary medicine, based at Exeter University, wh...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2009-10-06 9,49 €

This interesting book allows us to explore Einstein's beliefs, philosophical ideas, and opinions on many subjects. In addition to these political perspectives, The World As I See It reveals the idealistic, spiritual, and witty side of this great intellectual as he approaches topics including 'Good and Evil', 'Religion and Science', 'Active Pacifism', 'Christianity and Judaism', and 'Minorities'. Including letters, speeches, articles, and essays written before 1935, this collection offers a compl...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2018-12-18 2,99 €

Touch by David J. Linden - The astonishing secrets of our senses, and how to harness them to change your personal and professional life Why can't we tickle ourselves? Why do footballers who hug score more goals? Why does holding a hot coffee make us feel more positively about people? Touch is the sense that makes us human. It defines our experiences, shapes our sense of self, and bonds us together. It is the first sense to start working in utero. If you are deprived of the sense of sight or hear...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2015-01-29 8,49 €

Zwei streitbare Denker haben gemeinsam ein leidenschaftliches Plädoyer gegen Zukunftsangst und Fatalismus, einen Aufruf zu aktivem Eingreifen geschrieben. Die Erwärmung der Welt ist ein globaler Notfall. Wir haben die Welt in einem Ausmaß verändert, dass dies nicht nur uns und unsere Gesundheit, sondern die gesamte Erde gefährdet. Das Einzige, was helfen kann, ist eine umfassende Transformation unserer Lebens- und Wirtschaftsweise. Dennoch gehen die meisten besorgten Menschen davon aus, das...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2022-03-01 12,99 €

Was ist ein Pferd, und warum üben Pferde eine solche Faszination auf Menschen aus? Jenny Friedrich-Freksa erkundet in ihrem Essay das Wesen von Pferden, ihre Neugier und Intelligenz, aber auch ihre Schönheit, ihre Sturheit und ihren Humor. Sie erzählt von ihren eigenen Erfahrungen – sie reitet seit ihrer Kindheit – und greift Erkenntnisse aus Verhaltensforschung und Kulturgeschichte auf. Lange waren Pferde eine Sache der Männer. Heute reiten vor allem Mädchen und Frauen. Warum ist das s...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2019-02-18 13,99 €

Una excitante radiografía de los temas más candentes de la ciencia en la actualidad. La ciencia es la aventura más apasionante que puedas emprender. En El ladrón de cerebros , Pere Estupinyà se infiltra en los principales laboratorios y centros de investigación del mundo con el objetivo de robar el conocimiento de los verdaderos héroes del siglo XXI -los científicos- y compartirlo con sus lectores. Así, a través de las amenas historias de este libro, terminarás familiarizado con los d...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2010-12-03 5,99 €

A collection of insightful and thought provoking essays from one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century A new edition of the most definitive collection of Albert Einstein's popular writings, gathered under the supervision of Einstein himself. The selections range from his earliest days as a theoretical physicist to his death in 1955; from such subjects as relativity, nuclear war or peace, and religion and science, to human rights, economics, and government.

Erscheinungsdatum: 1988-12-12 9,49 €

Brilliant but overlooked ideas you must know, as revealed by today’s most innovative minds  What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known? That is the question John Brockman, publisher of the acclaimed science salon Edge.org (“The world’s smartest website”—The Guardian), presented to 205 of the world’s most influential thinkers from across the intellectual spectrum—award-winning physicists, economists, psychologists, philosophers, novelists, artists, and more. ...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2018-01-16 Genre:Wissenschaft und Natur 9,99 €

This collection from scientist and Nobel Peace Prize winner highlights the achievements of a man whose career reshaped the world's understanding of quantum electrodynamics. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short works of Richard P. Feynman-from interviews and speeches to lectures and printed articles. A sweeping, wide-ranging collection, it presents an intimate and fascinating view of a life in science-a life like no other. From his ruminations on science ...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2005-04-06 Genre:Wissenschaft und Natur 10,99 €

Written by an industry professional, the book is a lucid explanation of Software Defined Networking (SDN) both for students as well as for decision makers in industry. It explains what SDN means to businesses and organizations so that leaders can make informed decisions. It is a comprehensive presentation of SDN technology, the solutions being proposed, the practical reasons for the solutions and the meaning of different technological terms with focus on capability and value. The information is ...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2013-06-16 8,99 €

Inhalt: Seine Schriften zur Wissenschaftslehre Roscher und Knies und die logischen Probleme der historischen Nationalökonomie I. Roschers "historische Methode". II. Knies und das Irrationalitätsproblem. III. Knies und das Irrationalitätsproblem. Die "Objektivität" sozialwissenschaftlicher und sozialpolitischer Erkenntnis Kritische Studien auf dem Gebiet der kulturwissenschaftlichen Logik I. Zur Auseinandersetzung mit Eduard Meyer. II. Objektive Möglichkeit und adäquate Veru...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2012-07-21 2,99 €

Described by Oliver Sacks as 'one of the best scientist-writers of our time', Robert M. Sapolsky here presents the human animal in all its quirkiness and diversity. In these remarkable essays, Sapolsky once again deploys his compassion and insights into the human condition to tell us who, why and how we are. Monkeyluv touches on themes such as sexuality, aggression, love, parenting, religion, ageing, and mental illness. He ponders such topics as our need to seek out beauty; why our preferences i...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2011-03-31 9,49 €

'If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.' John von Neumann Mathematics can tell you things about the world that can't be learned in any other way. This hugely informative and wonderfully entertaining Brain Shot answers a few essential questions about existence. It unravels the knotty, clarifies the conundrums and sheds light into dark corners. From winning the lottery, financial investment with Time Travelers and the we...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2010-01-26 12,99 €

For the first time in history, we are interacting with computers so sophisticated that we think they're human beings. This is a remarkable feat of human ingenuity, but what does it say about our humanity? Are we really no better at being human than the machines we've created? By mimicking our behaviour and conversation, computers have recently come within a single vote of passing the Turing Test, the widely accepted threshold at which a machine can be said to be 'thinking' or 'intelligent'. In t...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2011-05-05 9,49 €

Non ho paura di ammalarmi. Di cosa allora? Di tutto quello che il contagio può cambiare. Di scoprire che l'impalcatura della civiltà che conosco è un castello di carte. Ho paura dell'azzeramento, ma anche del suo contrario: che la paura passi invano, senza lasciarsi dietro un cambiamento. L'epidemia di Covid-19 si candida a essere l'emergenza sanitaria piú importante della nostra epoca. Ci svela la complessità del mondo che abitiamo, delle sue logiche sociali, politiche, economiche...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2020-03-26 6,99 €

Discover the universe's last unknowns—here are the unanswered questions that obsess "the world's finest minds" (The Guardian) Featuring a foreword by DANIEL KAHNEMAN, Nobel Prize-winning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow This is a little book of profound questions (only questions!)—unknowns that address the secrets of our world, our civilization, the meaning of life. Here are the deepest riddles that have fascinated, obsessed, and haunted the greatest thinkers of our time...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2019-06-04 8,99 €

Drawing from the horizons of science, today's leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking about—and expose the false fears everyone else is distracted by. What should we be worried about? That is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"—The Guardian), posed to the planet's most influential minds. He asked them to disclose something that, for scientific reasons, worries them—particularly scenarios that aren't on the popular radar yet...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2014-02-11 Genre:Wissenschaft und Natur 9,99 €

This is an account of the essential aspects of the new physics for those with little or no knowledge of mathematics or science. It describes current theories of quantum mechanics, Einstein's special and general theories of relativity and other speculations, alluding throughout to parallels with modern psychology and metaphorical abstractions to Buddhism and Taoism. The author has also written "The Seat of the Soul".

Erscheinungsdatum: 2012-12-31 14,99 €

Bachrach es Doctor en biología molecular y explica el funcionamiento del cerebro. A través de ello, da consejos y herramientas para ser más creativos y felices en el trabajo y en la vida. La neurociencia es clara: el cerebro aprende hasta el último día de vida. La creatividad puede expandirse. Tu mente, mediante la aplicación de las técnicas correctas, puede modificar la anatomía y estructura de tu cerebro. ÁgilMente es un libro sobre la habilidad para imaginar y ser más creativos. A t...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2012-09-01 6,99 €

A cutting-edge science book in the style of ‘Fermat’s Last Theorem’ and ‘Chaos’ from an exciting and accessible voice in popular science writing. Bio-inspiration is a form of engineering but not in the conventional sense. Extending beyond our established and preconceived notions, scientists, architects and engineers are looking at imitating nature by manufacturing 'wet' materials such as spider silk or the surface of the gecko's foot. The amazing power of the gecko's foot has long been...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2010-10-07 3,49 €

Uno de los misterios más fascinante de la física explicado por el flamante Premio Nobel, Sir Roger Penrose. Roger Penrose es probablemente el especialista en la teoría general de la relatividad más prestigioso del mundo y una de las mentes analíticas más originales de la actualidad. En este breve pero magistral texto, Penrose nos embarca en un extraordinario viaje por el espacio y el tiempo que nos permitirá entender las implicaciones de la existencia de uno de los fenómenos más singula...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2020-10-23 1,99 €

A mind-bending journey through some of the most weird and wonderful facts about our universe, vividly illuminating the hidden truths that govern our everyday lives. Fact: You could fit the whole human race in the volume of a sugar cube. Fact: The electrical energy in a single mosquito is enough to cause a global mass extinction. Fact: You age more quickly on the top floor than on the ground floor. So much of our world seems to make perfect sense, and scientific breakthroughs have helped us under...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2019-04-23 7,99 €

'Stop following the news until you've read Gemma Milne's persuasive analysis of the hype and b******t that distort our understanding of emerging science. As she shows, the starting point to grasping the genuine opportunities of AI, life sciences and climate tech is a healthy dose of critical thinking' David Rowan, founding editor of WIRED UK and author of Non-B******t Innovation: Radical Ideas from the World's Smartest Minds 'Couldn't be more timely. Fascinating and vitally important' Jamie Bart...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2020-04-23 Genre:Wissenschaft und Natur 3,99 €

Un entretenidísimo ejercicio de erudición cinematográfica, literaria y, cómo no, científica, a través de las principales leyes de la ciencia aplicadas a las obras maestras de la ciencia ficción. En un famoso episodio de Star Trek asistimos a una inusual partida de póker entre el androide Data y los hologramas de Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton y Stephen Hawking, el único que, pudo interpretarse a sí mismo. Como en la serie, en este libro comparten protagonismo ilustres científicos con p...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2019-03-04 8,99 €

The geeks will inherit the earth. With well over two hundred episodes and a dozen seasons, The Big Bang Theory is one of America’s favorite television series, bringing a new class of character to mainstream television: the science nerd. In spite of its evident popularity and influence in shaping public attitudes to science and scientists, there are relatively few books that explore the show’s culture and social dimension. The Science of The Big Bang Theory looks behind the comedy scenes and ...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2019-05-07 10,99 €

Voici l’ouvrage sur une des révolutions scientifiques les plus importantes de ces cinquante dernières années. Un livre qui va changer votre vie ! Jusqu’à ces dernières années, la science expliquait que nous étions programmés par notre  patrimoine génétique. Or, à la lumière de recherches récentes, les scientifiques revoient leur théorie. La nouvelle révolution en biologie, appelée épigénétique, montre que votre comportement quotidien – ce que vous mangez, l’exerci...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2018-03-07 7,49 €

The Principles of Scientific Management is a monograph published by Frederick Winslow Taylor in 1911. This influential monograph, which laid out the principles of scientific management, is a seminal text of modern organization and decision theory and has motivated administrators and students of managerial technique. Taylor was an American manufacturing manager, mechanical engineer, and then a management consultant in his later years. He is often called "The Father of Scientific Management". His ...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2016-05-18 Genre:Wissenschaft und Natur 0,99 €

Today's most visionary thinkers reveal the cutting-edge scientific ideas and breakthroughs you must understand. Scientific developments radically change and enlighten our understanding of the world -- whether it's advances in technology and medical research or the latest revelations of neuroscience, psychology, physics, economics, anthropology, climatology, or genetics. And yet amid the flood of information today, it's often difficult to recognize the truly revolutionary ideas that will have las...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2017-02-07 Genre:Wissenschaft und Natur 9,99 €

From the speed of light to moving mountains -- and everything in between -- Zoom explores how the universe and its objects move. If you sit as still as you can in a quiet room, you might be able to convince yourself that nothing is moving. But air currents are still wafting around you. Blood rushes through your veins. The atoms in your chair jiggle furiously. In fact, the planet you are sitting on is whizzing through space thirty-five times faster than the speed of sound. Natural motion dominate...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2014-06-24 10,99 €

What if everything in life could be reduced to a simple formula? What if numbers were able to tell us which partners we were best matched with – not just in terms of attractiveness, but for a long-term committed marriage? Or if they could say which films would be the biggest hits at the box office, and what changes could be made to those films to make them even more successful? Or even who out of us is likely to commit certain crimes, and when? This may sound like the world of science-fiction,...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2014-04-03 12,99 €

Ein Buch aus der Reihe Wissen & Leben Herausgegeben von Wulf Bertram Der epochale Evolutionsdisput im Club der toten Gelehrten Erben wir Eigenschaften, die unsere Eltern erworben haben und die sich als nützlich erwiesen haben? Oder Setzen sich bestimmte genetische Merkmale durch, weil sie einer natürlichen Selektion unterliegen? Seit die Diskussion um die Evolution durch die Ideen von Lamarck und Darwin im 19. Jahrhundert befeuert wurde, entschlüsseln Biologen, Genetiker, Paläontologen u...

Erscheinungsdatum: 2013-07-12 19,99 €