Libri più popolari in Italia●Scienza e tecnologia

"Sanno cosa compri. Sanno chi sono i tuoi amici. Sanno come manipolarti. Settanta like erano sufficienti per sapere di quella persona più di ciò che sapevano i suoi amici; centocinquanta like più di quello che sapevano i suoi genitori; trecento like più del suo partner. Oltre i trecento si era in grado di conoscere un individuo meglio di quanto conoscesse se stesso." Quando Brittany Kaiser , giovanissima consulente politica appena laureata in diritti umani e relazioni internazionali, si è s...

Data di rilascio : 2019-11-21 Genere:Biografie e memorie 7,99 €

La storia definitiva di Amazon e del suo ambizioso, intraprendente, controverso fondatore: Jeff Bezos. AMAZON.COM è nata inviando libri per posta e ha cavalcato la prima ondata dell'isteria dot-com. Ma il suo visionario fondatore Jeff Bezos non si accontentava di essere un libraio alla moda; voleva che Amazon offrisse un assortimento illimitato e una comodità senza pari, a prezzi più bassi di chiunque altro: voleva che diventasse il negozio globale. Per realizzare la sua grandiosa visione, ha...

Data di rilascio : 2019-11-08 11,99 €

A Major BBC Series Starring Ben Whishaw. The multi-million copy bestseller and Book of the Year at The National Book Awards. ‘Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen Fry Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more than you. Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and m...

Data di rilascio : 2017-09-07 Genere:Biografie e memorie 5,99 €

«Ciò che accomuna tutte le persone di cui presto farete la conoscenza è una capacità rara eppure essenziale in uno scienziato: l’abilità di vedere le cose che ci circondano, in particolare le straordinarie manifestazioni della vita, prestando loro un’attenzione partecipe». (Stefano Mancuso) Storie di vita esemplari, aneddoti, esperimenti e ricerche. Naturalisti, botanici, genetisti, filosofi, esploratori che hanno rivoluzionato la nostra idea del mondo vegetale in cinque secoli di stup...

Data di rilascio : 2018-01-29 Genere:Biografie e memorie 9,99 €

La più grande avventura del secolo scorso: la folle, intensa e appassionante corsa alla conquista dello spazio e della Luna, il mondo a noi più vicino ma anche incredibilmente lontano, orbitando a oltre 380.000 km dalla Terra. Chi meglio del comandante della missione che ha portato gli ultimi uomini sul nostro satellite naturale può raccontare gli eventi straordinari culminati nei moduli che sono discesi sul suolo lunare e nei rover che ne hanno percorso la superficie? Eugene Cernan, assieme ...

Data di rilascio : 2018-09-07 Genere:Biografie e memorie 9,99 €

'Enthralling' GUARDIAN 'Incredibly absorbing ... astonishingly candid' Bill Bryson Winner of the PEN Ackerley Prize and the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Literature Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award; Duff Cooper Prize; Wellcome Book Prize; Guardian First Book Award; and Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut through the stuff that...

Data di rilascio : 2014-03-13 Genere:Biografie e memorie 5,49 €

Back on the earth after three spaceflights, Chris Hadfield's captivating memoir An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth reveals extraordinary stories from his life as an astronaut, and shows how to make the impossible a reality. Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4,000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss army knife, disposed of a live snake while piloting a plane, been temporarily blinded while clingi...

Data di rilascio : 2013-10-29 Genere:Biografie e memorie 5,99 €

Il primo incarico di Massimo Ammaniti al Reparto dei minori irrecuperabili dell’Ospedale Psichiatrico Santa Maria della Pietà a Roma durò un giorno. L’orrore dei bambini che lì erano rinchiusi – confinati nelle sorveglianze, spesso seminudi, legati ai letti o ai termosifoni, abbandonati dalle famiglie – fu tale da essere insostenibile. Tornò sei anni dopo, nel 1972, per ridare a quei bambini, considerati irrecuperabili, una vita dignitosa. In due anni intensi e drammatici combatté g...

Data di rilascio : 2022-09-07 Genere:Biografie e memorie 9,99 €

NOMINATED FOR SIX OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, SUPPORTING ACTOR AND SUPPORTING ACTRESS . . . Aged just five, Saroo Brierley lost all contact with his family in India, after waiting at a train station for his brother who never returned. Discover the inspiring, true story behind the film, Lion. This is the heart breaking and original tale of the lost little boy who found his way home twenty-five years later. ----------------------------------- As a five-year old in India, I got lost on a train....

Data di rilascio : 2017-01-12 Genere:Biografie e memorie 8,49 €

La comunicazione sulle possibili attività spionistiche di Bruno Pontecorvo, spedita da Washington, venne intercettata da Kim Philby, un agente inglese che agiva come spia per i sovietici, nel luglio del 1950. Sei settimane più tardi, Pontecorvo, un fisico di Harwell, il laboratorio di fisica nucleare del Regno Unito, sparì senza lasciare traccia all'età di 37 anni, proprio qualche mese dopo la condanna della spia atomica Klaus Fuchs, un suo collega. Quando ricomparve, cinque anni più tardi,...

Data di rilascio : 2016-07-05 10,99 €

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game , starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated gay liberation by decades--all before his suicide at age forty-one. This New York Times –bestselling biography of the founder of computer science, w...

Data di rilascio : 2014-11-10 Genere:Biografie e memorie 14,99 €

An Unquiet Mind is a definitive examination of manic depression from both sides: doctor and patient, the healer and the healed. A classic memoir of enormous candour and courage, it teems with the wit and wisdom of its writer, Dr Kay Redfield Jamison. With an introduction by Andrew Solomon, writer and lecturer on psychology and culture. 'It stands alone in the literature of manic depression for its bravery, brilliance and beauty.' – Oliver Sacks I was used to my mind being my best friend. Now, ...

Data di rilascio : 2014-12-15 Genere:Biografie e memorie 5,99 €

'No other person who has flown in space has captured the experience so vividly' - New York Times Book Review In July 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon. Fifty years later, it is still one of the greatest achievements in human history. In this remarkable memoir, Michael Collins conveys, in a very personal way, the drama, beauty, and humour of that adventure. He also traces his development from his first flight experiences in the air ...

Data di rilascio : 2019-06-13 Genere:Biografie e memorie 8,49 €

Innovatore. Anticonformista. Geniale. Come Steve Jobs ha rivoluzionato il mondo. Una splendida guida illustrata alla vita e all'operato di uno dei più influenti innovatori del Ventunesimo secolo. Questa biografia grafica, ricchissima di informazioni e curiosità, esplora lo straordinario talento e la genialità di Steve Jobs attraverso schede e illustrazioni originali di grande impatto visivo. Dagli esordi come venditore, che posero le basi per il suo successo, alla competizione con Bill Gates ...

Data di rilascio : 2019-09-10 Genere:Biografie e memorie 12,99 €

I, WOZ offers readers a unique glimpse into the offbeat and brilliant but ethical mind that conceived the Macintosh. After 25 years avoiding the public eye, Steve Wozniak reveals the full story of the Apple computer, from its conception to his views on the iconic cult status it has achieved today. In June 1975 Steve's curiosity and determination inspired him to build a computer, the first Apple. Six months later, he sold the machine, and for the self-professed 'engineer's engineer', success was ...

Data di rilascio : 2013-05-09 Genere:Biografie e memorie 3,99 €

The number one Sunday Times bestseller in a new festive package, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas is the perfect stocking filler from the author of multi-million-copy bestseller This is Going to Hurt – now a major BBC TV series. Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat . . . but 1.4 million NHS staff are heading off to work. In this perfect present for anyone who has ever set foot in a hospital, Adam Kay delves back into his diaries for a hilarious, horrifying and sometimes heartbreak...

Data di rilascio : 2019-10-17 Genere:Biografie e memorie 3,99 €

'Frank Tallis brings a lifetime's clinical experience and wise reflection to a condition that, by its own strange routes, leads us into the very heart of love itself. This is a brilliant, compelling book' Ian McEwan Love is a great leveller. Everyone wants love, everyone falls in love, everyone loses love, and everyone knows something of love's madness. But the experience of obsessive love is no trivial matter. In the course of his career psychologist Dr Frank Tallis has treated many unusual pat...

Data di rilascio : 2018-06-07 Genere:Biografie e memorie 2,49 €

Oliver Sacks died in August 2015 at his home in Greenwich Village, surrounded by his close friends and family. He was 82. He spent his final days doing what he loved: playing the piano, swimming, enjoying smoked salmon – and writing . . . As Dr Sacks looked back over his long, adventurous life his final thoughts were of gratitude. In a series of remarkable, beautifully written and uplifting meditations, in Gratitude Dr Sacks reflects on and gives thanks for a life well lived, and expresses his...

Data di rilascio : 2015-11-19 Genere:Biografie e memorie 5,99 €

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. An unorthodox guide to making things worth making, from 'the father of the iPod and iPhone' and the creator of Nest. Everyone deserves a mentor. For every career crisis, every fork in the road, you need someone to talk to. Someone who's been there before, who knows exactly how wobbly and conflicted you feel, who can give it to you straight: Here's how to think about choosing a job. Here's how to be a better manager. Here's how to approach design. Here's how to star...

Data di rilascio : 2022-05-03 Genere:Biografie e memorie 14,99 €

From the New York Times' Tripp Mickle, the dramatic, untold story inside Apple after the passing of Steve Jobs by following his top lieutenants—Jony Ive, the Chief Design Officer, and Tim Cook, the COO-turned-CEO—and how the fading of the former and the rise of the latter led to Apple losing its soul. Steve Jobs called Jony Ive his “spiritual partner at Apple.” The London-born genius was the second-most powerful person at Apple and the creative force who most embodies Jobs’s spiri...

Data di rilascio : 2022-05-03 Genere:Biografie e memorie 24,99 €

Why would a talented young woman enter into a torrid affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death? Through five lengthy hospital stays, endless therapy, and the loss of family, friends, jobs, and all sense of what it means to be "normal," Marya Hornbacher lovingly embraced her anorexia and bulimia -- until a particularly horrifying bout with the disease in college put the romance of wasting away to rest forever. A vivid, honest, and emotionally wrenching memoir, Wasted is the story of one woman's t...

Data di rilascio : 2009-03-17 Genere:Biografie e memorie 10,99 €

Fondatore effettivo della fisica moderna, Galileo Galilei ha posto le basi per lo sviluppo della Rivoluzione Scientifica nel XVII secolo.  Fin da ragazzo, curioso e intraprendente, ha cercato di indagare la vera essenza dei fenomeni naturali. Divulgò e fu promotore del metodo scientifico, sostenne la sperimentazione e la pratica induttiva come unico vero mezzo per sbrogliare con precisione e criterio quella matassa di misteri che è la Natura.  La sua sete di conoscenza lo spinse a me...

Data di rilascio : 2018-11-05 Genere:Biografie e memorie 1,99 €

Success is a by-product of well-being. "To be able to focus and give your maximum, it is important to have the right people around you. Aki is certainly one of these people. He is honest, calm, loyal and independent... All characteristics that define an ideal working relationship." – Sebastian Vettel, a four-time Formula 1 champion The Core is a unique story from the top of the Formula 1 world, where Aki Hintsa, a Finnish F1 coach and a doctor, has for years guided drivers towards success, but...

Data di rilascio : 2016-04-14 2,49 €

The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game , starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley Alan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War. Taken on by British Intelligence in 1938, as a shy young Cambridge don, he combined brilliant logic with a flair for engineering. In 1940 his machines were breaking the Enigma-enciphered messages of Nazi Germany’s air force. He then headed the penetration of the super-secure U-boa...

Data di rilascio : 2012-11-30 Genere:Biografie e memorie 9,49 €

'A monumental achievement - one of the great scientific biographies.' Michael Frayn The Strangest Man is the Costa Biography Award-winning account of Paul Dirac, the famous physicist sometimes called the British Einstein. He was one of the leading pioneers of the greatest revolution in twentieth-century science: quantum mechanics. The youngest theoretician ever to win the Nobel Prize for Physics, he was also pathologically reticent, strangely literal-minded and legendarily unable to comm...

Data di rilascio : 2009-01-22 Genere:Biografie e memorie 11,99 €

Nel novembre 2018 l’astrofisico Federico Nati parte per una missione in Antartide con unteam internazionale. La missione è rischiosa e ambiziosa: spedire nella stratosfera un telescopio di tre tonnellate per studiare la nascita delle stelle e le origini del cosmo. Gli scienziati combattono contro le difficoltà del lavoro sperimentale, amplificate dalla ostilità dell’ambiente polare, per portare a compimento l’esperimento su cui hanno scommesso anni di lavoro e carriera. Federico Nati ra...

Data di rilascio : 2019-09-19 Genere:Biografie e memorie 9,99 €

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018 Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson. Precision is the key to everything. It is an integral, unchallenged and essential component of our modern social, mercantile, scientific, mechanical and intellectual landscapes. The items we value in our daily lives – a camera, phone, compute...

Data di rilascio : 2018-05-08 Genere:Biografie e memorie 6,99 €

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a fascinating mix of memoir and science, telling the story of how one woman’s cells have saved countless lives. Now an HBO film starring Oprah Winfrey & Rose Byrne. ‘No dead woman has done more for the living . . . A fascinating, harrowing, necessary book.’ – Hilary Mantel, Guardian Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells – taken without her knowledge – became a multi...

Data di rilascio : 2011-01-07 Genere:Biografie e memorie 4,99 €

This is not a new book but a specially adapted version of Adam Kay's bestseller This is Going to Hurt for Quick Reads. These short books are perfect for adults who are discovering reading for pleasure for the first time. Welcome to the life of a junior doctor. You work 97 hours a week. You make life and death decisions. You are often covered in blood (or worse) from head to toe. And the hospital parking meter earns more money than you do. Adam Kay's diary was written in secret after long days, s...

Data di rilascio : 2020-02-20 Genere:Biografie e memorie 0,49 €

'Sensational' SUNDAY TIMES NO. BESTSELLER 'Extraordinary...both exhilarating and alarming...fascinating' DAILY MAIL 'Wonderful...a testament to the tenacity of the human spirit' FINANCIAL TIMES Henry Marsh has spent four decades operating on the human brain. In this searing and provocative memoir following his retirement from the NHS, he reflects on the experiences that have shaped his career and life, gaining a deeper understanding of what matters to us all in the end.

Data di rilascio : 2017-05-04 Genere:Biografie e memorie 2,99 €

This book of thoroughly engaging essays from one of today's most prodigious innovators provides a uniquely personal perspective on the lives and achievements of a selection of intriguing figures from the history of science and technology. Weaving together his immersive interest in people and history with insights gathered from his own experiences, Stephen Wolfram gives an ennobling look at some of the individuals whose ideas and creations have helped shape our world today.  From his recolle...

Data di rilascio : 2016-07-07 10,99 €

*A Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller* 'A deeply reported and business-savvy chronicle of Tesla's wild ride' --Walter Isaacson 'A masterclass in narrative journalism' --Bradley Hope 'Exemplary' -- The Times 'An exceptional work' -- Washington Post Inside the outrageous, come-from-behind story of Elon Musk and Tesla's bid to build the world's greatest car and the race to drive the future. Elon Musk is among the most controversial titans of Silicon Valley. To some he's a genius and a visionar...

Data di rilascio : 2021-08-05 Genere:Biografie e memorie 9,49 €

'A tale of Machiavellian plots and coups d'etat, it's just all so gripping' Chris Evans, BBC Radio 2 THE ULTIMATE 21ST CENTURY BUSINESS STORY Since 2006, Twitter has grown from the accidental side project of a failing internet start-up, to a global icon that by 2013 had become an $11.5bn business. But the full story of Twitter's hatching has never been told before. In his revelatory new book, New York Times journalist Nick Bilton takes readers behind the scenes of Twitter as it grew at exponenti...

Data di rilascio : 2013-11-05 Genere:Biografie e memorie 3,99 €

Uncle Tungsten radiates all the delight and wonder of a boy’s adventures, and is an unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary young mind. Oliver Sacks evokes, with warmth and wit, his upbringing in wartime England. He tells of the large science-steeped family who fostered his early fascination with chemistry. There follow his years at boarding school where, though unhappy, he developed the intellectual curiosity that would shape his later life. And we hear of his return to London, an emotiona...

Data di rilascio : 2011-06-16 Genere:Biografie e memorie 5,99 €

As Aristotle understood it, ’there is no great genius without a mixture of madness’ and he may well have had a point: Einstein routinely forgot his way home when out walking the streets of Vienna, Nietzsche wound up in an insane asylum and Bobby Fischer, the chess prodigy, now scrambles around the world, seeking residency in any country reckless enough to let him through immigration. Simon Philips Norton, the subject of Genius in my Basement, is not mad – not by a long shot – but he is c...

Data di rilascio : 2011-09-01 Genere:Biografie e memorie 6,49 €

By his early thirties, Paul Allen was a world-famous billionaire-and that was just the beginning. In 2007 and 2008, Time named Paul Allen, the cofounder of Microsoft, one of the hundred most influential people in the world. Since he made his fortune, his impact has been felt in science, technology, business, medicine, sports, music, and philanthropy. His passion, curiosity, and intellectual rigour - combined with the resources to launch and support new initiatives-have literally changed the worl...

Data di rilascio : 2011-04-28 Genere:Biografie e memorie 9,49 €

From the Wall Street Journal’s Tripp Mickle, the dramatic, untold story inside Apple after the passing of Steve Jobs by following his top lieutenants—Jony Ive, the Chief Design Officer, and Tim Cook, the COO-turned-CEO—and how the fading of the former and the rise of the latter led to Apple losing its soul. Steve Jobs called Jony Ive his “spiritual partner at Apple.” The London-born genius was the second-most powerful person at Apple and the creative force who most embodies Jobs...

Data di rilascio : 2022-05-12 Genere:Biografie e memorie 21,99 €

A FINANCIAL TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR An exhilarating new biography of John von Neumann: the lost genius who invented our world 'A sparkling book, with an intoxicating mix of pen-portraits and grand historical narrative. Above all it fizzes with a dizzying mix of deliciously vital ideas. . . A staggering achievement' Tim Harford The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Self-replicating moon bases and nuclear weapons. All...

Data di rilascio : 2021-10-07 Genere:Biografie e memorie 9,49 €

A gripping account of how a major air disaster was averted, by the captain and former Top Gun pilot Instinctively, I release my pressure on the sidestick. Out of my subconscious, a survival technique from a previous life emerges: Neutralise! I'm not in control so I must neutralise controls. I never imagined I'd use this part of my military experience in a commercial airliner ... On routine flight QF72 from Singapore to Perth on 7 October 2008, the primary flight computers went rogue, causing the...

Data di rilascio : 2019-06-01 Genere:Biografie e memorie 11,99 €

A powerful and intensely moving memoir by an NHS surgeon who volunteered in war zones, operating under the most extreme circumstances. ‘Brave, compassionate and inspiring – it left me in floods of tears’ – Adam Kay, author of This Is Going to Hurt For more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with the NHS to volunteer in some of the world’s most dangerous war zones. From Sarajevo under siege in 1993, to clandestine hos...

Data di rilascio : 2019-02-21 Genere:Biografie e memorie 8,99 €

With an introduction by author of The Tidal Zone , Sarah Moss Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells – taken without her knowledge – became a multimillion-dollar industry and one of the most important tools in medicine. Yet Henrietta’s family did not learn of her ‘immortality’ until more than twenty years after her death, with devastating consequences . . . Rebecca Skloot’s fascinating account is the story of ...

Data di rilascio : 2019-03-07 Genere:Biografie e memorie 5,99 €

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An adrenaline-fuelled exposé of life inside the tech bubble, Chaos Monkeys lays bare the secrets, power plays and lifestyle excesses of the visionaries, grunts, sociopaths, opportunists and money cowboys who are revolutionising our world. Written by startup CEO and industry provocateur Antonio García Martínez, this is Liar’s Poker meets The Social Network . Computer engineers use ‘chaos monkey’ software to wreak havoc and test system robustness. Similarly, tech...

Data di rilascio : 2016-06-30 Genere:Biografie e memorie 11,99 €

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 programs, mass media and public education, universities and government propaganda, the world has been sys...

Data di rilascio : 2014-11-09 7,99 €

Bend, Not Break chronicles Ping Fu's journey from China's work camps to top CEO. 'Bamboo is flexible, bending with the wind but never breaking. It suggests resilience, meaning that we have the ability to bounce back even from the most difficult times' -Ping Fu's Shanghai papa Ping Fu is one of the few women running a tech company in the US. But her story begins long before. Born on the eve of China's Cultural Revolution, she was separated from her family at the age of eight. She grew up fighting...

Data di rilascio : 2012-12-31 Genere:Biografie e memorie 9,49 €

Erwin Schrödinger was an Austrian physicist famous for his contribution to quantum physics. He won the Nobel Prize in 1933 and is best known for his thought experiment of a cat in a box, both alive and dead at the same time, which revealed the seemingly paradoxical nature of quantum mechanics. Schrödinger was working at one of the most fertile and creative moments in the whole history of science. By the time he started university in 1906, Einstein had already published his revolutionary papers...

Data di rilascio : 2012-03-29 Genere:Biografie e memorie 9,99 €

Few lives of great men offer so much interest - and so many mysteries - as the life of Charles Darwin, the greatest figure of nineteenth-century science, whose ideas are still inspiring discoveries and controversies more than 100 years after his death. Yet, only with the publication of Voyaging , the first volume of this acclaimed biography, do we have a truly vivid and comprehensive picture of Darwin as a man and a scientist. The second and final volume of Janet Browne's biography of Darwin - T...

Data di rilascio : 2010-02-23 Genere:Biografie e memorie 17,99 €

Pre-order UNDOCTORED: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients This is Going to Hurt was the publishing phenomenon of the century, read by many millions, loved by at least fifty of them, and adapted into a major TV series. But it was only part of the story. By turns hilarious, heartbreaking and humbling, Undoctored is about what happens when a doctor hangs up his scrubs, but medicine refuses to let go of him. It's about an extraordinary medical school education. It's about opening old wounds...

Data di rilascio : 2022-09-15 Genere:Biografie e memorie 10,99 €

«Perché mai? Insieme siamo una sola pietra! Basta e avanza il cognome di famiglia, anche io sono una Einstein». Fu questa la risposta di Mileva Marić Einstein a Conrad Habicht quando le chiese perché non firmasse anche lei l'articolo  scritto insieme.   Mileva non lottò mai per i suoi diritti sul lavoro scientifico realizzato con Albert Einstein, né durante il loro matrimonio e né successivamente, quando divorziarono.  Il suo destino, i suoi sogni e la sua ambizione s...

Data di rilascio : 2018-01-10 6,99 €

Widely considered the greatest genius of all time, Albert Einstein revolutionised our understanding of the cosmos with his general theory of relativity and helped to lead us into the atomic age. Yet in the final decades of his life he was also ignored by most working scientists, his ideas opposed by even his closest friends. This stunning downfall can be traced to Einstein's earliest successes and to personal qualities that were at first his best assets. Einstein's imagination and self-confidenc...

Data di rilascio : 2016-09-29 Genere:Biografie e memorie 3,99 €

„Dieses gehört zu der Handvoll Bücher, die für mich universell sind. Ich empfehle es wirklich jedem.“ ANN PATCHETT Was macht das eigene Leben lebenswert? Was tun, wenn die Lebensleiter keine weiteren Stufen in eine vielversprechende Zukunft bereithält? Was bedeutet es, ein Kind zu bekommen, neues Leben entstehen zu sehen, während das eigene zu Ende geht? Bewegend und mit feiner Beobachtungsgabe schildert der junge Arzt und Neurochirurg Paul Kalanithi seine Gedanken über die ganz große...

Data di rilascio : 2016-04-11 Genere:Biografie e memorie 8,99 €