(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691235844)
From the award-winning author of Revolutionizing the Sciences, a monumental historical account of how we came to see the world through the lens of science Science is the basis of our assumptions about ourselves and our world, from ideas a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Pittsburgh Press, ISBN-13: 9780822948704)
Exotic drugs and spices, from tea to opium, were among the first fruits of European commercial expansion in the sixteenth century. By the eighteenth, many had become profitable products of the European empires that had spread across the globe. Often...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691233246)
A scientific adventure story that dramatizes how profoundly our oceans have changed over the past 150 years In December 1872, HMS Challenger embarked on the first round-the-world oceanographic expedition. Its goal: to shine a light for th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Aevo UTP, ISBN-13: 9781487567675)
The story of AI isn’t finished yet. The question is: how will you be part of it?With the unprecedented adoption of artificial intelligence and its far-reaching implications, people everywhere are witnessing the world change around them. Ar...Loe edasi...
The 21st centurys bestselling popular science book has now been fully revised and updated in Bill Brysons inimitable style to reflect the many advances in science since this book was first published in 2003. This journey through time an...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Pittsburgh Press, ISBN-13: 9780822967750)
Exotic drugs and spices, from tea to opium, were among the first fruits of European commercial expansion in the sixteenth century. By the eighteenth, many had become profitable products of the European empires that had spread across the globe. Often...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111330877)
Recent studies have underlined the importance of consulting different sources to trace global histories of diseases. However, due to a lack of critical editions of medical works, leprosy is poorly understood, and a wider interpretation of it as a hi...Loe edasi...
This volume provides a broad and comprehensive overview of the many ways in which pragmatism has influenced contemporary debates in philosophy of science....Loe edasi...
Reading Faces is the first book to discuss the historical contexts and theoretical underpinnings of the artificial intelligence systems (AIs) that identify individuals, or purport to ascribe emotions and characteristics to them based on their facial...Loe edasi...
Reading Faces is the first book to discuss the historical contexts and theoretical underpinnings of the artificial intelligence systems (AIs) that identify individuals, or purport to ascribe emotions and characteristics to them based on the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031995163)
This book explains in an accessible way how the concept of the photon was introduced by Einstein who also helped discover many of its properties, and how it interacted with many physical phenomena while revolutionizing the world of physics. Replete ...Loe edasi...
For fans of accessible and fun popular science comes an exploration of evolution’s quirkiest puzzles and most enduring mysteries. Why do cats live longer than dogs? Why do bees have yellow stripes? Why can we smell a skunk from a m...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: BBC Books, ISBN-13: 9781785949807)
Accompanying the 4-part documentary series from multi-award-winning filmmaker, James Bluemel. Its been 63 years since Yuri Gagarin became the first human to ever go into space. Since then, only 676 people have followed him up there. But n...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Wales Press, ISBN-13: 9781837723003)
Joseph Harris, elder brother of the methodist preacher Howell Harris, made important contributions to the sciences and public life of Great Britain in the eighteenth century. A protégé of Edmond Halley and an apprentice to globe and mapmakers, Harri...Loe edasi...
Why did South Asian physicians become essential to US health care starting in 1965?For more than 60 years, the United States has trained fewer physicians than it needs, relying instead on the economically expedient option of soliciti...Loe edasi...
A search for the meaning of one of natures greatest riddles: why do so many creatures transform? “How many creatures walking on this earth / Have their first being in another form?” the Roman poet Ovid asked two thousand years ago. He...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226722047)
A history of how the pursuit of growth has kept us from creating a more sustainable and just world. Most economists believe that growth is the surest path to better lives. This has proven to be one of humanity’s most powerful and dange...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526182968)
A cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain.There are turbines on the horizon. The blades whirl with metronomic rhythm. With each rotation, wind is transformed into electricity. An energy revolution is underway. Electric wind r...Loe edasi...
