History 100

Che cosa ha prodotto la scienza italiana nei centocinquant'anni dell'Unità? Non è difficile rispondere. Bastano alcuni esempi, tra i tanti raccontati in questo libro, per dire quanto l'Italia abbia ……続きを見る

Esotismo, spirito d'avventura, sete di conoscenza e atmosfere che ricordano i romanzi di Emilio Salgari. A cavallo tra Ottocento e Novecento, in piena epoca coloniale, le zone più selvagge e inesplo……続きを見る

«Le idee audaci sono pedoni mossi in avanti su una scacchiera. Possono essere eliminate, ma possono anche dare inizio a un gioco vincente». Questa citazione di Goethe apre il libro di Michael Brooks……続きを見る

Chi è Norbert Wiener? Pochi lo sanno, eppure ha cambiato le nostre vite: ci ha fornito gli strumenti che utilizziamo per muoverci nel nostro tempo intricato e complesso; senza di lui non esisterebbe……続きを見る

Julia Ward Howe Award Finalist NBC News Top Science and Tech Books of the Year” selection Scientific American/FSG Favorite Science Books of the Year” selection Nature.com Top Reads of the Year” s……続きを見る

"America's most interesting and important essayist." ーEric Kandel, Nobel Prize–winning author of The Age of Insight "[Gerald Weissmann] bridges the space between science and the humanities, and par……続きを見る

"Exhaustively detailed yet eminently readable, this is an important book."Publishers Weekly, starred review "Cassidy does not so much exculpate Heisenberg as explain him, with a transparency that ma……続きを見る

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year and Scientific American Book Club selection Moreno pulls apart the debates on eugenics, abortion, end-of-life decisions, embryonic stem-cell research, reprodu……続きを見る

“One of the best critiques of current K-12 mathematics education I have ever seen, written by a first-class research mathematician who elected to devote his teaching career to K-12 education.” ーKei……続きを見る

A Selection of the Scientific American, History, and BOMC2 Book Clubs An in-depth look at the anatomy and history of feet reveals their often overlooked importance in human evolution, medicine and ……続きを見る

Cultural accounts of scientific ideas and practices have increasingly come to be welcomed as a corrective to previousーand still widely heldーtheories of scientific knowledge and practices as univer……続きを見る

An international community of specialists reinvented the propeller during the Aeronautical Revolution, a vibrant period of innovation in North America and Europe from World War I to the end of World……続きを見る

At the heart of quantum mechanics lies the wave function, a powerful but mysterious mathematical object which has been a hot topic of debate from its earliest stages. Covering much of the recent deb……続きを見る

In this Brief, Joe Jeffers uncovers the life and works of two-time Nobel Laureate Frederick Sanger. Following Sanger’s early life to retirement, Jeffers describes how this celebrated British biochem……続きを見る

The Handbook of Communication History addresses central ideas, social practices, and media of communication as they have developed across time, cultures, and world geographical regions. It attends t……続きを見る

This book argues that we can only understand transformations of nature studies in the Scientific Revolution if we take seriously the interaction between practitioners (those who know by doing) and s……続きを見る

This collection offers a new understanding of the epistemology of measurement. The interdisciplinary volume explores how measurements are produced, for example, in astronomy and seismology, in studi……続きを見る

First published in 1922, this book represents the first attempt to popularise the more accessible aspects of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Eschewing the mathematical components tha……続きを見る

The fascinating story of North Atlantic right whalesーfrom their evolutionary origin, through a thousand-year history of relentless pursuit by whalers, to ongoing efforts to rescue them from the bri……続きを見る

Science is the great intellectual adventure, but can also be an instrument of profit, power, and privilege. Wrongly used, it might yet make the twenty-first century our last. To make sense of this, ……続きを見る

A History of Science in Society is a concise overview that introduces complex ideas in a non-technical fashion. Ede and Cormack trace the history of the changing place of science in society and expl……続きを見る

A History of Science in Society is a concise overview that introduces complex ideas in a non-technical fashion. Ede and Cormack trace the history of the changing place of science in society and expl……続きを見る

This book restores the concept of topology to its rhetorical roots to assist scholars who wish not just to criticize power dynamics, but also to invent alternatives. Topology is a spatial rather tha……続きを見る

This biography sheds new light on the life and work of physicist Ettore Majorana (including unpublished contributions), as well as on his mysterious disappearance in March 1938. Majorana is held by ……続きを見る

The essays in Strange Science examine marginal, fringe, and unconventional forms of scientific inquiry, as well as their cultural representations, in the Victorian period. Although now relegated to ……続きを見る

A selection of the Scientific American book club Recommended by MSNBC, Los Angeles Times, & American Association for the Advancement of Science’s SB&F magazine This wonderful scientific memoir capt……続きを見る

This revealing work examines an approach from ancient astronomy to what was then a particularly important question, namely that of understanding the relationship between the position in the ecliptic……続きを見る

Space and time on earth are regulated by the prime meridian, 0°, which is, by convention, based at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. But the meridian’s location in southeast London is not a simple l……続きを見る

This volume contains essays that examine the optical works of Giambattista Della Porta, an Italian natural philosopher during the Scientific Revolution. Coverage also explores the science and techno……続きを見る

Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Albert Einstein, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo. En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá: • Comprende……続きを見る