BBC Radio 4's celebrated THE LIFE SCIENTIFIC has featured some of the world's most renowned experts in the field of deadly viruses. The interviews make sobering reading, a reminder of all the deadly……続きを見る
What does it take to be an inventor?
Judging by the ingenious individuals who have come into The Life Scientific studio in the last eight years, there is no simple answer. Mathematicians, electricia……続きを見る
著者:Anna Weltman
出版社: Johns Hopkins University Press
発売日: 2020年09月01日
Explore the hidden powers of math that shape us, influencing everything from our sense of justice to our perception of beauty.
Archaeologists decoding ancient messages. Epidemiologists analyzing the……続きを見る
Lungo via Tiburtina, a Roma, a ridosso della borgata di San Basilio, sorge quella che è stata la prima fabbrica a produrre penicillina in Italia, un tempo tra le più grandi in Europa, prima di trasf……続きを見る
From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked, their stories lost, distorted, or actively suppressed. Forces of Nature……続きを見る
A surprising investigation of a scientific instrument long at the pulse of medicine.
This book explores the colorful past, present, and future of an instrument that is, quite literally, close to our……続きを見る
Wojna utkwiła w świadomości naszych przodków. Dziś przeżywamy jej zdarzenia sami, jest tak blisko, że nas dotyczy… Książka to relacja z pierwszych dni wojny.
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Książka ma formę eseistyczną, zawiera nowe spojrzenie na problematyką obozu koncentracyjnego Auschwitz-Birkenau, w kategorii skrajnego doświadczenia, wielopłaszczyznowego. To nie tylko analizy filoz……続きを見る
著者:Anna Horská
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2016年02月16日
This book explains the first published consistency proof of PA. It contains the original Gentzen's proof, but it uses modern terminology and examples to illustrate the essential notions. The author ……続きを見る
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.
Contents:
Galileo who wanted to show that the earth went around the sun
René Descartes, the Frenchman who famously said ‘I think, therefore I a……続きを見る
著者:Anna Zeide
出版社: University of California Press
発売日: 2018年02月09日
2019 James Beard Foundation Book Award winner: Reference, History, and Scholarship
A century and a half ago, when the food industry was first taking root, few consumers trusted packaged foods. Ameri……続きを見る
Inspiring life stories from BBC Radio 4's hit series The Life Scientific
'In showing non-scientists why science offers so many paths to discovery it has no equal' Gillian Reynolds, Telegraph
Based o……続きを見る
著者:Anna Sverdlik
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2018年06月19日
If mathematics is the purest form of knowledge, the perfect foundation of all the hard sciences, and a uniquely precise discipline, then how can the human brain, an imperfect and imprecise organ, pr……続きを見る
Winner of the 2021/2022 People's Book Prize Best Achievement Award
Homes can be both comforting and troubling places. This timely book proposes a new understanding of Florence Nightingale’s exper……続きを見る
Martin Folkes (1690-1754): Newtonian, Antiquary, Connoisseur is a cultural and intellectual biography of the only President of both the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries. Sir Isaac Newton……続きを見る
A captivating historical look at the cultural and artistic significance of shells in early modern Europe
Among nature’s most artful creations, shells have long inspired the curiosity and passion of ……続きを見る
The major purpose of this book is to present Johann Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) in a real and interesting way based on the most recent historical research and analysis of authentic sources. The author……続きを見る
How Romans coped with the anxieties and risks of childbirth
Across the vast expanse of the Roman Empire, anxieties about childbirth tied individuals to one another, to the highest levels of imperial……続きを見る
Miniona historia najtragiczniejszych doświadczeń ludzkich nie daje o sobie zapomnieć. Poszerza się zjawisko zakłamań dotyczących tej szczególnie wrażliwej pamięci, choć wydarzyła się wcale w nieodle……続きを見る
Autorka przedstawia krótkie artykuły. Mają duże znaczenie w świecie konfliktów. Są jednym wielkim protestem wobec tego, co niszczy i prowadzi do podziałów. To wołanie o bardziej ludzki, rozumiejący ……続きを見る
Hybrid Knowledge in the Early East India Company World presents a new interpretation of the development of the English East India Company between 1660 and 1720. The book explores the connections bet……続きを見る
The smooth functioning of an ordered society depends on the possession of a means of regularising its activities over time. That means is a calendar, and its regularity is a function of how well it ……続きを見る
This book presents logical foundations of dual tableaux together with a number of their applications both to logics traditionally dealt with in mathematics and philosophy (such as modal, intuitionis……続きを見る
著者:Alanna Mitchell
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2018年01月30日
The mystery of Earth's invisible, life-supporting power
Alanna Mitchell's globe-trotting history of the science of electromagnetism and the Earth's magnetic field--right up to the latest indications……続きを見る
The Anglo-Saxon AvonValley Frontier: A River of Two Halves is a ground-breaking exploration of the Anglo-Saxon ‘Avon Valley frontier’, combining archaeology and documentary sources to present a case……続きを見る
Ribaltando molti luoghi comuni, La genesi della scienza (2009) rintraccia nell’Europa del Medioevo la formazione di quel milieu filosofico e culturale che ha poi permesso la nascita della scienza mo……続きを見る
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'Explores just about every area of life' DAILY MAIL
'If only Adam Rutherford and Hannah Fry were on tap to all of us, all the time . . . The pair have such a gift for mak……続きを見る
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……続きを見る
著者:Hannah Murphy
出版社: University of Pittsburgh Press
発売日: 2019年04月02日
Winner, 2020 SRS Book Prize
The sixteenth century saw an unprecedented growth in the number of educated physicians practicing in German cities. Concentrating on Nuremberg, A New Order of Medicine fo……続きを見る