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'The only thing that I know is that I know nothing ...but I'm working on it.' (after Socrates) In this age of increasing specialisation and information overload, how can anyone ever hope to emulate Renaissance man or woman, accomplished and informed across many fields? Surely T. H. Huxley's maxim 'try to learn something about everything ...
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ISBN 978-0-674-08807-8
EAN 9780674088078
Long before GPS and Google Earth, humans traveled vast distances using environmental clues and simple instruments. What is lost when technology substitutes for our innate capacity to find our way? Illustrated with 200 drawings, this narrative-part treatise, part travelogue, and part navigational history-brings our own world into sharper view.
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ISBN 978-0-14-312798-7
EAN 9780143127987
Both a travelogue and a study of the origins of science, The Lagoon shows how an ancient thinker still has much to teach us today. Aristotle's philosophy looms large over the history of Western thought, but the subject he most loved was biology. He wrote vast treatises on animals, dissecting them, classifying them, recording how ...
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ISBN 978-1-58435-170-2
EAN 9781584351702
Franco "Bifo" Berardi's newest book analyzes the contemporary changes taking place in our aesthetic and emotional sensibility -- changes the author claims are the result of semio-capitalism's capturing of the inner resources of the subjective process: our experience of time, our sensibility, the way we relate to each other, and our ability to imagine a ...
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ISBN 978-0-674-96798-4
EAN 9780674967984
A falling apple inspired the law of gravity-or so the story goes. Is it true? Perhaps not. But why do such stories endure as explanations of how science happens? Newton's Apple and Other Myths about Science brushes away popular misconceptions to provide a clearer picture of scientific breakthroughs from ancient times to the present.
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ISBN 978-0-19-960266-7
EAN 9780199602667
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ISBN 978-0-393-35192-7
EAN 9780393351927
The discovery of the quantum-the idea, born in the early 1900s in a remote corner of physics, that energy comes in finite packets instead of infinitely divisible quantities-planted a rich set of metaphors in the popular imagination. Quantum imagery and language now bombard us like an endless stream of photons. Phrases such as multiverses, quantum ...
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ISBN 978-1-78139-562-2
EAN 9781781395622
A knowledge of calculus renders straightforward many problems in mathematics, physics and engineering. Thompson's book renders calculus straightforward. Ideal for anyone who has suffered rather than enjoyed calculus. This text, with numerous worked examples, will teach you to understand calculus and also how to solve typical exam questions.
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ISBN 978-1-4571-8759-9
EAN 9781457187599
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ISBN 978-0-19-025017-1
EAN 9780190250171
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ISBN 978-0-691-16528-8
EAN 9780691165288
This is a cultural history of mathematics and art, from antiquity to the present. Mathematicians and artists have long been on a quest to understand the physical world they see before them and the abstract objects they know by thought alone. Taking readers on a tour of the practice of mathematics and the philosophical ideas ...
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ISBN 978-0-593-07718-4
EAN 9780593077184
An updated, expanded and illustrated edition of Stephen Hawking's classic work, which includes the most recent developments in the field, many of which were forecast by him. In this edition, Professor Hawking explains his complex theories through a fresh visual dimension. Over one hundred and fifty stunning colour illustrations have been specially commissioned for this ...
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ISBN 978-0-19-873527-4
EAN 9780198735274
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ISBN 978-1-63388-118-1
EAN 9781633881181
Employing intuitive ideas from mathematics, this quirky "meta-memoir" raises questions about our lives that most of us don't think to ask, but arguably should: What part of memory is reliable fact, what part creative embellishment? Which favorite presuppositions are unfounded, which statistically biased? By conjoining two opposing mindsets--the suspension of disbelief required in storytelling and ...
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ISBN 978-1-84831-928-8
EAN 9781848319288
Why did Uuq become Fl? Why is the sky blue? Why is the sky black? What is spaghettification? There's a problem with the typical pub quiz. It always features far too much sport, 1980s pop and celebrity gossip - and not nearly enough science. How Many Moons Does the Earth Have? is the ultimate solution.Test ...
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ISBN 978-1-78125-543-8
EAN 9781781255438
For you to be here today reading this requires a mind-boggling series of lucky breaks, starting with the Big Bang and ending in your own conception. So it's not surprising that we persist in thinking that we're in with a chance, whether we're playing the lottery or working out the likelihood of extra-terrestrial life. In ...
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ISBN 978-0-00-814635-1
EAN 9780008146351
All the winning and shortlisted images from the 2015 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, which is hosted by the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.The images are submitted in one of the following categories:* Earth and Space* Our Solar System* Deep Space* Young Astronomy Photographer of the YearAnd can also be entered for one of the special ...
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ISBN 978-0-19-939010-6
EAN 9780199390106
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ISBN 978-0-19-874392-7
EAN 9780198743927
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ISBN 978-1-119-06005-5
EAN 9781119060055
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