29 книг

Royal Society Prizes for Science Books (Aventis award)

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29 книг

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Royal Society Prizes for Science Books (Aventis award)

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Living with Risk: The British Medical Assocation Guide (Wiley Medical Publications)

British Medical Association

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The B.M.A. has produced this book of facts about risk because risk touches every single aspect of health and welfare. The book is packed with information, arguments, and e...

Bones of Contention: Controversies in the Search for Human Origins

Roger Lewin

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Bones of Contention is a behind-the-scenes look at the search for human origins. Analyzing how the biases and preconceptions of paleoanthropologists shaped their work, Rog...

The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds and the Laws of Physics

Roger Penrose

4,1

(86)

For decades, proponents of artificial intelligence have argued that computers will soon be doing everything that a human mind can do. Admittedly, computers now play chess ...

Новый ум короля. О компьютерах, мышлении и законах физики

Роджер Пенроуз

4,1

(86)

Монография известного физика и математика Роджера Пенроуза посвящена изучению проблемы искусственного интеллекта на основе всестороннего анализа достижений современных нау...

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Stephen Jay Gould

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High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It hold the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of stran...

The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee

Jared M. Diamond

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More than 98 percent of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee. The 'third' chimpanzee is man. Jared Diamond surveys out life-cycle, culture, sexuality and ...

The Making of Memory

Стивен Роуз

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The Language of Genes

Steve Jones

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The Consumer’s Good Chemical Guide: A Jargon-Free Guide to the Chemicals of Everyday Life (Scientific American Library Series)

John Emsley

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Plague’s Progress: A Social History of Man and Disease

Arno Karlen

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The Wisdom of the Bones: In Search of Human Origins

Алан Уокер, Pat Shipman

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Jared Diamond

4,2

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Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents...

Ружья, микробы и сталь. Судьбы человеческих обществ

Джаред Даймонд

4,2

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Эта книга американского орнитолога, физиолога и географа Джареда Даймонда стала международным бестселлером и принесла своему создателю престижнейшую Пулитцеровскую премию,...

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth

Paul Hoffman

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The biography of a mathematical genius. Paul Erdos was the most prolific pure mathematician in history and, arguably, the strangest too. ’A mathematical genius of the fir...

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

Brian Greene

4,5

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Элегантная Вселенная. Суперструны, скрытые размерности и поиски окончательной теории

Брайан Грин

4,5

(494)

Книга Брайана Грина «Элегантная Вселенная» — увлекательнейшее путешествие по современной физике, которая как никогда ранее близка к пониманию того, как устроена Вселенная....

Mapping the Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science

Robert Kunzig

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The Universe in a Nutshell

Stephen William Hawking

4,4

(647)

Stephen Hawking’s phenomenal, multimillion-copy bestseller, A Brief History of Time, introduced the ideas of this brilliant theoretical physicist to readers all over the w...

Right Hand, Left Hand: The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms and Cultures

Крис Макманус

3,5

(10)

A labor of love and enthusiasm as well as deep scientific knowledge, Right Hand, Left Hand takes the reader on a trip through history, around the world, and into the cosmo...

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson

4,3

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In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail—well, most of it. In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to...