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  • How the New World Became Old
    Caroline Winterer
    How the idea of deep time transformed how Americans see their country and themselvesDuring the nineteenth century, Americans were shocked to learn that the land beneath their feet had once been stalked by terrifying beasts. T. rex and Brontosaurus ruled the continent. North America was home to saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths, great herds of camels and hippos, and sultry ...
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    32,93 €

  • Las voces del cosmos
    Mario Rucci
    Una obra filosófica donde los elementos del cosmos toman voz para reflexionar sobre la humanidad, la materia y el infinito. Un ensayo metafísico que explora la permanencia, la supervivencia y el destino del ser humano en el universo eterno. 10 ...
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    11,96 €

  • Eso no estaba en mi libro de historia de la odontología
    Yuri Castro Rodríguez
    En algún momento de su vida, George Washington tuvo que gobernar un país mientras sufría continuos problemas dentales. Sus prótesis, lejos de ser de madera como suele creerse, estaban hechas con materiales como marfil —procedente de animales como el hipopótamo o la morsa—, piezas metálicas con muelles y otros dientes humanos. Su sonrisa, hoy convertida en símbolo histórico, esc...
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    20,28 €

  • My Pet Shark
    L. Bryan Williams
    What does it mean to remain fully human in an age of intelligent machines?Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming human life, reshaping power, identity, community, and the nature of work itself. As machines surpass us in calculation, prediction, and analysis, a deeper question emerges: Is intelligence reducible to rationality alone?In My Pet Shark, L. Bryan Williams arg...
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    32,80 €

  • John Aubrey’s Natural History
    John Aubrey
    John Aubrey (1626-1697) is best known as a biographer and antiquarian, but he was also a scientist. Begun in 1656 and shaped over four decades, Aubrey’s Natural History was the first systematic survey of an English county’s natural world attempted, but it is something stranger and larger than that description suggests. Ostensibly of Wiltshire but drawing upon global insights ac...
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    29,89 €

  • The Book of the Damned
    Charles Fort
    What happens to the facts that refuse to fit comfortably within accepted explanations?In The Book of the Damned, Charles Fort gathers an extraordinary catalogue of strange and unexplained reports drawn from scientific journals, newspapers, astronomical observations, and historical records. Stones and mysterious substances fall from clear skies; frogs, fish, and other creatures ...
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    24,11 €

  • Are You a Good Physicist?
    Sandeep Chavan
    Are You a Good Physicist? begins with a deliberately uncomfortable question. Not because physicists can be divided neatly into good and bad categories. But because physics itself has always used ideals to understand reality.There is no perfect gas, perfect pendulum, perfectly elastic body, or frictionless surface. Yet such idealizations remain useful because they reveal where r...
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    45,20 €

  • Paducah
    Joseph Lischinsky
    Behind the fences stood one of the most ambitious industrial enterprises in American history.For nearly seventy years, the gaseous diffusion plants at Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Paducah, Kentucky; and Portsmouth, Ohio enriched the uranium that fueled America’s nuclear arsenal, powered naval reactors, and helped shape the outcome of the Cold War. Hidden behind layers of secrecy, thes...
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    17,53 €

  • Principles of electricity
    Maynard Shipley
    A faint blue spark leaps across a gap, illuminating the mystery and power that once fascinated the pioneers of science. In a world newly awakened to the possibilities of electric current, the fundamentals of electricity emerged as one of the most captivating frontiers of human understanding. This enduring text invites readers to step into the early twentieth century, when the f...
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    17,38 €

  • AI Interviews with Great Minds
    Borko Furht
    What if the greatest scientific minds in history could answer today’s most important questions?AI Conversations with the Minds That Changed the World brings together artificial intelligence, historical research, and scientific scholarship to create thought-provoking conversations with twenty of history’s most influential scientists, inventors, and innovators-from Isaac Newton a...
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    19,48 €

  • Fra Cento Anni
    HANNS GÜNTHER
    Fra Cento Anni. Le future sorgenti di energia del mondo è un affascinante documento della storia della scienza e della tecnologia, scritto da Hanns Günther nei primi decenni del Novecento per interrogarsi su una questione che conserva intatta la propria attualità: da dove ricaverà l’umanità l’energia quando le tradizionali risorse fossili non saranno più sufficienti?Partendo da...
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    22,32 €

  • Major Figures in the History of Neuroscience
    James W. Kalat
    Why does contracting one muscle interfere with contracting a different one? How did a scientist uncover the chemical basis of memory using a sea slug? And why did a Nobel Prize once go to the inventor of the lobotomy?In Major Figures in the History of Neuroscience, veteran psychology professor James W. Kalat tells the surprising, often funny, sometimes tragic human stories behi...
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    14,46 €

  • Dance and Science in the Long Nineteenth Century
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    24,52 €

  • On the Antiseptic Principle in the Practice of Surgery
    Joseph Lister
    In 1867 a Glasgow surgeon published a few pages that changed the odds of survival on every operating table. Reasoning from Pasteur’s discovery that putrefaction is the work of living organisms, Joseph Lister argued that the deadly infection of surgical wounds was caused by germs the surgeon could destroy with carbolic acid. This facsimile source edition reproduces that foundati...
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    22,82 €

  • The Extension of the Germ Theory to the Etiology of Certain Common Diseases
    Louis Pasteur
    On 3 May 1880, Louis Pasteur stood before the French Academy of Sciences and argued that the living microbes he had shown to drive fermentation also caused certain common diseases. This is that argument, in the contemporary English translation of H. C. Ernst, M.D. - a primary witness to the germ theory mid-passage, confident enough to assert and contested enough to require the ...
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    18,35 €

  • Shining Art on Light
    James T. Dakin
    Shining Art on Light tells the broad and fascinating story of light through the use of art. Artists have an innate understanding of light and are able to convey important concepts visually. This book begins by introducing the science of light with five important concepts, summarized in easily accessible language. The next part discusses many aspects of light that occur in natur...
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    23,47 €

  • Alexander von Humboldt
    Andreas W. Daum / Robert Savage
    An engaging account of the life and work of the legendary polymath Alexander von HumboldtIn this lucid biography, Andreas Daum offers a succinct and novel interpretation of the life and oeuvre of Alexander von Humboldt (1769―1859). A Prussian nobleman born into the age of European Enlightenment, Humboldt was a contemporary of Napoleon, Simón Bolívar, and Charles Darwin. As a na...
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    20,02 €

  • Sparks
    E.B Cohen
    From the first spark of fire to the dawn of artificial intelligence - the entire story of human invention in one unforgettable book. Three million years ago, on an African riverbank, a creature picked up a stone and struck it into a blade. From that single spark runs an unbroken chain - through fire, farming, and the wheel; the printing press and the steam engine; electricity, ...
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    22,84 €

  • Cincisprezece secole de biologie holistică uitată
    Ilie Cristi Hapliuc
    XV Secole de Biologie Holistică Uitată - Volumul I: Giganții OrientuluiO istorie ascunsă a științei - și a felului în care Occidentul a uitat cine i-a pus, de fapt, bazele.Cu mult înainte ca știința modernă să vorbească despre 'echilibru', 'sistem' și 'interconectare' în biologie, patru minți ale Epocii de Aur islamice puneau deja aceste idei în mișcare - în laboratoare de alch...
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    21,80 €

  • A Flyby Journey Through Time
    Dr. Harvey Minasian
    Synopsis: Step into the world of A Flyby Journey Through Time and embark on a magical journey through the ages. With the help of a giant TV screen, you will soar through time and space, observing everything from the Big Bang to the far-reaching future. Discover the birth of our planet, the evolution of life and witness pivotal moments in human history. With stunning illustratio...
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    14,89 €

  • History & Philosophy of Biology
    Felipe Heemann
    There is a question older than any laboratory, older than any university, older even than the word science: what does it mean to be alive? Not in the technical sense, not the dance of molecules or the logic of genes, but in the full, disorienting weight of the question. To be alive and to know it. To be matter that turned around and asked what matter is.This book is the attempt...
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    25,92 €

  • Ostoglifo
    David C. Sterling
    Ĉiu fosilio estas statistika eraro.Dum milionoj da jaroj geologia erozio forviŝas preskaŭ ĉion: montoj fariĝas sablo, kontinentoj kunvenas kaj denove disiĝas, tutaj bordoj sinkas sub la akvon kaj reaperas - plene forviŝitaj. El naŭdek naŭ elcentoj de ĉio, kio iam vivis, konstruis kaj pensis sur ĉi tiu planedo, restas eĉ ne spuro.Do ĉu sur la Tero ekzistis prudenta civilizo anta...
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    14,30 €

  • The Alchemy of Almost Nothing
    Priya Anantharaman
    A pinch too small to taste. A speck too small to see. And yet, again and again, these vanishing traces have quietly decided who eats and who starves, who breathes clean air and who does not, which inventions changed the world and which ones poisoned it for seventy years before anyone noticed.The Alchemy of Almost Nothing tells the story of the tiniest ingredients in chemistry, ...
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    33,87 €

  • The Situated Science of Nicola Caputi
    Manuel De Carli
    The Situated Science of Nicola Caputi examines the scientific writings of Nicola Caputi (1696-1761), a physician from Salento and member of the Neapolitan Academy of Sciences. The book offers the first comprehensive study of Caputi’s oeuvre, reconstructing his role as a local observer within the early eighteenth-century scientific culture of the Kingdom of Naples.. At the cente...
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    36,04 €

  • The physiology of digestion considered with relation to the principles of dietetics
    Andrew Combe
    A single mouthful of bread, transformed by the unseen machinery of the human body, begins a journey that determines not just nourishment, but the very balance of health and vitality. Few subjects stir as much fascination or debate as the science of nutrition and the intricate physiology of eating. This landmark work explores the marvels and mysteries of digestion, unpicking the...
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    22,22 €

  • Astronomy before the Telescope
    Nicholas T. Bobrovnikoff
    Explore the rich tapestry of ancient and medieval beliefs about the cosmos, delving into constellations, stellar phenomena, and the influence of astrology. Each chapter offers in-depth analysis and extensive bibliographies for further exploration of these timeless ideas.In Astronomy before the Telescope, readers embark on a journey through the celestial wonders that captivated ...
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    11,52 €

  • GRAVITY’S ACCOUNTANT
    Julian Ashworth-Reyes
    A cannon that gets hotter the longer it is drilled, no matter how dull the drill bit becomes. A sailor’s blood that turns strangely bright red in the tropics. A brewer who cannot enjoy his own honeymoon without trying to measure the warmth of a waterfall. These are the clues that led to one of the most quietly astonishing discoveries in the history of science, and Gravity’s Acc...
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    33,72 €

  • Novum Organum (Plain Language Translation)
    Francis Bacon / Andrew McIntosh
    This is a modern update to a very old book. Published in 1620, before Isaac Newton discovered the secret of gravity and launched our modern world, Novum Organum provides remarkable insight into the minds of men-and yes, they were basically all men-at the dawn of the Scientific Revolution. Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), the pioneering English philosopher and statesman who wrot...
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    20,26 €

  • The Undisclosed Visitors
    Christian Stefanizzi
    THE UNDISCLOSED VISITORS What if the history of the UFO phenomenon is not quite the history we were told? For decades, unidentified objects have appeared in the skies above the United States and around the world. Beginning in the 1940s, reports of strange lights, discs, spheres and structured craft increasingly found their way into military and intelligence files. Yet behind th...
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    28,61 €

  • The Urban Birdsong Decoder
    Nimble Books LLC
    A city bird is easiest to misidentify when the listener starts with a name instead of a pattern. In Opening Matter: The City Has a Sound Map, the controlling focus is color guide framing, real-audio spectrogram discipline, and differential diagnosis. The Cornell source packet supports species descriptions, occurrence checks, audio-archive use, and spectrogram workflow, but it d...
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    35,27 €


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