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  • BOUQUET OF DYSON, A
    BERNSTEIN JEREMY / Jeremy Bernstein
    University of Texas at Austin My friendship with Freeman Dyson goes back over a half century. My first contact with him goes back to the late 1950s, when I was at the Institute for Advanced Study, and then evolved when I was a consultant at General Atomics in La Jolla, California. Freeman was then trying to design a space ship — the Orion — which would be propelled by atomic bo...
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    33,35 €

  • Science and the Big Issues of Our Time
    Martin Gellender
    Within the last few generations, our world has been shaped by technological change enabled by scientific advances. This is particularly evident to the 'baby boomer' generation, who have lived through and witnessed huge changes in society over the course of their lifetimes. Although many have little education in science, or have forgotten what they learned in high school, they u...
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    26,58 €

  • Introduction to a Future Way of Thought
    Kostas Axelos / Kenneth Mills
    'Technologists only change the world in various ways in generalized indifference; the point is to think the world and interpret the changes in its unfathomability, to perceive and experience the difference binding being to the nothing.'Anticipating the age of planetary technology Kostas Axelos, a Greek-French philosopher, approaches the technological question in this book, firs...
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    18,58 €

  • WRITINGS I
    Irina Rodica Rabeja
    WRITINGS I: Digital Image Compression / nD Printing / Internet of Things / Unemployment Solution / Environment Pollution / Astronomy ConceptsSyntheses, analyses, writings with original elements compose the book WRITINGS I covering theory and practice topics from science and engineering and placing them in the history of related events with helpful additions to grasp comprehensi...
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    109,61 €

  • Kids Explore Book
    Eskias Ghebreyohannes
    KIDS’ EXPLORE BOOKAn Amazing Science Adventure for Curious Minds!Every great discovery begins with a question. Every invention begins with imagination. Every young mind has the potential to discover something amazing!Kids’ Explore Book sparks Curiosity, inspires Imagination, and builds Knowledge.Why is the sky blue?How does your heart work?Where does rain come from?Why do we ha...
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    32,79 €

  • Between Hurry and Heaven
    A Trevor Sutton
    Time-saving devices have failed us.We are surrounded by technologies that promise to make life easier and more efficient, yet we’ve never felt busier. Robotic vacuums clean while we doomscroll. Furnaces spare us from chopping wood so we can spend time 'saved' at the gym. Technology keeps harvesting our time, but we never seem to have any left.The problem isn’t our tech. It’s ho...
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    16,16 €

  • 美高生物解题手册
    Jiazheng Chen
    美国高中生物课上最让中国学生头疼的,往往不是概念,而是要动手算、要读数据的那些题:Punnett方格和遗传概率、卡方检验、哈迪-温伯格平衡、水势、误差棒、种群增长、凝胶电泳......公式似乎都见过,换一种问法就不会了。《美高生物解题手册》专攻生物里'要算、要分析数据'的部分。全书13章、40道精选'母题',每道母题都按同样的八个部分讲透:题目、识别模型、通用思路、一步一步解、变式演化、一题多解、易错点与普适提醒、母题小结。核心是'变式演化':同一个杂交、同一个群体、同一个细胞、同一块凝胶,条件一次只改一个,让你看清一类题其实是同一道题的不同侧面。本书的特色:覆盖统计与误差棒、卡方检验、概率与单基因杂交、双基因杂交与伴性遗传和连锁、系谱分析、哈迪-温伯格平衡、水势、表面积与扩散、自由能与酶促速率、种群增长、生态数据、凝胶电泳与序列、实验设计与数据解读...
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    45,25 €

  • Practice to Mastery
    Jiazheng Chen
    Many students in high school biology understand the ideas. They can explain how alleles separate in meiosis, why water moves into a cell, and how energy flows through a food web. Then a problem asks them to calculate a probability, run a chi-square test, or decide from a data table whether a claim is supported, and they freeze. Knowing the biology and being able to work the num...
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    51,30 €

  • AI Everywhere, Volume 4
    Karen Smiley / She Writes AI Community
    AI is already in your home. Who decided that?AI arrived in our phones, our workplaces, our children’s media, and even our most intimate moments. But on whose terms? Who owns the machines underneath? And how can we shape AI to protect our families and our humanity?AI Everywhere, Volume 4 is written for people like you who are wrestling with these questions. It’s part of the She ...
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    11,98 €

  • Practice to Mastery
    Jiazheng Chen
    Practice to Mastery: Solving Classic Problems in High School Chemistry is not a question bank and it does not replace your textbook. Instead, it takes the small number of classic problems that high school chemistry and AP® Chemistry are built on and works each one all the way through, so that you learn not just one answer but a method for the whole family of problems.Fifteen ch...
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    62,13 €

  • Nicht alles passt in eine Meinung
    Dirk Winkler
    Wir leben in einer Welt der schnellen Urteile. Meinungen sind überall, Verstehen ist selten. Dieses Buch stellt sich bewusst gegen diese Oberflächlichkeit, geht in die Tiefe und ist konsequent aus einer humanistischen und naturalistischen Perspektive geschrieben. Humanismus wird oft als nettes Wohlfühl-Ideal vermarktet, mit dem sich jeder leicht identifiziert. In Wahrheit ist H...
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    37,78 €

  • Practice to Mastery
    Jiazheng Chen
    You can understand the ideas in physics and still freeze on a test. You know Newton’s laws, you know energy is conserved, you recognize every formula on the equation sheet. Then a problem changes one condition, and nothing you memorized seems to fit. Understanding concepts and solving problems are two different skills, and this book is about the second one.Practice to Mastery: ...
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    56,76 €

  • Madenler İlmi ve Yer Katmanları
    Halil Edhem
    Yerin Altındaki Hazinelerin ve Yerkürenin Kadim Tarihinin Bilimsel Rehberi: Osmanlı’dan Cumhuriyet’e Uzanan Dev Bir Yerbilimleri Mirası!Türkiye’de modern yerbilimleri, kimya, arkeoloji ve müzeciliğin kurumsallaşmasına ömrünü vakfeden büyük âlim Halil Edhem Eldem’in (1861-1938) 1889 yılında İstanbul’da yayımlanan başyapıtı İlm-i Maadin ve Tabakatülarz (Madenler İlmi ve Yer Katma...
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    20,54 €

  • AI for Science and Quantum
    Peter Y Lee / Yiyong Huang
    AI Can Propose an Answer. How Do We Ask Nature If It Is Right?AI can write a program in seconds. With suitable tests, it can check the result, revise its approach, and try again. In mathematics, a formal proof can be checked by a computer. Fast, reliable digital verification helps explain AI’s extraordinary progress in these fields.But what happens when the answer is a new medi...
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    15,34 €

  • The Origin of Emergence
    Daniel Paksi
    The universe evolves from a singularity of Space-Time. Life evolves from a singular replicative cell. Mind evolves in a singular living body in every individual case. We are living in an evolving universe. The concept of emergence tries to express the point of this process we can see everywhere. This is the reason that it has become so widespread both in philosophy and science....
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    99,26 €

  • Universal High Income
    Randy White
    What happens to freedom when machines can do the work?You learn a skill, do good work and support your family. Then a machine can do the work for less. The business still has customers. Your household still has bills.If AI and robotics make that experience widespread, a growing economy could produce more goods while providing fewer paychecks. How would ordinary families partici...
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    12,08 €

  • Angel of Death
    Gareth Williams
    This revised edition of Angel of Death provides a compelling and timely account of humanity’s battle against one of its greatest killers. It traces the dramatic rise and fall of smallpox, including the creation of the world’s first vaccine by Edward Jenner, which ultimately led to the disease’s eradication in 1980-a turning point in the history of smallpox, and arguably the gre...
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    34,86 €

  • क्रैक्स इन द नोन
    Sandeep Chavan
    क्या हम यथार्थ को जानते हैं, या सफल व्याख्याओं को ही अंतिम सत्य मान लेते हैं?क्रैक्स इन द नोन, द वॉर ऑफ थॉट्स श्रृंखला की पहली पुस्तक, संदीप चव्हाण के मन में जन्मे एक काल्पनिक अखाड़े में घटती है। प्लेटो, न्यूटन, आइंस्टीन, हॉकिंग, बोहर और फेनमैन के साथ लेखक के संवाद सत्य, गुरुत्वाकर्षण, समय, ब्रह्मांड की उत्पत्ति, प्रकाश के द्वैत और स्थायित्व की पड़ताल करते हैं।इस अखाड़े में स्थ...
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    36,67 €

  • Norbert Wiener
    Len Biel
    In the middle of the twentieth century, a restless mathematical prodigy named Norbert Wiener helped invent a new way of seeing the world. Out of wartime work on anti-aircraft predictors and a deep engagement with feedback, information, and control, he formulated cybernetics: the claim that the same principles governing a thermostat, a nervous system, a guided missile, and a fac...
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    19,01 €

  • Lewis Mumford
    Len Biel
    Lewis Mumford saw the machine coming long before the rest of us.He died in 1990, never having used a smartphone, a search engine, or a social-media feed. Yet his analysis of technological civilization-its organizational logic, its power, its psychological and ecological costs-reads as if written for the age of data centers, algorithmic management, platform monopolies, and artif...
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    21,15 €

  • The Reset Experiment
    Kimberley Dietrich
    The world changes overnight.Vehicles stop working. Electricity disappears. The sky turns orange, and armed strangers begin removing people from their homes. When Sasha is captured, she discovers that the collapse of society was not an accident-it was part of a carefully planned experiment.Chosen because someone considers her 'useful,' Sasha is taken from everything she knows an...
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    20,63 €

  • Anfälligkeit und Anpassung an den Klimawandel in Mauretanien
    Mohamed Abdellahi Ould Selme
    Im Rahmen seiner Verpflichtung gegenüber dem Rahmenübereinkommen der Vereinten Nationen über Klimaänderungen (UNFCCC) setzt Mauretanien seine Bemühungen zur Bewältigung der durch den Klimawandel verursachten Herausforderungen aktiv fort. Durch die Ratifizierung des Übereinkommens verpflichtete sich Mauretanien, seine Treibhausgasemissionen (THG) zu reduzieren und zu den weltwei...
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    88,38 €

  • When Progress Is Not Enough
    Dr. Abdillah Mohamed
    We have never been more advanced, yet anxiety, loneliness, inequality and ecological crisis keep growing. When Progress Is Not Enough asks the question that technology alone cannot answer: what do human beings need in order to truly flourish? Dr. Abdillah Mohamed, a technology professional and a lifelong student and teacher of the Qur’an, brings the Islamic tradition into conve...
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    25,84 €

  • The Compiler
    Ray-Ray Lalonde
    Everyone is asking whether artificial intelligence will save us or end us. This book asks a different question.What if AI is not a threat arriving from outside the human story, but the next chapter of it?For five hundred million years, intelligence has been building on itself - from the first nervous systems, through the mammal that survived the asteroid, to a species that lear...
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    20,24 €

  • Math Formulas and Equations for Life Sciences
    Peter I. Kattan
    Which mathematical formulas matter most in the life sciences? After searching through thousands of formulas and equations across dozens of books, Peter I. Kattan has selected approximately 800 essential relationships for this concise reference. Math Formulas and Equations for Life Sciences brings together equations covering basic mathematics, calculus, biological growth, chemic...
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    19,17 €

  • Electrician to Entrepreneur
    M K Devidasan
    Electrician to Entrepreneur: A Practical Guide to Electrical Skills and Self-Employment is a practical and beginner-friendly guide for anyone interested in learning the electrical trade and exploring opportunities for employment, self-employment and entrepreneurship.Starting with the fundamentals, the book explains electricity, voltage, current, resistance, power, energy and ba...
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    18,21 €

  • Emergence_y
    Clare Harris
    Emergence-y is a powerful call to rethink how we confront crisis by reconnecting science, art, and heart. Clare Harris, an international leader in science, data, and disaster management, began her career at just 20 years old in the Darfur conflict. Since then, she has worked in the difficult space between science and frontline crisis operations, navigating disasters, uncertaint...
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    19,35 €

  • The Real Secret
    David G. McAFee
    Many popular self-help books teach that positive thinking alone can create life-changing results. While maintaining a healthy attitude and staying mindful of your goals are important, a far better approach exists for effecting lasting improvements in your life. The solution is not more wishful thinking but rather more critical thinking. As David G. McAfee demonstrates in The Re...
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    15,86 €

  • Chemical Crosses in Alchemical Chemistry
    Glen R Atkinson
    Rudolf Hauschka did not present a convincing picture of how his elements fit into the complete periodic table in ’Nature of Substance’. My ’Alchemical Chemistry’ finds his story in the periodic table and connects it to all of chemistry and to the seasons. In my mind, this gives his book the ending it deserves. ...
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    43,59 €

  • 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 €