From Radio-Phobia to Radio-Euphoria

Ilya Obodovskiy

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Popular Science
• This book gives a detailed discussion of the initial enthusiasm triggered by the discovery of x-rays and radioactive radiation which later turned into... Lees meer

The Story of the Gun

Paul J Hazell

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Popular Science
• This engaging and accessible book explains the scientific principles behind guns, both ancient and modern. It connects their evolution to advances in ... Lees meer

A Journey in Antarctica

Sergio Rossi

• Hardcover | Engels | Popular Science
• Having always been fascinated by these singular landscapes, Sergio Rossi reconstructs some of the episodes that have marked the exploration of these t... Lees meer

The Electric Century

J B Williams

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Popular Science
• This book is about how electricity has profoundly changed the way we live, work, and play. Some twenty topics are covered, with an abundance of graphs... Lees meer

Music and Astronomy

Maurizio Agrò

• Paperback | Engels | Popular Science
• This book explores the profound and ancient relationship between music and astronomy. Throughout history, Music has occupied a significant place among... Lees meer

Antarctica: Earth's Own Ice World

Michael Carroll, Rosaly Lopes

• Hardcover | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Popular Science
• Contains spectacular photos of Antarctic landscapes and original art of the continent's cosmic analogs Provides unique insights into the reality of li... Lees meer

On Capitalism and Inequality

Robert U Ayres

• Hardcover | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Popular Science
• Capitalism is under attack. Defenders say that capitalism has raised billions of people from poverty. But a central activity of capitalism today, Wall... Lees meer

Technology and the Growth of Civilization

Giancarlo Genta, Paolo Riberi

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Popular Science
• Our natural world has been irretrievably altered by humans, for humans. From domesticated wheat fields to nuclear power plants and spacecraft, everyth... Lees meer

Sky Alert!

Les Johnson

• Paperback | Engels | Popular Science
• "Sky Alert! What Happens When Satellites Fail" explores for the first time what our modern world would be like if we were suddenly to lose most, if no... Lees meer

Genius

Roberto Manzocco

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Popular Science
• Genius is a fascinating topic. Everyone has an opinion on it, but not a lot of clarity. Much has been written on the subject - biographies, autobiogra... Lees meer

Brief History of Light & Those That (V1)

Richard J Weiss

• Paperback | Engels | Popular Science | nr. 1
• From Leonardo to Oppenheimer, from candles to lasers, from cave drawings to cinema, from stonehenge to quantum mechanics, from Genesis to the Big Bang... Lees meer

Pulling G

Erik Seedhouse

• Paperback | Engels | Popular Science
• Performing in a high G environment is extremely demanding on the body: pulling G forces blood to the body's extremities, putting the pilot, astronaut ... Lees meer

A Brief History of Light and Those That Lit the Way

Richard J Weiss

• Hardcover | Engels | Popular Science | nr. 1
• From Leonardo to Oppenheimer, from candles to lasers, from cave drawings to cinema, from stonehenge to quantum mechanics, from Genesis to the Big Bang... Lees meer

The Electronics Revolution

J B Williams

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Popular Science
• This book is about how electronics, computing, and telecommunications have profoundly changed our lives - the way we work, live, and play. It covers a... Lees meer

Life After Death: What Happens to Your Body After You Die?

Michael Wilson

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Popular Science
• Preface Chapter 1. It comes to us all Chapter 2. A rich bag of goodies - the human body as a source of nutrients 2.1 What types of tissues are present... Lees meer

What If We Don't Die?

Peter Hulsroj

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Popular Science
• This book deals with the very real possibility of earthly immortality and the human and societal implications of such immortality, including whether i... Lees meer

Great Moments in the History of Life

George H Shaw

• Hardcover | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Popular Science
• Presents a lucid introduction to the earth history leading up to human history Integrates aspects of cosmology, astrophysics and chemistry wth the fos... Lees meer

Contradictions

José M Musacchio

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Popular Science
• "Contradictions" is a general interest book that exposes the incompatibility between popular religious beliefs and the scientific view of human nature... Lees meer

Eurekas and Euphorias

Walter Gratzer

• Paperback | Engels | Popular Science
• The march of science has been marked through the years by episodes of drama and comedy, of failure as well as triumph, by outrageous strokes of luck, ... Lees meer

Transhumanism - Engineering the Human Condition

Roberto Manzocco

• Paperback | Engels | Springer Praxis Books | Popular Science
• This book is designed to offer a comprehensive high-level introduction to transhumanism, an international political and cultural movement that aims to... Lees meer

Genetic Revolution & Human Rights

• Paperback | Engels | Popular Science
• The world was stunned by the announcement that scientists had successfully cloned a sheep. Suddenly, questions that had seemed merely academic or bett... Lees meer

The Meme Machine

Susan Blackmore

• Paperback | Engels | Popular Science
• What is a meme? First coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene , a meme is any idea, behavior, or skill that can be transferred from one person t... Lees meer

Discovery of Anti-Matter, The: The Autobiography of Carl David Anderson, the Second Youngest Man to Win the Nobel Prize

David A K Anderson, Richard J Weiss

• Hardcover | Engels | Popular Science | nr. 2
• In 1936, at age 31, Carl David Anderson became the second youngest Nobel laureate for his discovery of antimatter when he observed positrons in a clou... Lees meer

Fakebusters II: Scientific Detection of Fakery in Art and Philately

• Paperback | Engels | Popular Science | nr. 4
• Now that the sale of a Picasso painting has exceeded US$100 million at auction, the forgers are extricating their bag of tricks. This fascinating coll... Lees meer