In diesem Sachbuch geht es darum, ob und wie uns Raumfahrt unser langfristiges Überleben sichern kann, wie es um die Energiesituation der Menschheit steht und wie Raumfahrt sie lösen kann – eben hauptsächlich durch Nutzung der Sonnenenergie und wie wir die Planetoiden und Kometen als Siedlungsräume und als Rohstoff- und Energiequellen nutzen können.
Großartige Möglichkeiten und Visionen die Raumfahrt betreffend zeichnen sich am Horizont ab: In den nächsten Jahrzehnten werden Menschen sehr wahrscheinlich nicht nur zum Mond zurückkehren, sondern auch auf dem Roten Planeten landen und sich dauerhaft auf diesen Welten niederlassen, sie besiedeln und Kolonien gründen.
Carl Djerassi, berühmter Wissenschaftler und seit Jahren auch als Schriftsteller erfolgreich, gewährt in zwei neuen Theaterstücken einmal mehr spannende Einblicke in die Welt der Kunst und der Wissenschaft.
■ Newton: Der Pfad des Lichts■ Wissen als Werkzeug: Rutherfords Welt■ Wissenschaft im Umbruch■ Atom und leerer Raum im dritten Jahrtausend■ Ungewohntes Denken■ Der Mensch in der Gemeinschaft■ Enzyklopädisches Stichwort: Wissenschaft und allgemeines Denken■ Erklärung einiger Fachausdrücke■ Literaturhinweise■ Namen- und Sachregister
Radioaktivität: Alles, was Sie schon immer wissen wollten – verständlich erklärtDer Begriff »Radioaktivität« lässt aufschrecken und weckt Assoziationen an schleichende Gefahren, Reaktorkatastrophen und nukleare Verstrahlung.
A new, updated edition, with a new foreword of Andrew Keen's witty and provocative polemic against the rise of user-generated content and the anything goes standards of much online publishing, which set the blogosphere and media alight on publication.
The pace of change in the past two decades has been extraordinary and it has become much harder for businesses to anticipate the environment in which they will be operating not far down the line - how markets and marketing will change, how employees and consumers behaviour and attitudes will change.
From a top scientist and the creator of the hugely popular web comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, an illustrated investigation into future technologiesWhat will the world of tomorrow be like?
"e;Peter Cochrane is one of our most far-sighted visionaries, and brings brilliant clarity and focus to our understanding of ourselves and our technologies, and of how profoundly each is transforming the other.
An award-winning astronomer and physicists spellbinding and urgent call for a new Enlightenment and the recognition of the preciousness of life using reason and curiositythe foundations of scienceto study, nurture, and ultimately preserve humanity as we face the existential crisis of climate change.
'I have fond memories of watching Hugo de Burgh handle the Chinese media and I can think of no one better qualified to tell us about a subject of ever-growing importance' Boris Johnson, Prime Minster, United Kingdom'An excellent, well-written and important survey which should be on the shelves of all those interested in China and in the media' Alan MacFarlane, Professor of Anthropology, University of Cambridge'Well written and a good access point particularly for students that have not previously been exposed to the Chinese media.
The disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was an event of obviously transnational significance not only in the airborne particulates it deposited across the Northern hemisphere, but in the political and social repercussions it set off well beyond the Soviet bloc.
From Michael Brooks, host of The Michael Brooks Show and co-host of the Majority Report, comes the first book to directly respond to the Intellectual Dark Web and Jordan Peterson.
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose questions some of the most fashionable ideas in physics today, including string theoryWhat can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe?
The explosive debate that transformed our views about time and scientific truthOn April 6, 1922, in Paris, Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson publicly debated the nature of time.
'An invaluable companion for anyone who wants a deep understanding of what s under the hood of often inscrutable machines' Melanie Mitchell A rich, narrative explanation of the mathematics that has brought us machine learning and the ongoing explosion of artificial intelligenceMachine-learning systems are making life-altering decisions for us: approving mortgage loans, determining whether a tumour is cancerous, or deciding whether someone gets bail.
THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S TOP BOOKS OF THE YEARShortlisted for The Orwell Prize 2020Shortlisted for the FT Business Book of the Year Award 2019 'Easily the most important book to be published this century.
In this eagerly-awaited new book from the author of the best-selling Nostalgia Nerd's Retro Tech, Peter Leigh takes a fun, informative and irreverent romp through the history of more than forty pieces of personal tech, charting the successes, failures and oddities from over five decades of our obsession with gadgetry.
Technology is rapidly moving into our bodies, writes cyber expert Keenan, and this book gives a chilling look ahead into where that road may lead us on a one way trip to the total surrender of privacy and the commoditization of intimacy.
