Discover the Ingenuity That Built CivilizationsExplore the ingenuity of the ancients and journey through time with Ancient Genius: How Past Innovations Shape Our Future.
This volume is an edited collection of primary sources which throw light on the interplay between zoology and visual culture in nineteenth-century Britain.
Archaelogists and anthropologists (especially ethnologists) have for many years realised that man's ingestion of alcoholic beverages may well have played a significant part in his transition from hunter-gatherer to agriculturalist.
The aim of these studies is to explore the scientific activity and learning that took place within the Ottoman empire, a subject often neglected by both historians of science and of the Ottoman world.
This book seeks to illustrate the interconnections of science and philosophy with religion and politics in the early modern period by focusing on the institutional dynamics of the university.
The phenomenon known as 'fluorescence' is now widely used in the chemical, physical and life sciences largely due to the development of highly sophisticated fluorescent probe chemistries and the commercial availability of these probes as well as the development of novel microscopy approaches.
The 50 fundamentals of his work, life and legacy, each explained in half a minute Spend 30 seconds a day in the company of a colossus from the world of science, and you will soon have his whole story-both his scientific attainments and his extraordinary life-in your head.
During the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany, United States basketball player Joe Fortenberry leaped into the air and stuffed the ball through the hoop.
This book describes the worldwide evolution of land-based visual time signals that were used by mariners in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries for accurate navigation at sea.
Bill Bryson es uno de los escritores más queridos y autor de varios bestsellers que nos lleva hacia las preguntas más intrigantes e intratables que la ciencia busca responder.
We have entered a recent zeitgeist, the era of the "e;new space age"e;, driven by billionaires, technological advancements, and a few dominating state powers.
We have entered a recent zeitgeist, the era of the "e;new space age"e;, driven by billionaires, technological advancements, and a few dominating state powers.
Sumergete en un apasionante viaje a traves de la historia del electromagnetismo, desde las primeras observaciones de electricidad, en la antigua Grecia, hasta los revolucionarios descubrimientos del siglo xix.
An investigation of the emotional power of narrative that illuminates the relationship between the human brain and the stories we tell As humans, we think in stories-stories that allow us to feel and share emotions.
Discover the Ingenuity That Built CivilizationsExplore the ingenuity of the ancients and journey through time with Ancient Genius: How Past Innovations Shape Our Future.
'Exceptionally interesting' Alain de Botton'A book that will transform how you understand human behaviour' Thomas Erikson'Insightful and entertaining' Cal Newport'Fascinating .
