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Our Human Story

In 100 Amazing Achievements

de Anna Ploszajski ...

A celebration of the greatest human achievements through science, culture, technology, and all the fascinating bits in betweenJoin charismatic scientist Anna Ploszajski (expert consultant for DK title What's it Made Of?) as she weaves 100 stories that reveal the essence of human achievement.From organizing ourselves into societies, with justice, education, and governments of many types to creating ... Leer más

$12.99 USD

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A celebration of the greatest human achievements through science, culture, technology, and all the fascinating bits in betweenJoin charismatic scientist Anna Ploszajski (expert consultant for DK title What's it Made Of?) as she weaves 100 stories that reveal the essence of human achievement.From organizing ourselves into societies, with justice, education, and governments of many types to creating
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First Flight

de Anna Ploszajski ...

Ilustraciones de Greta Samuel ...

Series series DK Science Stories
Experience the greatest breakthroughs in science, with the DK Science Stories series.Meet Orville and Wilbur Wright: two ordinary brothers with an extraordinary dream. In a world of horse-drawn carriages, the Wrights want to take to the skies. This is the true story of how their creativity, scientific thinking, and sheer determination turned their dream into reality and changed the world.Growing ... Leer más

$7.99 USD

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Experience the greatest breakthroughs in science, with the DK Science Stories series.Meet Orville and Wilbur Wright: two ordinary brothers with an extraordinary dream. In a world of horse-drawn carriages, the Wrights want to take to the skies. This is the true story of how their creativity, scientific thinking, and sheer determination turned their dream into reality and changed the world.Growing
... Leer más
Handmade

A Scientist’s Search for Meaning through Making

de Anna Ploszajski ...

A fresh and entertaining perspective on materials science involving the craftspeople who have built their careers around working with materials such as clay, stone, steel and wool.From atomic structures to theories about magnetic forces, scientific progress has given us a good grasp on the properties of many different materials. However, most scientists cannot measure the temperature of steel just ... Leer más

$14.99 USD

A fresh and entertaining perspective on materials science involving the craftspeople who have built their careers around working with materials such as clay, stone, steel and wool.From atomic structures to theories about magnetic forces, scientific progress has given us a good grasp on the properties of many different materials. However, most scientists cannot measure the temperature of steel just
... Leer más
Fatto a mano

I segreti dei materiali, tra scienza e arte

de Anna Ploszajski ...

Traducido por Davide Fassio ...

Reazioni chimiche, leggi fisiche, strutture atomiche, interazioni fondamentali, tensioni di snervamento… Nei secoli il progresso scientifico ci ha garantito una comprensione vastissima e approfondita delle proprietà dei materiali che usiamo nei più disparati ambiti della nostra vita. Esiste però anche un tipo di conoscenza che ha poco a che vedere con la teoria e le formule, e molto con la pratica ... Leer más

$14.99 USD

Reazioni chimiche, leggi fisiche, strutture atomiche, interazioni fondamentali, tensioni di snervamento… Nei secoli il progresso scientifico ci ha garantito una comprensione vastissima e approfondita delle proprietà dei materiali che usiamo nei più disparati ambiti della nostra vita. Esiste però anche un tipo di conoscenza che ha poco a che vedere con la teoria e le formule, e molto con la pratica
... Leer más
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Hands of Time

A Watchmaker’s History

de Rebecca Struthers ...

Narrado por Anna Ploszajski ...

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8 hora 7 minutos

""A hugely entertaining achievement."" –Esquire“An engaging survey through a period of intellectual history that reveals as much about people who wear watches as the objects on their wrists."" – Wall Street Journal""As impeccably crafted and precisely engineered as any of the watches on which the author has worked so lovingly over the years, this book is a joy to behold and a wonder to enjoy.” ... Leer más

$25.99 USD

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""A hugely entertaining achievement."" –Esquire“An engaging survey through a period of intellectual history that reveals as much about people who wear watches as the objects on their wrists."" – Wall Street Journal""As impeccably crafted and precisely engineered as any of the watches on which the author has worked so lovingly over the years, this book is a joy to behold and a wonder to enjoy.”
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First Flight

The Story of the Wright Brothers

de Anna Ploszajski ...

Narrado por Nerissa Bradley ...

Completo

2 hora

Experience the greatest breakthroughs in science, with the DK Science Stories series.Meet Orville and Wilbur Wright: two ordinary brothers with an extraordinary dream. In a world of horse-drawn carriages, the Wrights want to take to the skies. This is the true story of how their creativity, scientific thinking, and sheer determination turned their dream into reality and changed the world.Growing ... Leer más

$7.50 USD

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Experience the greatest breakthroughs in science, with the DK Science Stories series.Meet Orville and Wilbur Wright: two ordinary brothers with an extraordinary dream. In a world of horse-drawn carriages, the Wrights want to take to the skies. This is the true story of how their creativity, scientific thinking, and sheer determination turned their dream into reality and changed the world.Growing
... Leer más

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Knowing What We Know

The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic

de Simon Winchester ...

Narrado por Simon Winchester ...

Completo

14 hora 19 minutos

“A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter . . . . Simon Winchester has firmly earned his place in history . . . as a promulgator of knowledge of every variety, perhaps the last of the famous explorers who crisscrossed the now-vanished British Empire and reported what they found to an astonished world.” — New York TimesFrom the creation of ... Leer más

$32.99 USD

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“A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter . . . . Simon Winchester has firmly earned his place in history . . . as a promulgator of knowledge of every variety, perhaps the last of the famous explorers who crisscrossed the now-vanished British Empire and reported what they found to an astonished world.” — New York TimesFrom the creation of
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The Deepest Map

The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World’s Oceans

de Laura Trethewey ...

Narrado por Gabra Zackman ...

Completo

9 hora 38 minutos

The dramatic and action-packed story of the last mysterious place on earth—the world’s seafloor—and the deep-sea divers, ocean mappers, marine biologists, entrepreneurs, and adventurers involved in the historic push to chart it, as well as the opportunities, challenges, and perils this exploration holds now and for the future.Five oceans—the Atlantic, the Pacific, the Indian, the Arctic, and the ... Leer más

$28.99 USD

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The dramatic and action-packed story of the last mysterious place on earth—the world’s seafloor—and the deep-sea divers, ocean mappers, marine biologists, entrepreneurs, and adventurers involved in the historic push to chart it, as well as the opportunities, challenges, and perils this exploration holds now and for the future.Five oceans—the Atlantic, the Pacific, the Indian, the Arctic, and the
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Understanding Iran

Everything You Need to Know, From Persia to the Islamic Republic, From Cyrus to Khamenei

de William R. Polk ...

Narrado por Paul Boehmer ...

Completo

12 hora 29 minutos

William R. Polk provides an informative, history of a country which is moving quickly toward becoming the dominant power and culture of the Middle East.A former member of the State Department's Policy Planning Council, Polk describes a country and a history misunderstood by many in the West. While Iranians chafe under the yolk of their current leaders, they also have bitter memories of generations ... Leer más

$24.99 USD

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William R. Polk provides an informative, history of a country which is moving quickly toward becoming the dominant power and culture of the Middle East.A former member of the State Department's Policy Planning Council, Polk describes a country and a history misunderstood by many in the West. While Iranians chafe under the yolk of their current leaders, they also have bitter memories of generations
... Leer más

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The Year Without Summer

1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History

de William K. Klingaman, Nicholas P. Klingaman ...

Narrado por David Colacci ...

Completo

11 hora 27 minutos

1816 was a remarkable year—mostly for the fact that there was no summer. As a result of a volcanic eruption at Mount Tambora in Indonesia, weather patterns were disrupted worldwide for months, allowing for excessive rain, frost, and snowfall through much of the Northeastern US and Europe in the summer of 1816.In the US, the extraordinary weather produced food shortages, religious revivals, and ... Leer más

$24.99 USD

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1816 was a remarkable year—mostly for the fact that there was no summer. As a result of a volcanic eruption at Mount Tambora in Indonesia, weather patterns were disrupted worldwide for months, allowing for excessive rain, frost, and snowfall through much of the Northeastern US and Europe in the summer of 1816.In the US, the extraordinary weather produced food shortages, religious revivals, and
... Leer más

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Silent Spring Revolution

John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening

de Douglas Brinkley ...

Narrado por Stephen Graybill ...

Completo

29 hora 24 minutos

New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon.With the detonation of the Trinity explosion in the New Mexico desert in 1945, ... Leer más

$52.99 USD

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New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon.With the detonation of the Trinity explosion in the New Mexico desert in 1945,
... Leer más

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Uranium Wars

The Scientific Rivalry that Created the Nuclear Age

de Amir D. Aczel ...

Narrado por Eric Conger ...

Series series MacSci
Completo

8 hora

Uranium, a nondescript element when found in nature, in the past century has become more sought after than gold. Its nucleus is so heavy that it is highly unstable and radioactive. If broken apart, it unleashes the tremendous power within the atom—the most controversial type of energy ever discovered.Set against the darkening shadow of World War II, Amir D. Aczel's suspenseful account tells the ... Leer más

$19.99 USD

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Uranium, a nondescript element when found in nature, in the past century has become more sought after than gold. Its nucleus is so heavy that it is highly unstable and radioactive. If broken apart, it unleashes the tremendous power within the atom—the most controversial type of energy ever discovered.Set against the darkening shadow of World War II, Amir D. Aczel's suspenseful account tells the
... Leer más

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