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  • Starbound

    Interstellar Travel and the Limits of the Possible

    de Ed Regis ...
    This book is for anyone enthralled by the romantic dream of a voyage 'to the stars.' From our current viewpoint in the twenty-first century, crewed interstellar travel will be an exceptionally difficult undertaking. It will require building a spacecraft on a scale never before attempted, at vast cost, relying on unproven technologies. Yet somehow, through works of science fiction, TV and movies, ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Science, Secrecy, and the Smithsonian

    The Strange History of the Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program

    de Ed Regis ...
    This is the story of how the Smithsonian Institute became intertwined in a secret biological warfare project. During the 1960s, the Smithsonian Institution undertook a large-scale biological survey of a group of uninhabited tropical islands in the Pacific. It was one of the largest and most sweeping biological survey programs of all time, a six-year-long enterprise during which Smithsonian ... Leer más

    $25.69 USD

  • What Is Life?

    Investigating the Nature of Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology

    de Ed Regis ...
    In 1944, the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger published a groundbreaking little book called What Is Life? In fewer than one hundred pages, he argued that life was not a mysterious or inexplicable phenomenon, as many people believed, but a scientific process like any other, ultimately explainable by the laws of physics and chemistry.Today, more than sixty years later, members of a ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • 愛因斯坦的辦公室給了誰？

    Who got Einstein’s Office? - Eccentricity and Genius at the Institute for Advanced Study

    de 瑞吉斯Ed Regis ...
    Traducido por 邱顯正 ...
    Series series 科學文化
    愛因斯坦用相對論，為人類敲開另一扇認識世界的窗。這位物理大師告別人世時，除了留下無限惆悵，也遺下曾經充滿他睿智哲思的辦公室。這不禁令人好奇，究竟愛因斯坦的辦公室，傳給了誰？而繼承愛因斯坦辦公室的幸運兒，能否再掀起二十一世紀的知識革命？這間傳奇辦公室，位於普林斯頓鄉間的高研院。這座研究院曾讓數論大師哥德爾、電腦之父馮諾伊曼、原子彈之父歐本海默等人，聚集在此鑽研新知、窮究宇宙。沒有高研院群雄，人類知識的疆域不知得退幾里路。作者瑞吉斯親訪高研院，記錄大師群像，讓活生生的歷史躍然紙上。他也開啟了想像：究竟高研院的新一代人才，能否展現大師的光芒？ ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Golden Rice

    The Imperiled Birth of a GMO Superfood

    de Ed Regis ...
    The first book to tell the shocking story of Golden Rice, a genetically modified grain that provides essential Vitamin A and can save lives in developing countries—if only they were allowed to grow it.Ordinary white rice is nutrient poor; it consists of carbohydrates and little else. About one million people who subsist on rice become blind or die each year from vitamin A deficiency. Golden Rice, ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Regenesis

    How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves

    de George M. Church, Ed Regis ...
    Narrado por Peter Lerman ...

    Completo

    10 hora 47 minutos

    A Harvard biologist and master inventor explores how new biotechnologies will enable us to bring species back from the dead, unlock vast supplies of renewable energy, and extend human life.In Regenesis, George Church and science writer Ed Regis explore the possibilities of the emerging field of synthetic biology. Synthetic biology, in which living organisms are selectively altered by modifying ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

  • Audiolibro

    Virus Ground Zero

    de Ed Regis ...
    Narrado por Rob McQuay ...

    Completo

    7 hora 2 minutos

    In a destitute hospital in the crowded African city of Kikwit, townspeople, nurses, and doctors are dying of a gruesome disease at the rate of more than a dozen a day. Zaire is on the brink of an explosive epidemic - but the outbreak is stopped when experts from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta arrive in the city, reclaim the hospital, and interrupt the chain of virus transmission. ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

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  • Audiolibro

    The Genesis Machine

    Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology

    de Amy Webb, Andrew Hessel ...
    Narrado por Amy Webb, Andrew Hessel, Tim Campbell, Landon Woodson, Amanda Dolan ...

    Completo

    10 hora 6 minutos

    A New Yorker Best Book of the YearA breakthrough investigation of synthetic biology: the promising and controversial technology platform that combines biology and artificial intelligence and has the potential to program biological systems like we program computers.The breakthrough science of synthetic biology has the potential to help solve humanity’s existential challenges from climate change, to ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

  • Audiolibro

    The Good State

    On the Principles of Democracy

    de A. C. Grayling ...
    Narrado por Julian Elfer ...

    Completo

    6 hora 25 minutos

    The foundations upon which our democracies stand are inherently flawed, vulnerable to corrosion from within. What is the remedy?A. C. Grayling makes the case for a clear, consistent, principled, and written constitution, and sets out the reforms necessary—among them addressing the imbalance of power between government and Parliament, imposing fixed terms for MPs, introducing proportional ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

  • Audiolibro

    Rebuilding Earth

    Designing Ecoconscious Habitats for Humans

    de Teresa Coady, Elizabeth May ...
    Narrado por Lisa Lindsley ...

    Completo

    10 hora 11 minutos

    A revolutionary guide to designing humane, eco-conscious homes, buildings, and cities of the future.It is estimated that the earth's population will expand to an unprecedented nine billion people over the next century. This explosion in population is predicted to place further stress on our environment, deplete our natural resources, and lead to increases in anxiety and depression due to ... Leer más

    $41.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

  • Audiolibro

    Hype

    How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internet—and Why We're Following

    de Gabrielle Bluestone ...
    Narrado por Eileen Stevens ...

    Completo

    10 hora 2 minutos

    From former Vice journalist and executive producer of hit Netflix documentary Fyre comes an eye-opening look at the con artists, grifters and snake oil salesmen of the digital age—and why we can’t stop falling for them.We live in an age where scams are the new normal. A charismatic entrepreneur sells thousands of tickets to a festival that never happened. Respected investors pour ... ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

  • Audiolibro

    Speed & Scale

    An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now

    de John Doerr, Ryan Panchadsaram ...
    Narrado por John Doerr, Sundar Pichai, Margot Brown, Badri Kothandaraman, Bruce Nilles, Jagdeep Singh, Laurene Powell Jobs, Jan Van Dokkum, Christiana Figueres0, Fred Krupp1 ...

    Completo

    11 hora 58 minutos

    #1 bestselling author and acclaimed venture capitalist John Doerr reveals a sweeping action plan to conquer humanity’s greatest challenge: climate change.In 2006, John Doerr was moved by Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and a challenge from his teenage daughter: “Dad, your generation created this problem. You better fix it.” Since then, Doerr has searched for solutions to this existential problem ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook