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“john glassie”

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  • A Man of Misconceptions

    The Life of an Eccentric in an Age of Change

    de John Glassie ...
    A Scientific American Best Science Book of 2012An Atlantic Wire Best Book of 2012A New York Times Book Review “Editor's Choice”The “fascinating” (The New Yorker) story of Athanasius Kircher, the eccentric scholar-inventor who was either a great genius or a crackpot . . . or a bit of both.The interests of Athanasius Kircher, the legendary seventeenth-century priest-scientist, knew no ... ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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  • Cibola Burn

    de James S. A. Corey ...
    Series Libro 4 - The Expanse
    **With over 10 million copies sold, The Expanse has become one of the biggest science fiction phenomenons of the decade.The fourth book in the New York Times bestselling Expanse series, Cibola Burn sees the crew of the Rocinante on a new frontier, as the rush to colonize the new planets threatens to outrun law and order and give way to war and chaos. Now a Prime Original series.**Enter a new ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Memoirs of an Addicted Brain

    A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs

    de Marc Lewis, PhD ...
    Marc Lewis's relationship with drugs began in a New England boarding school where, as a bullied and homesick fifteen-year-old, he made brief escapes from reality by way of cough medicine, alcohol, and marijuana. In Berkeley, California, in its hippie heyday, he found methamphetamine and LSD and heroin. He sniffed nitrous oxide in Malaysia and frequented Calcutta's opium dens. Ultimately, though, ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Return to Earth

    de Buzz Aldrin, Wayne Warga ...
    Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin's courageous, candid memoir of his return to Earth after the historic moon landing and his personal struggle with fame and depression."We landed with all the grace of a freight elevator," Buzz Aldrin relates in the opening passages of Return to Earth, remembering Command Module Columbia's abrupt descent into the gravity of the blue planet. With that splash, Aldrin ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Neil Armstrong

    A Life of Flight

    de Jan Barbree ...
    "Barbree offers an intimate portrait of a man grateful to have spent his life doing what he loved. . . . includes many never-before-seen photos." — BooklistHere for the first time is the definitive story of Neil Armstrong's life of flight he shared for five decades with a trusted friend—Jay Barbree.Working from fifty years of conversations he had with Neil, from notes, interviews, NASA spaceflight ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Gorilla Dreams: the Legacy of Dian Fossey

    The Legacy of Dian Fossey

    de Georgianne Nienaber ...
    Imagine that murdered primatologist Dr. Dian Fossey of Gorillas in the Mist fame were alive today and able to reflect upon her death as well as her legacy. This is the impetus behind author Georgianne Nienaber's compelling work, Gorilla Dreams: The Legacy of Dian Fossey.At the beginning of Gorilla Dreams, Fossey attends her own funeral and watches her murdered gorillas interacting with the ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • The Man Who Invented the Computer

    de Jane Smiley ...
    From one of our most acclaimed novelists, a David-and-Goliath biography for the digital age.One night in the late 1930s, in a bar on the Illinois–Iowa border, John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics at Iowa State University, after a frustrating day performing tedious mathematical calculations in his lab, hit on the idea that the binary number system and electronic switches, combined with an ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Einstein and the Quantum

    The Quest of the Valiant Swabian

    de A. Douglas Stone, A. Douglas Stone ...
    The untold story of Albert Einstein's role as the father of quantum theoryEinstein and the Quantum reveals for the first time the full significance of Albert Einstein's contributions to quantum theory. Einstein famously rejected quantum mechanics, observing that God does not play dice. But, in fact, he thought more about the nature of atoms, molecules, and the emission and absorption of light—the ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD

  • The Fossil Hunter

    Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World

    de Shelley Emling ...
    Series series MacSci
    At a time when women were excluded from science, a young girl made a discovery that marked the birth of paleontology and continues to feed the debate about evolution to this day.Mary Anning was only twelve years old when, in 1811, she discovered the first dinosaur skeleton--of an ichthyosaur--while fossil hunting on the cliffs of Lyme Regis, England. Until Mary's incredible discovery, it was ... Leer más

    $15.19 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • How to Think Like Einstein

    de Daniel Smith ...
    Series series How to Think Like ...
    A tantalising mixture of biography-cum-self-help book, this is an accessible, if unusual, analysis of Einstein's thinking- Good Book Guide.Best known as the creator of the world's most famous equation, E=mc2, Albert Einstein's theories of relativity challenged centuries of received wisdom dating back to Newton. Without his groundbreaking work in relativity and quantum physics, our knowledge of the ... Leer más

    $8.69 USD

  • The Autobiography of Sigmund Freud

    de Sigmund Freud ...
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Richard Dawkins

    How a scientist changed the way we think

    de Alan Grafen, Mark Ridley ...
    Published to coincide with the 30th anniversary of The Selfish Gene, this sparkling collection explores the impact of Richard Dawkins as scientist, rationalist, and one of the most important thinkers alive today. Specially commissioned pieces by leading figures in science, philosophy, literature, and the media, such as Daniel C. Dennett, Matt Ridley, Steven Pinker, Philip Pullman, and the Bishop ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD