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The Origins of Everything in 100 Pages (More or Less)

par David Bercovici ...

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Covering 13.8 billion years in some 100 pages, a concise, wryly intelligent history of everything, from the Big Bang to the advent of human civilization.With wonder, wit, and flair—and in record time and space—geophysicist David Bercovici explains how everything came to be everywhere, from the creation of stars and galaxies to the formation of Earth's atmosphere and oceans, to the origin of life ... En savoir plus

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Covering 13.8 billion years in some 100 pages, a concise, wryly intelligent history of everything, from the Big Bang to the advent of human civilization.With wonder, wit, and flair—and in record time and space—geophysicist David Bercovici explains how everything came to be everywhere, from the creation of stars and galaxies to the formation of Earth's atmosphere and oceans, to the origin of life
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Η προέλευση των πάντων

par David Bercovici ...

Traduit par Νίκος Αποστολόπουλος ...

H ιστορία των πάντων, 13,8 δισεκατομμύρια χρόνια – από τη Μεγάλη Έκρηξη έως την έλευση του ανθρώπινου πολιτισμού. Με οξυδέρκεια και κομψότητα –και μέσα σε χρόνο και χώρο ρεκόρ– ο γεωφυσικός Ντέιβιντ Μπερκοβίτσι εξηγεί πώς έφτασαν τα πάντα στη σημερινή τους μορφή – από τη δημιουργία των άστρων και των γαλαξιών μέχρι τον σχηματισμό της ατμόσφαιρας και των ωκεανών της Γης, και από την προέλευση της ... En savoir plus

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H ιστορία των πάντων, 13,8 δισεκατομμύρια χρόνια – από τη Μεγάλη Έκρηξη έως την έλευση του ανθρώπινου πολιτισμού. Με οξυδέρκεια και κομψότητα –και μέσα σε χρόνο και χώρο ρεκόρ– ο γεωφυσικός Ντέιβιντ Μπερκοβίτσι εξηγεί πώς έφτασαν τα πάντα στη σημερινή τους μορφή – από τη δημιουργία των άστρων και των γαλαξιών μέχρι τον σχηματισμό της ατμόσφαιρας και των ωκεανών της Γης, και από την προέλευση της
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The Origins of Everything in 100 Pages (More or Less)

par David Bercovici ...

Lu par Jim Meskimen ...

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5 heure 13 min

Covering 13.8 billion years, a calculatedly concise, wryly intelligent history of everything, from the Big Bang to the advent of human civilizationWith wonder, wit, and flair—and in record time and space—geophysicist David Bercovici explains how everything came to be everywhere, from the creation of stars and galaxies to the formation of Earth’s atmosphere and oceans to the origin of life and ... En savoir plus

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Covering 13.8 billion years, a calculatedly concise, wryly intelligent history of everything, from the Big Bang to the advent of human civilizationWith wonder, wit, and flair—and in record time and space—geophysicist David Bercovici explains how everything came to be everywhere, from the creation of stars and galaxies to the formation of Earth’s atmosphere and oceans to the origin of life and
... En savoir plus

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Absolutely Small

How Quantum Theory Explains Our Everyday World

par Michael D Fayer ...

Lu par Scott Peterson ...

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10 heure 25 min

Our intuition about how things should behave is usually right in the everyday world. We see the baseball soar in the air, arc, drop, and lie stationary on the ground. Through data gathered by our senses and basic knowledge of the laws of classical mechanics, the motion of a ball makes perfect sense.But enter the world of the tiniest particles on earth—the motion of electrons, the shapes of ... En savoir plus

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Our intuition about how things should behave is usually right in the everyday world. We see the baseball soar in the air, arc, drop, and lie stationary on the ground. Through data gathered by our senses and basic knowledge of the laws of classical mechanics, the motion of a ball makes perfect sense.But enter the world of the tiniest particles on earth—the motion of electrons, the shapes of
... En savoir plus

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The Eerie Silence

Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence

par Paul Davies ...

Lu par George K. Wilson ...

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10 heure 9 min

Fifty years ago, a young astronomer named Frank Drake pointed a radio telescope at nearby stars in the hope of picking up a signal from an alien civilization. Thus began one of the boldest scientific projects in history, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). But after a half century of scanning the skies, astronomers have little to report but an eerie silence—eerie because many ... En savoir plus

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Fifty years ago, a young astronomer named Frank Drake pointed a radio telescope at nearby stars in the hope of picking up a signal from an alien civilization. Thus began one of the boldest scientific projects in history, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). But after a half century of scanning the skies, astronomers have little to report but an eerie silence—eerie because many
... En savoir plus

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How the Dog Became the Dog

From Wolves to Our Best Friends

par Mark Derr ...

Lu par David Colacci ...

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8 heure 22 min

That the dog evolved from the wolf is an accepted fact of evolution and history, but the question of how wolf became dog has remained a mystery, obscured by myth and legend. How the Dog Became the Dog posits that dog was an evolutionary inevitability in the nature of the wolf and its human soul mate.The natural temperament and social structure of humans and wolves are so similar that as soon as ... En savoir plus

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That the dog evolved from the wolf is an accepted fact of evolution and history, but the question of how wolf became dog has remained a mystery, obscured by myth and legend. How the Dog Became the Dog posits that dog was an evolutionary inevitability in the nature of the wolf and its human soul mate.The natural temperament and social structure of humans and wolves are so similar that as soon as
... En savoir plus

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From Darwin to Derrida

Selfish Genes, Social Selves, and the Meanings of Life

par David Haig, Daniel C. Dennett ...

Lu par Peter Noble ...

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14 heure 59 min

How the meaningless process of natural selection produces purposeful beings who find meaning in the world.In From Darwin to Derrida, evolutionary biologist David Haig explains how a physical world of matter in motion gave rise to a living world of purpose and meaning. Natural selection, a process without purpose, gives rise to purposeful beings who find meaning in the world. The key to this, Haig ... En savoir plus

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How the meaningless process of natural selection produces purposeful beings who find meaning in the world.In From Darwin to Derrida, evolutionary biologist David Haig explains how a physical world of matter in motion gave rise to a living world of purpose and meaning. Natural selection, a process without purpose, gives rise to purposeful beings who find meaning in the world. The key to this, Haig
... En savoir plus

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It's a Numberful World

How Math Is Hiding Everywhere

par Eddie Woo ...

Lu par Adam Lofbomm ...

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5 heure 12 min

Why aren't left-handers extinct? What makes a rainbow round? How is a pancreas . . . like a pendulum?These may not look like math questions, but they are—because they all have to do with patterns. And mathematics, atheart, is the study of patterns.That realization changed Eddie Woo's life—by turning the "dry" subject he dreaded in high school into a boundless quest for discovery. Now an award ... En savoir plus

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Why aren't left-handers extinct? What makes a rainbow round? How is a pancreas . . . like a pendulum?These may not look like math questions, but they are—because they all have to do with patterns. And mathematics, atheart, is the study of patterns.That realization changed Eddie Woo's life—by turning the "dry" subject he dreaded in high school into a boundless quest for discovery. Now an award
... En savoir plus

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What We Did in Bed

A Horizontal History

par Brian Fagan, Nadia Durrani ...

Lu par Michael Langan ...

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6 heure 47 min

Pulling back the covers on the fascinating, yet often forgotten, history of the bedLouis XIV ruled France from his bedchamber. Winston Churchill governed Britain from his during World War II. Travelers routinely used to bed down with complete strangers, and whole families shared beds in many preindustrial households. Beds were expensive items—and often for show. Tutankhamun was buried on a golden ... En savoir plus

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Pulling back the covers on the fascinating, yet often forgotten, history of the bedLouis XIV ruled France from his bedchamber. Winston Churchill governed Britain from his during World War II. Travelers routinely used to bed down with complete strangers, and whole families shared beds in many preindustrial households. Beds were expensive items—and often for show. Tutankhamun was buried on a golden
... En savoir plus

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50 Battles That Changed the World

par William Weir ...

Lu par Rick Turner ...

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5 heure 13 min

Rather than celebrating warfare, 50 Battles That Changed The World looks at the clashes the author believes have had the most profound impact on world history. Listed in order of their relevance to the modern world, they range from the ancient past to the present day and span the globe many times over. This book is not so much about military strategy as the implications of the battles that were ... En savoir plus

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Rather than celebrating warfare, 50 Battles That Changed The World looks at the clashes the author believes have had the most profound impact on world history. Listed in order of their relevance to the modern world, they range from the ancient past to the present day and span the globe many times over. This book is not so much about military strategy as the implications of the battles that were
... En savoir plus

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Gravity’s Century

From Einstein’s Eclipse to Images of Black Holes

par Ron Cowen ...

Lu par John Patrick Walsh ...

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4 heure 58 min

A sweeping account of the century of experimentation that confirmed Einstein’s general theory of relativity, bringing to life the science and scientists at the origins of relativity, the development of radio telescopes, the discovery of black holes and quasars, and the still unresolved place of gravity in quantum theory.Albert Einstein did nothing of note on May 29, 1919; yet that is when he ... En savoir plus

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A sweeping account of the century of experimentation that confirmed Einstein’s general theory of relativity, bringing to life the science and scientists at the origins of relativity, the development of radio telescopes, the discovery of black holes and quasars, and the still unresolved place of gravity in quantum theory.Albert Einstein did nothing of note on May 29, 1919; yet that is when he
... En savoir plus

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Uranium Wars

The Scientific Rivalry that Created the Nuclear Age

par Amir D. Aczel ...

Lu par Eric Conger ...

Collections series MacSci
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8 heure

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 ... En savoir plus

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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
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