Tous les ebooks de la collection "SCIENCE MASTERS" - Weidenfeld & Nicolson

18 Livre(s)


Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Words And Rules Steven Pinker One of the world's science superstars presents a brilliantly illuminating, entertaining and cutting-edge account of how language actually works.How does language work? How do children learn their mother tongue? Why do languages change over time, making Chaucer's English... Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson Parution : 2014-05-22 Collection : SCIENCE MASTERS ePub 3,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Human Brain Susan Greenfield Susan Greenfield, one of the world's pre-eminent scientists, takes the reader on a guided tour of the final frontier in human understanding: the brain.Locked away remote from the rest of the body in its own custom-built casing of skull bone, with no intrinsic moving... Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson Parution : 2014-04-10 Collection : SCIENCE MASTERS ePub 3,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Just Six Numbers Martin Rees Astronomer Royal Martin Rees shows how the behaviour and origins of the universe can be explained by just six numbers.How did a single genesis event create billions of galaxies, black holes, stars and planets? How did atoms assemble - here on Earth, and perhaps on other... Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson Parution : 2014-03-20 Collection : SCIENCE MASTERS ePub 3,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Origin Of The Universe John D. Barrow A leading cosmologist explains our current understanding of space and timeThere was immense excitement in the scientific community and among the general public when the COBE space probe sent back data that proved not only that the Big Bang had happened but also that it... Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson Parution : 2014-03-20 Collection : SCIENCE MASTERS ePub 3,49 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Nature's Numbers Ian Stewart A mathematical sightseeing tour of the natural world from the author of THE MAGICAL MAZEWhy do many flowers have five or eight petals, but very few six or seven? Why do snowflakes have sixfold symmetry? Why do tigers have stripes but leopards have spots?Mathematics is... Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson Parution : 2014-03-20 Collection : SCIENCE MASTERS ePub 3,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies River Out Of Eden Richard Dawkins The No.1 SUNDAY TIMES bestseller. A fascinating explanation of how evolution works, from bestselling author of THE GOD DELUSION, Richard Dawkins.The river of Dawkins's title is a river of DNA, flowing through time from the beginning of life on earth to the present - and... Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson Parution : 2014-03-20 Collection : SCIENCE MASTERS ePub 3,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Three Roads to Quantum Gravity Lee Smolin A leading theoretical physicist describes the search for a 'theory of everything'.The Holy Grail of modern physics is the search for a 'quantum gravity' view of the universe that unites Einstein's general relativity with quantum theory. Until recently, these two... Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson Parution : 2014-03-20 Collection : SCIENCE MASTERS ePub 3,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Why Is Sex Fun? Jared Diamond A fascinating insight into how human sexuality came to be the way it is now - Jared Diamond explains why we are different from the animal kingdom.Why are humans one of the few species to have sex in private? Why do humans have sex any day of the month or year, including... Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson Parution : 2014-03-20 Collection : SCIENCE MASTERS ePub 3,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Kinds Of Minds Daniel C. Dennett Daniel Dennett examines the different elements that make up what we call 'minds'What kinds of minds are there, and how do we know? The first question is about what exists and the second is about our knowledge. The aim of Kinds of Minds is to answer these questions, in... Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson Parution : 2013-12-31 Collection : SCIENCE MASTERS ePub 3,49 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Origin Of Humankind Richard Leakey , Richard E. Leakey A meticulously clear account of how early ape-men of the African savanna developed into fully human beings.Leakey has always been interested in far more than the mere physical features presented by fossils, and here he is particularly concerned with non-tangible human... Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson Parution : 2013-12-31 Collection : SCIENCE MASTERS ePub 3,99 € ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Last Three Minutes Paul Davies A fascinating account of current theories on the way the universe will come to an endThe last three minutes of the universe has been the subject of much scientific and lay speculation for many years. Now, Paul Davies clearly and concisely sets out the arguments for... Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson Parution : 2013-12-31 Collection : SCIENCE MASTERS ePub 3,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Symbiotic Planet Lynn Margulis A distinguished microbiologist explains the importance of symbiosis - where different organisms contribute to each other's support - and how this is changing our view of life on EarthLynn Margulis is an ardent supporter of the Gaia hypothesis: the idea that due to the... Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson Parution : 2013-12-31 Collection : SCIENCE MASTERS ePub 3,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Pattern On The Stone Daniel Hillis Will computers become thinking machines? A scientist at the cutting-edge of current research gives his provocative analysis.The world was shocked when a computer, Deep Blue defeated Gary Kasparov, arguably the greatest human chess player ever to have lived. This... Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson Parution : 2013-12-31 Collection : SCIENCE MASTERS ePub 3,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies How Brains Think William H. Calvin A new theory of Intelligence, from a renowned and highly respected writer on brains and evolutionWhat constitutes consciousness or intelligence? This is a question that has proved to philosophers to be an intellectual dead-end. Now William Calvin, by looking closely at... Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson Parution : 2013-12-31 Collection : SCIENCE MASTERS ePub 3,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Science Masters: Plan And Purpose In Nature George C Williams George C. Williams explains how evolution can produce remarkable adaptations in the natural world, and examines how the same process can also produce design flaws that can cause serious problems in living things - including in human beings.Plan and Purpose in Nature is... Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson Parution : 2013-12-31 Collection : SCIENCE MASTERS ePub 2,49 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Periodic Kingdom Peter Atkins A 'travel guide' to the periodic table, explaining the history, geography and the rules of behaviour in this imagined land.The Periodic Kingdom is a journey of imagination in which Peter Atkins treats the periodic table of elements - the 109 chemical elements in the... Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson Parution : 2013-12-31 Collection : SCIENCE MASTERS ePub 3,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies One Renegade Cell Robert A Weinberg How cancers begin and spread, by the scientist responsible for the major recent research breakthroughsCancer research has reached a major turning point. The amount of information gathered in the past twenty years about the origins of the disease is without equal in the... Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson Parution : 2013-12-31 Collection : SCIENCE MASTERS ePub 3,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Laboratory Earth Stephen H Schneider An extremely readable account on the scientific essentials of the global warming debateThe possibility of global climatic change as a result of increasing numbers of people requiring higher stands of living has spawned an international controversy over the... Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson Parution : 2013-12-31 Collection : SCIENCE MASTERS ePub 3,99 €

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