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Elon Musk - hľadanie fantastickej budúcnosti
Elon Musk - podnikateľ, vynálezca, skutočný Iron man.
Inšpiratívny príbeh jedného z najvýznamnejších inovátorov na svete.
Od svojich skromných začiatkov v Južnej Afrike sa Elon Musk stal najpodnetnejším podnikateľom sveta, zakladateľom spoločností PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla a SolarCity. Chlapíkom, ktorý nám ponúka možnosť jasnejšej, vzrušujúcejšej budúcnosti nielen na Zemi, ako aj mimo nej. Je inovatívny, optimistický a hyperaktívny, najlepší vzor pre začínajúceho podnikateľa.
Skvelý pohľad do vnútra zrejme najvýznamnejšieho podnikateľa sveta. Vance maľuje nezabudnuteľný obraz Muskovej jedinečnej osobnosti, neutíchajúceho elánu a schopnosti prekonávať útrapy. Washington Post
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Ja som ňi sťato
Emeritný člen Učenej spoločnosti Slovenska, popredný slovenský vedec, mikrobiológ a biotechnológ, sa narodil v rodine dolnozemských Slovákov v dedinke Bingula vo Vojvodine (Srbsko). V tejto knihe autor opisuje zážitky a pocity osemročného chlapca presadeného z dedinského prostredia do veľkého mesta, akým sa mu vtedy javila Bratislava. Vo veku štrnástich rokov odišiel do Prahy študovať na Priemyselnú školu jadrovej techniky a po jej ukončení pokračoval v štúdiu na Fakulte technickej a jadrovej fyziky Českého vysokého učenia technického v Prahe v špecializácii jadrová chémia. Autor zaujímavým spôsobom vykresľuje svoje životné peripetie počas štúdia i po ňom, ako aj cestu, ktorá ho priviedla k splneniu sna stať sa vedcom. Jeho túžby sa začali plniť nástupom na vedeckú ašpirantúru v Chemickom ústave Slovenskej akadémie vied v Bratislave, kde je činný doteraz. Postupom času sa prepracoval medzi slovenskú vedeckú elitu, pôsobil ako hosťujúci profesor na viacerých špičkových vedeckých pracoviskách a univerzitách v USA, Kanade, Japonsku, Škótsku, Austrálii... Svojimi výsledkami v oblasti biochémie sacharidov a biologickej ochrany rastlín dosiahol významné uznanie doma i v zahraničí. Za celoživotné výsledky vedeckej práce a ich realizáciu v praxi získal viacero prestížnych ocenení. Autor chce týmito zápiskami ukázať, že veda v nijakom prípade nie je nuda, a inšpirovať mladých ľudí, aby neváhali zvoliť si vedeckú dráhu ako celoživotné povolanie.
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Taking on Gravity
For fans of Adrian Newey, Guy Martin and Chris Hadfield, in Taking on Gravity inventor Richard Browning tells the inspiring story behind his iconic jet suit, and shares his creative principles for generating true innovation.
From Icarus to Iron Man, the dream of human flight has always inspired and challenged us. Now, with his pioneering jet suit, Richard Browning has redefined what is possible.
Richard Browning's story is one of groundbreaking innovation. Building an aviation business from his garage, he has invented a whole new form of personal flight - a fantasy previously reserved for the pages of science fiction. His iconic jet suit has captured the imaginations of millions around the world, triggered ongoing developments in technology and engineering, and inspired a new generation of creative minds to pursue their dreams.
In Taking on Gravity, Browning reveals the creative principles of his multimillion-pound company, Gravity Industries, and shows us how grass-roots innovation can disrupt established industries in exciting and unexpected ways. On this journey into the sky we'll experience what it's like to take flight, to test the limits of the human body, and to convert moonshot ideas into tangible results.
The Gravity story is an inspiring example of human creativity and our ceaseless desire to push the boundaries of what is possible. Where we go next is up to you.
Power Play : Elon Musk, Tesla, and the Bet of the Century
Inside the outrageous, come-from-behind story of Elon Musk and Tesla's bid to build the world's greatest car and the race to drive the future.
Elon Musk is among the most controversial titans of Silicon Valley. To some he's a genius and a visionary and to others he's a mercurial huckster. Billions of dollars have been gained and lost on his tweets and his personal exploits are the stuff of tabloids. But for all his outrageous talk of mind-uploading and space travel, his most audacious vision is the one closest to the ground: the electric car.
When Tesla was founded in the 2000s, electric cars were novelties, trotted out and thrown on the scrap heap by carmakers for more than a century. But where most onlookers saw only failure, a small band of Silicon Valley engineers and entrepreneurs saw potential and they pitted themselves against the biggest, fiercest business rivals in the world, setting out to make a car that was quicker, sexier, smoother, cleaner than the competition.
Tesla would undergo a truly hellish fifteen years, beset by rivals, pressured by investors, hobbled by whistleblowers, buoyed by its loyal supporters. Musk himself would often prove Tesla's worst enemy--his antics repeatedly taking the company he had funded himself to the brink of collapse. Was he an underdog, an antihero, a conman, or some combination of the three?
Wall Street Journal tech and auto reporter Tim Higgins had a front-row seat for the drama: the pileups, wrestling for control, meltdowns, and the unlikeliest outcome of all, success. A story of power, recklessness, struggle, and triumph, Power Play is an exhilarating look at how a team of eccentrics and innovators beat the odds... and changed the future.
A mi kockánk
A Rubik-kocka sokkal több, mint pusztán egy lebilincselő rejtvény: igazi világjelenséggé vált. Könyvek, színdarabok és hollywoodi szuperprodukciók állandó szereplője, egyetemi kurzusok tárgya, világversenyek sporteszköze. Közel fél évszázados története során így lett csaknem egymilliárd ember játéka.
A Kocka mára a gondolkodás örömének és a látszólag lehetetlen problémák megoldásának közismert jelképévé vált. Erről a csodálatos tárgyról és alkotójáról több ezer cikk és számtalan könyv jelent már meg világszerte, de Rubik Ernő - aki világéletében kerülte a nyilvánosságot - még sohasem mesélte el, milyen volt számára végigkövetni e kis tárgy minden várakozást felülmúló sikerét és különös kalandjait a nagyvilágban.
A mi kockánk - mely a világ számos pontján a magyar kiadással egy időben jelenik meg - tanulságos utazásra invitálja az olvasót a matematika, a pszichológia, az oktatás, a képzőművészet, a design, az építészet és a popkultúra területén. Elgondolkodtató, magával ragadó, álomszerű kirándulás ez modern korunk egyik legkülönlegesebb kreatív elméjével.
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Béres József 100
Egy japán szuperexpressz volt a gáncsoskodó, bukását, elítélését követelő, négyökrös szekéren közlekedőkkel szemben. -Afféle szent ember volt, de minimum egy második Semmelweis. -Megérdemelné az orvosi Nobel-díjat. - Tisztelt minden embert, és az emberek szerették őt. -Önzetlensége határtalan volt. Legyen áldott az emléke! Béres Józsefről, a Béres Csepp megalkotójáról írták ezeket a gondolatokat az őt ismerő emberek. Néhány szó, amiben benne van egy egész nemzet tisztelete, szeretete egy igaz ember iránt. Béres József az idén lenne 100 éves. A magyar tudománytörténet kiemelkedő alakja találmányával, lángoló igazságkeresésével, tiszta emberségével kitörölhetetlenül beírta magát a magyarság legnagyobb példaképeinek sorába. Ez a könyv születésének századik esztendejében, a jubileumi év alkalmából született, főhajtás az ember előtt, aki még nem is olyan régen köztünk járt, és aki gyógyító szerével, szellemiségével ma is velünk él. Születésének századik évfordulója alkalmából pályázatot hirdettünk. Azokat szólítottuk meg, akik ismerték őt, személyes emlékek, tapasztalatok birtokosai, akik első kézből tudnak mesélni róla. A könyvbe a pályázatra érkezett írásokat gyűjtöttük egybe, s adjuk tovább az olvasóknak. Meggyőződésünk, hogy ezek a levelek – éppen a személyességükön keresztül – hitelesen visznek még közelebb bennünket egy olyan emberhez, aki nem ijedt meg a kihívásoktól, akinek volt bátorsága megküzdeni az igazáért, aki tisztelte és becsülte az életet, a másik embert. Olyan példa az övé, ami előre visz és arra buzdít mai, modern világunkban is: érdemes, csak így érdemes…
Nikola Tesla és az univerzum titkai
Az emberiség történelmében sok nagy filozófus, számtalan híres természettudós és megannyi nagy feltaláló munkálkodott a társadalom, a tudomány és a technika fejlődésén. Kevesen voltak azonban olyanok, akik mindhárom területen kimagaslót alkottak. Közülük is az egyik legnagyobb hatású személyiség kétség kívül Nikola Tesla volt.
A könyvben végigkísérhetjük rendkívüli életét a születésétől kezdve egészen a haláláig, és közben megismerhetjük azokat a titkokat, amelyeket határtalan tudásvágya és rendkívüli képességei révén ismert meg a körülöttünk lévő világról. A könyv ezért nemcsak a műszaki érdeklődésű szakemberek számára lehet érdekes olvasmány, hanem azoknak is, akik szellemi fejlődésükhöz keresnek hasznos ismereteket.
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Elon Musk
South African born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity. Musk wants to save our planet; he wants to send citizens into space, to form a colony on Mars; he wants to make money while doing these things; and he wants us all to know about it. He is the real-life inspiration for the Iron Man series of films starring Robert Downey Junior. The personal tale of Musk's life comes with all the trappings one associates with a great, drama-filled story. He was a freakishly bright kid who was bullied brutally at school, and abused by his father. In the midst of these rough conditions, and the violence of apartheid South Africa, Musk still thrived academically and attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he paid his own way through school by turning his house into a club and throwing massive parties. He started a pair of huge dot-com successes, including PayPal, which eBay acquired for $1.5 billion in 2002. Musk was forced out as CEO and so began his lost years in which he decided to go it alone and baffled friends by investing his fortune in rockets and electric cars. Meanwhile Musk's marriage disintegrated as his technological obsessions took over his life...Elon Musk is the Steve Jobs of the present and the future, and for the past twelve months, he has been shadowed by tech reporter, Ashlee Vance. Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of Spacex and Tesla is Shaping our Future is an important, exciting and intelligent account of the real-life Iron Man.
Cubed
As a child, Erno Rubik became obsessed with puzzles of all kinds. To him, they weren't just games - they were challenges that captured his imagination, creativity and perseverance. Rubik's own puzzle went on to be solved by millions worldwide, becoming one of the bestselling toys of all time. In Cubed, he tells us the story of the unexpected and unprecedented rise of the Cube for the very first time - and makes a case for why rediscovering our playfulness and inner curiosity holds the key to creative thinking.
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Girl Decoded
'Bold, inspired and hopeful' Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO of Thrive Global
'Lucid and captivating' Max Tegmark, professor of physics at MIT and author of Life 3.0
A captivating memoir that chronicles one woman's mission to humanise technology and what she learns about humanity along the way.
Now more than ever, we find ourselves unable to express our true feelings through technology. Whether it's a misunderstood text, an oversimplified emoji or a Skype call that leaves us feeling lonely, when most of our communication is carried out through tech, the result is a virtual world that's lacking our humanity - a society lacking in empathy.
Rana el Kaliouby discovered this when she left Cairo, a newly-married, Muslim woman, to take up her place at Cambridge University to study computer science. Many thousands of miles from home, she began to develop systems to help her better connect with her family. She started to pioneer the new field of Emotional Intelligence (EI). She now runs her company, Affectiva (the industry-leader in this emerging field) that builds EI into our technology and develops systems that understand humans the way we understand one another. This is the fascinating story of her mission to humanise technology and what she learns about humanity along the way.
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Tim Cook
In 2011, Tim Cook took on an impossible task - following in the footsteps of one of history's greatest business visionaries, Steve Jobs. Facing worldwide scrutiny, Cook (who was often described as shy, unassuming and unimaginative) defied all expectations. Under Cook's leadership Apple has soared: its stock has nearly tripled to become the world's first trillion-dollar company. From the massive growth of the iPhone to new victories like the Apple Watch, Cook is leading Apple to a new era of success.
But he's also spearheaded a cultural revolution within the company. Since becoming CEO, Cook has introduced a new style of management that emphasizes kindness, collaboration and honesty, and has quietly pushed Apple to support sexual and racial equal rights and invest heavily in renewable energy.
Drawing on authorized access with several Apple insiders, Kahney, the world's leading reporter on Apple, tells the inspiring story of how one man attempted to replace the irreplaceable and succeeded better than anyone thought possible.
Leander Kahney has covered Apple for more than a dozen years and has written four popular books about Apple and the culture of its followers, including Inside Steve's Brain and Jony Ive. The former news editor for Wired.com, he is currently the editor and publisher of CultofMac.com. He lives in San Francisco.
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Escape from Earth
ESCAPE FROM EARTH is the untold story of the engineers, dreamers and rebels who started the American space programme. In particular, it is the story of Frank Malina, founder of what became Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the scientist who cracked the, as he called it, problem of escape from the Earth by rocket.
It's a wild ride. Jack Parsons, Malina's chemistry-expert research partner, was a bed-hopping occultist with delusions of grandeur. We get all the horrible details: drug parties and sex magic, cameos by Aleister Crowley and L Ron Hubbard, and an ill-fated attempt to start a mail-order religion.
Armed with hitherto unpublished letters, journals, and documents from the Malina family archives, Fraser MacDonald reveals what we didn't know. Jack Parsons betrayed Frank Malina to the FBI, cooperating fully in their investigation of Malina for un-American activities. The Jet Propulsion Lab's second director secretly denounced Frank as a Communist. Frank's research group had close ties to the spy network of the infamous Rosenbergs - the only Americans executed during the Red Scare. This is a story of soaring ideals entangled in the most human of complications: infidelity and divorce, betrayal and treason.
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Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars
A powerful reflection on life in isolation, in pursuit of the dream of Mars.
In 2013 Kate Greene moved to Mars.
On NASA's first HI-SEAS simulated Mars mission in Hawaii, she lived for four months in an isolated geodesic dome with her crewmates, gaining incredible insight into human behaviour in tight quarters, as well as the nature of boredom, dreams and isolation that arise amidst the promise of scientific progress and glory. Greene draws on her experience to contemplate what makes an astronaut, the challenges of freeze-dried eggs and time-lagged correspondence, the cost of shooting for a Planet B.
The result is a story of space and life, of the slippage between dreams and reality, of bodies in space, and of humanity's incredible impulse to explore.
From trying out life on Mars, Greene examines what it is to live on Earth.
'In her thoughtful, well-written account of the mission, Greene reflects on what this and other space missions can teach us about ourselves and life on Earth.' Physics Today
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Surely Youre Joking Mr. Feynman
Richard P. Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous adventures. In this lively work that "can shatter the stereotype of the stuffy scientist" (Detroit Free Press), Feynman recounts his experiences trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and cracking the uncrackable safes guarding the most deeply held nuclear secrets-and much more of an eyebrow-raising nature. In his stories, Feynman's life shines through in all its eccentric glory-a combustible mixture of high intelligence, unlimited curiosity, and raging chutzpah.
Included for this edition is a new introduction by Bill Gates.
The Scientists
Forty articles expertly curated by biographer Andrew Robinson provide an unrivalled account of the lives and personalities behind the greatest scientific breakthroughs of all time. Who made us see the atom, our minds, our planet and the universe afresh? How did we uncover the mysteries of life on earth? What next? The theories, discoveries and inventions of scientists have revolutionized our consciousness. Think of gravity, evolution, relativity, radioactivity and the Big Bang; electric motors, vaccines, nuclear power and computers.
Behind these breakthroughs lie the personal stories of men and women with vision and determination: singular thinkers who defied adversity in their quest for answers. This book tells the remarkable lives of the pioneers - from Galileo, Faraday and Darwin, through Pasteur and Marie Curie, to Einstein, Freud and Turing. Written by an international team of distinguished scientists, historians and science writers, it will intrigue budding scientists; those fascinated by the lives of great individuals; and anyone curious to know how we came to understand the exterior world and the pulse of life within.
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In the Wars
Born in war-torn Afghanistan, Waheed Arian's earliest memories are of bombs. Fleeing the conflict with his family, he spent much of his childhood in refugee camps in Pakistan, living sometimes ten to a room without basic sanitation or access to education. After he contracted tuberculosis, his first-hand experience of the power of medicine inspired Waheed to dedicate his life to heaing others. But how does a boy with nothing hope to become a doctor?
Waheed largely taught himself, from textbooks bought from street-sellers, and learned English from the BBC World Service. Smuggled to the UK at fifteen with just $100 in his pocket, he found a job in a shop. He was advised to set his sights on becoming a taxi driver. But the boy from Kabul had bigger ambitions.
Working through PTSD and anxiety, he studied all hours to achieve his vocation. He was accepted to read medicine at Cambridge University, Imperial College and Harvard, and went on to become a doctor in the NHS. But he wanted to do more. In 2015 he founded Arian Teleheal, a pioneering global charity that connects doctors in war zones and low-resource countries with their counterparts in the US, UK, Europe and Australia. Together, learning from each other, they save and change lives - the lives of millions of people just like Waheed.
This is the extraordinary memoir of a boy who dreamed about helping others, a tale of courage, ambition and unwavering resilience against all odds.
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Taking on Gravity
For fans of Adrian Newey, Guy Martin and Chris Hadfield, in Taking on Gravity inventor Richard Browning tells the inspiring story behind his iconic jet suit, and shares his creative principles for generating true innovation.
From Icarus to Iron Man, the dream of human flight has always inspired and challenged us. Now, with his pioneering jet suit, Richard Browning has redefined what is possible.
Richard Browning's story is one of groundbreaking innovation. Building an aviation business from his garage, he has invented a whole new form of personal flight - a fantasy previously reserved for the pages of science fiction. His iconic jet suit has captured the imaginations of millions around the world, triggered ongoing developments in technology and engineering, and inspired a new generation of creative minds to pursue their dreams.
In Taking on Gravity, Browning reveals the creative principles of his multimillion-pound company, Gravity Industries, and shows us how grass-roots innovation can disrupt established industries in exciting and unexpected ways. On this journey into the sky we'll experience what it's like to take flight, to test the limits of the human body, and to convert moonshot ideas into tangible results.
The Gravity story is an inspiring example of human creativity and our ceaseless desire to push the boundaries of what is possible. Where we go next is up to you.
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Tesla - Génius, který zkrotil elektřinu
Vizionářský vynálezce, excentrický génius a rebel i outsider.
Životní příběh Nikoly Tesly, doplněný bohatou obrazovou přílohou.
Kdo byl Nikola Tesla? Na jedné straně vynálezce, vizionář a génius, na druhé straně outsider, excentrik a rebel. Zatímco Teslovy vynálezy ovlivnily každodenní život lidí na celém světě a změnily průmyslovou výrobu, on sám se po většinu života potýkal s existenčními problémy a zemřel téměř bez prostředků.
David J. Kent v této graficky výjimečné publikaci odhaluje populárně-vědeckým stylem Teslův život i dramatické události a tajemství obestírající tuto téměř romantickou postavu. Střídavý proud, rádio, bezdrátová komunikace, elektromotor – to jsou jen některé z objevů Nikoly Tesly. Přesto ovoce jeho úspěchů sklidili ve většině případů jiní. Tesla se dočkal slávy teprve až po smrti. V souvislosti s touto osobností se také objevuje spousta konspiračních teorií, a dokonce se stala i jistým popkulturním idolem.
Kniha je navíc bohatě doplněná o řadu téměř neznámých fotografií ilustrujících život muže, jenž dodnes nepřestává jitřit fantazii veřejnosti.
Bohatě vypravená publikace o neobyčejné osobnosti, životě a díle Nikoly Tesly.
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Nikola Tesla
Kniha populárním a podrobným způsobem zpracovává atraktivní téma - život a dílo Nikoly Tesly, důležitého vynálezce, který společně s Edisonem vytvořil základy moderní elektrotechniky, ocitl se však často (neprávem) ve stínu publicity některých kolegů. Nikola Tesla je jedním z nejdůležitějších vědců a vynálezců všech dob. Díky jeho vynálezům, patentům a zdokonalením mohlo dojít ke skutečně plnému využití potenciálu elektrické energie a elektromagnetismu.
V kategórii Biografie - Veda, vynálezy ponúkame širokú škálu zaujímavých biografických kníh, ktoré sa zameriavajú na významné osobnosti v oblasti vedy a vynálezov. Tieto knihy vám umožnia priblížiť sa k životom a príbehom významných vedcov, objaviteľov a vynálezcov, ktorí svojimi príspevkami zmenili svet.
Nájdete tu životopisy osobností z rôznych oblastí vedy, vrátane fyziky, chémie, biológie, medicíny a mnohých ďalších. Snažíme sa zachytiť ich príbehy od ich raných začiatkov až po dosiahnutie ich najväčších vedeckých úspechov. V našich knihách sa dozviete o ich výskumoch, experimentoch, objavoch a vynálezoch, ktoré otvorili nové cesty a posunuli hranice poznania.
Každá biografia je napísaná s dôrazom na vedecké detaily a poskytuje vám vhľad do myšlienkových procesov a tvorivosti týchto výnimočných jednotlivcov. Sme presvedčení, že tieto príbehy môžu slúžiť ako inšpirácia pre každého, kto sa zaujíma o vedu, technológie a vynálezy.
