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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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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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Karel Absolon: Objevitel, manažer, vědec
Karel Absolon byl významnou a nepřehlédnutelnou osobností. Jeho jméno zůstane spjato se zpřístupněním dna propasti Macochy, s archeologickými výzkumy korunovanými nálezem Věstonické venuše či s vybudováním pavilonu Anthropos v Brně. Spektrum jeho rozsáhlé činnosti doplňovaly zejména v počátcích jeho aktivního života i úspěchy v oboru zoologie, zvláště při výzkumu bezobratlých troglobiontních živočichů. Absolon byl však také osobou kontroverzní, kromě obdivovatelů měl i řadu odpůrců, za svými cíli a úspěchy šel mnohdy nekompromisně a tvrdě. V každém případě za sebou zanechal nejen mnoho speleologických, archeologických a zoologických objevů, ale i obrovské množství publikací, fotografií, rukopisů a dalších dokumentů, které po celou dobu své působnosti schraňoval. Absolonovo dílo je vskutku monumentální a čerpat z něj budou ještě mnohé další generace.
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Peter 2.0
Peter, a brilliant scientist, is told that he will lose everything he loves.
His husband. His family. His friends. His ability to travel the world. All will be gone.
But Peter will not give up. He vows that this will not be the end and instead seeks a completely new beginning . . .
Peter has Motor Neurone Disease, a condition universally considered by doctors to be terminal. He is told it will destroy his nerve cells and that within an average of two years, it will take his life too.
But, face-to-face with death, he decides there is another way. Using his background in science and technology, he navigates a new path, one that will enable him not just to survive, but to thrive.
This is the astonishing true story behind the primetime Channel 4 documentary, about Peter Scott-Morgan the first person to combine his very humanity with artificial intelligence and robotics to become a full Cyborg. His discovery means that his terminal diagnosis is negotiable, something that will rewrite the future. And change the world.
By embracing love, life and hope rather than fear, tragedy and despair he will become Peter 2.0.
'A remarkable story . . . you're left desperate to take nothing for granted' Radio Times
'What's striking is Peter's constant optimism, bravery and his ability to find radical answers to problems that have confounded Britain's brightest minds' The Daily Telegraph
'Intriguing' The Times
'Fascinating and extremely moving' The Sun
'A remarkable account of what it means to be human and what technology can really achieve' The Sunday Telegraph
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Genius Makers
Long dismissed as a technology of the distant future, artificial intelligence was a project once consigned to the fringes of the scientific community. Then two researchers changed everything. One was a 64-year-old computer science professor with a back problem so severe he could not drive or fly. The other was a 36-year-old neuroscientist and chess prodigy. Though they took very different paths, together they helped catapult AI to the forefront of our daily lives and, in the process, created a business worth billions.
This is the story of that technological revolution and of the arms race it has sparked among companies that range from Google to Facebook to OpenAI. It's the story of growing international rivalry to achieve major new breakthroughs. And it's a story that shows both the inventive best of humankind and its darker side, as advances have been counter-balanced by issues of prejudice, bias and the invasion of privacy.
New York Times Silicon Valley journalist Cade Metz draws on unparalleled access to all the major players to create an extraordinarily vivid account of a revolution over five decades in the making. And he poses the questions that will dominate the next half-century: where will AI take us next? Are systems with truly human intelligence on the horizon? And, if so, where does that leave us?
'One day soon, when computers are safely driving our roads and speaking to us in complete sentences, we'll look back at Cade Metz's elegant, sweeping Genius Makers as their birth story - the Genesis for an age of sentient machines.' Brad Stone, author of The Everything Store and The Upstarts
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Lacná kniha Vy asi žartujete! (-70%)
Jedna z najslávnejších vedeckých kníh našich čias, fenomenálny bestseller, v ktorom „iskrí energia, zábavné príbehy a život. Skoro zatúžite stať sa fyzikom.“ (Science Digest)
Laureát Nobelovej ceny za fyziku Richard P. Feynman v kultovej autobiografii Vy asi žartujete! búra mýty o nudných vedcoch. Slávneho popularizátora vedy v bádaní odjakživa poháňala číra zvedavosť a radosť z objavovania. Nedal si ujsť jedinú príležitosť nahovoriť kolegov na bláznivé pokusy a pobaviť ich. Feynmanove vtipné príhody a anekdoty roky zbieral jeho kolega, priateľ a príležitostný spoluhráč na bubny Ralph Leighton. Spomína sa v nich, ako sa o atómovej fyzike radil s Einsteinom, ako sa dobýjal do nedobytných sejfov s prísne stráženými tajomstvami, ako dal americkej vláde za dolár patent na atómovú bombu a ešte na mnoho iného, z čoho sa čitateľovi dvíha obočie. Vo všetkých historkách sa snúbi Feynmanova brilantná myseľ, zvedavosť a nehorázna drzosť. Práve preto sa mnohé z nich stali legendárnymi ešte skôr, ako vyšli knižne.
Z anglického originálu Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (W. W. Norton Company 2018) preložil Peter Tkačenko.
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Life Support
A powerful, moving account of an intensive care doctor's life on the frontline of the Covid-19 pandemic
As a doctor running the intensive care unit at one of London's top hospitals, Jim Down has spent his life working as healthcare's last resort, where the unexpected is always around the corner, and life and death decisions are an everyday occurrence.
But nothing had prepared Jim and his team for the events of spring 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic descended. In Life Support, he tells the extraordinary month-by-month story of how as the nation came to a standstill, he and his colleagues donned PPE, received an unprecedented influx of patients, transformed their hospital and took on the biggest challenge in the history of the NHS.
The pandemic raised difficult questions for Jim: how do you fight a new disease? How do you go home at night to your wife and young children when you've spent all day around highly infectious patients? How do you tell a mother that her healthy young son has died, only days after falling ill?
With warmth, honesty and humour, this book is a gripping, moving testament to the everyday heroism of the NHS staff in a global crisis, and an unforgettable insight into what was really happening in the wards as we clapped on our doorsteps.
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Liftoff: Elon Musk And The Desperate Early Days That Launched Spacex
The dramatic inside story of the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX-and Elon Musk-from a shaky startup into the world's leading edge rocket company.
SpaceX has enjoyed a miraculous decade. Less than 20 years after its founding, it boasts the largest constellation of commercial satellites in orbit, has pioneered reusable rockets, and in 2020 became the first private company to launch human beings into orbit. Half a century after the space race SpaceX is pushing forward into the cosmos, laying the foundation for our exploration of other worlds.
But before it became one of the most powerful players in the aerospace industry, SpaceX was a fledgling startup, scrambling to develop a single workable rocket before the money ran dry. The engineering challenge was immense; numerous other private companies had failed similar attempts. And even if SpaceX succeeded, they would then have to compete for government contracts with titans such as Lockheed Martin and Boeing, who had tens of thousands of employees and tens of billions of dollars in annual revenue. SpaceX had fewer than 200 employees and the relative pittance of $100 million in the bank.
In Liftoff, Eric Berger takes readers inside the wild early days that made SpaceX. Focusing on the company's first four launches of the Falcon 1 rocket, he charts the bumpy journey from scrappy underdog to aerospace pioneer. drawing upon exclusive interviews with dozens of former and current engineers, designers, mechanics, and executives, including Elon Musk. The enigmatic Musk, who founded the company with the dream of one day settling Mars, is the fuel that propels the book, with his daring vision for the future of space.
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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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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How I Learned to Understand the World
This is a book that contains very few numbers. Instead, it is about meeting people who have opened my eyes.
It was facts that helped him explain how the world works. But it was curiosity and commitment that made the late Hans Rosling, author of worldwide bestseller Factfulness, the most popular researcher of our time.
How I Learned to Understand the World is Hans Rosling's own story of how a young scientist learned became a revolutionary thinker, and takes us from the swelter of an emergency clinic in Mozambique, to the World Economic Forum at Davos.
In collaboration with Swedish journalist Fanny Hargestam, Hans Rosling wrote his memoir with the same joy of storytelling that made a whole world listen when he spoke.
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Code Like a Girl
Welcome to Code Like a Girl, where you'll get started on the adventure of coding with cool projects and step-by-step tips, from the co-author of the bestselling The Daring Book for Girls. Coding is about creativity, self-expression, and telling your story. It's solving problems and being curious, building things, making the world a better place, and creating a future. It's about you: whoever you are, wherever you're at, whatever you want. Nearly everything you encounter on a screen is made from code. You see, with code you can have an idea and put it into action: it's your voice and your vision. From the outside, tech and code may seem puzzling and mysterious, but when you get through the door and past the first few beginner steps and your code starts to work, it feels like magic. In this book, you'll learn how to:
- Code with Scratch--projects like making a dog walk through the park, sending your friend a card, and devising a full-scoring game!
- Build your own computer--really!
- Create your own digital fortune-teller, with the Python language.
- Make your own smartphone gloves.
- Make light-up bracelets.
- Code a motion sensor that tells you when someone enters your room.
- And lots more!
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Broken Places and Outer Spaces
Nnedi Okorafor was never supposed to be paralyzed. A college track star and budding entomologist, Nnedi's lifelong battle with scoliosis was just a bump in her plan - something a simple surgery would easily correct.
But when Nnedi wakes from the surgery to find she can't move her legs, her entire sense of who she is begins to waver. Confined to a hospital bed for months, unusual things begin to happen. Psychedelic bugs crawl her hospital walls; strange dreams visit her nightly. She begins to feel as if she's turning into a cyborg. Unsure if she'll ever walk again, Nnedi begins to put these experiences into writing, conjuring up strange, fantastical stories.
What Nnedi discovers during her confinement would prove to be the key to her life as a successful science fiction writer: In science fiction, when something breaks, something greater often emerges from the cracks. While she may be bedridden, instead of stopping her journey Nnedi's paralysis opens up new windows in her mind, kindles her creativity and ultimately leads her to become more alive than she ever could have imagined.
Nnedi takes the reader on a journey from her hospital bed deep into her memories, from her painful first experiences with racism as a child in Chicago to her powerful visits to her parents' hometown in Nigeria, where she got her first inkling that science fiction has roots beyond the West. This was not the Africa that Nnedi knew from Western literature - an Africa that she always read was a place left behind. The role of technology in Nigeria opened her eyes to future-looking Africa: cable TV and cell phones in the village, 419 scammers occupying the cybercafes, the small generator connected to her cousin's desktop computer, everyone quickly adapting to portable tech devices due to unreliable power sources. Nnedi could see that Africa was far from broken, as she'd been taught, and her experience there planted the early seeds of sci-fi - a genre that speculates about technologies, societies, and social issues - from an entirely new lens.
In Broken Places & Outer Spaces, Nnedi uses her own experience as a jumping off point to follow the phenomenon of creativity born from hardship. From Frida Kahlo to Mary Shelly, she examines great artists and writers who have pushed through their limitations, using hardship to fuel their work. Through these compelling stories and her own, Nnedi reveals a universal truth: What we perceive as limitations have the potential to become our greatest strengths - far greater than when we were unbroken.
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Lacná kniha Hawking (-70%)
Britský teoretický fyzik Stephen Hawking patří mezi největší osobnosti vědy moderních dějin. Jeho příběh je velmi inspirativní. Nepoddal se těžkému onemocnění, ale místo toho pracoval na základních zákonech fungování vesmíru. Kniha se nezaobírá jen jeho cestou k takřka dvěma stům odborných děl, ale také sleduje jeho soukromý život.
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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.
Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla
The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla is the definitive record of the pioneering work of one of the modern world's most groundbreaking inventors. During the early twentieth century, Tesla blazed the trail that electrical technology followed for decades afterward. Although he pioneered inventions like alternating current (AC), radio, wireless transmission, and X-rays, and worked with innovators like George Westinghouse and Thomas Edison, the once-celebrated Tesla was later largely forgotten by history.
This beautiful leatherbound edition brings together many of the findings and theories that made this genius famous (and to some, infamous), showing not only the scope of Nikola Tesla's theories and inventions, but allowing contemporary readers to experience the visionary range of his thinking. In addition to its many detailed reproductions of Tesla's patents and inventions, this highly collectible book includes dozens of thought-provoking lectures and articles. The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla affords a rare glimpse of a true genius at work.
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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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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.
Inovátoři - Jak skupinka vynálezců, hackerů, géniů a nadšenců stvořila digitální revoluci
V roce 2011 se z Isaacsonova převratného životopisu zakladatele Applu Steva Jobse stal globální fenomén a jedna z nejprodávanějších knih literatury faktu všech dob. Nyní Walter Isaacson přichází s příběhem lidí, kteří nástup Jobse a digitálního věku umožnili. Pokud chcete pochopit, jak k inovacím skutečně dochází a jak spolupráce vede ke kreativitě, pak jsou Inovátoři tou správnou volbou. Tato kniha má naději stát se klasickým textem o dějinách digitální revoluce a nepostradatelným průvodcem světem inovací.
Isaacsonova mistrná sága začíná Adou Lovelaceovou, dcerou lorda Byrona, jež se ve čtyřicátých letech 19. století stala průkopnicí počítačového programování. Zkoumá fascinující osobnosti, které stvořily stávající digitální revoluci, jako například Vannevara Bushe, Alana Turinga, Johna von Neumanna, J. C. R. Licklidera, Douga Engelbarta, Roberta Noyce, Billa Gatese, Steva Wozniaka, Steva Jobse, Tima Bernerse-Lea a Larryho Page.
Tento příběh vypráví o tom, jakým způsobem uvažovali a proč byli tak vynalézaví. Je také vyprávěním o jejich schopnosti spolupracovat a osvojit si umění týmové spolupráce, díky níž pak byli ještě kreativnější.
Nacházíme se v éře, která inovace, tvořivost a týmovou spolupráci podporuje. Inovátoři nám ukazují, jak k těmto jevům dochází.
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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.
