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Wild London
From the authors of London for Lovers, this is an inspiring and comprehensive guide to London's wild side. From exploring secret gardens, parks, farmers markets and city farms, to discovering the best spots for urban bee-keeping, foraging, open-air swimming and mudlarking, Wild London is packed with ideas for how to make the most of London's hidden natural wonder.
Separated by season, and filled with stunning photographs, this is a must-have, practical and eye-opening guide to alternative London for city-dwellers and visitors alike.
Nine Pints
Most humans contain between nine and twelve pints of blood. Here Rose George, who probably contains nine pints, tells nine different stories about the liquid that sustains us, discovering what it reveals about who we are. In Nepal, she meets girls challenging the taboos surrounding menstruation; in the Canadian prairies, she visits a controversial plasma clinic; in Wales she gets a tour of the UK's only leech farm to learn about the vital role the creatures still play in modern surgery; and in a London hospital she accompanies a medical team revolutionising the way we treat trauma.
Nine Pints reveals the richness and wonder of the potent red fluid that courses around our bodies, unseen but miraculous.
I, Mammal - The Story of What Makes Us Mammals
Humans are mammals. Most of us appreciate that at some level. But what does it mean for us to have more in common with a horse and an elephant than we do with a parrot, snake or frog?
After a misdirected football left new father Liam Drew clutching a uniquely mammalian part of his anatomy, he decided to find out more. Considering himself as a mammal first and a human second, Liam delves into ancient biological history to understand what it means to be mammalian.
In his humorous and engaging style, Liam explores the different characteristics that distinguish mammals from other types of animals. He charts the evolution of milk, warm blood and burgeoning brains, and examines the emergence of sophisticated teeth, exquisite ears, and elaborate reproductive biology, plus a host of other mammalian innovations. Entwined are tales of zoological peculiarities and reflections on how being a mammal has shaped the author's life.
I, Mammal is a history of mammals and their ancestors and of how science came to grasp mammalian evolution. And in celebrating our mammalian-ness, Liam Drew binds us a little more tightly to the five and a half thousand other species of mammal on this planet and reveals the deep roots of many traits humans hold dear.
Obory budoucnosti
Dokážeme se přizpůsobit měnící se povaze práce? Které dovednosti by měly rozvíjet naše děti? Může obava z kybernetické války rozpoutat další závody ve zbrojení? Autor nabízí zasvěcený a informovaný pohled na přicházející změny v oborech, které nejvíce ovlivní naší ekonomickou budoucnost, počínaje robotikou a umělou inteligencí přes kybernetickou bezpečnost a komerční využití genomiky až po dopad digitálních technologií na peněžní trhy.
7 pádů odpadu
Knížka 7 pádů odpadu není odborná publikace. Jedná se o pokus zviditelnění a popularizace tématu odpadů pomocí zkušeností načerpaných během více než dekády provozu internetového projektu trideniodpadu.cz a zájmu o odpadovou problematiku a potažmo s ní související téma životního prostředí. Neklade si a ani si klást nemůže za cíl vysvětlit vše kolem odpadů. Proto v ní nejsou žádná čísla, grafy, statistiky a ani nekonečné výčty směrnic a vyhlášek, které jsou běžnému člověku k ničemu.
Najdete zde 7 kapitol jako sedm gramatických pádů.
1. pád Kdo, co je odpad? Stručná historie odpadu od pravěku až po nedávnou minulost. A vysvětlení, co je to ten odpad vlastně zač.
2. pád Koho a čí jsou odpady? Kdo má zodpovědnost za odpady jednak z pohledu legislativy, ale zároveň i z pohledu každodenní reality.
3. pád Komu, čemu škodí odpady? Proč bychom měli svým odpadům konečně věnovat zvýšenou pozornost.
4. pád Koho odpady zajímají? Kdo všechno s odpady přijde do styku a proč se jimi vůbec zabývá.
5. pádem voláme. O pomoc, jak z té odpadové šlamastyky ven.
6. pád O kom, o čem tady mluvíme? Stručný přehled těch nejběžnějších odpadů. Odkud se berou, jak se třídí a jak se zpracovávají.
7. pád S kým a čím se odpadům bráníme? Kapitola o způsobech zpracování odpadů, možných metodách předcházení jejich vzniku.
Thin Air
Richard Morgan has always been one of our most successful SF authors with his fast-moving and brutal storylines, blistering plots and a powerful social conscience behind his work.
And now he's back, with his first SF novel for eight years . . . and it promises to be a publication to remember.
An ex-corporate enforcer, Hakan Veil, is forced to bodyguard Madison Madekwe, part of a colonial audit team investigating a disappeared lottery winner on Mars. But when Madekwe is abducted, and Hakan nearly killed, the investigation takes him farther and deeper than he had ever expected. And soon Hakan discovers the heavy price he may have to pay to learn the truth.
The Doomsday Calculation
From the author of Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?, a fascinating look at how an equation that foretells the future is transforming everything we know about life, business, and the universe.
In the 18th century, the British minister and mathematician Thomas Bayes devised a theorem that allowed him to assign probabilities to events that had never happened before. It languished in obscurity for centuries until computers came along and made it easy to crunch the numbers. Now, as the foundation of big data, Bayes' formula has become a linchpin of the digital economy.
But here's where things get really interesting: Bayes' theorem can also be used to lay odds on the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence; on whether we live in a Matrix-like counterfeit of reality; on the "many worlds" interpretation of quantum theory being correct; and on the biggest question of all: how long will humanity survive?
The Doomsday Calculationtells how Silicon Valley's profitable formula became a controversial pivot of contemporary thought.
Drawing on interviews with thought leaders around the globe, it's the story of a group of intellectual mavericks who are challenging what we thought we knew about our place in the universe. The Doomsday Calculationis compelling reading for anyone interested in our culture and its future.
The Ultimate Job Hunting Book
This is your complete course in finding that perfect job.
From crafting the perfect CV and finding the job of your dreams, to writing a great cover letter and winning at interview, THE ULTIMATE JOB HUNTING BOOK is a dynamic collection of tools, techniques, and strategies for success. Short, punchy chapters mean you can read up quickly and start applying what you've learned immediately.
* Part 1: Your CVs Masterclass
* Part 2: Your Job Hunting Masterclass
* Part 3: Your Cover Letters Masterclass
* Part 4: Your Job Interviews Masterclass
Discover the main themes, key ideas and tools you need and bring it all together with practical exercises.
ABOUT THE SERIES
ULTIMATE books are for managers, leaders, and business executives who want to succeed at work. From marketing and sales to management and finance, each title gives comprehensive coverage of the essential business skills you need to get ahead in your career. Written in straightforward English, each book is designed to help you quickly master the subject, with fun quizzes embedded so that you can check how you're doing.
Underland
Discover the hidden worlds beneath our feet...
In Underland, Robert Macfarlane takes us on a journey into the worlds beneath our feet. From the ice-blue depths of Greenland's glaciers, to the underground networks by which trees communicate, from Bronze Age burial chambers to the rock art of remote Arctic sea-caves, this is a deep-time voyage into the planet's past and future. Global in its geography, gripping in its voice and haunting in its implications, Underland is a work of huge range and power, and a remarkable new chapter in Macfarlane's long-term exploration of landscape and the human heart.
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The Book of Why
A pioneer of artificial intelligence shows how the study of causality revolutionized science and the world
'Correlation does not imply causation.' This mantra was invoked by scientists for decades in order to avoid taking positions as to whether one thing caused another, such as smoking and cancer and carbon dioxide and global warming. But today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, sparked by world-renowned computer scientist Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and placed cause and effect on a firm scientific basis. Now, Pearl and science journalist Dana Mackenzie explain causal thinking to general readers for the first time, showing how it allows us to explore the world that is and the worlds that could have been. It is the essence of human and artificial intelligence. And just as Pearl's discoveries have enabled machines to think better, The Book of Why explains how we can think better.
Ma is tanultam valamit
Tudta, hogy egy szélhámos eladta az Eiffel-tornyot, és még csak fel sem jelentették? És azt, hogy az amerikai űrhajósok egyszer sztrájkolni kezdtek a világűrben? Hát azt, hogy az első gépeltérítők magyarok voltak, köztük az utolsó magyar király? És ez csak három a könyvben található meghökkentő sztorik közül.
Az Index Ma is tanultam valamit rovata 2014 szeptemberében indult, azóta nagyjából négyszáz cikkel gyarapodott, és a hírportál egyik legnépszerűbb mellékletévé vált. Ebben a kiadványban megtalálja az írások legjavát; 130 cikket, köztük 15 soha nem publikáltat, a már megjelentek közül pedig közel 40 jelentősen bővítve került a könyvbe.
Minden, amit ismerni érdemes a köldökszöszkutatásról és Hitler humoráról, fotókkal és az Index grafikusainak frenetikus rajzaival. És azt tudta, hogy a Beatles filmre akarta vinni A Gyűrűk Urát, és John Lennon lett volna Gollam?
Unravelling the Double Helix
Unravelling the Double Helixcovers the most colourful period in the history of DNA, from the discovery of 'nuclein' in the late 1860s to the landmark publication of James Watson's The Double Helix in 1968. These hundred years included the advent of the Nobel Prize, antibiotics, X-ray crystallography and the atom bomb as well as two devastating world wars - events which are strung along the narrative thread of DNA like beads on a necklace.
The story of DNA is a saga packed with awful mistakes as well as brilliant science, with a wonderful cast of heroes and villains. Surprisingly, much of it is unfamiliar.
The elucidation of the double helix was one of the most brilliant gems of twentieth-century science, but some of the scientists who played crucial roles have been airbrushed out of history. Others were plunged into darkness when the spotlight fell on James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin. Watson and Crick solved a magnificent mystery, but Gareth Williams shows that their contribution was to click into place the last few pieces of a gigantic jigsaw puzzle assembled over several decades.
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The Dinosaurs Rediscovered
Over the past twenty years, the study of dinosaurs has changed from natural history to a true scientific discipline. New technologies have revealed secrets locked in the prehistoric bones in ways that nobody predicted - we can now work out the colour of dinosaurs, their bite forces, top speeds, and even how they cared for their young. Remarkable new fossil finds, such as giant sauropod dinosaur skeletons from Patagonia, dinosaurs with feathers from China, and even a tiny dinosaur tail in Burmese amber - complete down to every detail of its filament-like feathers, skin, bones, and mummified tail muscles - have caused media sensations. New fossils are the lifeblood of modern palaeobiology of course, but it is the advances in technologies and methods that have allowed the revolution in the scope and confidence of the field.
Dinosaurs Rediscovered gathers together all the latest palaeontological evidence and takes us behind the scenes on the expeditions and in museum laboratories, tracing the transformation of dinosaur study from its roots in antiquated natural history to a highly technical, computational, and indisputably scientific field today. Benton explores what we know of the world of the dinosaurs, how dinosaur remains are found and excavated, and especially how palaeontologists read the details of the life of the dinosaurs from the fossils - their colours, their growth, feeding and locomotion, how they grew from egg to adult, how they sensed the world, and even whether we will ever be able to bring them back to life. Dinosaurs are still very much a part of our world.
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Genesis
Asserting that religious creeds and philosophical questions can be reduced to purely genetic and evolutionary components, and that the human body and mind have a physical base obedient to the laws of physics and chemistry, Genesis demonstrates that the only way for us to fully understand human behavior is to study the evolutionary histories of nonhuman species. Of these, Wilson demonstrates that at least seventeen-among them the African naked mole rat and the sponge- dwelling shrimp-have been found to have advanced societies based on altruism and cooperation.
Whether writing about midges who "dance about like acrobats" or schools of anchovies who protectively huddle "to appear like a gigantic fish," or proposing that human society owes a debt of gratitude to "postmenopausal grandmothers" and "childless homosexuals," Genesis is a pithy yet path-breaking work of evolutionary theory, braiding twenty-first-century scientific theory with the lyrical biological and humanistic observations for which Wilson is known.
Blueprint
A cutting-edge exploration of the ancient roots of goodness in civilization, arguing that our genes have shaped societies for our welfare and that, in a feedback loop stretching back many thousands of years, societies have shaped, and are still shaping, our genes today.
For too long, scientists have focused on the dark side of our biological heritage: our capacity for aggression, cruelty, prejudice, and self-interest. But natural selection has given us a suite of beneficial social features, including our capacity for love, friendship, cooperation, and learning.
Beneath all our inventions -- our tools, farms, machines, cities, nations -- we carry with us innate proclivities to make a good society.
In Blueprint, Nicholas A. Christakis introduces the compelling idea that our genes affect not only our bodies and behaviors, but also the ways in which we make societies, ones that are surprisingly similar worldwide.
With many vivid examples -- including diverse historical and contemporary cultures, communities formed in the wake of shipwrecks, commune dwellers seeking utopia, online groups thrown together by design or involving artificially intelligent bots, and even the tender and complex social arrangements of elephants and dolphins that so resemble our own -- Christakis shows that, despite a human history replete with violence, we cannot escape our social blueprint for goodness.
In a world of increasing political and economic polarization, it's tempting to ignore the positive role of our evolutionary past. Drawing on advances in social science, evolutionary biology, genetics, neuroscience, and network science, Blueprintshows how and why evolution has placed us on a humane path -- and how we are united by our common humanity.
Viktor Schauberger a tajemství živé vody
Hornorakouský lesník, vodní stavitel a přírodovědec, udivil svého času celý odborný svět svým dřevěným plavebním zařízením, četnými dalšími vynálezy a především svými znalostmi vodní energie.
Díky pozorování přírodních procesů Viktor Schauberger pochopil, že příroda využívá dosud nepoznaných hnacích sil. Věrný své zásadě » Přírodě je třeba porozumět a pak ji zkopírovat « pak vyvinul svou revoluční » přírodní « techniku. Po celý svůj život usiloval s velkou vytrvalostí o hlubší pochopení přírodních souvislostí a o zachování našeho přírodního prostředí. Jeho varování před důsledky ničení přírody jsou dnes aktuálnější než kdy dřív!
Olof Alexandersson nám poskytuje ve svém stěžejním díle přehled o Schaubergerových průkopnických poznatcích, podrobně popisuje způsob fungování jeho vynálezů a vykresluje podstatné úseky života tohoto fascinujícího myslitele, který tak předběhl svou dobu.
Švédský autor Olof Alexandersson se od 50. let minulého století aktivně účastnil hnutí na ochranu životního prostředí, založil první švédskou výzkumnou skupinu pro biologickou techniku a vedl implozivně-technické práce ve Švédsku.
The Planet Factory
Twenty years ago, the search for planets outside the Solar System was a job restricted to science-fiction writers. Now it's one of the fastest-growing fields in astronomy with thousands of exoplanets discovered to date, and the number is rising fast. These new-found worlds are more alien than anything in fiction.
Planets larger than Jupiter with years lasting a week; others with two suns lighting their skies, or with no sun at all. Planets with diamond mantles supporting oceans of tar; possible Earth-sized worlds with split hemispheres of perpetual day and night; waterworlds drowning under global oceans and volcanic lava planets awash with seas of magma. The discovery of this diversity is just the beginning.
There is a whole galaxy of possibilities. The Planet Factory tells the story of these exoplanets. Each planetary system is different, but in the beginning most if not all young stars are circled by clouds of dust, specks that come together in a violent building project that can form colossal worlds hundreds of times the size of the Earth.
The changing orbits of young planets risk dooming any life evolving on neighbouring worlds or, alternatively, can deliver the key ingredients needed to seed its beginnings. Planet formation is one of the greatest construction schemes in the Universe, and it occurred around nearly every star you see. Each results in an alien landscape, but is it possible that one of these could be like our own home world?
When the Rivers Run Dry
FULLY UPDATED FOR 2019
We cannot live without water. But with 7.5 billion people competing for this single unevenly-distributed resource, the planet is drying up.
In When the Rivers Run Dry, Fred Pearce explores the growing world water crisis, from Kent to Kenya. His powerful reportage takes us to places where waterways are turning to sand before they reach the ocean; where fields are parched and crops no longer grow; where once fertile ground has turned to desert; where wars are fought over access to water and cultures are dying out. But he offers us hope for the future - if we can radically revolutionise the way we treat water, and take personal responsibility for the water we use.
This landmark work, from a respected and accomplished scientist, will transform the way we view the water in our reservoirs and rivers, and change the way we treat the water in our taps.
Madárbarátok nagykönyve
"A Madárbarátok nagykönyve elsősorban a madarakat kedvelő embereknek, gyerekeknek szól, de sokkal többet nyújt az eddig megjelent madárvédelemmel foglakozó könyveknél.
A szerző, aki gyakorló ornitológusként jól ismeri a madárbarátokat foglakoztató kérdéseket, feladatokat, gyakorlatban kipróbált megoldásokat kínál szinte minden felmerülő témára.
A könyv azonban nem csak a klasszikus madárvédelemmel foglalkozik, hanem megoldásokat javasol az emberek és állatok együttéléséből adódó konfliktusokra is. Tárgyalja más állatfajok védelmét is, tanácsokat ad a sérült madarak, elárvult madárfiókák ápolására, hasznos segítséget nyújt a természetfotózás iránt érdeklődőknek, a környezeti neveléssel foglakozó pedagógusoknak és az ökoturizmusban munkálkodó szakembereknek is.
A kötetet a szerző nagyszerű fotói teszik színessé, és a könyv végén még egy kis madárhatározót is találunk, ahol kiváló madárfestmények könnyítik meg a környezetünkben élő leggyakoribb madárfajok felismerését.
Ajánlom a könyvet mindenkinek, akit örömmel tölt el a velünk élő állatok megfigyelése, és ötleteket szeretne kapni életük megsegítésére, védelmükre!"
Zsoldos Árpád
Kategória literatúry Prírodné vedy ponúka široký výber kníh a textov, ktoré sa zaoberajú vedeckým skúmaním prírody a jej procesov. Táto kategória literatúry je zameraná na objavovanie a pochopenie fyzikálnych, chemických, biologických a iných prírodných javov.
Prírodné vedy sú dôležité pre porozumenie sveta, okolia a života. Tieto knihy nám umožňujú objavovať zázraky prírody a získavať hlbšie pochopenie vesmíru, evolúcie, fyzikálnych a chémických zákonov, štruktúry a funkcií biologických systémov a ďalších zaujímavých tém.
Ak máte záujem o prírodné vedy a chcete sa dozvedieť viac, kategória literatúry Prírodné vedy vám poskytne široký výber kníh, ktoré vám pomôžu lepšie porozumieť prírode, jej zákonom a interakciám.
