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Biológia, fauna a flóra 
Astronómia, vesmír, fyzika 
Ekológia, meteorológia, klimatológia 
Matematika, logika 
Geografia, geológia, mineralógia 
Chémia 
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Magnitude: Picturing the Scale of the Universe
In Magnitude, Kimberly Arcand and Megan Watzke take us on an expansive journey to the limits of size, mass, distance, time, and temperature in our universe, from the tiniest particle within the structure of an atom to the most massive galaxy in the universe; from the speed at which grass grows (about 2 to 6 inches a month) to the speed of light. Fully-illustrated with four-color drawings and infographics throughout and organized into sections including Size and Amount (Distance, Area, Volume, Mass, Time, Temperature), Motion and Rate (Speed, Acceleration, Density, Rotation), and Phenomena and Processes (Energy, Pressure, Sound, Wind, Computation), Magnitude shows us the scale of our world in a clear, visual way that our relatively medium-sized human brains can easily understand.
New Cosmic Story
A foremost thinker on science and religion argues that an adequate understanding of cosmic history requires attention to the emergence of interiority, including religious aspiration
Over the past two centuries scientific advances have made it clear that the universe is a story still unfolding. In this thought-provoking book, John F. Haught considers the deeper implications of this discovery. He contends that many others who have written books on life and the universe—including Stephen Hawking, Stephen Jay Gould, and Richard Dawkins—have overlooked a crucial aspect of cosmic history: the drama of life’s awakening to interiority and religious awareness. Science may illuminate the outside story of the universe, but a full telling of the cosmic story cannot ignore the inside development that interiority represents.
Haught addresses two primary questions: what does the arrival of religion tell us about the universe, and what does our understanding of the cosmos as an unfinished drama tell us about religion? The history of religion may be ambiguous and sometimes even barbarous, he asserts, but its role in the story of cosmic emergence and awakening must be taken into account.
The Glass Universe
New from #1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel, the "inspiring" (People), little-known true story of women's landmark contributions to astronomy "A joy to read." --The Wall Street Journal Named one of the best books of the year by NPR, The Economist, Smithsonian, Nature, and NPR's Science Friday Nominated for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award In the mid-nineteenth century, the Harvard College Observatory began employing women as calculators, or "human computers," to interpret the observations their male counterparts made via telescope each night. At the outset this group included the wives, sisters, and daughters of the resident astronomers, but soon the female corps included graduates of the new women's colleges--Vassar, Wellesley, and Smith. As photography transformed the practice of astronomy, the ladies turned from computation to studying the stars captured nightly on glass photographic plates. The "glass universe" of half a million plates that Harvard amassed over the ensuing decades--through the generous support of Mrs. Anna Palmer Draper, the widow of a pioneer in stellar photography--enabled the women to make extraordinary discoveries that attracted worldwide acclaim. They helped discern what stars were made of, divided the stars into meaningful categories for further research, and found a way to measure distances across space by starlight. Their ranks included Williamina Fleming, a Scottish woman originally hired as a maid who went on to identify ten novae and more than three hundred variable stars; Annie Jump Cannon, who designed a stellar classification system that was adopted by astronomers the world over and is still in use; and Dr. Cecilia Helena Payne, who in 1956 became the first ever woman professor of astronomy at Harvard--and Harvard's first female department chair. Elegantly written and enriched by excerpts from letters, diaries, and memoirs, The Glass Universe is the hidden history of the women whose contributions to the burgeoning field of astronomy forever changed our understanding of the stars and our place in the universe
Kompaktní vesmír
Vydejte se s námi na výlet od známých planet naší sluneční soustavy až do miliardy světelných let vzdáleného hlubokého vesmíru! Cestou vám Matt Tweed nabídne stručný přehled lidských znalostí o geografii a historii našeho vesmíru, který se hodí každému, koho uchvacuje pohled na hvězdnou oblohu. Dozvíte se to hlavní o zrození, životě a zániku hvězd, o formování planet, pulzarech, kvazarech, mlhovinách, černých dírách a temné hmotě, navíc se seznámíte s různými teoriemi o vzniku a vývoji celého vesmíru i našich nejbližších planet.
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Kosmonauti nula aneb Ti, co nedoletěli
Další kniha známého publicisty, bývalého redaktora a spolupracovníka ČRo o historii a neznámých skutečnostech z historie kosmonautiky. Čtenářům tentokrát představí osudy mužů, kteří podstoupili dlouhou a strastiplnou cestu, na jejímž konci mohl Jurij Gagarin 12. dubna 1961 zvolat ze špice rakety Vostok své "Pajechali!". Kniha pojednává o hrdinech, o nichž nepsaly noviny, nebyli v televizních reportážích a světu zůstala jejich jména - často záměrně - utajena. O těch, kdo vyzkoušeli na sobě všechno to, co se mohlo, ba i nemohlo stát na oběžné dráze, avšak ne vždy končila jejich cesta vytouženým pohledem na matičku Zemi. Přesto většina z nich nezatrpkla, byť jim tak zvané postavení "výzkumníka“ sebralo kus života. Některým i celý.
Ani v USA neměli všichni cestu do vesmíru otevřenou, i tam existovali Ti, co nedoletěli... Některým zkušebním pilotům, kteří v raketových letounech překonali hranici kosmického prostoru, se dostalo hrdého titulu „astronaut“ až po mnoha letech, někdy až posmrtně. Jiní zahynuli během výcviku, ničili si zdraví na centrifugách či v barokomorách, na pouštích i ve vlnách oceánu.
V Rusku se jim říká "Kosmonauti Nula", ale bez nich bychom cestu do vesmíru možná ještě ani dnes neotevřeli.
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Ask an Astronaut
The new book from astronaut Tim Peake, the number one bestselling author of Hello, is this planet Earth?
How does it feel to orbit the earth ten times faster than a speeding bullet?
What’s it like to eat, sleep and go to the toilet in space?
And where to next – the Moon, Mars or beyond?
Ask an Astronaut is Tim’s personal guide to life in space, based on his historic Principia mission, and the thousands of questions he has been asked since his return to Earth.
Accessible, in-depth, and written with his characteristic warmth, Tim shares his thoughts on every aspect of his mission. From training to launch, from his historic spacewalk to re-entry, he reveals for readers of all ages the cutting-edge science behind his ground-breaking experiments, and the wonders of day-to-day life on board the International Space Station.
The public is invited to submit new questions using the hashtag #askanastronaut, and a selection will be answered by Tim in the book, which will be accompanied with illustrations, diagrams and never-before-seen photos.
Tim is pleased to announce that, as with his previous book, royalties received from the book will be donated to The Prince’s Trust.
Planet Hunters
Astronomers are on the verge of answering one of our most profound questions: are we alone in the universe? The ability to detect life in remote solar systems is at last within sight, and its discovery—even if only in microbial form—would revolutionize our self-image. Planet Hunters is the rollicking tale of the search for extraterrestrial life and the history of an academic discipline.
Astronomer Lucas Ellerbroek takes readers on a fantastic voyage through space, time, history, and even to the future as he describes the field of exoplanet research, from the early ideas of sixteenth-century heretic Giordano Bruno to the discovery of the first exoplanet in 1995 to the invention of the Kepler Space Telescope. We join him on his travels as he meets with leading scientists in the field, including Michel Mayor, who discovered the first exoplanet, and Bill Borucki, principal investigator for NASA’s Kepler mission. Taken together, the experiences, passion, and perseverance of the scientists featured here make the book an exciting and compelling read.
Presenting cutting-edge research in a dynamic and accessible way, Planet Hunters is a refreshing look into a field where new discoveries come every week and paradigms shift every year.
Hledání druhé Země
Nové objevy o dvojčeti Země – i jinde ve vesmíru může existovat život!
Roku 1995 dva švýcarští astronomové objevili planetu obíhající jinou hvězdu než naše Slunce. Tento objev navždy proměnil naše chápání vesmíru, neboť dokazoval, že Země a další nebeská tělesa v naší sluneční soustavě nejsou ve vesmíru osamělá. Dnes, o více než dvacet let později, známe přes 860 takových planet, přičemž mnohé z nich se nepodobají ničemu z toho, co jsme znali. Některé jsou černější než uhlí, jiné se koupou v roztavené lávě, další jsou vystaveny poryvům neutuchajících větrných bouří, ještě jiné mají více než jedno slunce, kdežto druhé jsou navždy pohrouženy do nesmírného oceánu. Vzdor tomu je tu ale i jistá podobnost. Některé z těchto mimozemských světů se nápadně podobají planetám naší sluneční soustavy. Astronomové dnes znají planety, jež vyhlížejí jako Jupiter, Neptun, Mars či Merkur a obíhají slunce podobné tomu našemu. Kniha Hledání druhé Země známého fyzika S. Clarka přibližuje čtenářům tuto dynamickou vědní oblast, aby jej provedla napříč kosmem plným mrazivých plání, pozvolna rotujících glóbů a ohnivých vulkánů až k těm planetám, jež snad mohou – a možná i mohly – vytvořit podmínky pro vznik života. Nalezení dvojčete naší Země se dnes jeví doslova na dosah.
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What We See in the Stars
What We See in the Stars Kelsey Oseid is a richly illustrated guide to the myths, histories, and science of the celestial bodies of our solar system, with stories and information about constellations, planets, comets, the northern lights, and more.
Combining art, mythology, and science, What We See in the Stars is a tour of the night sky through more than a hundred magical pieces of original art, all accompanied by text that weaves related legends and lore with scientific facts.
This beautifully packaged book covers the night sky's most brilliant features such as constellations, the moon, the bright stars, and the visible planets, as well as less familiar celestial phenomena like the outer planets, nebulae, and deep space. Adults seeking to recapture the magic of youthful stargazing, younger readers interested in learning about natural history and outer space, and those who appreciate beautiful, hand-painted art will all delight in this charming book.
View From Above
Few people get the experience of seeing the world from outer space--and no one has taken as many pictures of Earth from above as Terry Virts. Celebrated NASA astronaut, pilot of the space shuttle, crew member on Soyuz, and commander of the International Space Station, Virts has spent more than 200 days in space--and very few of those days went by without his reaching for his camera. Now as never before, Virts shares the astronaut's view of the world, offering astounding aerial views of our planet and the vastness that surrounds it.
Time Travel
From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel. Gleick's story begins at the turn of the twentieth century with the young H. G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book, an international sensation, The Time Machine. A host of forces were converging to transmute the human understanding of time, some philosophical and some technological - the electric telegraph, the steam railroad, the discovery of buried civilisations, and the perfection of clocks. Gleick tracks the evolution of time travel as an idea in the culture - from Marcel Proust to Doctor Who, from Woody Allen to Jorge Luis Borges. He explores the inevitable looping paradoxes and examines the porous boundary between pulp fiction and modern physics. Finally, he delves into a temporal shift that is unsettling our own moment: the instantaneous wired world, with its all-consuming present and vanishing future.
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?
The Astronomy Book
Explore the world of astronomy with key quotes and bold graphics to illustrate over 100 of the universe's biggest ideas.The Astronomy Book is an exciting voyage of discovery through the cosmos. Venture from ancient speculations about the nature of the universe, to the mind-boggling theories of recent science, including those of Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. Learn about the incredible histories of Halley's comet, Hubble's telescope, and NASA's modern-day trailblazing, as well as the discoveries of famous figures including Ptolemy, Isaac Newton, Walter Adams, Carl Sagan, and Alan Stern. The Astronomy Book, part of DK's bestselling Big Ideas series, is is the perfect introduction to our ideas about space, time, and the physics of the cosmos.
Life through Time and Space
All humans share three origins: the beginning of our individual lives, the appearance of life on Earth, and the formation of our planetary home. Life through Time and Space brings together the latest discoveries in both biology and astronomy to examine our deepest questions about where we came from, where we are going, and whether we are alone in the cosmos.
A distinctive voice in the growing field of astrobiology, Wallace Arthur combines embryological, evolutionary, and cosmological perspectives to tell the story of life on Earth and its potential to exist elsewhere in the universe. He guides us on a journey through the myriad events that started with the big bang and led to the universe we inhabit today. Along the way, readers learn about the evolution of life from a primordial soup of organic molecules to complex plants and animals, about Earth’s geological transformation from barren rock to diverse ecosystems, and about human development from embryo to infant to adult. Arthur looks closely at the history of mass extinctions and the prospects for humanity’s future on our precious planet.
Do intelligent aliens exist on a distant planet in the Milky Way, sharing the three origins that characterize all life on Earth? In addressing this question, Life through Time and Space tackles the many riddles of our place and fate in the universe that have intrigued human beings since they first gazed in wonder at the nighttime sky.
Universal
'Inspirational' Buzz AldrinWhen exactly did life begin? What really happened during the big bang - and before it? Is the universe expanding? Is dark matter real? Do we live in one of many worlds? What's more, how can we prove any of this?This book is all about how we - any of us - can gain an understanding of the Universe in all its awe-inspiring glory. Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw take us on an epic journey of scientific exploration, revealing how the biggest questions - from the size of the earth to the distance to the stars - are answerable from our own back gardens. You don't need a Large Hadron Collider or a Hubble Space Telescope to explore the cosmos. You just need this book.
Ripples in Spacetime
The detection of gravitational waves-ripples in spacetime-has already been called the scientific coup of this century. Govert Schilling recounts the struggles that threatened to derail the quest and describes the detector's astounding precision, weaving far-reaching discoveries about the universe into a gripping story of ambition and perseverance.
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Kto sú najväčšie celebrity medzi číslami? Dá sa človeku vidieť do hlavy? Načo slúži pri meraní tlaku fonendoskop? Ako zapadá Mickey Mouse do Darwinovej evolučnej teórie? Prečo Inkovia nedobyli Španielsko? Koľko dimenzií má vesmír? Ako sa dá nakresliť 1,2618595...rozmerný obrázok? Prečo sa vodík nevolá kyslík? Dá sa v skoku o žrdi prekonať desaťmetrová hranica? Prečo sa plavecké rekordy uvádzajú nepresne? Kde sa pretínajú rovnobežky? Ktoré pravdy sú naozaj hlboké? Šíri sa tma rýchlejšie ako svetlo? Koľko Nobelových cien má hélium? Mohli jaskynní ľudia faxovať? Načo je slovám toľko hlások?
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Reality Frame
Weaving together the great ideas of science, The Reality Frame takes us on a thrilling journey from empty space all the way to the human mind. Acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg builds up reality piece by piece, from space, to time, to matter, movement, the fundamental forces, life, and the massive transformation that life itself has wrought on the natural world. He reveals that underlying it all is not, as we might believe, a system of immovable absolutes, but the ever-shifting, amorphous world of relativity. From religion to philosophy, humanity has traditionally sought out absolutes to explain the world around us, but as science has developed, relativity has swept away many of these certainties, leaving only a handful of unchangeable essentials - such as absolute zero, nothingness, light - leading to better science and a new understanding of the essence of being human. This is an Ascent of Man for the 21st century, the gripping story of modern science that will fill you with wonder and give you a new insight into our place in the universe.
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
"Tyson has told the story of our Universe magnificently in these 12 short chapters...This may have been written for people in a hurry, but I urge you to take your time. It will all be over far too soon." BBC Sky at Night
There's no better guide through mind-expanding questions such as what the nature of space and time is, how we fit within the universe, and how the universe fits within us than Neil deGrasse Tyson.
But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, with sparkling wit, in digestible chapters consumable any time and anywhere in the busy day. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry reveals just what you need to be fluent and ready for the next cosmic headlines: from the Big Bang to black holes, from quarks to quantum mechanics and from the search for planets to the search for life in the universe.
V kategórii literatúry Astronómia, vesmír, fyzika nájdete fascinujúce diela, ktoré ponúkajú informácie o vesmíre a jeho zákonitostiach. Tieto knihy vám odhalia nekonečné šírky vesmíru, poskytnú pohľad na nebeské telá, fyzikálne zákony a úžasné javy, ktoré ich riadia. Od slnečnej sústavy a galaxií po planéty, čierne diery a teóriu veľkého tresku, tieto diela vám poskytnú základné a pokročilé vedomosti o astronómii, vesmíre a fyzike. Objavte históriu vedeckých objavov, súčasné výskumy a nové objavy v tejto fascinujúcej oblasti.
K najznámejším autorom patrí Stephen Hawking, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, či Michio Kaku.
