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Astronómia, vesmír, fyzika 
Ekológia, meteorológia, klimatológia 
Matematika, logika 
Geografia, geológia, mineralógia 
Chémia 
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Paleoantropologie: Nová syntéza
Kniha evolučního antropologa, paleoantropologa a primatologa doc. RNDr. Václava Vančaty Paleoantropologie: Nová syntéza navazuje na jeho monografii Paleoantropologie a evoluční antropologie z roku 2013, která zahrnovala „klasické poznatky“ o evoluci člověka a jeho předků do roku 2011.
Od té doby paleoantropologie prodělala převratné proměny, neboť se prohloubily poznatky o evoluci primátů, zejména třetihorních lidoopů. Prokázalo se, že předkové Evropanů pocházejí z našeho kontinentu, odkud migrovali asi před 9 miliony lety do Afriky, kde vznikli asi před 7 miliony lety naši předci, ardipitéci a posléze i bipedální australopitéci. Zásadní vliv, který se odráží ve všech kapitolách týkajících se evoluce člověka, mají závratně se rozvíjející obory paleogenetika a paleoproteomika. Díky těmto oborům byly získány nové poznatky o evoluci druhu Homo sapiens, který v archaické podobě vznikl již před 1,5 milionem let. Paleogenetika má pak zásadní význam pro vysvětlení vzniku a evoluce moderních lidských forem, anatomicky moderního člověka, neandertálců a asijských denisovanů. Paleogenetické poznatky významně přispěly i k pochopení změn a migrací v evropském mladém paleolitu a neolitu. Monografii završuje kapitola „Kolonizace světa“, která shrnuje poznatky o evoluci člověka a jeho rozšíření do jednotlivých regionů Země. Z tohoto hlediska je monografie prioritní, a to nejen v české literatuře, ale i v evropském měřítku. Kniha je určena pedagogům, studentům a širší zainteresované veřejnosti.
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Pravěká zvířata
Časopis ABC dlouhodobě sleduje paleontologický výzkum pravěkých živočichů, o kterých každoročně uveřejní množství článků. V knize Pravěká zvířata čtenář najde 40 témat sebraných z časopisu ABC za posledních přibližně 10 let, která mu zprostředkují moderní pohled na faunu třetihor a čtvrtohor. Témata byla aktualizována a doplněna o nové obrázky a fotografie, nechybí ani znalostní kvíz. Kniha Pravěká zvířata navazuje na stejně koncipované knihy Dinosauři, Predátoři a Vesmír, které vyšly v minulých letech.
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Meteority: Umění vesmíru
Meteority přitahují lidstvo od pradávna a jsou těsně provázány s naší historií a kulturou. Díky jejich studiu zjišťujeme, jak vznikala sluneční soustava a Země, a možná jednou odhalíme i původ života. Ponořte se do tajemného světa meteoritů, přečtěte si nejen jejich příběhy, ale i tipy, kde je koupit nebo najít, jak do nich vhodně investovat a jak si založit vlastní sbírku. A navrch vypátrejte vzácný meteorit ukrytý v tajné lokalitě. Stačí rozluštit šifru na stránkách této knihy.
Obdivuhodná zvířata III. - Šelmy
Třetí díl populárně-naučné knihy o savcích celého světa zahrnuje šelmy (včetně ploutvonožců). Zvýšená pozornost je věnována u nás se vyskytujícím šelmám. Tedy jezevcovi, vydře, medvědovi, kočce divoké i domácí a rysovi. Dále jsou ve větší míře zmíněny tyto šelmy: surikata, ženetky, promyky, mýval, vydra mořská, medvěd lední, pandy, hyena skvrnitá, lev, tygr, gepard, mrož, tuleni a lachtani.
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How to Feed the World
A myth-busting book about how the world produces and consumes its food and how to do so without killing the planet
In this ambitious, myth-busting book, leading scientist and internationally bestselling author Vaclav Smil investigates many of the burning questions facing the world today- Why are some of the world's biggest food producers also the countries with the most undernourished populations? Why is food waste a colossal 1,000kcal per person daily, and how can we solve that? Could we all go vegan and be healthy? Should we? How will we feed the ballooning population without killing the planet?
How Food Really Works shows how we misunderstand the essentials of where our food really comes from, how our dietary requirements shape us, and why this impacts our planet in drastic ways. Ultimately, this data-based, rigorously researched guide explains how we will survive and thrive long into the future.
Lost Wonders
In Lost Wonders Tom Lathan tells ten powerful stories of species that have lived, died out and been declared extinct since the turn of the twenty-first century.
Many scientists believe that we are currently living through the Earth’s sixth mass extinction, with species disappearing at a rate not seen for tens of millions of years – a trend that will only accelerate as climate change and other pressures intensify. What does it mean to live in such a time? And what exactly do we lose when a species goes extinct?
In a series of fascinating encounters with subjects that are now nowhere to be found on Earth – from giant tortoises to minuscule snails the size of sesame seeds, from ocean-hopping trees to fish that wag their tails like puppies – Tom Lathan brings these lost wonders briefly back to life and gives us a tantalising glimpse of what we have lost within our own lifetime.
Drawing on the personal recollections of the people who studied these species, as well as those who tried but ultimately failed to save them, and with beautiful illustrations, Lost Wonders is an intimate portrait of the species that have only recently vanished from our world and an urgent warning to hold on all the more tightly to those now slipping from our grasp.
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25,95 €
Tváře přírody - Úžasná a divoká místa na Zemi
Vydejte se na velkolepou cestu ekosystémy Země a seznamte se s rozmanitými biotopy, které jsou domovem přibližně 8,7 milionu živočišných druhů. Poznejte vše od žab, které dokážou přežít v podmínkách pod bodem mrazu, až po podivné a fascinující tvory, jimž se daří v hlubinách oceánů. Prozkoumejte křehká propojení různých forem života a zjistěte, jak zásadní význam má biodiverzita pro naši budoucnost. Otevřete oči a spatřete naši krásnou planetu ve zcela novém světle.
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The Genetic Book of the Dead
From one of the world's great science writers, a book that explores the deepest principles of evolutionary history.
In this groundbreaking new approach to the evolution of all life, Richard Dawkins shows how the body, behaviour, and genes of every living creature can be read as a book – an archive of the worlds of its ancestors. A perfectly camouflaged desert lizard has a desiccated landscape of sand and stones 'painted' on its back. Its skin can be read as a description of ancient deserts in which its ancestors survived – and, before that, of the worlds of its more remote ancestors: a genetic book of the dead.
But such descriptions are more than skin-deep. The fine chisels of Darwinian natural selection carve their way through the very warp and woof of the body, into every biochemical nook and corner, into every cell of every living creature. A zoologist of the future, presented with a hitherto-unknown animal, will be able to reconstruct the worlds that shaped its ancestors, to read its unique 'book of the dead'.
The book is filled with fascinating examples of the power of Darwinian natural selection to build exquisite perfection, paradoxically accompanied by what look like gross blunders. Along the way, Dawkins dismantles influential criticisms of the 'gene's-eye-view' of life. And, to end with a provocative sting in the tail, the author asks there is a sense in which all our 'own' genes can be seen as a gigantic colony of cooperating viruses?
From the author of The Selfish Gene and The Ancestor's Tale comes a revolutionary, richly illustrated book that unlocks the door to an ancient past, seen through wholly new eyes.
More and More and More
A radical new history of energy and humanity's insatiable need for resources that will change the way we talk about climate change
It has become habitual to think of our relationship with energy as one of transition: with wood superseded by coal, coal by oil, oil by nuclear and then at some future point all replaced by green sources. Jean-Baptiste Fressoz’s devastating but unnervingly entertaining book shows what an extraordinary delusion this is. Far from the industrial era passing through a series of transformations, each new phase has in practice remained almost wholly entangled with the previous one. Indeed the very idea of transition turns out to be untrue.
The author shares the same acute anxiety about the need for a green transition as the rest of us, but shows how, disastrously, our industrial history has in fact been based on symbiosis, with each major energy source feeding off the others. Using a fascinating array of examples, Fressoz describes how we have gorged on all forms of energy – with whole forests needed to prop up coal mines, coal remaining central to the creation of innumerable new products and oil still central to our lives. The world now burns more wood and coal than ever before.
This book reveals an uncomfortable truth: ‘transition’ was originally itself promoted by energy companies, not as a genuine plan, but as a means to put off any meaningful change. More and More and More forces its readers to understand the modern world in all its voracious reality, and the true nature of the challenges heading our way.
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36,90 €
Snídaně s Její Excelencí a další zápisky ředitele zoo
Další ze zápisníků ředitele pražské zoo Miroslava Bobka obsahuje přes sedmdesát kapitol nejen ze zákulisí zoologické zahrady, ale také z pouští a pralesů. Seznámí čtenáře s pozoruhodnými zvířaty, lidmi i místy – a snad je povede k zamyšlení nad naším vztahem k ostatním živým tvorům. Dozvíte se mnoho zákulisních informací z jedné z nejoceňovanějších zoologických zahrad světa. Co obnáší takový převoz gorilí samice? Jaké byly počátky Zoo Praha a jak se staví nové pavilony? Můžete se radovat z narození mláďat luskouna nebo z návratu kapybar. Anebo se dozvíte, proč hrál slavný internacionál Karel Poborský fotbalový zápas v Kamerunu. Vše doprovázejí unikátní fotografie. Knihu předmluvou opatřil britský velvyslanec v České republice Matt Field.
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Přehled hub střední Evropy, 2. vydání
Atlas ukazuje pestrost a bohatství velkých hub ve střední Evropě. Základní počet 1206 vyobrazených taxonů je v poznámkách doplněn o více než 800 dalších. Počtem druhů tak kniha patří k nejrozsáhlejším mykologickým příručkám v Evropě. Obecné kapitoly se věnují vnější i vnitřní stavbě hub, jejich ekologii, ohrožení a ochraně, pojednávají o nomenklatuře, toxinech, barvách, chutích a vůních, přinášejí rady pro určování hub, jejich sběr a využití v kuchyni. Popisy hub obsahují informace potřebné k jejich určení. Ilustrace zobrazují typický vzhled plodnic jednotlivých druhů. Mnoho hub lze spolehlivě určit jen mikroskopicky, proto popisy obsahují údaje o nejdůležitějších mikroznacích. Nechybí informace o jedlosti, nejedlosti či jedovatosti.
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The Burning Earth
In this paradigm-shifting global history of how humanity has reshaped the planet, and the planet has shaped human history, Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of the expansion of human freedom and its costs. Drawing on an extraordinarily rich diversity of primary sources, he reckons with the ruins of Portuguese silver mining in Peru, British gold mining in South Africa, and oil extraction in Central Asia. He explores the railways and highways that brought humans to new terrains of battle against each other and against nature. Amrith’s account of the ways in which the First and Second World Wars involved the massive mobilization not only of men, but of other natural resources from around the globe, provides an essential new way of understanding war as an irreversible reshaping of the planet. He also reveals the reality of migration as consequence of environmental harm.
The imperial, globe-spanning pursuit of profit, joined with new forms of energy and new possibilities of freedom from hunger and discomfort, freedom to move and explore, has brought change to every inch of the Earth. Amrith relates, on the largest canvas, a mind-altering epic – vibrant with stories, characters, and vivid images – in which humanity might find the collective wisdom to save itself.
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Zvířata a rostliny v lese, 2. vydání
Průvodce přírodou od známého autora, jehož tituly figurují na žebříčku bestsellerů. Tato výpravná barevná kniha obsahuje výběr nejčastějších druhů ze světa zvířat, rostlin a hub, který autor doprovází zasvěceným výkladem obohaceným o řadu zajímavých podrobností. Praktická příručka na výlety do přírody.
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The Secret Life of the Universe
We are living in a golden age for discoveries about the universe. Over the last few decades, space exploration has revealed that not only are there habitable environments within our solar system, but there are hundreds of millions of exoplanets within our galaxy that could support life. We are on the cusp of discoveries that will revolutionize our understanding of our place in creation. Yet a profound question remains to be answered: are we alone in the universe?
We have never been closer to answering this question. In The Secret Life of the Universe, astrobiologist Nathalie A. Cabrol takes us to the frontiers of the search for life. As a NASA scientist and the director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute, Cabrol is a leader in our investigations into the origins of life and our quest to find it beyond our planet. This book’s odyssey begins by seeking out how life began on Earth in order to understand what is necessary for life to emerge elsewhere. What role did our Moon play? And could life on Mars, or another celestial body, have seeded life on Earth? Then Cabrol takes us to the likeliest places for life within our neighbourhood, illuminating what we know about the environments of Venus, Mars, and the Moons of Jupiter, Saturn, and icy Pluto. Finally, we seek life beyond our Solar System, looking at the recent revolution in our night sky: the discovery of billions of exoplanets. Cabrol shares the deepest insights and most provocative theories for how life emerged and if we may ever find an advanced alien civilization. As we learn, with more than 300 million exoplanets that are in the habitable zone of our galaxy, to think that we are alone may be little more than ‘statistical nonsense’.
The Secret Life of the Universe is a comprehensive, authoritative guide to the search for life, a dazzling synthesis of the latest discoveries. This is an exhilarating journey for anyone who has ever looked up at the stars and wondered what might be out there.
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Living on Earth
The eagerly anticipated conclusion to Peter Godfrey-Smith’s three-part exploration of the origins of intelligence on Earth, which began with the bestselling Other Minds in 2018 and continued with Metazoa in 2020.
The eagerly anticipated conclusion to Peter Godfrey-Smith’s three-part exploration of the origins of intelligence on Earth, which began with the bestselling Other Minds in 2018 and continued with Metazoa in 2020.
Peter Godfrey-Smith, the scuba-diving philosopher, examined the evolution of sentience in Other Minds. In Metazoa he asked how that consciousness shaped and was shaped by animal bodies. Now, in Living on Earth, he takes that line of questioning a step further, asking, how has life shaped and been shaped by our planet?
He visits the largest living stromatolite fields, examples of how cyanobacteria began belching oxygen into the atmosphere as they converted carbon dioxide and water into living matter using the sun's light. The extraordinary increase in oxygen in the atmosphere resulted in an explosion in the diversity of life. And so began a riotous tangle of coevolution between plants and animals, as each changed the environment around them allowing others to utilise these new ecosystems and thus new species to evolve. From cyanobacteria, through algae on to ferns or trees or grasses, and from protists , through invertebrates and fish through the dinosaurs and on to birds and mammals – our planet has seen an explosion of life forms, all reacting to their environment and all creating new environments that allow other life to evolve.
In our own evolutionary line, an initially unremarkable mammal changed in new ways, evolving to come out of the trees to inhabit new savannas and then onto inhabit the whole planet. One of the most adaptable species ever found on Earth, and arguably the species causing the most change, humans are still part of this 3.8 billion year history of life forms changing the world around them.
In Living on Earth, Godfrey-Smith takes us on a grand tour of the history of life on earth. He visits Rwandan gorillas and Australian bowerbirds, returns to coral reefs and octopus dens, considers the impact of language and writing, and weighs the responsibilities our unique powers bring with them, as they relate to factory farming, habitat preservation, climate change, and the use of animals in experiments. Living on Earth shows that Humans belong to the infinitely complex system that is the Earth, and our minds are products of that system, but we are also an acting force within it. We are creatures of Earth, but we hold Earth's future in our hands. It is a responsibility that we must all understand and accept.
Life As No One Knows It
What is life? This is among the most difficult open problems in science, right up there with the nature of consciousness and the existence of matter. All the definitions we have fall short. None help us understand how life originates or the full range of possibilities for what life on other planets might look like.
In LIFE AS NO ONE KNOWS IT, physicist and astrobiologist Sara Imari Walker argues that solving the origin of life requires radical new thinking and an experimentally testable theory for what life is. This is an urgent issue for efforts to make life from scratch in laboratories here on Earth and missions searching for life on other planets.
Walker proposes a new paradigm for understanding what physics encompasses and what we recognize as life. She invites us into a world of maverick scientists working without a map, seeking not just answers but better ways to formulate the biggest questions we have about the universe. The book culminates with the bold proposal of a new theory for identifying and classifying life, one that applies not just to biological life on Earth but to any instance of life in the universe. Rigorous, accessible, and vital, LIFE AS NO ONE KNOWS IT celebrates the mystery of life and the explanatory power of physics.
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Into the Clear Blue Sky
Can we really restore the earth’s atmosphere within our lifetime?
Whether through sustainable technologies such as fossil-free steel production, hydrogen-powered ships and electric motorbikes, or natural solutions like rewilding peatlands, people all over the world are finding new ways to travel, feed themselves and drive industry while safeguarding a liveable planet for future generations.
Drawing on decades of research and a vast network of experts, Rob Jackson, Chair of the Global Carbon Project, introduces some of the brilliant innovators behind the boldest solutions to climate change – including an Eritrean agricultural scientist, a Swedish CEO and a Brazilian hydrologist.
Now we have more tools to combat climate change than ever before, Into the Clear Blue Sky traces a clear path to a better future for us all – one that will see us cutting emissions in inventive new ways that protect our health and livelihoods, while repairing the damage we have caused to the atmosphere. This visionary and transformative book is the call to action we need – right now.
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Counting
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM? HOW HAS IT SHAPED SOCIETIES ALONG THE WAY? AND WHY DOES IT MATTER?
Counting is an innovative, erudite, world-wrapping journey through humanity’s marvellous ability to impose numbers on things. Acclaimed historian and mathematician Benjamin Wardhaugh draws on stories from the Stone Age to cyberspace in pursuit of the elusive, fascinating, endlessly diverse history of human counting.
Starting with the roots of counting in human brains, bodies and environments, Wardhaugh tours us around the world and through time while exploring the different flavours of counting that have developed over millennia. We meet the makers of bead necklaces in ancient South Africa, the inventors of writing in the world ’ s first metropolis, and the ‘counter culture’ of classical Athens. We see counting used – and changed – by Indian scholars, Chinese peasants and Papuan shopkeepers; we meet the distinctive numerate agendas of Mayan kings, US governments and Korean vloggers.
Weaving these stories together, Wardhaugh shows how cultures have shaped counting, and how counting has shaped culture, in a rich tapestry spanning thousands of years. This is the vast story of human attempts to find some order in an unruly world; or, perhaps, to impose on a reluctant world the order that humans find within themselves. It is a history as wide, deep and tangled as that of humanity itself
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Quantum Leaps
From the author of Million Dollar Maths comes a fascinating and engaging look at the mathematics that lies behind our modern world.
How does Google know what you want to type?
How did humans first reach the moon?
Could we ever have a supercomputer the size of a pinhead?
In this thrilling numerical journey, Hugh Barker explores how mathematics has helped to build the technology of today, and the fascinating ways it is shaping the future. From green energy to 3-D printing and from quantum cryptography to machine learning, Quantum Leaps reveals the hidden mathematics in modern technology.
Beautifully written and full of ingenious examples, this book will make you realise how the modern world would be impossible without our formidable mathematical armoury.
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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 poskytujú čitateľom vedecké informácie a pozadie o astronómii, geológii, biológii, chémii, fyzike, matematike a iných prírodovedných disciplínach. Zameriavajú sa na princípy, teórie, objavy a vedecký výskum v týchto oblastiach.
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.
K najznámejším autorom patria Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins, Carl Sagan,či Yuval Noah Harari.
