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Biológia, fauna a flóra 
Astronómia, vesmír, fyzika 
Ekológia, meteorológia, klimatológia 
Matematika, logika 
Geografia, geológia, mineralógia 
Chémia 
Prírodné vedy - ostatné
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Happy Apocalypse
Being environmentally conscious is not nearly as modern as we imagine. As a mode of thinking it goes back hundreds of years. Yet we typically imagine ourselves among the first to grasp the impact humanity has on the environment. Hence there is a fashion for green confessions and mea culpas.
But the notion of a contemporary ecological awakening leads to political impasse. It erases a long history of environmental destruction. Furthermore, by focusing on our present virtues, it overlooks the struggles from which our perspective arose.
In response, Happy Apocalypse plunges us into the heart of controversies that emerged in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries around factories, machines, vaccines and railways. Jean-Baptiste Fressoz demonstrates how risk was conceived, managed, distributed and erased to facilitate industrialization. He explores how clinical expertise around 1800 allowed vaccination to be presented as completely benign, how the polluter-pays principle emerged in the nineteenth century to legitimize the chemical industry, how safety norms were invented to secure industrial capital and how criticisms and objections were silenced or overcome to establish technological modernity.
Societies of the past did not inadvertently alter their environments on a massive scale. Nor did they disregard the consequences of their decisions. They seriously considered them, sometimes with dread. The history recounted in this book is not one of a sudden awakening but a process of modernising environmental disinhibition.
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Becoming Earth
A radically thought-provoking account of a major shift in how we understand our Earth, not simply as an inanimate planet on which life evolved, but rather as a planet that came to life, from the heart of the Amazon rainforest to the soil in our gardens.
The notion of a living world is one of humanity’s oldest beliefs. Though once scorned by many scientists, the concept of Earth as a vast interconnected living system has gained acceptance in recent decades. Life not only adapts to its surroundings – it also shapes them in dramatic and enduring ways. Over billions of years, life transformed a lump of orbiting rock into our cosmic oasis, breathing oxygen into the atmosphere, concocting the modern oceans, and turning rock into fertile soil. Life is intertwined with Earth’s capacity to regulate its climate and maintain balance.
Through compelling narrative, evocative descriptions, and lucid explanations, Ferris Jabr shows us how Earth became the world we’ve known, how it is rapidly becoming a very different world, and how we will determine what kind of Earth our descendants inherit for millennia to come.
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Love Triangle
Explore the life-changing magic of trigonometry with Matt Parker, stand-up mathematician and No. 1 bestselling author of Humble Pi
Why can no two people ever see the same rainbow? What happens when you pull a pop song apart into pure sine waves and play it back on a piano? Why does the wake behind a duck always form an angle of exactly 39 degrees? And what did mathematicians have to do with the great pig stampede of 2012? The answer to each of these questions can be found in the triangle.
In Love Triangle, stand-up comedian, ex-maths teacher and Sunday Times number one bestselling author Matt Parker is on a mission to prove why we should all show a lot more love for triangles, along with the useful trigonometry and geometry they enable. To make his point, he uses triangles to create his own digital avatar, survive a harrowing motorcycle ride, cut a sandwich into three equal parts, and measure tall buildings while wearing silly shoes. But soon these hare-brained experiments begin to reveal a genuinely important truth: triangles are the hidden pattern beneath the surface of the contemporary world, used in everything from GPS to CGI via Spotify streaming, the play button and your best mate’s triangle tattoo.
Join Matt Parker as he demonstrates why there’s more to triangles than Pythagoras and SOHCAHTOA. Triangles are everything and everything is triangles.
Escape From Shadow Physics
'A LANDMARK IN THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF PHYSICS' - Jean Bricmont
The received wisdom in quantum physics is that, at the deepest levels of reality, there are no actual causes for atomic events. This idea led to the outlandish belief that atoms - and therefore all things - aren't real unless shaped by human measurement. Einstein mocked this, asking if his bed evaporated only to jump back into the corner when he opened the door. And yet, quantum antirealism remains deeply influential in science and our culture.
In?Escape from Shadow Physics, Adam Forrest Kay takes up Einstein's torch: reality isn't mysterious or dependent on human measurement, but predictable and independent of us. At the heart of his argument is groundbreaking research with little drops of oil. These droplets behave as particles do in the long-overlooked quantum theory of pilot waves; crucially, they display quantum behaviour while being described by classical physics.
What if the original doubters of our quantum orthodoxy (not least Einstein himself) were onto something? What if pilot wave theory was right all along? In that case, we may be on the threshold of a scientific revolution in which a century of mystical thinking and learned helplessness is replaced by a rational understanding of nature.
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We Will Not Be Saved
'I'm here to tell you my story, which is also the story of my people and the story of this forest.'
Born into the Waorani tribe of Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, Nemonte Nenquimo was taught about plant medicines, foraging, oral storytelling, and shamanism by her elders. Age 14, she left the forest for the first time to study with an evangelical missionary group in the city. Eventually, her ancestors began appearing in her dreams, pleading with her to return and embrace her own culture.
She listened.
Two decades later, Nemonte has emerged as one of the most forceful voices in climate-change activism. She has spearheaded the alliance of indigenous nations across the Upper Amazon and led her people to a landmark victory against Big Oil, protecting over a half million acres of primary rainforest. Her message is as sharp as the spears that her ancestors wielded - honed by her experiences battling loggers, miners, oil companies and missionaries.
In this astonishing memoir, she partners with her husband Mitch Anderson, founder of Amazon Frontlines, digging into generations of oral history, uprooting centuries of conquest, hacking away at racist notions of Indigenous people, and ultimately revealing a life story as rich, harsh and vital as the Amazon rainforest herself.
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100 + 1 záludných otázek - astronomie
Populární vědní obor, který doznal za posledních 100 let nejvíce změn, a to jak z hlediska praktického pozorování, tak
i pokud jde o nové teorie a jejich potvrzení v praxi.
Formou otázek a odpovědí se čtenář seznámí s vesmírem, jaký je, a s nejnovějšími poznatky o něm.
Kniha může být použita i jako doplňkový učební text pro studenty tohoto oboru.
Z obsahu:
Na Měsíci je prý Koperník. Jak se tam dostal?
Co uvidíme ze dna Ptolemaea?
Ukážete nám, kde je zenit?
Kolik dní má rok?
Kde leží kolébka našeho Slunce?
Proč je obloha modrá?
Jak to, že jsme Slunci nejblíže v zimě?
Platí mnemotechnická pomůcka o dorůstajícím nebo couvajícím Měsíci vždy a všude?
Proč je Slunce při obzoru červené?
Proč jsou kosmonauti v družici ve stavu beztíže?
Proč je Slunce při obzoru zploštělé?
Může se Slunce srazit s jinou hvězdou?
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20,43 €
Velcí dinosauři
Hovoří-li se dnes o zvířatech žijících na Zemi v dávné minulosti, vybaví se většině lidí dinosauři - jedna z nejlépe známých skupin vymřelých živočichů. Co však vyvolalo tak nenadálý zájem o tyto pravěké plazy?
Vyhynulí dinosauři nás svými obrovskými rozměry fascinovali od nepaměti, avšak nedávné výzkumy odhalily nová překvapující fakta, jež vzrušila nejen odborníky pracující v tomto oboru, ale i laiky.
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17,99 €
Otisky času
Každý den se na naší planetě rodí, žije a umírá obrovské množství rostlin i živočichů. Bylo tomu tak včera, před rokem, ale i před tisíci či miliony lety.
Během celé dlouhé historie Země se na jejím povrchu vystřídalo nepředstavitelné množství světů, plných nejrůznějších organismů ať už živočišného, či rostlinného původu. Drtivá většina z nich po prožití svého života beze zbytku zmizela.
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31,80 €
Mapmatics
How does a delivery driver distribute hundreds of packages in a single working day? Why does remote Alaska have such a large airport? Where should we look for elusive serial killers? The answers lie in the crucial connection between maps and maths.
In Mapmatics, Dr Paulina Rowinska embarks on a fascinating journey to discover the mathematical foundations of cartography and cartographical influences on mathematics. From a sixteenth-century map that remains an indispensable navigation tool despite emphasizing the North–South divide, and maps of voting districts that can empower or silence whole communities, to public transport maps that both guide and mislead passengers, she reveals how maps and maths shape not only our sense of space and time but also our worldview.
Through entertaining stories, surprising real-world examples and a cast of unforgettable characters, Mapmatics helps us to appreciate the mathematical methods and ideas behind maps. And, by illuminating how our world works, leaves us better equipped to understand and look after it.
Amphibious Soul
An awe-inspiring narrative about the power of nature and our place within it, from the creator of My Octopus Teacher, filmmaker Craig Foster
An adventure story, love story, travelogue, naturalist memoir, and spiritual guide, Craig Foster's Amphibious Soul is a scientist and adventurer’s perspective on “rewilding” developing a deep connection to our animal selves that can reinvigorate our lives. Told in Craig’s warm and passionate voice, this extraordinary book will change not only the way we interact with the natural world, but the way we fundamentally see ourselves.
A decade ago, living in a city and feeling exhausted and empty, Craig decided to return to his birthplace the Cape of Good Hope and dive into the great African Sea forest each day. His daily oceanic adventures not only helped him “rewild”, but helped him come to see his own “amphibious soul” as a powerful metaphor for the human condition. We homo sapiens are by nature wild animals attempting to exist in a docile world. So how can we reclaim our wildness in a world that wants us to stay so tamed?
An extraordinary literary work, Amphibious Soul is a riveting narrative filled with meticulous descriptions of an adventure in the natural world that speaks to readers on an intimate level, challenging us to consider our personal relationship to nature, and inspiring us to realign our daily practices to help save the global ecosystem. Whether we live close to nature or in an urban jungle, Craig shows us how to nurture our individual wildness, tap into our empathy, and deepen our love for all living things. He teaches us to track the wild around us, and by doing so become present in the moment and revel in being wondrously alive.
Featuring breathtaking original photos and QR codes that access mini-videos of never-seen-before animal interactions, Amphibious Soul is a remarkable experience that will transform us and ultimately our world.
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21,95 €
Nejistá věda
Kniha se podrobně a apoliticky zabývá mylnými představami a ideologickým zkreslením mainstreamové prezentace vědy o klimatu, jež je mnohem méně černobílá, než si mnozí lidé uvědomují. „Science is settled“ je dnes oblíbené a dost špatně přeložitelné heslo klima-alarmistů. Obvykle se překládá jako „věda ví“. Ale skutečně „věda ví“?
Jak v knize dokládá renomovaný vědec Steven E. Koonin, věda o klimatu je ve skutečnosti „unsettled“, tedy nejen že jednoznačně „neví“, ale nemá ani dostatečná data k tomu, aby mohla diktovat veřejnou politiku. Jeho práce je vynikající studií o nesmírné složitosti a nejistotách panujících v této oblasti a je rovněž varovným příběhem o tom, jak interpretační filtry v procesu vytváření politiky debatu o klimatu určovaly a často deformovaly. Koonin rozhodně netvrdí, že ekologické problémy neexistují a že je nemáme řešit. Pouze se snaží ukázat, že debata o nich je zbytečně vyhrocená a vedená špatným směrem.
Steven E. Koonin je jedním z nejuznávanějších amerických vědců, člen Národní akademie věd a vedoucí osobnost vědecké politiky USA. Byl náměstkem ministra pro vědu na ministerstvu energetiky za prezidenta Obamy, kde zodpovídal za program výzkumu klimatu a strategii energetických technologií. Jeho knihy Unsettled, pro jejíž český překlad jsme zvolili název Nejistá věda, se jen v USA prodalo 200 000 výtisků a byla přeložena do mnoha jazyků.
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27,45 €
Biostatistika
Biostatistika je moderní učebnicí statistiky, která představuje statistické nástroje klíčové pro čtenáře z biologických a biologii blízkých oborů. Autoři nejprve představují problémy, které daná statistická metoda řeší, a poté uvádějí princip metody i její nezbytné předpoklady. Podstatnou součást knihy tvoří praktické příklady. Jejich řešení, postup zpracování a podobu výsledků autoři ukazují s použitím dvou statistických programů: „Statistica“ a „R“, běžně využívaných v České republice. K praktickým příkladům také doplňují, jak mohou být statistické výsledky prezentovány v anglicky psaných odborných publikacích, i jak v těchto publikacích použité statistické metody popsat.
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18,15 €
Kniha biologie, 2. vydání
Další titul ze série přehledových oborových publikací představuje zasvěcený úvod do oboru biologie a nepochybně osloví všechny, kteří se chtějí dozvědět víc o životě kolem nás, ať už je to diverzita, evoluce, nebo ekologie. Využívá atraktivní formu mozaiky a prostřednictvím textů, doprovodných ilustrací a názorných schémat přináší odpovědi na nejnaléhavější otázky o veškerém životě na planetě Zemi.
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41,74 €
Infinite Life a Revolutionary Story of Eggs, Evolution and Life on Earth
Every animal on the planet owes its existence to one crucial piece of evolutionary engineering: the egg.
It’s time to tell a new story of life on Earth.
If you think of an egg, what do you see in your mind’s eye? A chicken egg, hard-boiled? A slimy mass of frogspawn? Perhaps you see a human egg cell, prepared on a microscope slide in a laboratory? Or the majestic marble-blue eggs of the blackbird?
Every egg there has ever been, is an emblem of survival. Yet the evolution of the animal egg is the dramatic subplot missing in many accounts of how life on Earth came to be. Quite simply, without this universal biological phenomenon, animals as we know them, including us, could not have evolved and flourished.
In Infinite Life, zoology correspondent Jules Howard takes the reader on a mind-bending journey from the churning coastlines of the Cambrian Period and Carboniferous coal forests, where insects were stirring, to the end of the age of dinosaurs when live-birthing mammals began their modern rise to power. Eggs would evolve from out of the sea; be set by animals into soils, sands, canyons and mudflats; be dropped in nests wrapped in silk; hung in stick nests in trees, covered in crystallised shells or secured by placentas.
Whether belonging to birds, insects, mammals or millipedes, animal eggs are objects that have been shaped by their ecology, forged by mass extinctions and honed by natural selection to near-perfection. Finally, the epic story of their role in the tapestry of life can be told.
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21,95 €
The Light Eaters
A narrative investigation into the new science of plant intelligence and sentience, from National Association of Science Writers Award winner and Livingston Award finalist Zoe Schlanger.
Look at the green organism across the room or through the window: the potted plant, or the grass, or a tree. Think how a life spent constantly growing yet rooted in a single spot comes with tremendous challenges. To meet them, plants have come up with some of the most creative methods for surviving of any living thing, us included. Many are so ingenious that they seem nearly impossible.
There is no doubt that plants are important: plants, or their green precursors the blue-green algae and algae themselves, have produced all the oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere, allowing animals to evolve.
But did you know they can communicate when they are being eaten, allowing nearby plants to bolster their defences. They move and that movement stops when they are anaesthetised, just like animals. They also use electricity for internal communication, just like animals. They can hear the sounds of caterpillars eating, just like animals. Plants can remember the last time they have been visited by a bee and how many times they have been visited, so have a concept of time and can count, just like animals. Plants can not only communicate with each other, they can also communicate with other species of plant and animals, allowing them to manipulate animals to defend or fertilise them. This is unlike most other animals.
So look again at the potted plant, or the grass or the tree and wonder: Are plants intelligent? Perhaps even more fundamental is are they conscious?
Is the only real difference between animals and plants that plants are light eaters, animals aren’t.
The Light Eaters will completely redefine how you think of plants. Packed with the most amazing stories of the life of plants it will open your eyes to the extraordinary green life forms we share the planet with. Of course, like animals, plants can also detect light.
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28,95 €
Ha az ERDŐ beszélni tudna - Tudnivalók kíváncsi erdőbarátoknak és tettre kész klímaaktivistáknak
Erdő. Mindössze négy betű. Ennek a négy betűnek olyan hatalma van boldogulásunkra és boldogságunkra, melyet nem könnyű szavakkal leírni. Aki viszont megízleli ezt az örömforrást és életérzést, az tovább akarja adni. Neked. Nekünk. Mindenkinek. Az utókornak.
Az erdők még mindig tele vannak rejtélyekkel, még mindig rengeteg megfejtenivalót tartogatnak a tudósok számára. De bármi, ami eddig kiderült róluk, az csak értéket adott az emberiségnek. Ezekbe a rejtélyekbe kémlelünk bele, hogy kiderüljön: az erdő nem tud elvenni, csak adni. Önzetlenül és örökké. Nyugodtan bízzuk rá magunkat! Ám a legfontosabb, hogy az erdőt meg is kell védeni, és ez csak rajtunk múlik. Erről szól ez a könyv.
Az ismeretterjesztő kötethez közel száz önkéntes járult hozzá munkájával, fotóival vagy átütő erejű szavaival.
A könyveladásokból befolyó teljes nyereséget a hazai természetvédelem számára ajánlotta fel a szerző.
Részlet:
"Amikor véletlenek hosszú sora után egy makk kicsírázik, még nem tudja, hogy történelmet ír. Ha jókor volt jó helyen, ha megtalálta a tökéletes pillanatot, akkor gyökeret ereszt. Aztán kihajt, és ha egyetlen éhes vad sem jár arra, akkor nekilát meghódítani a meg örökölt teret. Eltelik tíz év. Eltelik száz év. Esetleg ezer. Elkerülték háborúk, kórságok, de még a fázó családok is. Több évszázad megpróbáltatásai után is teszi a dolgát. Hűt, fűt, portalanít és oxigént ad. Évszakokat felügyel, esőt hoz. Átölel embert s állatot. De vajon hogyan képes ellátni mindennel az embert? Honnan van mindehhez ereje? És mi lesz a sorsa a korszakokon átívelő históriának?"
The Asteroid Hunter
On September 11, 1999, humanity made a monumental discovery in the vastness of space. Scientists uncovered an asteroid of immense scientific importance-a colossal celestial entity. As massive as an aircraft carrier and towering as high as the iconic Empire State Building, this cosmic titan was later named Bennu. Remarkable for much more than its size, Bennu belonged to a rare breed of asteroids capable of revealing the essence of life itself. But just as Bennu became a beacon of promise, researchers identified a grave danger. Hurtling through space, it threatens to collide with our planet on September 24, 2182.
Leading the expedition was Dr. Dante Lauretta, the Principal Investigator of NASA's audacious OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission. Tasked with unraveling Bennu's mysteries, his team embarked on a daring quest to retrieve a precious sample from the asteroid's surface - one that held the potential to not only unlock the secrets of life's origins but also to avert an unprecedented catastrophe.
A tale of destiny and danger, The Asteroid Hunter chronicles the high-stakes mission firsthand, narrated by Dr. Lauretta. It offers readers an intimate glimpse into the riveting exploits of the mission and Dr. Lauretta's wild, winding personal journey to Bennu and back. Peeling back the curtain on the wonders of the cosmos, this enthralling account promises a rare glimpse into the tightly woven fabric of scientific exploration, where technical precision converges with humanity's profound curiosity and indominable spirit.
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32,95 €
Alien Earths
For thousands of years, humans have wondered whether we're alone in the cosmos. Now, for the first time, we have the technology to investigate. The question should have an obvious answer: yes or no. But once you try to find life elsewhere, you realize it is not so simple. How do you find it over cosmic distances? What actually is life?
Astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger works from Carl Sagan’s former office at Cornell University, where she built a team of tenacious scientists from many disciplines to find life on faraway worlds, using Earth’s diverse biosphere and its history as a Rosetta Stone. With infectious enthusiasm, she provides an eye-opening insider’s guide to the most unusual exoplanets that have shaken our worldview – planets covered in oceans of lava, lonely wanderers lost in space, and others with more than one sun in their sky – as well as the best contenders for Alien Earths. She also shows how close imagined scifi worlds come to reality.
We live in an incredible new epoch of exploration. As our witty and knowledgeable tour guide, Professor Kaltenegger shows how we discover not merely new continents, like the explorers of old, but whole new worlds circling other stars – and how we could spot life there. Worlds from where aliens may even be gazing back at us. What if we're not alone?
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32,95 €
Future of Denial: The Ideologies of Climate Change
Capitalism is an ecocidal engine constantly regenerating climate change denial.
The age of denial is over, we are told. Yet emissions continue to rise while gimmicks, graft, and green- washing distract the public from the climate violence suffered by the vulnerable. This timely, interdisciplinary contribution to the environmental humanities draws on the latest climatology, the first shoots of an energy transition, critical theory, Earth's paleoclimate history, and trends in border violence to answer the most pressing question of our age: Why do we continue to squander the short time we have left?
The symptoms suggest society's inability to adjust is profound. Near Portland, militias incapable of accepting that the world is warming respond to a wildfire by hunting for imaginary left-wing arsonists. Europe erects nets in the Aegean Sea to capture migrants fleeing drought and war. An airline claims to be carbon neutral thanks to bogus cheap offsets. Drone strikes hit people living along the aridity line. Yes, Exxon knew as early as the 1970s, but the fundamental physics of carbon dioxide warming the Earth was already understood before the American Civil War.
Will capitalists ever voluntarily walk away from hundreds of trillions of dollars in fossil fuels unless they are forced to do so? And, if not, who will apply the necessary pressure?
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26,95 €
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.
