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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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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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61,60 €
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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38,95 €
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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19,20 €
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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21,95 €
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.
Majdnem minden rövid története
Bill Bryson nagy fába vágta a fejszéjét. Olyan dolgokról mesél, amelyek a legtöbb embert általában halálra untatják: geológiáról, kémiáról és részecskefizikáról. Megtalálja a módját, hogy felkeltse még az olyan olvasó érdeklődését is, akit soha nem érdekeltek a természettudományok. A könyv elsősorban nem is arról szól, hogy mi az, amit tudunk, hanem, hogy honnan szereztük tudásunkat. Honnan tudjuk, mi van a Föld közepében, mi az a fekete lyuk, és hogy hol voltak a földrészek 600 millió éve? Hogyan jöhetett rá valaki ezekre a dolgokra?
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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24,90 €
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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32,95 €
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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23,95 €
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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23,95 €
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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27,95 €
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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21,95 €
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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21,95 €
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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19,95 €
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.
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Co uvidíme ze dna Ptolemaea?
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Kde leží kolébka našeho Slunce?
Proč je obloha modrá?
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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 €
Kemény anyag
A tesztek is megerősítették a gyógyszerészek optimizmusát. Egy depressziós, „folyamatosan ingerült és könnyen dühbe guruló cselédlányt”, akit „világvége-gondolatok és üldözési tévképzetek” gyötörtek, „3 LSD-kezelés után” haza lehetett engedni. Egy „későparanoid” állapottal diagnosztizált kocsmárost úgyszintén. Összesen hat páciens kapott gyógyszert különféle mennyiségekben, a mikrodózisú 10 és az erős 130 mikrogramm között.
Arthur Stoll elvárásai a radikális pszichoterápiás szerről fiának munkája nyomán még magasabbak lettek. Megerősödött az a hite, hogy olyan hatalmas változásokat hozó szert tart a kezében, amilyen csak ritkán adatik meg. „Rengeteg kérdés fogalmazódott meg bennem, amelyek a súlyos endogén lelki betegségek nagy pszichiátria terébe tartoztak.” Immár az öregkori agyi teljesítménycsökkenésre gyakorolt hatásait is vizsgálni kellett. Arthur Stoll üzleti ösztöne azt súgta, hogy a Sandoz az emberiség történetének egyik legtöbbet ígérő gyógyszerfejlesztése előtt áll. Úgy látszott, hogy az anyarozsból készült termékkel sok lelki betegséget, pszichózist, neurózist, depressziót gyógyíthatóvá tesznek.
Ám a cég vezetője ekkor elkövetett egy sorsdöntő hibát.
A tudatmódosító szerek évezredek óta jelen vannak az emberiség történetében.
De csak pár évtizede vannak betiltva.
1943-ban, egy szép áprilisi napon a Sandoz gyógyszergyártó cég laboratóriumának munkatársa a szabályok ellenére önkísérletet hajt végre magán, és kipróbálja a később LSD-ként elhíresült vegyületet, az ötvenes években pedig a mexikói varázsgombákban egy hasonló hatású anyagra bukkan. Kutatásai közben nem is sejti, milyen mértékben változtatja meg a 20. század történelmét.
Habár az LSD-ből és a pszilocibinből nem lett gyógyszer, pszichedelikus hatásuk miatt jelentős érdeklődés jelentkezett irántuk. Magánembereken kívül kutatók, orvosok, sőt a CIA vezetői is láttak bennük fantáziát: kábítószerként, gyógyszerként és fegyverként is felhasználták ezeket a pszichedelikus drogokat. Miért nem készítettek belőlük soha gyógyszert? Vajon tényleg képesek lennének gyógyítani a depressziót vagy az Alzheimer-kórt? Hogyan és miért tiltották be a használatukat? Mire akarta felhasználni a CIA ezeket a szereket, és milyen titkos kísérleteket folytattak velük - a kísérleti alanyok tudta nélkül?
Hasonló kérdésekre keresi a választ könyvében Norman Ohler, aki európai és egyesült államokbeli levéltárakban végzett alapos, ugyanakkor izgalmas kutatómunka és szakértőkkel folytatott beszélgetések eredményeit tárja az olvasók elé, és egy olyan tripre hívja őket, amelyet soha nem fognak elfelejteni.
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12,67 €
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.
