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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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Včelařit jako včela
Po mimořádně úspěšném prvním dílu Myslet jako včela přichází autor s další přelomovou knihou, v níž se zabývá včelstvy jako biologickými celky. Podrobně popisuje ekologické požadavky včelstev, dutinu stromu jako jejich přirozené prostředí a přirozenou dynamiku včelího díla. Úvodní teoretická část pak ústí v řešení úlové otázky, optimalizace technologií včelaření i prevence chorob včelího plodu. Dílo graduje podrobnými metodikami efektivních, biologicky optimálních a téměř bezpracných technologií chovu včel.
Moudrost vlků
Miluj svou rodinu, starej se o ni, nikdy se nevzdávej a nikdy si nepřestávej hrát – to jsou zásady vlků. Empaticky se starají o staré a zraněné příslušníky smečky, láskyplně vychovávají potomky a dokážou při hře na vše zapomenout. Přemýšlejí, sní, spřádají plány, inteligentně spolu komunikují. Autorka vypráví napínavé příběhy, jež dokládají vlčí smysl pro rodinu, a ukazuje, že se od vlků můžeme naučit, jak překonávat neúspěch či smrt blízkých. Vlci totiž mají s námi mnohem víc společného, než připouštíme.
A Trillion Trees
Trees keep our planet cool and breathable. They make the rain and sustain biodiversity. They are essential for nature and for us. And yet, we are cutting and burning them at such a rate that many forests are fast approaching tipping points beyond which they will simply shrivel and die. But there is still time, and there is still hope. If we had a trillion more trees, the damage could be undone. So should we get planting? Not so fast. Fred Pearce argues in this inspiring new book that we can have our forests back, but mass planting should be a last resort. Instead, we should mostly stand back, make room and let nature -- and those who dwell in the forests -- do the rest.
Taking us from the barren sites of illegal logging and monocrop farming to the smouldering rainforests of the Amazon, Fred Pearce tells a revelatory new history of the relationship between humans and trees - and shows us how we can change it for the better. Here we meet the pilot who discovered flying rivers, the village elders who are farming amid the trees, and the scientists challenging received wisdom. And we visit some of the world's most wondrous treescapes, from the orchid-rich moutaintops of Ecuador to the gnarled and ancient glades of the South Downs.
Combining vivid travel writing with cutting edge science, A Trillion Trees is both an environmental call to arms and a celebration of our planet's vast arboreal riches.
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Fire Storm and Flood The violence of climate change
An unflinching photographic record of the epic effects of a violent climate, from the earliest extinction events to the present. Violent geologic events have ravaged the Earth since time began, spanning the vast eons of our planet's existence. These seismic phenomena have scored their marks in rock strata and been reflected in fossil records for future humanity to excavate and ponder. For most of the preceeding 78,000 years Homo sapiens simply observed natural climate upheaval. One hundred years ago, however, industrialization stunningly changed the rules, so that now most climate change is driven by us.
Fire, Storm and Flood is an unflinching photographic record of the epic effects of a violent climate, from the earliest extinction events to the present, in which we witness climate chaos forced by unnatural global warming. It uses often emotional and moving imagery to drive home the enormity of climatic events, offering a sweeping acknowledgment of our crowded planet's heartbreaking vulnerability and show-stopping beauty.
How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch
We probably all have a vague idea of how to make an apple pie: mix flour and butter, throw in some apples and you're probably most of the way there, right? Think again. Making an apple pie from scratch requires ingredients that definitely aren't available in the supermarket, ovens that can reach temperatures of trillions of degrees, and a preparation time of 13.8 billion years.
Inspired by Sagan's famous line, Harry Cliff ventures out in search of the ultimate apple pie recipe, tracing the ingredients of our universe through the hearts of dying stars and back in time to a tiny fraction of a second after our universe began. Along the way, he confronts some really big questions: What is matter really made of? How does the stuff around us escape annihilation in the fearsome heat of the Big Bang? And will we ever be able to understand the very first moments of our universe?
In pursuit of answers, Cliff ventures to the largest underground research facility in the world, deep beneath Italy's Gran Sasso mountains, where scientists gaze into the heart of the Sun using the most elusive of particles, the ghostly neutrino. He visits CERN in Switzerland to explore the 'Antimatter Factory' where this stuff of science fiction is manufactured daily (and we're close to knowing whether it falls upwards). And he reveals what the latest data from the Large Hadron Collider may be telling us about the fundamental ingredients of matter.
Along the way, Cliff illuminates the history of physics, chemistry, and astronomy that brought us to our present understanding of the world, while offering readers a front-row seat to one of the most dramatic intellectual journeys human beings have ever embarked on.
A transfixing deep dive into origins of our world, How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch doesn't just put the makeup of our universe under the microscope, but the awe-inspiring, improbable fact that it exists at all.
'A fascinating exploration of how we learned what matter really is, and the journey matter takes from the Big Bang, through exploding stars, ultimately to you and me.' - Sean Carroll, author of Something Deeply Hidden
'If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.' - Carl Sagan
Encounters With Euclid
'An astonishingly readable and informative history of the greatest mathematical bestseller of all time ... The writing is vivid and the stories are gripping. Highly recommended ' IAN STEWART, AUTHOR OF SIGNIFICANT FIGURES
Euclid's Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In this sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how the ancient Greek text on mathematics - often hailed as the world's first textbook - shaped two thousand years of art, philosophy and literature, as well as science and maths.
With stories of influence on every continent, and encounters with the likes of Ptolemy and Isaac Newton, Hobbes and Lewis Carroll, Wardhaugh gives dramatic life to the evolution of mathematics.
The Sirens of Mars
As a new wave of interplanetary exploration unfolds, a talented young planetary scientist charts our centuries-old obsession with Mars.
'Beautifully written, emotive - a love letter to a planet' DERMOT O'LEARY, BBC Radio 2
Mars - bewilderingly empty, coated in red dust - is an unlikely place to pin our hopes of finding life elsewhere. And yet, right now multiple spacecraft are circling, sweeping over Terra Sabaea, Syrtis Major, the dunes of Elysium and Mare Sirenum - on the brink, perhaps, of a discovery that would inspire humankind as much as any in our history.
With poetic precision and grace, Sarah Stewart Johnson traces the evocative history of our explorations of Mars. She interlaces her personal journey as a scientist with tales of other seekers - from Galileo to William Herschel to Carl Sagan - who have scoured this enigmatic planet for signs of life and transformed it in our understanding from a distant point of light into a complex world. Ultimately, she shows how its story is also a story about Earth: it is a foil, a mirror, a tell-tale reflection of our own anxieties and yearnings to find - if we're lucky - that we're not alone.
'Elegantly written and boundlessly entertaining' Sunday Telegraph
'Beguiling' The Times
'Johnson's prose swirls with lyrical wonder, as varied and multi-hued as the apricot deserts, butterscotch skies and blue sunsets of Mars' Anthony Doerr, New York Times Book Review
'Elegantly crafted' Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal
Vesper Flights
'Thrilling dispatches from a vanishing world' Observer
Animals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves.
From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to the natural world.
Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best-loved writing along with new pieces covering a thrilling range of subjects. There are essays here on headaches, on catching swans, on hunting mushrooms, on twentieth-century spies, on numinous experiences and high-rise buildings; on nests and wild pigs and the tribulations of farming ostriches.
Vesper Flights is a book about observation, fascination, time, memory, love and loss and how we make the world around us. Moving and frank, personal and political, it confirms Helen Macdonald as one of this century's greatest nature writers.
Brain Workouts in Quantum Mechanics
Kniha představuje výpočetní praxi pro širokou škálu problémů z kvantové fyziky jedno- a mnohočásticových systémů. Text má charakter řešených příkladů, který se dotýkají řady témat jako jsou např. přibližné metody v kvantové mechanice, moment hybnosti nebo atomová struktura a několik pokročilejších příkladů motivovaných komplexnějšími fyzikálními systémy. Obsahuje i samostatnou část shrnující základní vlastnosti řešitelných kvantových systémů.
U řady příkladů je uvedeno několik variant řešení, návrhy na rozšíření příkladu nebo samostatná hlubší reflexe výsledků. Čtenářům jsou také představeny fyzikální důsledky provedených výpočtů, které jsou často doprovázeny obrázkem nebo grafem. Je to typická kniha na večer. Buď s ní usnete, nebo ráno zjistíte, že jste si v noci zapomněli jít lehnout. Kniha poskytuje širokou škálu odpovědí na otázky života částic, vesmíru a učitelů fyziky.
The book presents computational practice for a wide range of problems from the quantum physics of single- and multi-particle systems. The text has the character of worked examples, which touch on a number of topics such as approximate methods in quantum mechanics, momentum or atomic structure and several more advanced examples motivated by more complex physical systems. It also contains a separate part summarizing the basic properties of solvable quantum systems.
For a number of examples, several variants of the solution are given, suggestions for extending the example or a separate deeper reflection of the results. Readers are also introduced to the physical consequences of the calculations performed, often accompanied by a picture or graph. It is a typical book for the evening. You will either fall asleep with it or find out in the morning that you forgot to go to bed at night. The book provides a wide range of answers to the life questions of particles, the universe, and physics teachers.
Stručná historie času
Ve své Stručné historii času Stephen Hawking přístupně a čtivě rekapituluje vědecké i předvědecké názory na vznik a podobu vesmíru. Od mytologických představ o Zemi ležící na krunýři želvy se přes heliocentrické a geocentrické modely Sluneční soustavy dostává k Albertu Einsteinovi a jeho převratným objevům dotýkajícím se povahy prostoru a času. Shrnuje neuvěřitelný pokrok, jaký věda v poznávání vesmíru učinila ve dvacátém století, a dostává se až na práh objevu teorie všeho, která by sjednotila dosavadní fyzikální poznatky do komplexního celku a která prozatím zůstává nedosažitelná.
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Everybody Needs Beauty
'This book represents, genuinely, a moment of ground-breaking importance for how we think about nature, access and wellbeing in late capitalism' Dr Alice Tarbuck
'Impeccably researched . . . A call to us all to find a place within the simplicity and complexity of nature' Lara Maiklem, bestselling author of Mudlarking
Everybody is talking about the healing properties of nature. Hospitals are being retrofitted with gardens, and forests reimagined as wellbeing centres. On the Shetland Islands, it is possible to walk into a doctor's surgery with anxiety or depression, and walk out with a prescription for nature.
Where has this come from, and what does 'going to nature' mean? Where is it - at the end of a garden, beyond the tarmac fringes of a city, at the summit of a mountain? Drawing on history, science, literature and art, Samantha Walton shows that the nature cure has deep roots - but, as we face an unprecedented crisis of mental health, social injustice and environmental devastation, the search for it is more urgent now than ever.
Everybody Needs Beauty engages seriously with the connection between nature and health, while scrutinising the harmful trends of a wellness industry that seeks to exploit our relationship with the natural world. In doing so, this book explores how the nature cure might lead us towards a more just and radical way of life: a real means of recovery, for people, society and nature.
The Maths of Life and Death
Maths is the story of the world around us, and the wisdom it gives us can be the difference between success and disaster.
We are all doing maths all the time, from the way we communicate with each other to the way we travel, from how we work to how we relax. Many of us are aware of this. But few of us really appreciate the full power of maths - the extent to which its influence is not only in every office and every home, but also in every courtroom and hospital ward.
In this eye-opening and extraordinary book, Yates explores the true stories of life-changing events in which the application - or misapplication - of mathematics has played a critical role: patients crippled by faulty genes and entrepreneurs bankrupted by faulty algorithms; innocent victims of miscarriages of justice and the unwitting victims of software glitches. We follow stories of investors who have lost fortunes and parents who have lost children, all because of mathematical misunderstandings.
Along the way, Yates arms us with simple mathematical rules and tools that can help us make better decisions in our increasingly quantitative society. You will discover why it's always sensible to question a statistic, often vital to ask for a second opinion and sometimes surprisingly handy to stick to the 37% rule...
"This is an exquisitely interesting book. It's a deeply serious one too and, for those like me who have little maths, it's delightfully readable" - IAN MCEWAN
"Kit Yates is a natural storyteller. Through fascinating stories and examples, he shows how maths is the beating heart of so much of modern life. An exciting new voice in the world of science communication" - MARCUS DU SAUTOY
"Used wisely, mathematics can save your life. Used unwisely, it can ruin it. A lucid and enthralling account of why maths matters in everyone's life. A real eye-opener." - Prof Ian Stewart FRS, author of Do Dice Play God?
Systém a fylogeneze savců
Druhová diverzita vývojových linií organismů na Zemi je úžasně bohatá a stále ji známe pouze částečně a neúplně. Mezi nejlépe známé živočichy nesporně patří savci. V posledních dekádách došlo v této oblasti k zásadnímu pokroku díky aplikaci molekulárních a genetických metod i vyspělých výpočetních postupů. Fylogeneze savců je tedy dnes velmi dobře známá a systém skupiny vytvořený v posledních dvou desetiletích tak můžeme pokládat za blízký konečnému stavu poznání. Tato kniha podává přehled těchto současných poznatků. Hlavní pozornost je věnována žijícím formám, u kterých se mohou plně uplatňovat pokročilé postupy molekulární fylogenetiky a systematiky, ale zařazeny jsou i čeledi vyhubené v historické době. Zmíněny jsou rovněž i vymřelé linie, známé pouze z fosilního záznamu, které mají s dnešními druhy blízkou nebo vzdálenou vývojovou návaznost.
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Jak zabránit klimatické katastrofě
Bill Gates není klimatologem a přece je to ideální autor knihy o tom, jak zabránit klimatické katastrofě. Tento multimilionář, filantrop a milovník vědy investuje už léta do výzkumu zaměřeného na redukci skleníkových plynů; setkává se kvůli tomu s předními světovými vědci i politiky a do celé problematiky nahlédl jako málokdo.
Ve své knize předkládá radikální, ale důkladně podloženou tezi: Pro zachování stávajícího stavu přírody a života na Zemi nestačí zastavit nárůst emisí, ani je o něco snížit. Je nutné dostat emise na nulu. Zní to nereálně? Gatesovo hlavní poselství vás možná překvapí ještě víc: Dokážeme to.
Gates otevřeně přiznává, že vědecké poznání má své limity. Přesto v knize dokáže objasnit hlavní mechanismy probíhající klimatické změny a určit, nakolik se na ní podílí různé aspekty lidské činnosti jako doprava (spoiler: vlastně ne až tak příliš), zemědělství nebo stavebnictví. K tolik potřebnému obratu však nepostačí pouhé uskromňování vždyť i celosvětová pandemie covidu-19 nedokázala emise snížit o víc než 5 %. Gates proto dává nahlédnout do aktuálních výhledů technologického výzkumu, od alternativních zdrojů energie až po metody zachycování emisí v atmosféře. Nabízí návod na to, jak se k této mimořádné výzvě účinně postavit na všech úrovních osobní i politické, a jak o ní diskutovat. Sebekriticky se nevyhýbá ani otázce své vlastní uhlíkové stopy a vysvětluje, jak se ji snaží odčinit. Tato kniha je nejen pro ty, kdo trpí enviromentální úzkostí, ale pro nás pro všechny. Transformujeme-li náš způsob života, práce a podnikání, zvládneme to: zabráníme klimatické katastrofě.
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Přednášky o ergodické theorii
Text je programově stručný, elementární a s podrobnými důkazy. Primárním cílem přednášky věnované úvodu do ergodické teorie a textu publikace je podat základní poučení o této části matematiky a naznačit její klasické aplikace v teorii pravděpodobnosti a teorii čísel.
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Cornucopia of Fruit & Vegetables
Close-up photos of plump apricots, juicy mangoes, crisp lettuce ... these are familiar to us all through cookery books and garden guides. But seeing fruit and vegetables as detailed art, viewed through eighteenth-century eyes, is something very different - and more interesting.
Thanks to intrepid explorers and plant-hunters, Britain and the rest of Europe have long enjoyed a wide and wonderful array of fruit and vegetables. Some wealthy households even created orangeries and glasshouses for tender exotics and special pits in which to raise pineapples, while tomatoes, sweetcorn and runner beans from the New World expanded the culinary repertoire.
This wealth of choice attracted interest beyond the kitchen and garden. In the 1730s, a prosperous Bavarian apothecary produced the first volume of a comprehensive A to Z of all available plants, meticulously documented, and lavishly illustrated by botanical artists. 'A Cornucopia of Fruit & Vegetables' is a glimpse into his world. It features exquisite illustrations of the edible plants in his historic treasury, allowing us to enjoy the sight of swan-necked gourds and horned lemons, smile at silkworms hovering over mulberries and delight at the quirkiness of 'strawberry spinach' ... a delicious medley of garden produce and exotics that will capture the imagination of gardeners and art-lovers alike.
This is a Good Guide for a Sustainable Lifestyle
This is the definitive and comprehensive guide for what you can do about climate change and to contribute to a better world. It contains lists of go-to shops, beautiful brands, inspiring insights, surprising facts and useful solutions. Through in-depth interviews with leading pioneers, such as Livia Firth, Green Kitchen Stories and Andrew Morgan, you will find exactly what you need to live a more sustainable life. After all, doing good and feeling good at the same time: does it not get any better than that?
This revised edition is the newly updated version of the international bestseller This is a Good Guide - for a Sustainable Lifestyle (30.000 copies sold worldwide). All stores, brands, addresses and initiatives are up-to-date with new shops and labels. The book has new interviews, revised facts and figures, and an additional eight pages of tips and tricks.
The End of Everything
We know the universe had a beginning. But what happens at the end of the story?
With lively wit and wry humour, astrophysicist Katie Mack takes us on a mind-bending tour through each of the cosmos' possible finales: the Big Crunch, Heat Death, Vacuum Decay, the Big Rip and the Bounce. Guiding us through major concepts in quantum mechanics, cosmology, string theory and much more, she describes how small tweaks to our incomplete understanding of reality can result in starkly different futures. Our universe could collapse in upon itself, or rip itself apart, or even - in the next five minutes - succumb to an inescapable expanding bubble of doom.
This captivating story of cosmic escapism examines a mesmerizing yet unfamiliar physics landscape while sharing the excitement a leading astrophysicist feels when thinking about the universe and our place in it. Amid stellar explosions and bouncing universes, Mack shows that even though we puny humans have no chance of changing how it all ends, we can at least begin to understand it.
The End of Everything is a wildly fun, surprisingly upbeat ride to the farthest reaches of all that we know.
The Secret Lives of Animals
The natural world is full of awesome surprises, and the animal kingdom is no exception. As The Secret Lives of Animals reveals, it seems that the more we discover about the unusual species that populate our planet, the more we understand just how ingenious, resourceful and downright creative they can be!
Did you know that red pandas are not only incredibly cute, but also master escape artists able to flee their enclosures in high security zoos all over the world with alarming frequency? Or that beautiful manta rays have not only been observed recognizing their own reflection in mirrors, but are also able to identify friendly divers and ask for their help when they're in a bit of a jam? Or that elephants, as well as having famously impressive memories, are also sophisticated communicators who send signals to each other using a wide range of body language? Or that parrots, as well as being amazing mimics, are able to learn dance moves? YouTube star Snowball, the dancing cockatoo, has a very entertaining fourteen-move repertoire.
With charming and humorous illustrations from BAFTA-award-winning artist Greg McLeod (half of The Brothers McLeod), The Secret Lives of Animals is a window into some of the most complex and impressive minds of the animal kingdom, revealing the little-known skills and natural intuition that have allowed them to survive - and often have a little fun along the way.
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.
