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Biológia, fauna a flóra 
Astronómia, vesmír, fyzika 
Ekológia, meteorológia, klimatológia 
Matematika, logika 
Geografia, geológia, mineralógia 
Chémia 
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Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic
Humanity has always been struck by pestilence and pandemics, from the plagues of ancient Egypt to the pox that ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages, to Covid-19. People living through the crises have always recorded what they saw, what they felt, and what they did. Some presented sober facts laced with anecdote, while others produced emotional outpourings; moralists speculated on the origins of the horror, poets distilled the suffering. Doctors described how they were able to advance their understanding of disease and scientists how to cure it, while survivors and the families of victims gave the inside story of the nightmare that develops when a long-feared disease enters your home or your body.
There was a time when to read accounts of the Plague in Wittenburg by Martin Luther or the Great Plague of 1665 by Samuel Pepys - scenes of anguish and woe, empty streets, quarantined houses, closed businesses, overflowing graveyards, heroic doctors and nurses, quack remedies and charlatans - was to enter a disturbing and unfamiliar world. Today, to read the same words is to be hit by a jolt of recognition and understanding. As well as causing a huge loss of life, the Covid pandemic has taught us a great deal about ourselves and the way we live, illuminating tensions at the heart of society. This collection of intimate and revelatory first-hand accounts of pandemics through the ages bears witness to despair, rage, the blackest of humour, heartbreak and hope. These voices hold up a mirror to our own experiences of, and responses to, the crisis today.
Az én európai családom
Sok családfakutatónak akár kilenc-tíz generációra visszamenően sikerült dokumentálnia a felmenőit. Az új DNS-technika azonban még nagyobb távlatokat nyit. Karin Bojs elhatározta, hogy a DNS-elemzések segítségével az őskori emberekkel való rokonságát fogja feltárni. Több száz tudományos tanulmányt dolgozott fel, a világ legnevesebb kutatóival készített interjúkat, és számos országba utazott el, hogy kövesse a múltba vezető nyomokat. A kőkorszaktól egészen napjainkig ívelő munkájában elénk tárja azokat az összefüggéseket, amelyek a töredékeket átfogó és izgalmas képpé olvasztják egybe - az európai emberek genetikai örökségének történetévé. Szó esik benne a neandervölgyiekről, a mai Németország és Franciaország területén élt furulyázó barlanglakókról, a neolitikus kultúráról, a Közel-Kelet korai földműveseiről, de a vikingekről is. A szerző által leírt történelem a mi történetünk. Rokonok vagyunk, hiszen valamikor, valahol élt egy közös ősanyánk és ősapánk, "Ádám" és "Éva" létezett, és a DNS-szálak mindannyiunkat összekötnek.
How Space Works
Embark on an awe-inspiring and informative journey through our Solar System and beyond in this illuminating astronomy book!
Discover how big the Universe is, why our view of the sky is constantly changing, what came before the Big Bang, and so much more. 3, 2, 1, blast off!
Inside the pages of this comprehensive guide to astronomy for beginners, you'll discover:
- Simple text and step-by-step graphics make astronomy easy to understand
- Fun facts and tip-of-the-tongue questions are presented through bite-sized factoids and question-and-answer features
- Clear explanations demystifying more advanced topics such as cosmic rays, dark matter, and black hole collisions
An out-of-this-world reference book about space that introduces you to the weird and wonderful world of astronomy and space exploration. From the structure of the Milky Way to the Earth's nearest celestial body, the Moon, How Space Works takes you on an unforgettable tour through the stars and galaxies, and to the furthest reaches of space!
Answering all your burning questions about space, from ancient white dwarf stars to the Mars Rover, this visual guide explains the basics of astronomy through bold graphics and step-by-step artworks. It's the ultimate book for armchair astronomers and space-technology enthusiasts looking for reliable and up-to-date facts and explanations.
DK's How Things Work series uses dynamic graphics and jargon-free text to explain the modern world simply and clearly. Packed with fascinating facts and stats, these visual guides cover everything from science to philosophy, making complex topics more accessible than ever before!
Our House is on Fire
The profoundly moving story of how love, courage and determination brought Greta Thunberg's family back from the brink
'Urgent, lucid, courageous ... a must-read message of hope ... It is a glimpse of a saner world' David Mitchell, Guardian
This is the story of a happy family whose life suddenly fell apart, never to be the same again. Of two devoted parents plunged into a waking nightmare as their eleven-year-old daughter Greta stopped speaking and eating, and her younger sister struggled to cope.
They desperately searched for answers, and began to see how their children's suffering reached far beyond medical diagnoses. This crisis was not theirs alone: they were burned-out people on a burned-out planet. And so they decided to act.
Our House is on Fire shows how, amid forces that tried to silence them, one family found ways to strengthen, heal, and gain courage from the love they had for each other - and for the living world. It is a parable of hope and determination in an emergency that affects us all.
Birdsong in a Time of Silence
A lyrical celebration of birdsong, and the rekindling of a deep passion for nature.
"At this time of year, blackbirds never simply fly: instead, like reluctantly retired officers, they're always 'on manoeuvres', and it's easy to see from their constant agitation that for them every flower bed is a bunker, every shed a redoubt and every hedge-bottom a potential place of ambush"
As the world went silent in lockdown, something else happened; for the first time, many of us started becoming more aware of the spring sounds of the birds around us. Birdsong in a Time of Silence is a lyrical, uplifting reflection on these sounds and what they mean to us.
From a portrait of the blackbird - most prominent and articulate of the early spring singers - to explorations of how birds sing, the science behind their choice of song and nest-sites, and the varied meanings that people have brought to and taken from birdsong, this book ultimately shows that natural history and human history cannot be separated. It is the story of a collective reawakening brought on by the strangest of springs.
Trees of Life
A captivatingly informative and visually beautiful survey of the tree species - from all over the world - that human cultures have found most useful.
Each tree species is the subject of a concise text centred on a story - or stories - about the tree in question, and is depicted by means of a photograph, painting or other aesthetic artefact. The species will be organized thematically according to the virtues they impart, be that in the form of timber, nuts, fruit or medicine. The bloodwood tree, a native of central America, is a tree that made a nation. Its wood produces a brilliant and lucrative bright red dye and was imported to Europe for use in dyeing fabrics. The 17th and 18th-century logging camps established by the British later became the modern nation of Belize, and the bloodwood tree appears on its national flag.
From the bloodwood to the breadfruit and from the cinchona to the peach, these are trees that offer not merely shelter, timber and fuel but also medicines, dyes, foods and fibres. They are very special trees, and Max Adams, author of The Wisdom of Trees, has a plethora of such fascinating stories to tell about them.
Stručné odpovědi na velké otázky
Hawking ve své knize určené širokému okruhu čtenářů zkoumá řadu z největších záhad vesmíru, i potenciální problémy, kterým čelí nebo může čelit lidstvo na naší domovské planetě. Kniha je rozdělena do čtyř oddílů s názvy Proč jsme tady? Přežijeme? Zachrání nás technologie, anebo zničí? Jak zajistit, aby se nám dařilo dobře? a zvažuje se v ní desítka velkých otázek Existuje Bůh? Jak to všechno začalo? Co je uvnitř černé díry? Dokážeme předvídat budoucnost? Je možné cestovat v čase? Přežijeme na planetě Zemi? Existuje ve vesmíru inteligentní život? Měli bychom vesmír kolonizovat? Může nás umělá inteligence přechytračit? Jak utváříme budoucnost?
V textu autor rozebírá mnohé obtíže, které mohou lidstvo ohrozit , například klimatická změna, jaderná válka, rozvoj umělé existence, genetické modifikace člověka či střetnutí Země s asteroidem a prosazuje názor, že důležitou úlohu při řešení problémů na planetě Zemi sehraje věda.
Until the End of Time
From the world-renowned physicist and bestselling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos, a captivating exploration of deep time and humanity's search for purpose
In both time and space, the cosmos is astoundingly vast, and yet is governed by simple, elegant, universal mathematical laws.
On this cosmic timeline, our human era is spectacular but fleeting. Someday, we know, we will all die. And, we know, so too will the universe itself.
Until the End of Time is Brian Greene's breathtaking new exploration of the cosmos and our quest to understand it. Greene takes us on a journey across time, from our most refined understanding of the universe's beginning, to the closest science can take us to the very end. He explores how life and mind emerged from the initial chaos, and how our minds, in coming to understand their own impermanence, seek in different ways to give meaning to experience: in story, myth, religion, creative expression, science, the quest for truth, and our longing for the timeless, or eternal. Through a series of nested stories that explain distinct but interwoven layers of reality-from the quantum mechanics to consciousness to black holes-Greene provides us with a clearer sense of how we came to be, a finer picture of where we are now, and a firmer understanding of where we are headed.
Yet all this understanding, which arose with the emergence of life, will dissolve with its conclusion. Which leaves us with one realization: during our brief moment in the sun, we are tasked with the charge of finding our own meaning.
Let us embark.
How To Change Everything
'Naomi Klein's work has always moved and guided me. She is the great chronicler of our age of climate emergency, an inspirer of generations' - GRETA THUNBERG
The first book for younger readers by internationally bestselling social activist Naomi Klein: the most authoritative and inspiring book on climate change for young people yet.
Warming seas. Superstorms. Fires in the Amazon. The effects of climate change are all around us.
Reforestation. School-strikes for climate change. Young people are saving the world and you can join them because you deserve better.
Are you ready to change everything?
Includes notes on the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020, and how you can get involved to make the world a safer and better place.
From the Great Barrier Reef to Hurricane Katrina to school environmental policies to Greta Thunberg - climate change impacts every aspect of the world you live in and you have the power to lead the way by enacting change.
Internationally bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein, with award-winning children's science writer Rebecca Stefoff, gives a powerful picture of why and how the planet is changing, providing effective tools for action so that YOU really can make a difference.
Losing Eden
Today many of us live indoor lives, disconnected from the natural world as never before. And yet nature remains deeply ingrained in our language, culture and consciousness. For centuries, we have acted on an intuitive sense that we need communion with the wild to feel well. Now, in the moment of our great migration away from the rest of nature, more and more scientific evidence is emerging to confirm its place at the heart of our psychological wellbeing. So what happens, asks acclaimed journalist Lucy Jones, as we lose our bond with the natural world-might we also be losing part of ourselves?
Delicately observed and rigorously researched, Losing Eden is an enthralling journey through this new research, exploring how and why connecting with the living world can so drastically affect our health. Travelling from forest schools in East London to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault via primeval woodlands, Californian laboratories and ecotherapists' couches, Jones takes us to the cutting edge of human biology, neuroscience and psychology, and discovers new ways of understanding our increasingly dysfunctional relationship with the earth.
Urgent and uplifting, Losing Eden is a rallying cry for a wilder way of life - for finding asylum in the soil and joy in the trees - which might just help us to save the living planet, as well as ourselves.
Life in Colour
Beauty is more than skin deep.
'The natural world is awash with colour, but we are only seeing half the story. If we could see things as animals do, our world would become unimaginably brighter. Now, thanks to new science and technology, we can at last open our eyes.' - Sir David Attenborough
In nature, colour is more than a source of beauty; it's a form of vital communication. Depending on the situation, colour says different things - it can be an expression of power or seduction, warning or deceit - and it can even, occasionally, save your life. Accompanying a major new BBC series with David Attenborough, Life in Colour explores the fascinating story of how colour works in the natural world. From the 'trichromatic' vision of Silver Leaf Langurs, which allows them to see orange and red against forest foliage - the colours not only of ripe fruit, but of their young - to African Mandrills who use their colouration to do battle, Professor Martin Stevens reveals a complex system of messaging visible only to those who know the code.
Based on the latest scientific research in the field, and illustrated with stunning photography throughout, Life in Colour reveals a world previously unknown to us.
Sluneční soustava dalekohledem
Planety se snadno hledají a lze se na ně dívat i na městské obloze, trpící světelným znečištěním. Vychutnejme si při pozorování pocit, který po staletí zažívali pozorovatelé, kteří sledovali měsíce Jupitera, satelity kolem Saturnu nebo proměny polárních čepiček u Marsovských pólů. Další pokračování knížek pro praktickou astronomii v celolaminovaném provedení pro použití pod oblohou.
Publikace na 80 stranách popisuje nejen stručnou historii objevů planet, jak šla s vývojem techniky, ale i potřebnou výbavu pro planetární pozorování, pozorování zajímavých planetárních úkazů, pozorování meteorických rojů či komet. Celá kniha je psaná poutavou formou a shrnuje, to co amatéři většinou vědí, ale nemají nikdo pohromadě ve formě vhodné pro venkovní použití. Je doplněna i slovníčkem pojmů.
Život na našej planéte
Život na našej planéte je jedinečným svedectvom známeho bojovníka za zelenú planétu a moderátora, 94-ročného Davida Attenborougha. Autor ako tvorca prírodopisných dokumentov precestoval svet a celý svoj život si uvedomoval ako človek ukrajuje z jedinečnej a nedotknutej prírody. David opisuje túto tragédiu dnešných dní a ponúka víziu pre budúcnosť, avšak s jednou podmienkou - ľudstvo musí začať konať ešte dnes. Musíme svetu navrátiť divokú prírodu. Podľa knihy vznikol aj úspešný dokument s rovnakým názvom, ktorý na jeseň uviedol Netflix.
Poznejte hmyz našich zahrad
Příručka pro poznávání hmyzu, který se vyskytuje na zahradách a v okolí lidských sídel jak ve městě, tak na vesnici. Jsou zde zastoupeny hlavní a nejběžnější druhy, které většina lidí neumí určit.
U každého druhu hmyzu jsou také informace o jeho životě a vlivu na vaší zahradu (např. mšice). Najdeme zde blanokřídlý hmyz (vosy, pestřenky, včely, drvodělky), rovnokřídlý hmyz (luční koníci, cikády), brouky, drabčíky, ploštice, slunéčka, můry, motýly, ale i hmyz, který se vyskytuje u vodních loch (šídla, vážky).
Jednotlivé druhy jsou řazeny podle barev, což usnadní orientaci v knize.
Walking in the Woods : Go back to nature with the Japanese way of shinrin-yoku
'It is clear that our bodies still recognize nature as our home...' - Yoshifumi Miyazaki
'Forest bathing' or shinrin-yoku is a way of walking in the woods that was developed in Japan in the 1980s. It brings together ancient ways and wisdom with cutting edge environmental health science. Simply put, forest bathing is the practice of walking slowly through the woods, in no hurry, for a morning, an afternoon or a day. It is a practice that involves all the senses and as you gently walk and breathe deeply, the essential oils of the trees are absorbed by your body and have an extraordinary effect on positive feelings, stress hormone levels, parasympathetic nervous activity, sympathetic nervous activity, blood pressure, heart rate and brain activity. In this wonderful book, by the leading expert in the field, science meets nature, as we are encouraged to bathe in the trees and become observers of both the environment around us and the goings on of our own minds.
Ohroženi hmyzem?
Záměrem autora je podat svědectví o pokrocích v poznávání života a chování hmyzu za posledních čtyřicet let od prvního vydání jeho úspěšné prvotiny Neobvyklá setkání. V důsledku prudkého technologického rozvoje výzkumných metod a nebývalého nárůstu počtu badatelských týmů se za tu dobu obraz našich šestinohých spoluobyvatel planety tak rozkošatěl a zpopularizoval, že neobvyklost setkávání s nimi se jaksi vytratila.
Rozšířené vydání proto změnilo i titul tak, aby reflektoval celoživotní zkušenosti a osobní pohled entomologa veterána na předmět jeho zájmu, lásky i obdivu.
What We Need to Do Now
The UK has declared a 'climate emergency' and pledged to become carbon neutral by 2050. So how do we get there? Drawing on actions, policies and technologies already emerging around the world, Chris Goodall sets out the ways to achieve this. His proposals include:
-Building a huge over-capacity of wind and solar energy, storing the excess as hydrogen.
-Using hydrogen to fuel our trains, shipping, boilers and heavy industry, while electrifying buses, trucks and cars.
-Farming - and eating - differently, encouraging plant-based alternatives to meat
-paying farmers to plant and maintain woodlands.
-Making fashion sustainable and aviation pay its way, funding synthetic fuels and genuine offsets.
-Using technical solutions to capture CO2 from the air, and biochar to lock carbon in the soil.
What We Need To Do Now is an urgent, practical and inspiring book that signals a green new deal for Britain.
Simply Quantum Physics
A clear, simple, graphic-led introduction to quantum physics.
Are you short of time but hungry for knowledge? This beginner's quantum physics book proves that sometimes less is more. Bold graphics and easy-to-understand explanations make it the most accessible guide to quantum physics on the market.
Understanding Quantum Physics Has Never Been Easier
This illuminating reference book introduces you to the greatest physicists of the 20th and 21st centuries such as Albert Einstein, Neils Bohr, Erwin Schroedinger, Richard Feynman, and more! It's the perfect gift for anyone interested in physics or science in general and life-long learners.
This book about quantum physics offers you:
- Simple, easy-to-understand graphics that help to convey information in a visual way
- Clear, authoritative text that explains 100 key concepts
- Introduction to theoretical ideas and their everyday applications
This smart but powerful guide cuts through the jargon and gives you the facts in a clear, visual way. Step inside the strange and fascinating world of subatomic physics that at times seems to conflict with common sense. Unlock the mysteries of more than 100 key ideas, from quantum mechanics basics to the uncertainty principle and quantum tunnelling.
Each pared-back, single-page entry demystifies the groundbreaking ideas in modern science. From Schroedinger's Cat and quantum teleportation to atoms and gravity, Simply Quantum Physics is the ultimate jargon-free overview of the subject.
Whether you're a physics student or just an interested layman, this indispensable guide is packed with everything you need to quickly and easily understand the basics.
Water World
Water World is the stunning new book from Ben Rothery, author of Hidden Planet and Sensational Butterflies.
Life on Earth is shaped by water, and only survives here because of it, but our ocean ecosystems are at the epicentre of global warming. Framed by the need to protect our oceans, Water World is natural-history illustrator Ben Rothery's rich exploration of the creatures from the coastal and offshore waters of the world - from penguins, seagulls, polar bears and seahorses, to plankton, sharks and deep-sea beings.
Discover the longest migration and the loudest animal on Earth, and learn how our own actions affect the ocean, its inhabitants and our whole planet.
Fun to read together or independently, this large-format, beautifully illustrated book is perfect for nature-lovers of all ages.
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.
