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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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The Stronger Sex
''Fun, rooted in science... May this book give all women strength for the times we now live in.'' Cat Bohannon
A myth-busting vindication of women''s physical strengths
For decades, Starre Vartan - like most women - was told that having a woman''s body meant being weaker than men. Like many women, she mostly believed it.
Not anymore.
Following a half decade of research into the newest science, Vartan shows in The Stronger Sex that women''s bodies are incredibly powerful, flexible, and resilient in ways men''s bodies aren''t. Tossing aside the narrow notion of the tall, muscular man as the measure of strength, Vartan reveals the ways that women surpass men in endurance, flexibility, immunity, pain tolerance, and the ultimate test of any human body: longevity.
In interviews with dozens of researchers from biology, anthropology, physiology, and sports science, plus in-depth conversations with runners, swimmers, wrestlers, woodchoppers, thru-hikers, firefighters, and more, The Stronger Sex squashes outdated ideas about women''s bodies.
It''s a celebration of female strength that doesn''t argue "down with men" but "up with us all."
Trees Of North America, Europe, the UK & Ireland
'Roger contributed so much to the study and enjoyment of the plant world, both in gardens and the wild, and this new edition [of Trees] is sure to attract and encourage a new generation of tree enthusiasts' Roy Lancaster
The eagerly-anticipated expanded and revised edition of Roger Phillips's original bestseller Trees is a superb identification guide for both amateur enthusiast and professional botanist alike.
From the common oak to the elusive black poplar, in settings as varied as woodlands, floodplains and your very own back garden, this classic book has guided generations of nature lovers. In this updated edition, each tree is illustrated in full detail - by leaf, flower, fruit, bark and mature tree shape - along with a unique leaf index and full description for easy identification.
This edition includes:
The details of over 650 tree species and cultivars, with 150 added to the 500 that appeared in the original edition
1,200 full-colour pictures, showcasing detailed visuals of leaves, flowers, fruits and tree structures
A Leaf Key Index featuring photographs of over 550 leaves, cross-referenced to the main text
Line drawings of each tree for clear and easy identification
Two indexes of the latest botanical and common names to facilitate easy reference
Current ecological information on endangered species, offering insights into their conservation status and the efforts needed to protect them
Beautiful photographs of trees in their natural environment, providing context and introducing the main genera.
Trees is an all-encompassing and essential photographic guide to the trees of Britain, Europe, North America and much of the Northern hemisphere.
Myseľ včely
Bohaté a prekvapivé skúmanie inteligencie včiel
Väčšina z nás si uvedomuje kolektívne vedomie včiel – silu včiel ako úžasného kolektívu. Ale vieme, aké jedinečné inteligencie sú včely ako jednotlivci? V knihe Myseľ včely Lars Chittka čerpá z desaťročí výskumu, vrátane svojej vlastnej priekopníckej práce, aby dokázal, že včely majú pozoruhodné kognitívne schopnosti. Ukazuje, že sú mimoriadne inteligentné, majú odlišné osobnosti, dokážu rozpoznať kvety a ľudské tváre, prejavujú základné emócie, vedia počítať, používať jednoduché nástroje, riešiť problémy a učiť sa pozorovaním ostatných. Možno dokonca disponujú vedomím.
Chittka vťahuje čitateľov do zmyslového sveta včiel a ilustruje, ako sú včelie mozgy v živočíšnej ríši bezkonkurenčné, pokiaľ ide o množstvo sofistikovaného materiálu, ktorý je obsiahnutý v ich malých nervových systémoch. Pozrie sa na ich vrodené správanie a spôsoby, akými ich evolúcia ako zberačiek mohla prispieť k ich bystrej priestorovej pamäti. Chittka tiež skúma psychologické rozdiely medzi včelami a etické dilemy, ktoré vznikajú v oblasti ochrany prírody a v laboratóriách, pretože včely cítia a myslia. V celej knihe sa dotýka fascinujúcej histórie štúdia správania včiel.
Kniha Myseľ včely skúma hmyz, ktorého zmyslové vnímanie sa vyrovná ľudskému a odhaľuje jedinečné schopnosti niektorých z najúžasnejších tvorov na svete.
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.
Íme, az ember
Csányi Vilmos tudományos pályafutásának legátfogóbb kötetében nem kevesebbre vállalkozik, mint hogy megválaszolja a kérdést: mi teszi emberré az embert?
Fajunkat genetikai felépítése az állatvilághoz köti, azonban - mint minden fajnak - megvannak a saját, teljesen egyedi jellegzetességei. A szabálykövetés és a nyelvhasználat, a tárgyakhoz való vonzódás jellemző embertulajdonság, ahogy az engedelmesség és az alávetettség készségének magas foka is, vagy éppen a rangért folytatott küzdelem.
A szerző a legfontosabb emberi vonásnak azonban a rendszerszervező és kultúraképző képességünket és tehetségünket tartja: a közösségek építését, a szövetségek kötését, a (hiedelem)rendszerek kidolgozását és azok átörökítését generációkról generációkra.
A szemléletes példákkal illusztrált könyv sorra veszi az emberi evolúció legfontosabb állomásait; közérthetően, de tudományos alapossággal bemutatva nem csupán a biológiai és pszichológiai, hanem a társadalmi és kulturális vonatkozásait is.
Think Like a Mathematician
An accessible and enjoyable way to develop the thinking tools and techniques to understand the math of modern life.
When we learn about abstract mathematical concepts—from prime numbers and fractals to aspects of calculus—the most common question is often: when on earth will I need this? To many of us, so-called "pure" mathematics is downright baffling. Yet these concepts are what underpin the world we live in, from internet security to the transmission of radio waves. When you start to think like a mathematician, the secrets of technology and modern life suddenly make sense.
Junaid Mubeen regards mathematics as a collection of thinking tools that can enrich the way we approach our everyday lives. In Think Like a Mathematician, he presents a catalogue of enlightening mathematical concepts. Some will be familiar from school, but the majority are ideas that readers will not have encountered before. And anyone—from mathematicians to self-proclaimed mathophobes—can learn from them. In Mubeen's clear prose, all of these ideas are easy to grasp, and may even reshape the way you see the world.
Večierok s dinosaurami
Pre súčasných ľudí, ktorých od detstva sprevádzajú hračky dinosaurov a filmy ako Jurský park, je ťažké predstaviť si svet, kde tieto tvory neexistovali - presnejšie, ešte neboli objavené. A práve doň čitateľov zavedie americký spisovateľ, publicista a propagátor vedy Edward Dolnick. Vo svojej zábavnej knihe ich zoznámi s osudmi prvých paleontológov, excentrických bádateľov, ktorí si v prvej polovici 19. storočia lámali hlavu nad skamenelinami čudných príšer, aby zo svojich poznatkov nakoniec poskladali dnes všeobecne známy príbeh o dinosauroch.
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Zemětřesení
Poutavé, překvapivé a poučné. Takové je čtení o tragických zemětřeseních a tsunami v letech 1755, 1906, 1960, 1985, 2004, 2011 a 2023. Jak tyto události ovlivnily naše poznání planety, na které žijeme? Jak poznamenaly osudy jednotlivých zemí a jaká varování přinášejí do budoucna? Jak se poučení ze zemětřesení promítlo do lidských misí na Měsíc a Mars?
Na tyto otázky a mnoho dalších vám odpoví skvěle napsaná publikace slovenských seismologů. Představuje cenný zdroj informací pro každého, kdo se chce seznámit s nejnovějšími poznatky o úloze seismologie a práci seismologů, stejně jako o významných zemětřeseních v dějinách lidstva, která změnila podobu měst i samotných společností.
Kniha je doplněna barevnými ilustracemi. V nakladatelství Grada vyšla v roce 2023 nejprve ve slovenském jazyce, na podzim 2024 ji anglicky vydalo nakladatelství Spinger Nature.
Stručný obsah
Předmluva
Úvod
Zajímavé, ale naivní
Zemětřesení – krátký úvod téměř pro každého
Lisabon, 1. listopad 1755 – probuzení
Od naivních představ k moderní vědě
Chile 1960 – když Země zvoní jako zvon
Neuvěřitelné Mexiko 1985 – zkáza na dálku
Antičtí svědkové středověkých zemětřesení
Apokalyptická tsunami na Sumatře a v Japonsku
Turecko: tragická překvapení a napjatá očekávání
Optimistický pohled na závěr – seismometry na Měsíci a Marsu
Zemětřesení a seismologie budoucnosti
Slovníček pojmů
A holtaké a szó
Csak erős idegzetűeknek!
Mi történik a holttesttel a halál után, és mi ebben a szerepük a legyeknek? Miért kellett tizennégyszer meghúznia a ravaszt egy férfinak, aki egyetlen lövéssel akart végezni magával, és hogyan halt meg koponyatörésben egy másik, aki eredetileg fel akarta akasztani magát? Miért nem lett volna szabad soha alkoholt fogyasztania egy gyilkosság elkövetőjének, és előfordulhat-e, hogy egy halottnak azért nedves a haja, mert verejtékezik?
Philippe Boxho igazságügyi orvosszakértő több mint harminc év tapasztalattal a háta mögött osztja meg velünk a legérdekesebb eseteit. Halottakról olvashatunk, akik nem is halottak, vagy még nem azok, eltűnt holttestekről, álcázni próbált gyilkosságokról, megdöbbentő öngyilkosságokról. A szakértő beavat minket a helyszínelés és a boncolás, a törvényszéki orvosi munka és a rendőrségi nyomozás titkaiba, mesél a hivatásáról, amely szinte a szenvedélyévé vált.
Az itt összegyűjtött történetek mind igazak, nincs bennük semmi kitaláció. De nem is lenne erre szükség, mert a valóság minden képzeletet felülmúl, ha halálról, gyilkosságról, öngyilkosságról, egy holttest eltüntetéséről van szó.
A könyv csak erős idegzetűeknek ajánlott...
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.
Schrödingerova koťata
Autor čtivým způsobem vysvětluje složité koncepty, jako je kvantová provázanost, mnohasvětová interpretace nebo podstata reality, a zároveň odpovídá na otázky, jak tyto jevy ovlivňují náš každodenní život. Gribbin provází čtenáře záhadami kvantového světa a ukazuje, že vědecké poznání je nejen fascinující, ale také neustále plné tajemství. Kniha je skvělým průvodcem pro všechny, kdo chtějí pochopit základy moderní fyziky i její filozofické důsledky.
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Going Nuclear
What if climate change isn't an environmental challenge, but an energy challenge?
'Fascinating' JAMES O'BRIEN
'Thrilling...vividly written, filled with fascinating facts, and inspiring' STEVEN PINKER
'Powerful' BRYAN APPLEYARD, Spectator
'I challenge you to read this book and not be excited about how we get on and power the world with sustainable energy for the next century' HANNAH RITCHIE
In this visionary book, Dr Tim Gregory urges us to rethink the path to net zero. He argues that the solution to climate change lies not simply in replacing fossil fuels with renewables, but in fully embracing another energy source that emits zero carbon dioxide: nuclear power.
Gregory dismantles the conventional wisdom that renewables such as wind and solar are completely 'green', and debunks myths surrounding nuclear waste and radiation, demonstrating that nuclear power is not only reliable, safe and potent, but the most environmentally responsible way to harvest energy.
Going Nuclear calls for decarbonisation to be the twenty-first century's Apollo programme. By interweaving scientific optimism, myth-busting data, and ambitious policy ideas, Gregory illustrates the untapped and boundless potential of the atom beyond just clean energy: from advanced medicine and forensics to atomic gardening and space exploration.
This is a bold case for an alternative, sustainable and prosperous future: a world in which abundant energy is available to all.
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.
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, Becoming Earth 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.
Encyklopedie léčivých hub, 2. vydání
Naše dosud nejobsáhlejší kniha o léčivých houbách je určena zejména pro studenty přírodních věd a farmakologie, ale také pro všechny milovníky přírody, praktické houbaře a zájemce o léčbu a prevenci chorob pomocí přírodních prostředků. Kniha zahrnuje přes 480 barevných fotografií hub a více než 165 ilustrací biochemických struktur. Každý druh léčivé houby je charakterizován makroskopickým popisem a hlavními znaky, jimiž se odlišuje od některých podobných druhů, se kterými by mohl být zaměněn, obsahem zjištěných bioaktivních látek, jejich léčivými účinky a možným praktickým využitím dané houby.
Mapmatics
How does a delivery driver distribute hundreds of packages in a single day?
Why can maps influence elections?
Where should we look for serial killers?
The answers lie in the connection between maps and maths.
Mathematician Dr Paulina Rowinska explores the mathematical foundations of maps and cartography's impact on mathematics. From sixteenth-century maps which we still use on our phones to public transport maps that both guide and mislead, she uncovers how maps and maths shape our sense of space and time, and our worldview.
Through engaging stories, unforgettable characters and real-world examples, Mapmatics reveals the mathematical techniques behind maps and how they help us better understand - and care for - the world around us.
The Mind Electric
A young woman channelling the voice of the Holy Spirit. A mother whose children have been replaced by changelings. A family cursed by a mysterious inability to sleep. Pria Anand's patients come to her with myriad peculiar symptoms, but they all have something in common: their diagnosis always hinges on a story. Her task as a neurologist is akin to a detective's, piecing together the clues in a patient's account with the tells of their body in order to settle on a diagnosis.
In her gorgeously lyrical, passionate and humane first book, Pria Anand shares stories of her own patients alongside her own experiences as a doctor, a mother and a patient, in order to explore all the bizarre ways in which our brains go awry. Moving from the Boston hospital where she treats her patients, to her childhood years in India, to Isla Providencia in the Caribbean and to Guinea in West Africa, she demonstrates again and again the compelling paradox at the heart of neurology: that the strangest symptoms experienced by any single individual can show us something universal about being human.
Self Defence
We are surrounded by bold claims and quick fixes for improving our immune systems. In this expert guide, leading immunologist Daniel M. Davis sorts the fact from fiction.
Is it true that orange juice can help ward off colds?
How does age affect our immune system?
Is mental health really connected to inflammation?
How do we separate the bogus claims from the useful advice? And given its sheer complexity, is there anything we can do to improve our immune system?
World-renowned immunologist Daniel M. Davis examines the effects of stress, diet, age, exercise, the microbiome and more on the immune system, punctures the key myths, and equips us to make informed choices for ourselves.
Vanished
From an award-winning historian of race, science and empire, a path-breaking and poignant history of extinction as a scientific idea, an imperial legacy and a political choice
Anyone alive today is among a tiny fraction of the once living: over 90% of species that ever existed are now extinct. How did we come to think of ourselves as survivors in a world where species can vanish forever, or as capable of pushing our planet to the verge of a sixth mass extinction?
Extinction, Sadiah Qureshi shows us, is a surprisingly modern concept – and a phenomenon that’s not as natural as we might think. In Europe until the late eighteenth century, species were considered perfect and unchanging creations of God. Then in the age of revolutions, scientists gathered enough fossil evidence to determine that mammoth bones, for example, were not just large elephants but a lost species that once roamed the Earth alongside ancient humans. Extinction went from being regarded as theologically dangerous to pervasive, and even inevitable.
Yet Vanished shows us that extinction is more than a scientific idea; it’s a political choice that has led to devasting consequences. Europeans and Americans quickly used the notion that extinction was a natural process to justify persecution and genocide, predicting that nations from Newfoundland’s Beothuk to Aboriginal Australians were doomed to die out from imperial expansion.
Exploring the tangled and unnatural histories of extinction and empire, Vanished weaves together pioneering original research and breath-taking storytelling to show us extinction is both an evolutionary process and a human act: one which illuminates our past, and may alter our future.
A Crack in Everything
What is space? What is time? Where did the universe come from? The answers to mankind's most enduring questions may lie in science's greatest enigma: black holes.
A black hole is a region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. This can occur when a star approaches the end of its life. Unable to generate enough heat to maintain its outer layers, it shrinks catastrophically down to an infinitely dense point.
When this phenomenon was first proposed in 1916, it defied scientific understanding so much that Albert Einstein dismissed it as too ridiculous to be true. But scientists have since proven otherwise. In 1971, Paul Murdin and Louise Webster discovered the first black hole: Cygnus X-1. Later, in the 1990s, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope found that not only do black holes exist, supermassive black holes lie at the heart of almost every galaxy, including our own. It would take another three decades to confirm this phenomenon. On 10 April 2019, a team of astronomers made history by producing the first image of a black hole.
A Crack in Everything is the story of how black holes came in from the cold and took cosmic centre stage. As a journalist, Marcus Chown interviews many of the scientists who made the key discoveries, and, as a former physicist, he translates the most esoteric of science into everyday language. The result is a uniquely engaging page-turner that tells one of the great untold stories in modern science.
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.
