How did life on Earth begin? How common is it elsewhere in the Universe? Written and edited by planetary scientists and astrobiologists, this undergraduate-level textbook provides an introduction to the origin and nature of life, the habitable environments in our solar system and the techniques most successfully used…
The definitive, deeply reported account of YouTube, the company that upended media, culture, industry, and democracy-by a leading tech journalist
Across the world, people watch more than a billion hours of video on YouTube every day. Every minute, more than five hundred additional hours of footage are uploaded to the…
How do you remember more and forget less? How can you earn more and become more creative just by moving house? And how do you pack a car boot most efficiently? This is your shortcut to the art of the shortcut.
Mathematics is full of better ways of thinking, and with over 2,000 years of knowledge to draw on, Oxford…
A Brief History of Time for the 21st CenturyAt the heart of our galaxy lies a monster so deadly, not even light can escape its grasp. Its secrets lie waiting to be discovered. It’s time to explore our universe’s most mysterious inhabitantsBlack HolesAt the heart of the Milky Way lies a supermassive black…
The human brain is made up of 85 billion neurons, which are connected by over 100 trillion synapses. For more than a century, a diverse array of researchers searched for a language that could be used to capture the essence of what these neurons do and how they communicate. The language they were looking for was…
Picture yourself at a starting point before anything exists – no matter, no cosmos, not even empty space. Your task is to create the universe, but all you have to work with is, quite literally, ”nothing.” How do you proceed? This is the thought experiment The Big Bang of Numbers invites you into, as…
Kategorier: Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Essäer Etiska frågor och debatter Etiska frågor: vetenskaplig och teknisk utveckling Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap Naturvetenskapens och teknikens inverkan på samhället Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala och etiska frågor
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The overall aim in this thesis is to explore professional conversations about science teaching experiences, both in an educational setting with student teachers, and in a local professional development project with a science teacher team, regarding possibilities for developing professional knowledge in a collegial…
In the era of convergence : one woman’s exploration of humans and digitalization from its beginnings
Kategorier: Biografi: allmänt Biografi: naturvetenskap, teknik och medicin Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Etiska frågor och debatter Etiska frågor: vetenskaplig och teknisk utveckling Informationsteknik It: allmänt Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap Naturvetenskapens och teknikens inverkan på samhället Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Självbiografi: naturvetenskap, teknik och medicin Sociala och etiska frågor
Om bokenGunilla Bradley berättar om sin livsresa, från uppväxten på 40-talet i ett litet samhälle i Småland, till den akademiska världen i Sverige och internationellt. Som forskare undersökte hon hur digitaliseringen har förändrat och förändrar våra liv i arbete och privatliv – hur vår psykosociala livsmiljö…
Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time-war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, race, and tribalism-in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of unity for us…
Introduced by Jim Al-Khalili
Could you surf down an erupting volcano?
Why do zebras have stripes?
Are you breathing the same air as Leonardo da Vinci?
Are there any green mammals?
Why do pineapples have spikes?
Why do songs get stuck in your head?
What happens when black holes collide?
Can you extract your DNA?
New…
In this entertaining and accessible exploration of love, Oxford anthropologist Dr Anna Machin dives into the science behind the myriad types of love that exist in the world, including romantic love, parental love, friendships, love for pets, football teams, religious love and even love for our smartphones.
Through…
Kategorier: Matematik Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap Pedagogik Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Undervisning i specifika ämnen
The purpose of this thesis was to develop procedures that allow researchers to make reasonable comparisons of grade-eight mathematics and science achievement and motivation scales over a long time period, despite changes to the instruments, populations, and procedures between administrations. The data were selected…
From the host of Netflix’s Emily’s Wonder Lab and FOX’s Xploration Outer Space comes a book featuring 50 experiments that introduce the wonders of science to the whole family
How does a wildlife photographer know that an elephant stampede is coming?
How does a baker always know which egg is raw?
Why does a feather fall as fast as a hammer during a gravity experiment?
And why do candles in a black candlestick holder melt so quickly?
Welcome to the world of SLEUTH & SOLVE: SCIENCE, where…
Right now, you are orbiting a black hole.
The Earth goes around the Sun, and the Sun goes around the centre of the Milky Way: a supermassive black hole the strangest and most misunderstood phenomenon in the galaxy.
In A Brief History of Black Holes University of Oxford astrophysicist, Dr Becky Smethurst charts the…
Kategorier: Biologi och biovetenskap Biovetenskap Förhistoriska människor Genetik (ej medicinsk) Humanbiologi Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap Populärvetenskap
Med den världsberömda genetikern och nobelpristagaren Svante Pääbos forskning har historien om människans ursprung skrivits om från grunden.
I Neandertalmänniskan tar Svante Pääbo med läsaren på en spännande resa på jakt efter urgammalt DNA, från undersökningar av fornegyptiska mumier i Uppsala till ett internationellt…
The whole cosmos in your hands, The Universe in Bite-sized Chunks is your one-stop guide to everything you ever wanted to know about space and our place in it.
From gravity to black holes, special relativity to global warming, this authoritative and entertaining book from bestselling author Marcus Chown breaks down complex science into manageable chunks, explaining the one thing you really need to know to get to grips with the subject.Rather than trying to bend your mind…
In the era of convergence : one woman’s exploration of humans and digitalization from its beginnings
Kategorier: Biografi: allmänt Biografi: naturvetenskap, teknik och medicin Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Etiska frågor och debatter Etiska frågor: vetenskaplig och teknisk utveckling Informationsteknik It: allmänt Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap Naturvetenskapens och teknikens inverkan på samhället Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Självbiografi: naturvetenskap, teknik och medicin Sociala och etiska frågor
Om bokenGunilla Bradley berättar om sin livsresa, från uppväxten på 40-talet i ett litet samhälle i Småland, till den akademiska världen i Sverige och internationellt. Som forskare undersökte hon hur digitaliseringen har förändrat och förändrar våra liv i arbete och privatliv – hur vår psykosociala livsmiljö…
Kategorier: Etiska frågor och debatter Etiska frågor: vetenskaplig och teknisk utveckling Informationsteknik It: allmänt Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap Naturvetenskapens och teknikens inverkan på samhället Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala och etiska frågor
What is Quality of Life in a society that has embraced information and communication technology (ICT)? What is Wisdom in this kind of society? And what things are helping or hindering us from having both wisdom and a good quality of life in ICT societies?
Taking the reader through a quick analysis of the current social…
The adventures of James Bond have thrilled readers since Ian Fleming’s novel Casino Royale was published in 1953, and when the movie of Dr No was released in 1962, Bond quickly became the world’s favourite secret agent. Science and technology have always been central to the plots that make up the world of…
How do people come to believe in misinformation?
How and why does it spread?
And what can we do about it?
’In an era increasingly filled with half-truths, fake news, and misinformation, I am not here to tell you what to believe. I want to provide you with a guide to how your brain grapples with matters of fact…
You may be familiar with the idea of our body’s biome – the bacterial fauna that populates our gut and can so profoundly affect our health. In We Are Electric we cross the next frontier of scientific understanding: discover your body’s electrome.
Every cell in our bodies – bones, skin, nerves,…
’Gribbin casts a wide net and displays his breadth of knowledge in packing a lot into each chapter . . . a brief read, but one that may inspire readers to dig deeper.’ Giles Sparrow, BBC Sky at Night Magazine
A mind-warping excursion into the wildly improbable truths of science.
Echoing Sherlock…
As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week As seen on Sky Arts Book Club with Elizabeth Day and Andi Oliver An eye-opening account of disability, identity, and how robotics and AI are altering our understanding of what it means to be human – from the bestselling author of Anatomy of a Soldier Harry Parker’s…
There are more than 100 billion brain cells in our heads, and every single one represents a fragment of thought and feeling. And yet each cell is a mystery of beauty, with branching, intricate patterns like shattered glass. Richard Wingate has been scrutinizing them for decades, yet he is still moved when he looks at…
Why is -(-1) = 1? Why do odd and even numbers alternate? What’s the point of algebra? Is maths even real?
From imaginary numbers to the perplexing order of operations we all had drilled into us, Eugenia Cheng – mathematician, writer and woman on a mission to rid the world of maths phobia – brings us…
A revelatory and vibrant story of measurement which will make you look at the world around you anew. ’A wildly ambitious book by a formidably talented young writer.’ ROBERT MACFARLANE ’Vivid, epic, and full of curiosities. This is a book to delight and fascinate.’ TIM HARFORD, bestselling author…
This book teaches in detail how to interpret all features of the hand, not simply the lines of the palm.
Contains the text of the sixth edition – the last edition published during Darwin’s lifetime and the last to include his own amendments.
This is an eternally popular book, appealing to a general audience but also medical practitioners and medicine students.
Kategorier: Arkeologi Arkeologi: perioder och områden Biologi och biovetenskap Biovetenskap Förhistoriska människor Genetik (ej medicinsk) Historia och arkeologi Humanbiologi Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap Populärvetenskap
Vinnare av Augustpriset 2015 och utnämnd till ”Årets bok om svensk historia 2015” av Nättidningen Svensk Historia
Vetenskapsjournalisten Karin Bojs bestämde sig för att släktforska på djupet och låta DNA-trådarna knyta ihop henne själv med forntidens människor. Hon läste studier, intervjuade forskare och…
This is the past as we've never seen it before. Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating journey into deep time, showing us the Earth as it used to exist, and the worlds that were here before ours. Travelling back in time to the dawn of complex life, and across all seven continents, award-winning young palaeobiologist…
Kategorier: Filosofi Filosofi och religion Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap Populärvetenskap
VÅRA LIV UR ETT KOSMISKT PERSPEKTIV OCH I ETT MATEMATISKT UNIVERSUM.
Boken för den som tycker att det är trist att allt skall vara slut, bara för att man råkar dö.
Planeten Tellus har sannolikt genomlevt flera eoner, tidsåldrar, som slutat med katastrof.
Rolf Ingeson, uppfinnare av den världsunika maskinen som renar…
Derived from the classic text originated by Lubert Stryer and continued by John Tymoczko and Jeremy Berg, Biochemistry: A Short Course focuses on the major topics taught in a one-semester biochemistry course. With its brief chapters and relevant examples, this thoroughly updated new edition helps students see the…
Life is the most balanced experiment-based introductory biology textbook on the market, and the 10th edition has been revised to further align it with modern teaching of biology.
Kategorier: Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap Naturvetenskapens och teknikens inverkan på samhället
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”In our uncertain age, which can so often feel so dark and disturbing, Steven Pinker has distinguished himself as a voice of positivity.” – New York Times
Can reading a book make you more rational? Can it help us understand why there is so much irrationality in the world?…
From one of our leading thinkers, a dazzling philosophical journey through virtual worlds
In the coming decades, the technology that enables virtual and augmented reality will improve beyond recognition. Within a century, world-renowned philosopher David J. Chalmers predicts, we will have virtual worlds that are…
Following his New York Times bestseller How the World Really Works, Vaclav Smil returns with a mind-opening exploration of how size defines life on Earth (and beyond) – from microbes to economies and the expanding universe To answer the most important questions of our age, and secure our future, we must…