This is the absorbing story of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s lifelong fascination with the night sky, a restless wonder that began some thirty years ago on the roof of his Bronx apartment building and eventually led him to become the director of the...
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In this astonishing book from the author of the bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig, Sy Montgomery explores the emotional and physical world of the octopus' surprisingly complex, intelligent, and spirited creature: and the remarkable connections it...
Воспоминания автора о детстве, о жизни в Нидерландах в 1937-39...
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Другие научные, История
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons [The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery]
Early studies of the functions of the human brain used a simple method: wait for misfortune to strike-strokes, seizures, infectious diseases, lobotomies, horrendous accidents-and see how the victim coped. In many cases survival was miraculous, and...
From the acclaimed New York Times science writer George Johnson, an irresistible book on the ten most fascinating experiments in the history of science—moments when a curious soul posed a particularly eloquent question to nature and received a...
Другие научные, Медицина
The Transmissibility of Pellagra: Experimental Attempts at Transmission to the Human Subject
"The Transmissibility of Pellagra: Experimental Attempts at Transmission to the Human Subject" is an article from [Public Health Reports (1896-1970), Volume 31](/search.php?query=collection%3Ajstor_publhealrepo1896%20AND%20volume%3A31).
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One of the first encyclopaedies about so-called "flying saucers" (UFOs). B/w...
How a Nobel Prize–winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.
Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the...
Биология, Другие научные
The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
**Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)**
From one of our finest and most popular science writers, and the best-selling author of Your Inner Fish, comes the answer to a scientific mystery as big as the world itself: How are the events that formed our...
Астрономия, Другие научные
The Universe: Leading Scientists Explore the Origin, Mysteries, and Future of the Cosmos
John Brockman brings together the world’s best-known physicists and science writers—including Brian Greene, Walter Isaacson, Nobel Prize-winners Murray Gell-Mann and Frank Wilczek, and Brian Cox—to explain the universe in all wondrous...