Àâòîð: McGuire
Íàçâàíèå: Global Catastrophes
ISBN: 0192804936 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780192804938
Èçäàòåëüñòâî: Oxford Academ
Öåíà: 4950 T
Íàëè÷èå íà ñêëàäå: Ïîñòàâêà ïîä çàêàç.
Îïèñàíèå: Focuses on the many potential catastrophes facing our planet, from global warming, and New Ice Ages, to asteroid impact, super volcanoes, and mega-tsunami. This book presents a look at both the science behind these events and our chances of survival. It explains both the mechanisms and the risks of global catastrophes.

Àâòîð: Tuniz Claudio
Íàçâàíèå: Radioactivity: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 0199692424 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199692422
Èçäàòåëüñòâî: Oxford Academ
Ðåéòèíã:
Öåíà: 3640 T
Íàëè÷èå íà ñêëàäå: Åñòü
Îïèñàíèå: Radioactivity - the breakdown of unstable atomic nuclei, releasing radiation - is a fundamental process in nature, and used to provide important applications in science, medicine, and energy production. But it remains misunderstood and feared. In this Very Short Introduction, Claudio Tuniz explains the nature and mechanisms of radioactivity.

Àâòîð: Maslin Mark
Íàçâàíèå: Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 0198719043 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198719045
Èçäàòåëüñòâî: Oxford Academ
Ðåéòèíã:
Öåíà: 4950 T
Íàëè÷èå íà ñêëàäå: Åñòü ó ïîñòàâùèêà Ïîñòàâêà ïîä çàêàç.
Îïèñàíèå: In the new edition of Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction (previously titled Global Warming), Mark Maslin explores all of the key debates. Examining the most recent scientific research, he looks what climate change is, its impact on our planet, and why it`s such a complex problem to solve.

Àâòîð: Crawford, Dorothy H.
Íàçâàíèå: Viruses: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 0199574855 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199574858
Èçäàòåëüñòâî: Oxford Academ
Ðåéòèíã:
Öåíà: 4950 T
Íàëè÷èå íà ñêëàäå: Ïîñòàâêà ïîä çàêàç.
Îïèñàíèå: From modern pandemics such as HIV, swine flu and SARS, to stories of vaccination and antiviral drugs, this Very Short Introduction charts man`s struggle against viruses. Outlining their origins, structure, and method of infection, Dorothy Crawford explores the vast variety of viruses, asking if we can live in harmony with them in the future.

Àâòîð: Hobson, J. Allan
Íàçâàíèå: Dreaming A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 0192802151 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780192802156
Èçäàòåëüñòâî: Oxford Academ
Ðåéòèíã:
Öåíà: 4950 T
Íàëè÷èå íà ñêëàäå: Åñòü ó ïîñòàâùèêà Ïîñòàâêà ïîä çàêàç.
Îïèñàíèå: Focusing on dreaming to explain the mechanisms of sleep, the author explores how the new science of dreaming affects theories in psychoanalysis, and how it is helps the understanding of the causes of mental illness. He investigates his own dreams to illustrate and explain some of the discoveries of modern sleep science.

Àâòîð: Winfield Alan
Íàçâàíèå: Robotics: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 0199695989 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199695980
Èçäàòåëüñòâî: Oxford Academ
Ðåéòèíã:
Öåíà: 4950 T
Íàëè÷èå íà ñêëàäå: Åñòü ó ïîñòàâùèêà Ïîñòàâêà ïîä çàêàç.
Îïèñàíèå: Robotics is a key technology in the modern world. Yet, despite these successes, robots have failed to live up to the predictions of the 1950s and 60s. In this Very Short Introduction, Alan Winfield considers how robotics can be both a success story and a disappointment, and how robots can be both ordinary and quite remarkable.

Àâòîð: Floridi Luciano
Íàçâàíèå: Information: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 0199551375 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199551378
Èçäàòåëüñòâî: Oxford Academ
Ðåéòèíã:
Öåíà: 3640 T
Íàëè÷èå íà ñêëàäå: Åñòü
Îïèñàíèå: Luciano Floridi unpacks this fundamental concept - what information is, how it is measured, its value and meaning - cutting across the sciences and humanities, from DNA to the Internet, and the ethical issues related to privacy, copyright, and accessibility.

Àâòîð: Charlesworth, Brian (Institute of Cell, Animal and
Íàçâàíèå: Evolution: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 0192802518 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780192802514
Èçäàòåëüñòâî: Oxford Academ
Ðåéòèíã:
Öåíà: 3650 T
Íàëè÷èå íà ñêëàäå: Åñòü
Îïèñàíèå: Talks about the role of evolutionary biology in transforming our view of human origins and relation to the universe, and the impact of this idea on traditional philosophy and religion. This book aims to introduce some of the important findings, concepts, and procedures of evolutionary biology.

Àâòîð: Muir Wood David
Íàçâàíèå: Civil Engineering: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 019957863X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199578634
Èçäàòåëüñòâî: Oxford Academ
Ðåéòèíã:
Öåíà: 3640 T
Íàëè÷èå íà ñêëàäå: Åñòü
Îïèñàíèå: Civil engineering produces the structures of all human settlements worldwide. In this Very Short Introduction, David Muir Wood demonstrates the nature and importance of civil engineering; not only in the history of civilization and urbanization, but its range of facets today, and its challenges for the future.

Àâòîð: Close, Frank
Íàçâàíèå: Nothing: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 0199225869 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199225866
Èçäàòåëüñòâî: Oxford Academ
Ðåéòèíã:
Öåíà: 3640 T
Íàëè÷èå íà ñêëàäå: Åñòü
Îïèñàíèå: What is 'nothing'? What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - a void - exist? This Very Short Introduction explores the science and history of the elusive void: from Aristotle's theories to black holes and quantum particles, and why the latest discoveries about the vacuum tell us extraordinary things about the cosmos.

Àâòîð: McGuire
Íàçâàíèå: Global Catastrophes
ISBN: 0192804936 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780192804938
Èçäàòåëüñòâî: Oxford Academ
Ðåéòèíã:
Öåíà: 4950 T
Íàëè÷èå íà ñêëàäå: Ïîñòàâêà ïîä çàêàç.
Îïèñàíèå: Focuses on the many potential catastrophes facing our planet, from global warming, and New Ice Ages, to asteroid impact, super volcanoes, and mega-tsunami. This book presents a look at both the science behind these events and our chances of survival. It explains both the mechanisms and the risks of global catastrophes.

Àâòîð: Howard, Jonathan (Professor of Cell Genetics, Inst
Íàçâàíèå: Darwin: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 0192854542 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780192854544
Èçäàòåëüñòâî: Oxford Academ
Ðåéòèíã:
Öåíà: 4950 T
Íàëè÷èå íà ñêëàäå: Åñòü ó ïîñòàâùèêà Ïîñòàâêà ïîä çàêàç.
Îïèñàíèå: Darwin's theory that our ancestors were apes caused a furore in the scientific world and outside it when The Origin of Species was published in 1859. Analysing Darwin's major insights and arguments, this work reasserts the importance of his work for the development of modern biology.

Àâòîð: Beech Martin
Íàçâàíèå: Rejuvenating the Sun and Avoiding Other Global Catastrophes
ISBN: 0387681280 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780387681283
Èçäàòåëüñòâî: Springer
Ðåéòèíã:
Öåíà: 13890 T
Íàëè÷èå íà ñêëàäå: Åñòü ó ïîñòàâùèêà Ïîñòàâêà ïîä çàêàç.
Îïèñàíèå: This book investigates the idea that the distant future evolution of our Sun might be ‘controlled’ (literally, asteroengineered) so that it maintains its present-day energy output rather than becoming a highly luminous and bloated red giant star – a process that, if allowed to develop, will destroy all life on Earth. The text outlines how asteroengineering might work in principle and it describes what the future solar system could look like. It also addresses the idea of asteroengineering as a galaxy-wide imperative, explaining why the Earth has never been visited by extraterrestrial travellers in the past.