検索キーワード： 歴史・哲学

Diese fesselnde Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Genetik entschlüsselt das Rätsel der Vererbung und menschlichen Existenz. Ideal für den Weg zur Arbeit, entführt dich dieses erzählende Sachbuch von antiken Mythen der Blutsverwandtschaft bis tief in das Innere der DNA. Erlebe hautnah, wie aus...

Erlebe in dieser fesselnden Biografie, wie ein unterschätzter Außenseiter die moderne Physik für immer veränderte. Jenseits des unfehlbaren Genies offenbart sich hier ein fehlerhafter, tastender Charakter, der gerade durch harte Rückschläge zu seinen revolutionären Gedanken fand. Sein...

Redécouvrez la préhistoire avec cette enquête scientifique fascinante qui replace les femmes au cœur de l'évolution. Loin des mythes tenaces, cet essai anthropologique déconstruit les biais qui ont longtemps effacé la moitié de l'humanité des récits fondateurs. Idéal pour stimuler...

Comprenez la course militaire et scientifique acharnée qui a transformé l'atome en arme de destruction massive. De l'étude fondamentale de la matière jusqu'au basculement irrémédiable dans une guerre totale, cette enquête historique retrace la convergence inouïe des ambitions humaines et...

Explorez l'intelligence végétale et les stratégies de survie cachées pour repenser notre lien avec le monde naturel. Que vous cherchiez un moment d'émerveillement lors d'une promenade en forêt ou une écoute apaisante pendant votre trajet quotidien, cette exploration scientifique...

Bouleversez votre perception de la réalité et explorez les mystères du cosmos avec cette vulgarisation scientifique. Loin des équations arides, cette aventure intellectuelle transforme nos certitudes matérielles en énigmes vertigineuses, reliant l'infiniment petit à l'immensité spatiale...

Diese visionäre Populärwissenschaft stellt unsere Zivilisation auf den Prüfstand kosmischer Raum- und Zeitmaßstäbe. Wenn du beim abendlichen Spaziergang oder auf dem täglichen Weg zur Arbeit nach tieferer Erkenntnis suchst, bietet dieses tiefgründige Hörbuch die perfekte Mischung aus...

Dieses historische Sachbuch entschlüsselt das gnadenlose Wettrüsten um die erste Kernwaffe im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Ohne Vorwissen vorauszusetzen, zieht dich diese packende Chronik tief in die geheimen Forschungslabore, wo brillante Köpfe unter unerbittlichem Zeitdruck das Schicksal der...

Den anerkendte forsker, Joachim Offenberg, med speciale i myrer åbner med sin nye bog døren til et mageløst insekthotel, hvor man ikke kan stoppe med at læse, fordi verden bliver så meget større med de små. Velskrivende og indsigtsfuldt aftvinger han læseren en særlig naturrespekt...

The future we were promised is vanishing. Sixty years ago, Star Trek gave us a blueprint for who we could become: a species that outgrew its worst instincts and reached the stars with reason, courage, and conscience. Today, we're further from that future than the day the show first aired—and almost no one is asking why.

O futuro visto por um dos grandes pensadores da atualidade: isto é Homo Deus. Neste Homo Deus: uma breve história do amanhã, Yuval Noah Harari, autor do estrondoso best-seller Sapiens: uma breve história da humanidade, volta a combinar ciência, história e filosofia, desta vez para entender...

This is an extraordinary chronicle of the fifteen years, 1815–1830, that laid the foundations of modern society. It is a history of people, ideas, politics, manners, morals, economics, art, science and technology, diplomacy, business and commerce, literature, and revolution. From Wellington at...

Tim Coulson – Professor of Zoology at Oxford – takes us back to the beginning of everything: the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago. From there, he leads us step by step along the path to the most astonishing thing we have yet encountered – the staggering complexity of the modern human mind. Covering physics, astronomy, chemistry, geology, the emergence of life, evolution, consciousness and the rise of humankind, yet written to be understood by anyone with a child’s curiosity, this book takes the biggest story of all and tells it simply, grippingly and, above all, entertainingly.

From the moment radiation was discovered in the late nineteenth century, nuclear science has had a rich history of innovative scientific exploration and discovery, coupled with mistakes, accidents, and downright disasters.

The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity - by chewing, brewing, and snorting - some Neolithic souls discovered opium, alcohol, snakeroot, juniper, frankincense, and other helpful substances. Ötzi the Iceman, the 5,000-year-old hunter frozen in the Italian Alps, was found to have whipworms in his intestines and Bronze Age medicine, a worm-killing birch fungus, knotted to his leggings.

Perhaps the most influential science book ever written, On the Origin of Species has continued to fascinate for more than a century after its initial publication. Its controversial theory that populations evolve and adapt through a process known as natural selection led to heated scientific, philosophical, and religious debate, revolutionizing every discipline in its wake. With its clear, concise, and surprisingly enjoyable prose, On the Origin of Species is both captivating and edifying.

Permanent Present Tense tells the incredible story of Henry Gustav Molaison, known only as H. M. until his death in 2008. In 1953, at the age of 27, Molaison underwent a dangerous "psychosurgical" procedure intended to alleviate his debilitating epilepsy. The surgery went horribly wrong, and when Molaison awoke he was unable to store new experiences. For the rest of his life, he would be trapped in the moment. But Molaison’s tragedy would prove a gift to humanity.

Imagine knowing years in advance whether you are likely to get cancer, or having a personalized understanding of your individual genes, organs, and cells. Imagine being able to monitor your body's well-being, or have a diet tailored to your microbiome. The Secret Body reveals how these and other stunning breakthroughs and technologies are transforming our understanding of how the human body works, what it is capable of, how to protect it from disease, and how we might manipulate it in the future.

Brought to you by Penguin. A dazzling, passionate polemic against anti-science movements of all kinds Keats accused Newton of destroying the poetry of the rainbow by explaining the origin of its colours. In this illuminating and provocative book, Richard Dawkins argues that Keats could not have...

A luminous guide to how the radical new science of counterfactuals can reveal that the scope of the universe is greater, and more beautiful, than we ever imagined There is a vast class of things that science has so far almost entirely neglected. They are central to the understanding of physical...