Naturvetenskapens historia

Hur lärde sig människan att hitta på havet? Var Magellan verkligen den förste världsomseglaren? Hur bidrog kaskelotvalen till upplysningen? På vilket sätt förändrade den skotske bagaren Robert Dick vår syn på livets historia? Hur vet vi egentligen...

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Hur lärde sig människan att hitta på havet? Var Magellan verkligen den förste världsomseglaren? Hur bidrog kaskelotvalen till upplysningen? På vilket sätt förändrade den skotske bagaren Robert Dick vår syn på livets historia? Hur vet vi egentligen...

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER and RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK *An Economist, Financial Times, Times and New Statesman Book of the Year* Shortlisted for the FT Business Book of the Year Award and the British Academy Book Prize, Longlisted for the Wainwr...

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Kemisten Svante Arrhenius var en av sin tids största vetenskapsmän och utsågs 1903 till Sveriges förste Nobelpristagare. Till hans bekantskapskrets räknades både Einstein, Curie, Pavlov och Bohr. Han var folkbildare, freds- och demokrativän och fi...

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Alkemins etymologiska rötter återfinns både i de arabiska och grekiska språken, och syftar på den process av transmutation som leder till en fullständig återförening med den gudomliga ursprungsformen. Dock sträcker sig det esoteriska utövandet av ...

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In this new edition of the top-selling coursebook, seasoned historians Peter J. Bowler and Iwan Rhys Morus expand on their authoritative survey of how the development of science has shaped our world. Exploring both the history of science and its i...

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Instant #1 New York Times bestseller! * #1 Washington Post bestseller! * #1 Indie Bestseller! * USA Today Bestseller! 'Earnest and empathetic.' - New York Times Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a mal...

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Människans historia kännetecknas av en lång rad genombrott. Vissa har förändrat förutsättningarna för samhällen och enskilda människor i grunden, medan andra gjort livet enklare. Vad som blir ett genombrott kan vi bara veta efteråt. Ibland är det ...

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A groundbreaking history of architecture told through the relationship between buildings and energy The story of architecture is the story of humanity. The buildings we live in, from the humblest pre-historic huts to today's skyscrapers, reveal ou...

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*A FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN AND TLS BOOK OF THE SUMMER* 'The fascinating story of ancient words ? new revelations await' The Guardian 'A magisterial feat' New Scientist ________________________________ One ancient language transformed our world. ...

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PROSE Award for Excellence in Humanities Finalist 2023 Climate Change and Human History provides a concise introduction to the relationship between human beings and climate change throughout history. Starting hundreds of thousands of years ago and...

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A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted, and we forget how provocative and challenging it...

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»I den nya boken Den stora fröstölden av Jens Nordqvist får man lära känna några av de världsförbättrare och idealister, plundrare och mördare, som deltog i 1900-talets storslagna projekt att mätta mänskligheten med hjälp av växtförädling ... Raff...

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* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If you want a brief but thorough education in numeric thinking about many of the fundamental forces that shape human life, this is the book to read. It's ...

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The story of the most significant biological breakthrough of the century - the discovery of the structure of DNA. 'It is a strange model and embodies several unusual features. However, since DNA is an unusual substance, we are not hesitant in bein...

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THE¿NEW YORK TIMES¿BESTSELLER 'Neat, and extremely simple: only a deep thinker such as Sean Carroll could introduce the complexity of Einstein's general relativity in such a luminous and straightforward manner.' Carlo Rovelli, author of Seven Brie...

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**THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER** 'Rattling. Heartbreaking. Beautiful.' Atul Gawande, bestselling author of Being Mortal What makes life worth living in the face of death? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a...

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Sean Carroll has achieved something I thought impossible: a bridge between popular science and the mathematical universe of working physicists. Magnificent!' Brian Clegg, author of Ten Days in Physics that Shook the ...

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Award-winning¿Atlantic¿staff writer Zo Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popular science that probes the hidden world of the plant kingdom, destabilizing not just how we see the green things of the world but also our place in the hierarc...

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The ultimate eye-opening journey through time and space, A Short History of Nearly Everything is the biggest-selling popular science book of the 21st century and has sold over 2 million copies. 'Possibly the best scientific primer ever published.'...

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Hur uppstod våra uppfattningar om vad som är vetenskap respektive vidskepelse? Upplysningens element är en fascinerande berättelse om hur en idag ganska okänd grupp svenska alkemister och kemister bidrog till uppkomsten av vår moderna verklighetsu...

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** NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER ** The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history from the author of The Emperor of All Maladies. The story begins in an Augustinian abbey in 1856, and takes the reader ...

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In this controversial, thought-provoking, and brilliant book, renegade thinkers Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha debunk almost everything we know about sex, weaving together convergent, frequently overlooked evidence from anthropology, archaeolo...

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I slutet av 1600-talet tittar den engelske vetenskapsmannen Hooke och den holländske forskaren Leeuwenhoek ner i sina enkla, handgjorda mikroskop, oberoende av varandra. Vad de ser ska revolutionera biologin och läkekonsten för alltid. Dessa livet...

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Instant #1 New York Times bestseller! * #1 Washington Post bestseller! * #1 Indie Bestseller! * USA Today Bestseller! John Green, award-winning author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating th...

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Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, this Very Short Introduction surveys the history of medicine from classical times to the present. Focussing on the key turning points in the history of Western medicine, ...

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*A FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN AND TLS BOOK OF THE SUMMER* 'The fascinating story of ancient words ? new revelations await' The Guardian 'A magisterial feat' New Scientist ________________________________ One ancient language transformed our world. ...

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Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller: but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to find out everything tha...

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In this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia's medieval enlightenment through the eventful lives and astonishing accomplishments of its greatest minds--remarkab...

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