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A Brief History of Black Holes
And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong
2023 || Paperback || Becky Dr Smethurst || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Black holes are the universe's strangest and most fascinating objects. In A Brief History of Black Holes, Dr Becky explores the mysteries and realities of this misunderstood phenomenon - and that nearly everything you know about them is wrong.
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To Boldly Go Where No Book Has Gone Before
A Joyous Journey Through All of Science
2023 || Hardcover || Luke O'Neill || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Science is a serious business, right? Wrong.
Scientists have been participants in the best reality show of all time, with all the highs, lows, bust-ups, and strange personalities of any show on telly today. From Luke O'Neill - the science teacher you wish you'd had - this hugely accessible history of science reveals the human stories behind the biggest discoveries.
For example, we meet Charles Darwin as he weighs up the pros and cons of marrying his cousin: 'constant companion' vs 'less money...
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A Brief History of Intelligence
Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of AI
2023 || Paperback || Max Bennett || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A Brief History of Brains bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the evolutionary story of how the brain came to be.
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Planet Earth III
Accompanies the Landmark Series Narrated by David Attenborough
2023 || Hardcover || Matt Brandon e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The iconic series that started it all returns- accompanying an 8-part programme narrated by David Attenborough, Planet Earth III takes you closer than ever to the world's most fascinating animals and landscapes - and humanity's irrevocable impact upon them. There are over 100 billion planets in our galaxy. Only one is home to life. Ranging across seven dramatic habitats, from the depths of the ocean, to the scorching desert and into the to the darkest jungle, Planet Earth III showcases places...
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The Secret Lives of Numbers
A History of Mathematics & its Unsung Trailblazers
2023 || Paperback || Kate Kitagawa e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of maths
Mathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study of fundamental truths, the stories we have been told about it are wrong. In The Secret Lives of Numbers, historian Kate Kitagawa and journalist Timothy Revell introduce readers to the mathematical boundary-smashers who have been erased by history because of their race, gender or nationality.
From the brilliant Arabic scholars of the ...
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Determined
A Science of Life without Free Will
2023 || Paperback || Robert M. Sapolsky || Veltman Distributie Import Books
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the science and philosophy of decision-making to mount a devastating case against free will, an argument with profound consequences
Robert Sapolsky’s Behave, his now classic account of why humans do good and why they do bad, pointed toward an unsettling conclusion: We may not grasp the precise marriage of nature and nurture that creates the physics and chemistry at the base of human behavior, but ...