Van Ditmar Boeken B.V. (65)
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General Relativity
The Theoretical Minimum
2024 || Paperback || Leonard Susskind e.a. || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
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Qed
The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
2024 || Paperback || Richard P Feynman || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Quantum electrodynamics - or QED for short - is the theory that explains how light and electrons interact, and in doing so illuminates the mysteries of the world around us. This book uses examples to provide the definitive introduction to QED.
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Silent Spring
2024 || Paperback || Rachel Carson || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Exposes the destruction of wildlife through the widespread use of pesticides. This book aims to creates public awareness of the environment.
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The Master Algorithm
How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
2024 || Paperback || Pedro Domingos || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Pedro Domingos demystifies machine learning and shows how wondrous and exciting the future will be' Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs
Society is changing, one learning algorithm at a time, from search engines to online dating, personalized medicine to predicting the stock market. But learning algorithms are not just about Big Data - these algorithms take raw data and make it useful by creating more algorithms. This is something new under the sun: a technology that builds itself. ...
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Where The Animals Go
Tracking Wildlife with Technology in 50 Maps and Graphics
2024 || Paperback || James Cheshire e.a. || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
For thousands of years, tracking animals meant following footprints. Now satellites, drones, camera traps, cellphone networks, apps and accelerometers allow us to see the natural world like never before. Geographer James Cheshire and designer Oliver Uberti take you to the forefront of this animal-tracking revolution. Meet the scientists gathering wild data - from seals mapping the sea to baboons making decisions, from birds dodging tornadoes to jaguars taking selfies. Join the journeys of sha...
Lunar
A History of the Moon in Myths, Maps + Matter
2024 || Hardcover || dava sobel || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
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When Life Nearly Died
The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time
2024 || Paperback || Michael J. Benton || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
The greatest mass extinction in Earths history happened some 251 million years ago. In this cataclysm at least 90 per cent of life was killed, both on land and in the sea, almost bringing evolution to a halt. What caused destruction on such an unimaginable scale? Was it the impact of a huge meteorite, or prolonged volcanic eruption in Siberia?
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The Body
A Guide for Occupants - THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER
2024 || Paperback || Bill Bryson || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
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How Emotions Are Made
The Secret Life of the Brain
2024 || Paperback || Lisa Feldman Barrett || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Emotions aren’t hardwired into you – you create them. A world-leading neuroscientist argues that understanding the origin and nature of emotions has huge implications for our future.
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Being Ecological
2024 || Paperback || Timothy Morton || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
'To read Being Ecological is to be caught up in a brilliant display of intellectual pyrotechnics' P.D.Smith, GuardianWhy is everything we think we know about ecology wrong?Is there really any difference between 'humans' and 'nature'?Does this mean we even have a future?Don't care about ecology? This book is for you. Timothy Morton, who has been called 'Our most popular guide to the new epoch' (Guardian), sets out to show us that whether we know it or not, we already have the capacity and the ...