Descriere: In this fast-paced, sure-to-astonish scientific adventure, a Pulitzer Prize-winning popular science writer asks, Has the long-sought secret of eternal youth at last been found?
Autori: Jonathan Weiner | Editura: Ecco | Anul aparitiei: 2010 | ISBN: 9780060765361 | Numar de pagini: 310 | Categorie: Science
Simon Singh
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe
A half century ago, a shocking Washington Post headline claimed that the world began in five cataclysmic minutes rather than having existed for all time; a skeptical scientist dubbed the maverick theory the Big Bang. In this amazingly comprehensible history of the universe, Simon Singh decodes the mystery behind the Big Bang theory, lading us through the development of one of the most extraordinary, important, and awe-inspiring theories in science.
Timothy Ferris
The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature
From the author of the acclaimed "Coming of Age in the Milky Way" comes a brilliant chronicle of how science sparked the spread of liberal democracy across the modern world.