Cosmos is the story of our long journey of discovery and the forces and individuals who helped to shape modern science, including Democritus, Hypatia, Kepler, Newton, Huy-gens, Champollion, Lowell and Humason. Sagan looks at our planet from an extra-terrestrial vantage point and sees a blue jewel-like world, inhabited by a lifeform that is just beginning to discover its own unity and to...

«Мир, полный демонов» — последняя книга Карла Сагана, астронома, астрофизика и выдающегося популяризатора науки, вышедшая уже после его смерти. Эта книга, посвященная одной из его любимых тем — человеческому разуму и борьбе с псевдонаучной глупостью, — своего рода итог всей его работы. Мифы об Атлантиде и Лемурии, лица на Марсе и встречи с инопланетянами, магия и реинкарнация, ясновидение и...

In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around the world. Now in this stunning sequel, Carl Sagan completes his revolutionary journey through space and time.Future generations will look back on our epoch as the time when the human race finally broke into a radically new frontier-space. In...

Это последняя книга известного ученого и популяризатора науки Карла Сагана. В свойственной ему доходчивой и наглядной манере Саган показывает, как знания в области естественных наук и математики применяются в нашей повседневной жизни, а также рассматривает важнейшие проблемы, связанные с окружающей средой и будущим человечества. Сфера его интересов широка и разнообразна: он легко переходит...

A wonderful field guidebook to wild plants of Russia. Color illustrations of the plants.

In recent years, a remarkable flourishing of works on the postwar history of social science and humanities disciplines led to the growing configuration of a field of “Cold War social science” research. Yet in spite of its thematic diversity, and with few exceptions, the geography of the field remains overwhelmingly North American and Western European. This volume brings in the perspective of...

In Bonk, the best-selling author of Stiff turns her outrageous curiosity and insight on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex. Can a person think herself to orgasm? Why doesn't Viagra help women-or, for that matter, pandas? Can a dead man get an erection? Is vaginal orgasm a myth? Mary Roach shows us how and why sexual arousal and orgasm-two of the most complex, delightful, and...

The monograph contains the results of the author's long-term research on improving the thermal preparation of construction machines in the winter period. A review and analysis of devices promising for use in thermal preparation systems is given. It is proposed to divide the winter period into time periods, each of which is characterized by its own preparation means. A comprehensive preparation...

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