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Galileo Galilei è il simbolo della scienza moderna, ma quanto sappiamo davvero della sua vita? Matematico, inventore, imprenditore e persino autore di oroscopi: Galileo è stato molte cose, spesso tutte insieme. Siamo del resto in un'epoca in bilico: da una parte le superstizioni medievali; dall'altra la nascita faticosa del metodo scientifico. Con la sua voce inconfondibile, ironica, colta, teatrale, Roberto Mercadini ci regala un viaggio affascinante nella vita e nel tempo di Galileo.

Including letters, speeches, articles, and essays written before 1935, this collection offers a complete portrait of Einstein as a humanitarian and as a human being trying to make sense of the world changing around him. 

One day in 1996, the neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel took a call from his program officer at the National Institute of Mental Health, who informed him that he had been awarded a key grant. Also, the officer said, he and his colleagues thought Kandel would win the Nobel Prize. "I hope not soon," Kandel's wife, Denise, said when she heard this. Sociologists had found that Nobel Prize winners often did not contribute much more to science, she explained.

"Ants are the most warlike of all animals, with colony pitted against colony.... Their clashes dwarf Waterloo and Gettysburg", writes Edward O. Wilson in his most finely observed work in decades. In a myrmecological tour to such far-flung destinations as Mozambique and New Guinea, the Gulf of Mexico's Dauphin Island and even his parents' overgrown yard back in Alabama, Wilson thrillingly evokes his nine-decade-long scientific obsession with more than 15,000 ant species.

In 1831, the HMS Beagle took sail. Onboard was a young Charles Darwin. He would set out on an adventure that would lead him to question everything about man's place in the world. The Voyage of the Beagle is the journal Darwin kept of his observations of the extraordinary and natural wonders he encountered, from volcanoes to the coral reefs of Australia. It would be these natural wonders that would lead to him questioning how the different species of the world came to be and eventually to his radical theories.

To his admirers, Luis W. Alvarez was the most accomplished, inventive, and versatile experimental physicist of his generation. During World War II, he achieved major breakthroughs in radar, played a key role in the Manhattan Project, and served as the lead scientific observer at the bombing of...

En una era que busca fomentar la innovación, la creatividad y el trabajo en equipo, Los innovadores es la obra que mejor muestra cómo se producen. Tras su extraordinaria biografía de Steve Jobs, el nuevo libro de Walter Isaacson cuenta la fascinante historia de las personas que inventaron el ordenador e internet; Los innovadores está destinado a convertirse en la historia definitiva de la revolución digital y en una guía indispensable para entender cómo sucede realmente la innovación.

In little more than half a decade, Facebook has gone from a dorm-room novelty to a company with 500 million users. It is one of the fastest growing companies in history, an essential part of the social life not only of teenagers but hundreds of millions of adults worldwide. As Facebook spreads around the globe, it creates surprising effects, even becoming instrumental in political protests from Colombia to Iran.

Als die moderne Wissenschaft in Europa geboren wurde im frühen 17. Jahrhundert, sprachen ihre Pioniere der Engländer Bacon, der Deutsche Kepler, der Italiener Galilei, der Franzose Descartes davon, dass sie etwas Neues machen würden. Sie hatten die Idee des Fortschritts entdeckt, der zufolge die Zukunft besser werden kann als die Vergangenheit.

Comment devient-on le plus jeune Français à partir vers la Station spatiale ? Comment passer de sa Normandie natale aux pas de tir de Baïkonour et de Cap Canaveral ? Pour la première fois, Thomas Pesquet se raconte sans détour, dans un récit très personnel aussi drôle que surprenant. Il nous entraîne des coulisses de l’école des astronautes jusqu’au frisson du décollage, partage le quotidien de ses 396 jours à bord de l’ISS et l’émerveillement de découvrir, flottant dans le vide intersidéral, notre planète si fragile.

L'autobiografia, raccontata in prima persona, di una delle più importanti e preziose personalità scientifiche dello scorso secolo. Una vita che si muove tra le minacce della storia - le due guerre mondiali e le leggi razziali - i limiti culturali di una società che discrimina ancora fortemente la donna e un modo di concepire la scienza come ricerca continua, processo evolutivo di idee e approcci, scoperta.

Con un contributo audio inedito di Piero Angela. "Questo è probabilmente l'ultimo libro che scrivo. Non pensavo di farlo, ma poi ho riflettuto che forse ne valeva la pena. Adesso vorrei dire anch'io quello che penso, le domande che mi pongo, le cose che ho compreso... È un libro che forse voglio scrivere anche per me stesso, oltre che per i lettori." Da tempo Piero Angela lavorava a queste pagine, frutto di un confronto - durato decenni - con il suo storico collaboratore Massimo Polidoro. Una conversazione, è il caso di dirlo, sui massimi sistemi: l'universo, la natura, l'uomo.

From one of the world’s leading planetary scientists, a luminous memoir of exploration on Earth, in space, and within oneself—equal parts ode to the beauty of science, meditation on loss, and roadmap for personal resilience ""Fierce, absorbing, and ultimately inspiring."" —ELIZABETH...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURED DIRECTED BY AND STARRING CHIWETEL EJIOFOR – AVAILABLE ON NETFLIX AND A NEW WEST END MUSICAL. When William Kamkwamba was just 14 years old, his family told him that he must leave school and come home to work on the farm – they could no longer afford his fees. This...

Sie entdeckten das Unsichtbare, kämpften für Freiheit und gaben der Menschheit Hoffnung: Von Marie Curie und Albert Einstein bis zu Nelson Mandela und Mutter Teresa – die Geschichten dieser Nobelpreisträger sind Geschichten voller Mut, Leidenschaft und unerschütterlichem Glauben an eine besseren Welt. Dieses Hörbuch nimmt Sie mit auf eine Reise zu Menschen, die Grenzen überschritten, Widerstände überwanden und mit ihrem Denken und Handeln die Geschichte für immer geprägt haben.

Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

Die US–amerikanische Informatikerin und Wirtschaftsmanagerin ist seit Anfang 2012 Vorstandsvorsitzende von IBM. Die einzigartigen Biografien laden dazu ein, sich mit der Geschichte der Frauen zu befassen, die den Mut hatten, ihren Traum zu verwirklichen und schließlich ihr Ziel erreichten, die Erste zu sein!

Sie prägten Wissenschaft, Musik, Philosophie, Politik, Kultur und Sport - und hinterließen Spuren, die bis heute sichtbar sind. Was machte sie zu Ikonen? Welche Entscheidungen, Kämpfe und Schicksalsschläge formten ihre außergewöhnlichen Leben? Packend, inspirierend und voller Emotionen - dieses Hörbuch nimmt Sie mit auf eine Reise durch die Biografien jener Deutschen, die die Welt veränderten!

Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994) was renowned for her medically-important work on penicillin, vitamin B12 and insulin. Fully engaged with the political and social currents of her time, she participated in some of the greatest upheavals of the 20th century: women's education; the globalisation of science; the rise and fall of communism; and international peace movements. A wife, mother and grandmother, she cared deeply about the well-being of individuals in all cultures.

Mathematics shapes almost everything we do. From building rockets to the handheld technology that governs our day-to-day lives, we are all in debt to the mathematical geniuses of the past. But the history of mathematics is warped; it looks like a sixteenth-century map that enlarges Europe at the expense of Africa, Asia and the Americas. The Secret Lives of Numbers introduces listeners to a new group of mathematical boundary-smashers, those who have been erased by history because of their race, gender or nationality.