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An introduction to interactive epistemology
With this book you will discover that behind the awkward researches that won Ig Nobel prize there is real science, the same that makes science it is possible to reach great achievements.
Past, present and future according to the yellow family
What is an untouchable number? Does the Earth have only one moon? Is it possible to go fasten as light in the real world? Who is HeLa? If you want to know the answers to these questions, and many more, this book is what you need.
The set theory and the concept of infinity. Let’s explore one of the most studied idea in mathematics, logic, and also in philosophy.
Starting from their own experience, the two scientists guide us on a wonderful journey to discover the egg across biology, art, literature, sociology, and – of course – gastronomy.
This books tells the birth of relativity from a new point of view.
How do we give value to things? How do we decide about money, spending and investing? How much are emotions involved? Is there any real difference between men and women as to economic issues or spending?
The author of successful Physics on a Sunday still stimulates the curiosity of readers with his easy and comprehensible dealing with scientific topics – physiology, chemistry, neuroscience and human studies.
The first gardening book ever written from the plants’ point of view to learn about their needs and look after them respectfully.
Two years after the Fukushima accident, an exhaustive essay and objective book about nuclear energy and related issues: studies, arms and weapons, nuclear power plants, waste disposal, medical applications, further developments.
Fear has always been the object of studies and research. However, no book has ever explained why we like it. So far. At last a book about the charm of risk, the way it lures into danger and turns into absolute pleasure.
Lead in toys, mercury and pesticides in water, dioxin: what are the dangers in the environment and their effects on the development of your baby’s brain? This book will help recognize the effects of pollutants and learn to live more consciously.
The story of Pinocchio is taken as an excuse to explain the best known and
interesting logical paradoxes in an amusing way.
This is not a collection of data, names, capitals, and rivers: it is a gathering of curiosities, anecdotes, real and imaginary places, where geography is often used as an excuse to tell a story.
From Neanderthal to Metallica, from Pythagoras to neuroscience, this book tells the state of the art in research about our relationship with music, and ends up depicting the birth of a new science.
Carlo Alberto Redi is the Italian most influential development biologist. He addresses the public for the first time by dealing with some of the hottest issues debated today such as cloning, the beginning of life, stems cells, GMOs and research financing. In a few pages Redi also confronts those Italian decision-makers who often know nothing about the issues they make decisions on. He even attacks those scientists who sometimes make misleading declarations.
A scientific guide to the solution of inexplicable phenomena
The third volume of the successful popular maths a la carte series. The book is dedicated to more everyday phenomena, focusing on art, architecture and design.
This book reveals how Tartaglia and Cardano contended the resolutive formula for 3rd and 4th grade equations (pupils study that in school), becoming the vivid protagonists of the fiercest polemics in the history of mathematics
Crimes, mysteries and legal battles, the DNA test was used to questionthe identity of the supposed princess Anastasia Romanov and other famous people, it was crucial in notorious case like that of O.J. Simpson, it made the quest for desaparecidos deterministic in Argentina...
This book takes the reader on a journey through beauty remedies, to discover what scientific mechanism actually makes them effective. It’s a collection of scientific curiosities, for every beauty and “natural way” fans, who will finally find the rigorous justification to their passion (and will see a few myths unveiled).
The modern technologies change our bodies day by day as never happened before in the mankind's story. Which is the future of the human race after the effects of this becoming?
This is the best tourist guide around: don’t leave without it! In its two parts – Inner System (from Mercury to Mars) and Outer System (from Jupiter to Neptune) – there are tips on accomodation, eating, natural and cultural itineraries, entertainment, souvenirs.
The book shows that the bearded naturalist is good or bad according to whom is observing, and to what is observed through the lenses of his theory. Is this a crime against science, like many scientists claim?
Are winning technologies always the best ones? Do new technologies always replace the old ones? And is every possible innovation really bound to happen, after all? We can find the answers while reading the tales of “technosaurs”.
This book does not help the reader with maths and physics: its point is to make the reader more critical, sceptical, independent minded. And, of course, it is an affectionate tribute to the most loved TV series of the XX century.
A journey through science imagery on screen; a complete dictionary to understand how cinema and TV reflect or determine the public perception of science and how science itself influences and inspires great directors.
This books retells the events that shaped the relationship between science and society, and that still dominate the collective imagery (Bikini, Chernobyl, AIDS, mad cow...).
This books tells the birth of relativity from a new point of view.
This book is devoted to those who could not stand mathematics at school and to those who still find it irresistible but disappointing.
