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"... rekommenderas till alla matematikintresserade ba de pa gymnasie- och universitetsniva ." Michaël Norberg, Bibliotekstjänst, BTJ-häftet nr 22, 2023   Ibland är det enkla faktiskt bäst. Den här smarta guiden förklarar matematiken...

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Hur artificiell intelligens kan förändra vår kommunikation med djur Utsedd till en av årets bästa böcker 2022 av The New Yorker »Vi stannar sällan upp och reflekterar över vad djur tänker eller känner, eller frågar oss om deras inre liv påminner o...

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CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN AND BBC SCIENCE FOCUS 'An intimate, unique, and inspiring perspective on the life and work of one of the greatest minds of our time. Filled with insight, humour, and neve...

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Rich with tales of discovery from Galileo to general relativity, a stimulating and timely analysis of how science works and why we need it. 'The best introduction to the scientific enterprise that I know. A wonderful and important book' ...

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206 bones. One heart. Two eyes. Ten fingers. You may think you know what makes up a human. But it turns out our bodies are full of surprises. What makes tears of joy different from tears of sadness? Why is a gut feeling so much smarter than you th...

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BBC Radio 4's celebrated THE LIFE SCIENTIFIC has featured some of the world's most renowned experts in the field of deadly viruses. The interviews make sobering reading, a reminder of all the deadly viruses that have threatened global he...

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THE NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ORGANIZED MIND 'Everyone we know needs this remarkable book ... Essential for the rest of your life' Daniel H. Pink, author of When and Drive' 'The secrets o...

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'Science has never had an advocate quite like David Deutsch ... A computational physicist on a par with his touchstones Alan Turing and Richard Feynman, and a philosopher in the line of his greatest hero, Karl Popper. His arguments are so cle...

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'Quantum mechanics for real. This is the good stuff, the most mysterious aspects of how reality works, set out with crystalline clarity. The place to start' Sean Carroll, physicist, California Institute of Technology, author of The Parti...

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*NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC BEST TRAVEL BOOKS OF 2020* The curious and vanishing world of ice in Greenland, told through 24 hours in the life of a polar scientist. 'Insightful, lyrical, and personal' - Jon Gertner 'Evokes the ice sheet&apo...

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Humoristisk populärvetenskap i internationell bestseller. Hundar gör det. Tusenfotingar gör det. Dinosaurier gjorde det. Du gör det. Jag gör det. Spindlar kanske gör det (mer forskning behövs på området). Fåglar gör det inte (fast de skulle kunna ...

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The third volume in Leonard Susskind's one-of-a-kind physics series cracks open Einstein's special relativity and field theory In the first two books in his wildly popular The Theoretical Minimum series, world-class physicist Leonard Sus...

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Förgiftning är en konst lika gammal som mänskligheten: Romerska kejsare använde gift för att eliminera sina rivaler; under renässansen mördades intet ont anande matgäster med förgiftat vin; och under 1900-talet användes olika giftiga ämnen i både ...

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"Överlag är det här rätt kul läsning, och borde läsas av alla som är intresserade av symbiosen mellan människor och maskin." Sydsvenskan Det som gör boken till så svängig läsni...

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Bill Bryson sets off to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ability to heal itself. Full of extraordinary facts and astonishing stories The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a brilliant, often very funny attempt to understand ...

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A bold, provocative exploration of the tension between our evolutionary history and our modern woes - and what we can do about it We are living through the most prosperous age in all of human history, yet we are listless, divided and miserable. We...

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" I Bränn presenteras mastiga fakta på lättillgängligt sätt, varvat med författarens egna forskningsresor och vedermödor i bush och laboratorium, förmedlat med stor dos självironi och humor."...

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The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography From the best-selling author of Fermats Last Theorem, The Code Book is a history of mans urge to uncover the secrets of codes, from Egyptian puzzles to modern day computer encryptio...

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  Nervgas och radioaktiva ämnen, toxiner och tallium, hemliga agenter och terrorister. Ulf Ellervik gräver djupare i den onda kemin när han tar sig an konsten att giftmörda. Det visar sig vara svårare än vad man kan tro, och tillvägagångssätt...

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'Endlessly fascinating and full of surprises. Easily one of my books of the year' BILL BRYSON The myth-busting science behind our modern attitudes to exercise: what our bodies really need, why it matters, and its effects on health and we...

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A new theory of the universe, twenty years in the making, by Stephen Hawking and his close collaborator Thomas Hertog. Perhaps the biggest question Stephen Hawking tried to answer in his extraordinary life was how the universe could have created c...

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'This is a book of miracles. Fascinating... An absorbing compendium of unlikely recoveries from physical and mental ailments offers evidence that the brain can heal... brings Oliver Sacks to mind' Lisa Appignanesi, Observer The Brain&apo...

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The physiologist Benjamin Libet famously demonstrated that activity in the brain's motor regions can be detected some 300 milliseconds before a person feels that he has decided to move. Another lab recently used fMRI data to show that some &q...

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**THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER** Sapiens showed us where we came from. In our increasingly uncertain times, Homo Deus shows us where we're going. 'Spellbinding' Guardian The world-renowned historian and intellectual Yuval Noah Harari...

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Bokens titel syftar på Einsteins berömda påstående "Gud spelar inte tärning" i debatten med Niels Bohr om slumpmässigheten i kvantmekaniken. Einstein såg Gud som synonym med naturlagarna, och var inte tilltalad av tanken på en Gud som in...

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I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain. It was with these words, written in the 1630s, that Pierre de Fermat intrigued and infuriated the mathematics community. For over 350 years, pr...

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THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 AN ECONOMIST, DAILY MAIL, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING and AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONE'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR...

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Will give pleasure to anyone interested in original thinking about the brainBreathtakingly original Financial Times The trailblazing investigation of a question that has confounded us for centuries: how is consciousness created? In Self Comes to M...

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Vatten är det nödvändiga mirakelmedel som utgör själva essensen i så gott som alla biologiska processer och av de cirka 8,7 miljoner arter som beräknas finnas på vår planet lever en fjärdedel av dem i vatten. Trots det är många vattenlevande organ...

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In Sentient, Jackie Higgins assembles a menagerie of zoological creatures from land, air, sea and all four corners of the globe to understand what it means to be human. 'Spellbinding . . . More than any other book, [Sentient] has made me thin...

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