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Télécharger le livre :  Shaken, Not Stirred!
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Shaken, Not Stirred!


Joachim Stolze , Metin Tolan


How do James Bond’s X-ray glasses work, the ones he uses to see whether the lady at the roulette table has a pistol concealed in her underwear? Is it really possible to launch oneself into the air and catch up with a plane that is free-falling towards the earth? Or to...

Parution : 2020-09-08
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Éditeur : Springer
Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre :  Mission Invisible
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Mission Invisible


Ulf Leonhardt


Invisibility has fascinated people since time immemorial, but only a decade ago did invisibility become a serious subject of scientific investigation. This lively novel, authored by an expert in the field, takes the reader on a journey to fascinating places and - en...

Parution : 2020-02-14
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Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre :  The Unedited
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The Unedited


Pernille Rørth


This novel is set in the near future, where human genome editing has become routine. First adopted to fight a lethal virus, it is now widely used to prevent diseases and favor other traits. Ben, Eiko, Celia, Raphael and Leo have just had their coming-of-age genome...

Parution : 2020-01-23
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Éditeur : Springer
Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre :  Saint Joan of New York
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Saint Joan of New York


Mark Alpert


SAINT JOAN OF NEW YORK is a novel about a math prodigy who becomes obsessed with discovering the Theory of Everything. Joan Cooper, a 17-year-old genius traumatized by the death of her older sister, tries to rebuild her shattered world by studying string theory and...

Parution : 2019-11-24
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Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre :  Particle Panic!
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Particle Panic!


Kristine Larsen


From novels and short stories to television and film, popular media has made a cottage industry of predicting the end of the world will be caused by particle accelerators. Rather than allay such fears, public pronouncements by particle scientists themselves often...

Parution : 2019-04-04
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Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre :  A Code for Carolyn
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A Code for Carolyn


V. Anne Smith


Carolyn’s parents did not, after all, make genomics history by synthesizing her genome in a lab. She has known she is the "Human Hoax" ever since a high school genetics exercise revealed she has trisomy X—a chromosomal abnormality—yet no synthetically constructed genome...

Parution : 2019-02-01
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Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre :  First Contact and Time Travel
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First Contact and Time Travel


Zoran Živkovic


This volume collects both essays and fictional material around two core topics in the long career of the Serbian writer, essayist, researcher, publisher and translator. The first topic - first contact - is chiefly represented by his comprehensive essay on "The Theme of...

Parution : 2018-07-12
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Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre :  Rockets and Ray Guns: The Sci-Fi Science of the Cold War
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Rockets and Ray Guns: The Sci-Fi Science of the Cold War


Andrew May


The Cold War saw scientists in East and West racing to create amazing new technologies, the like of which the world had never seen. Yet not everyone was taken by surprise. From super-powerful atomic weapons to rockets and space travel, readers of science fiction (SF)...

Parution : 2018-05-26
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Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre :  Hollyweird Science: The Next Generation
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Hollyweird Science: The Next Generation


Stephen Cass , Kevin R. Grazier


Informative, entertaining and upbeat, this book continues Grazier and Cass's exploration of how technology, science, and scientists are portrayed in Hollywood productions. Both big and small-screen productions are featured and their science content illuminated—first by...

Parution : 2017-08-02
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Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre :  All the Wonder that Would Be
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All the Wonder that Would Be


Stephen Webb


It has been argued that science fiction (SF) gives a kind of weather forecast – not the telling of a fortune but rather the rough feeling of what the future might be like. The intention in this book is to consider some of these bygone forecasts made by SF and to use...

Parution : 2017-05-03
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Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre :  Pseudoscience and Science Fiction
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Pseudoscience and Science Fiction


Andrew May


Aliens, flying saucers, ESP, the Bermuda Triangle, antigravity … are we talking about science fiction or pseudoscience? Sometimes it is difficult to tell the difference. Both pseudoscience and science fiction (SF) are creative endeavours that have little in common with...

Parution : 2016-09-13
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Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre :  On the Shores of Titan's Farthest Sea
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On the Shores of Titan's Farthest Sea


Michael Carroll


Titan is practically a planet in its own right, with a diameter similar to that of Mercury, methane rainstorms, organic soot and ethane seas. All of the most detailed knowledge on the moon's geology, volcanology, meteorology, marine sciences and chemistry are...

Parution : 2015-06-26
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Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre :  The Return of Vaman - A Scientific Novel
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The Return of Vaman - A Scientific Novel


Jayant V. Narlikar


This collection of science fiction writings by Jayant V. Narlikar offers readers a unique glimpse into the world-famous Indian astrophysicist’s vivid and highly imaginative concepts and stories.The fictional material comprises a witty short story ("The rare idol of...

Parution : 2015-05-12
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Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre :  Exploring Science Through Science Fiction
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Exploring Science Through Science Fiction


Barry B. Luokkala


The material in this book forms the basis of an interdisciplinary, college-level course, which uses science fiction film as a vehicle for exploring science concepts. Unlike traditional introductory-level courses, the science content is arranged according to major themes...

Parution : 2013-10-23
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Springer
Collection : Science and Fiction
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