The Science of Harry Potter: How Magic Really Works (Häftad)
avRoger Highfield
ISBN: 9780142003558 - UTGIVEN: 2003-05Can Fluffy the three-headed dog be explained by advances in molecular biology? Could the discovery of cosmic "gravity-shielding effects" unlock the secret to the Nimbus 2000 broomstick's ability to fly? Is the griffin really none other than the dinosaur Protoceratops? Roger Highfield, author of the [...]
The Private Lives of Albert Einstein (Häftad)
avRoger Highfield, Paul Carter
ISBN: 9780312302276 - UTGIVEN: 1994-03This controversial account of Albert Einstein's scandalous personal life challenges the image of this genius, painting a shocking portrait that exposes him as "an adulterous, egomaniacal misogynist who may have even beaten his first wife"(The New York Times Sunday Magazine). Photos.[...]
Can Reindeer Fly? (Storpocket)
avRoger Highfield
ISBN: 9780753813669 - UTGIVEN: 200211A lighted-hearted scientific look at the rituals and icons of Christmas. How does snow form? Why are we always depressed after Christmas? How does Santa manage to deliver all those presents in one night? (He has, in fact, little over two ten-thousandths of a second to get between each of the 842 mil[...]
Supercooperators: Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed (Häftad)
avMartin Nowak, Roger Highfield
ISBN: 9781451626636 - UTGIVEN: 201203Martin Nowak, one of the world's experts on evolution and game theory, working here with bestselling science writer Roger Highfield, turns an important aspect of evolutionary theory on its head to explain why cooperation, not competition, has always been the key to the evolution of complexity. In hi[...]
Supercooperators (Inbunden)
avMartin Nowak, Roger Highfield
ISBN: 9781847673367 - UTGIVEN: 2011-03Everyone is familiar with Darwin's revolutionary idea about the survival of the fittest, and most people agree that it works, but Darwin's famous theory has one major chink. If life is about survival of the fittest, then why would we risk our own life to jump into a river to save a stranger? Some p[...]
Supercooperators (Storpocket)
avMartin Nowak, Roger Highfield
ISBN: 9781847673381 - UTGIVEN: 201202Beyond The Survival of the Fittest: Why Cooperation, not Competition, is the Key to Life If life is about survival of the fittest, then why would we risk our own life to jump into a river to save a stranger? Some people argue that issues such as charity, fairness, forgiveness and cooperation are ev[...]
