Hubble’s most magnificent images With investigations into everything from black holes to exoplanets, the Hubble Telescope has changed not only the face of astronomy but also our very sense of being in the universe. On the 30th anniversary of its launch into low-earth orbit, this updated edition of Expanding Universe presents 30 brand new images, unveiling more hidden gems from the Hubble’s...

The Sobotta Coloring Book - for understanding and learning anatomy The Sobotta Coloring Book offers another excellent way to study anatomy, perfectly suited to all those who are looking for an alternative to learning from textbooks. Dealing with the most important subjects in anatomy, the texts and the simple drawings designed to be colored-in help to understand and revise the most important...

In the classic Women Who Run With The Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes tells us about the 'wild woman', the wise and ageless presence in the female psyche that gives women their creativity, energy and power. For centuries, the 'wild woman' has been repressed by a male-orientated value system which trivialises women's emotions. Using a combination of time-honoured stories and contemporary...

From SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING author Bettany Hughes'A wondrous wonderful achievement' Stephen Fry 'Fascinating' Observer 'Thrilling' GuardianTheir names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The Temple of Artemis. The statue of Zeus at Olympia. The mausoleum of Halikarnassos. The Colossus at Rhodes. The Lighthouse of Alexandria. The Seven...

The most influential book of the past seventy-five years: a groundbreaking exploration of everything we know about what we don't know, now with a new section called "On Robustness and Fragility." A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear...

Professor Włodzimierz Nykiel celebrated his seventieth birthday in 2021. This is a perfect opportunity to thank the Jubilarian for his scientific and academic activities to date. The Editors of this jubilee book – Professor’s long-term associates at the Tax Law Department of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Lodz, the Centre of Tax Documentation and Studies and the...

A leading expert on foreign policy reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia transformed geopolitics in a Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2021“Sarotte has the receipts, as it were: her authoritative tale draws on thousands of memos, letters, briefs, and other once secret documents-including many that have never been published before-which both fill in and complicate settled...

Buildings from all over the world using the latest developments, innovations and achievements of eco-friendly architecture. Climate change and environmental pollution, rising energy prices and dwindling resources pose major challenges for the world of construction today. If sustainability is to become a global reality, it must also be designed and expressed with trend-setting...

»Die vier maßgebenden Menschen haben eine geschichtliche Wirkung von unvergleichlichem Umfang und Tiefengang gehabt. Andere Menschen hohen Ranges mögen für kleinere Kreise von gleich starker Bedeutung gewesen sein. Aber der Abstand an nachhaltiger und umfassender Wirkung in Jahrtausenden ist so gewaltig, daß das Herausheben jener vier zur Klarheit welthistorischen Bewußtseins gehört.«

'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 Particle at the End of the Universe This is the ultimate practical introduction to quantum mechanics. World-renowned physicist Leonard Susskind and...

Stop waiting for the network team!If basic TCP/IP was hard, network administrators couldn’t do it. Servers give sysadmins a incredible visibility into the network—once they know how to unlock it. Most sysadmins don’t need to understand window scaling, or the differences between IPv4 and IPv6 echo requests, or other intricacies of the TCP/IP protocols. You need only enough to deploy your own...

According to Xenophon, Socrates tried to persuade his associate Aristippus to moderate his excessive indulgence in wine, women, and food, arguing that only hard work can bring happiness. Aristippus wasn't convinced. Instead, he and his followers espoused the most radical form of hedonism in ancient Western philosophy. Before the rise of the better known but comparatively ascetic Epicureans,...

Die kommunale Feuerwehrbedarfsplanung gehort zu den unverzichtbaren und in vielen Bundeslandern gesetzlich vorgeschriebenen Planungsinstrumenten einer Kommune, um die bedarfsgerechte Dimensionierung ihrer Feuerwehr zu verwirklichen. Dabei sind der technische, personelle und organisatorische Bedarf des Einsatzdienstes, Anspruche der Feuerwehr-Angehorigen und Anforderungen der...

**From BBC presenter and journalist Ros Atkins, creator of the viral 'Ros Atkins on...' explainer videos and host of the forthcoming BBC Radio 4 podcast 'Communicating with Ros Atkins'** 'A great read for polishing your communication skills' FORBES 'For all those who want their audiences to listen and understand' JEREMY BOWEN 'Precision, deftness and a calming...

SEASON 2 OF THE ACCLAIMED SILO SERIES ― BASED ON BOOK 1, WOOL ― NOW ON APPLE TV+ In this Silo series prequel, the second volume in the New York Times best-selling dystopian series, Hugh Howey describes the catastrophic events that led to the creation of the silo― and the beginning of the end In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the...

Seit dem 7. Jahrhundert dehnt sich die Christianisierung immer weiter uber die noch heidnischen Gebiete Europas aus, wahrend es nach dem Tod Karls des Grossen 814 und dem Zerfall des Frankenreiches zu den grossen Reichsbildungen kommt. In der westlichen Reichshalfte entsteht seither das spatere Frankreich, in der Osthalfte bildet sich das Ostfrankenreich heraus. Wikinger fallen ein, im Suden...

Populist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, war, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk―the early decades of the twenty-first century may be the most revolutionary period in modern history. But it is not the first. Humans have lived, and thrived, through more than one great realignment. What are these revolutions, and how can they help us to...

'It all starts with waking up... to what our bodies are expressing and our minds are suppressing'

Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious synthesis of history, biology, ecology and linguistics, Guns, Germs and Steel remains a...

Für kaum eine Gruppe von Piloten ist das Wetter und das entsprechende Wissen darüber so entscheidend wie für Segelflieger. Kann ein Motorflieger kritisches Wetter kurzerhand um- oder überfliegen, muss ein Segelflieger sich damit arrangieren und ganz anders auseinandersetzen. Doch Wetter bedeutet nicht automatisch nur Gefahr - wer das Wettergeschehen richtig "lesen" kann, der ist auch im...