Association Française Pour l'Avancement Des Sciences. 34, Compte-Rendu de la 34e Session (Sciences)
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Doing Physics makes concepts of physics easier to grasp by relating them to everyday knowledge. Addressing some of the models and metaphors that physicists use to explain the physical world, Martin H. Krieger describes the conceptual world of physics by means of analogies to economics, anthropology, theater, carpentry, mechanisms such as clockworks, and machine tool design. The interaction of elementary particles or chemical species, for example, can be related to the theory of kinship—who can...
Essais Météorologiques Sur La Formation Des Bancs de Glace Sur Le Fond Des Fleuves (Sciences)
by Fruneau-R
Passeport Pour Les Deux Infinis - 2e Ed.
by Nicolas Arnaud, Sebastien Descotes-Genon, and Sophie Kerhoas-Cavata
Ce livre n'a pas d'autre pr tention que de mettre la port e de chacun un ensemble de donn es scientifiques se rapportant l' tre humain de notre poque. Nous commen ons sentir la faiblesse de notre civilisation. Beaucoup aujourd'hui d sirent chapper l'esclavage des dogmes de la soci t moderne. C'est pour eux que ce livre a t crit. Et galement pour les audacieux qui envisagent la n cessit , non seulement de changements politiques et sociaux, mais du renversement de la civilisation in...
Guide Pratique Du Vigneron: Culture, Vendange Et Vinification
by Lacoste-F
Académie Internationale Des Sciences, Arts Et Manufactures. Chimie, Physique, Minéralogie (Sciences)
by Sans Auteur
The true tales in this collection will take readers from the chicken houses of Arkansas to the caves of Venezuela and Mexico to the coast of Alaska. These fifteen adventures range from amusing to life threatening. Some are filled with suspense and danger in exotic places, while others document more routine but important biological field and lab work.Meet the roommate with the rash that wouldn't go away, a friendly bull, some blind cave fish, killer whales, drug smugglers, and hairy roots that ar...
"Oliver Sacks, Richard Selzer, Lewis Thomas . . . Weissmann is in this noble tradition." Los Angeles Times "[Weissmann] is a man of wide culture, a captivating and graceful writer." New Yorker "[Weissmann] bridges the space between science and the humanities, and particularly between medicine and the muses, with wit, erudition, and, most important, wisdom." Adam Gopnik "An absolutely first-rate writer." Kurt Vonnegut "Dr. Weissmann's juggling with the balls of global politics, biology, m...
Les Animaux de la Ferme. Les Races Ovines, Porcines Et Caprines (Sciences)
by Sans Auteur