O'Hare Mick (Hg.). Was macht die M?cke beim Wolkenbruch? New scientist

Научно-популярная книга английского популяризатора науки и техники, выступавшего в течение многих лет на страницах журнала New Scientist под псевдонимом «Дедал». В живой и увлекательной форме автор рассказывает о смелых, поражающих воображение «идеях» современного Дедала — от твёрдой «газировки» и электрического садовника до молекулярного гироскопа и магнитного монополя. Написанная с большим юмором, красочно иллюстрированная, книга адресована все...

By Princeton University Press. Дерри Грегори Нейл. "Что такое наука и как она работает". 1999 г. , 311 стр. На английском языке. Качество высокое (PDF-оригинал). «Science, » writes physicist Gregory Derry, «is the active and creative engagement of our minds with nature in an attempt to understand. » Not to understand anything in particular, mind you—just to understand, to gain a sense of our place in the world. Whether viewed as a body of knowled...

Prometheus Books, 2004, 363 pages When scientists peer through a telescope at the distant stars in outer space or use a particle-accelerator to analyse the smallest components of matter, they discover that the same laws of physics govern the whole universe at all times and all places.Physicists call the eternal, ubiquitous constancy of the laws of physics symmetry. Symmetry is the basic underlying principle that defines the laws of nature and h...

Springer Science+Business Media, 2007, 167 pages This book translates "thinking like a rocket scientist" into every day thinking so it can be used by anyone. It’s short and snappy and written by a rocket scientist. The book illustrates the methods (the 7 secrets) with anecdotes, quotations and biographical sketches of famous scientists, personal stories and insights, and occasionally some space history. The author reveals that rocket science is...

Princeton University Press, 1960, 778 pages In our scientific age an understanding of physics is part of a liberal education. Lawyers, bankers, governors, business heads, administrators, all wise educated people need a lasting understanding of physics so that they can enjoy those contacts with science and scientists that are part of our civilization both materially and intellectually. They need knowledge and understanding instead of the feelin...