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  • Starbound

    Interstellar Travel and the Limits of the Possible

    de Ed Regis ...
    This book is for anyone enthralled by the romantic dream of a voyage 'to the stars.' From our current viewpoint in the twenty-first century, crewed interstellar travel will be an exceptionally difficult undertaking. It will require building a spacecraft on a scale never before attempted, at vast cost, relying on unproven technologies. Yet somehow, through works of science fiction, TV and movies, ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • What Is Life?

    Investigating the Nature of Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology

    de Ed Regis ...
    In 1944, the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger published a groundbreaking little book called What Is Life? In fewer than one hundred pages, he argued that life was not a mysterious or inexplicable phenomenon, as many people believed, but a scientific process like any other, ultimately explainable by the laws of physics and chemistry.Today, more than sixty years later, members of a ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • 愛因斯坦的辦公室給了誰？

    Who got Einstein’s Office? - Eccentricity and Genius at the Institute for Advanced Study

    de 瑞吉斯Ed Regis ...
    Traducido por 邱顯正 ...
    Series series 科學文化
    愛因斯坦用相對論，為人類敲開另一扇認識世界的窗。這位物理大師告別人世時，除了留下無限惆悵，也遺下曾經充滿他睿智哲思的辦公室。這不禁令人好奇，究竟愛因斯坦的辦公室，傳給了誰？而繼承愛因斯坦辦公室的幸運兒，能否再掀起二十一世紀的知識革命？這間傳奇辦公室，位於普林斯頓鄉間的高研院。這座研究院曾讓數論大師哥德爾、電腦之父馮諾伊曼、原子彈之父歐本海默等人，聚集在此鑽研新知、窮究宇宙。沒有高研院群雄，人類知識的疆域不知得退幾里路。作者瑞吉斯親訪高研院，記錄大師群像，讓活生生的歷史躍然紙上。他也開啟了想像：究竟高研院的新一代人才，能否展現大師的光芒？ ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Science, Secrecy, and the Smithsonian

    The Strange History of the Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program

    de Ed Regis ...
    This is the story of how the Smithsonian Institute became intertwined in a secret biological warfare project. During the 1960s, the Smithsonian Institution undertook a large-scale biological survey of a group of uninhabited tropical islands in the Pacific. It was one of the largest and most sweeping biological survey programs of all time, a six-year-long enterprise during which Smithsonian ... Leer más

    $25.69 USD

  • Golden Rice

    The Imperiled Birth of a GMO Superfood

    de Ed Regis ...
    The first book to tell the shocking story of Golden Rice, a genetically modified grain that provides essential Vitamin A and can save lives in developing countries—if only they were allowed to grow it.Ordinary white rice is nutrient poor; it consists of carbohydrates and little else. About one million people who subsist on rice become blind or die each year from vitamin A deficiency. Golden Rice, ... Leer más

    $24.59 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Regenesis

    How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves

    de George M. Church, Ed Regis ...
    Narrado por Peter Lerman ...

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    10 hora 47 minutos

    A Harvard biologist and master inventor explores how new biotechnologies will enable us to bring species back from the dead, unlock vast supplies of renewable energy, and extend human life.In Regenesis, George Church and science writer Ed Regis explore the possibilities of the emerging field of synthetic biology. Synthetic biology, in which living organisms are selectively altered by modifying ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

  • Audiolibro

    Virus Ground Zero

    de Ed Regis ...
    Narrado por Rob McQuay ...

    Completo

    7 hora 2 minutos

    In a destitute hospital in the crowded African city of Kikwit, townspeople, nurses, and doctors are dying of a gruesome disease at the rate of more than a dozen a day. Zaire is on the brink of an explosive epidemic - but the outbreak is stopped when experts from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta arrive in the city, reclaim the hospital, and interrupt the chain of virus transmission. ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

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  • Audiolibro

    The Genesis Machine

    Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology

    de Amy Webb, Andrew Hessel ...
    Narrado por Amy Webb, Andrew Hessel, Tim Campbell, Landon Woodson, Amanda Dolan ...

    Completo

    10 hora 6 minutos

    A New Yorker Best Book of the YearA breakthrough investigation of synthetic biology: the promising and controversial technology platform that combines biology and artificial intelligence and has the potential to program biological systems like we program computers.The breakthrough science of synthetic biology has the potential to help solve humanity’s existential challenges from climate change, to ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

  • Audiolibro

    Hype

    How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internet—and Why We're Following

    de Gabrielle Bluestone ...
    Narrado por Eileen Stevens ...

    Completo

    10 hora 2 minutos

    From former Vice journalist and executive producer of hit Netflix documentary Fyre comes an eye-opening look at the con artists, grifters and snake oil salesmen of the digital age—and why we can’t stop falling for them.We live in an age where scams are the new normal. A charismatic entrepreneur sells thousands of tickets to a festival that never happened. Respected investors pour ... ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

  • Audiolibro

    Speed & Scale

    An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now

    de John Doerr, Ryan Panchadsaram ...
    Narrado por John Doerr, Sundar Pichai, Margot Brown, Badri Kothandaraman, Bruce Nilles, Jagdeep Singh, Laurene Powell Jobs, Jan Van Dokkum, Christiana Figueres0, Fred Krupp1 ...

    Completo

    11 hora 58 minutos

    #1 bestselling author and acclaimed venture capitalist John Doerr reveals a sweeping action plan to conquer humanity’s greatest challenge: climate change.In 2006, John Doerr was moved by Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and a challenge from his teenage daughter: “Dad, your generation created this problem. You better fix it.” Since then, Doerr has searched for solutions to this existential problem ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

  • Audiolibro

    Information Wars

    How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do about It

    de Richard Stengel ...
    Narrado por Christopher Grove ...

    Completo

    11 hora 17 minutos

    During the final three years of the Obama administration, Richard Stengel, the former editor of Time magazine and an Under Secretary of State, was on the front lines of the new global information war. At the time, he was the single person in government tasked with unpacking, disproving, and combating both ISIS's messaging and Russian disinformation. Then, in 2016, as the presidential election ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: eBooks

  • 海權經濟大未來

    國旗跟著貿易前進，掌控貨櫃運輸，軍備戰略，電纜數據及海底能源才能成為世界霸權

    de 布魯斯．瓊斯 ...
    Series Libro 63 - 綠蠹魚YLI
    ★ 本書獲商業周刊1823期書摘推薦 ★一本全面揭露美、中、日、俄、英等大國長年鬥爭「海洋控制」背後真正的原由從爭海爭港、到爭貨櫃從較量海軍軍備、到比拚海底的護國神山透過海權和海經的全面爬梳，掌握改寫全球商業的運作模式全球九成以上的商務和能源貿易，都依賴「海洋運輸」。當一個四十英尺鋼製貨櫃在亞洲裝載二十噸貨物，可以無遠弗屆送到世界各地時，誰是最後真正龐大利益的獲利國，引爆了全球海權利益的大鬥爭。為了親眼目睹這個「新海洋時代」，作者規劃了十天的海洋航行，他搭上世界上最大的貿易船「快桅集團馬德里號」，穿越世界爭議最大的西太平洋海域：新加坡海峽、南海、菲律賓海、和東海。而那次航行的海域構成了本書的每一部分。深探海軍、商業運輸、數據電纜、海... ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD