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Drawing on 40 years of research and a treasure trove of new information, Tesla: Wizard at War provides a comprehensive view of Tesla's discoveries, which continue to influence today's military technology and diplomatic strategies. One of the world's leading Tesla experts, Marc J. Seifer, offers new insight into the brilliant scientist's particle beam weapon (aka the "Death Ray") and explores his military negotiations with pivotal historical figures - including his links to Joseph Stalin, Vannevar Bush, General Andrew McNaughton, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. 

Brought to you by Penguin. The enthralling new biography of Ernest Shackleton by the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes. To write about Hell, it helps if you have been there. In 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton's attempt to traverse the Antarctic was cut short when his ship...

Nikola Tesla was a bundle of contradictions – a consummate showman and a private recluse; a man of science addicted to self-promotion; a prolific inventor of technologies that made other people’s fortunes. Tesla made giant leaps in the technology of electrical supply, X-rays, radio remote...

Albert Einstein is widely considered as one of the greatest minds that ever lived. He developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics alongside quantum mechanics, and penned the world's most famous equation, E=mc².

Richard Garwin was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama Called a "true genius" by Enrico Fermi, Richard Garwin has influenced modern life in far-reaching ways, yet he is hardly known outside the physics community. This is the first biography of one of America's...

Крис Хэдфилд провел в космосе почти 4000 часов и считается одним из самых опытных и популярных астронавтов в мире. Его знания о космических полетах и умение рассказать о них интересно и увлекательно не имеют равных. Его видео в Интернете бьют рекорды просмотров. Однако эта книга не только о том, что представляет собой полет в космос и жизнь на орбите. Это история человека, который мечтал о космосе с девяти лет , но и смог реализовать свою мечту, хотя, казалось бы, шансов на это не было никаких. Это настоящий учебник жизни для тех, у кого есть мечта и стремление ее реализовать.

A fascinating insider view into Reddit—the wildly popular, often misunderstood website that has changed the culture of the Internet. Reddit hails itself as "the front page of the Internet." It's the third most-visited website in the United States—and yet, millions of Americans have no idea...

When celebrated neuropsychologist Paul Broks's wife died of cancer, it sparked a journey of grief and reflection that traced a lifelong attempt to understand how the brain gives rise to the soul. The result of that journey is a gorgeous, evocative meditation on fate, death, consciousness, and...

In Leonardo Da Vinci, Sherwin Nuland completes his 20-year quest to understand an unlettered man who was a painter, architect, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. What was it that propelled Leonardo's insatiable curiosity? Nuland finds clues in his subject's art, relationships...

Ya desde muy pequeño, Bertrand Russell se caracterizó por su espíritu disquisitivo; no había tema o axioma sobre los que no tuviera una pregunta. Admirador de Euclides desde los once años, las matemáticas se convirtieron en una pasión de por vida. Lector voraz, estudioso y autodidacta, profundizó en la poesía, la filosofía, la historia, la política, la ética, la metafísica, la filosofía matemática, la epistemología y la filosofía de la ciencia, interesándose en las polémicas y los temas que definieron su época: el imperialismo, el libre comercio o el sufragio femenino.

Bloomsbury presents Magnificent Desolation by Buzz Aldrin, read by Patrick Egan. Featuring a bonus interview with Buzz Aldrin. _________________________ THE ESSENTIAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE SECOND MAN ON THE MOON _________________________ 'Thrilling ... years on, the raw facts of the adventure...

30 ноября 2022 года ChatGPT перевернул представления человечества об искусственном интеллекте. А менее чем через год его создатель Сэм Альтман был уволен собственным советом директоров… и триумфально вернулся всего через несколько дней, сместив тех, кто осмелился его уволить. Эта история показала всему миру, какой властью обладает человек, который ведет нас в эру машинного разума.

Du brauchst nichts von außen - alles Wissen ist in dir. Horst Babinsky erzählt die Geschichte eines Lebens, das von kreativer Bodenständigkeit und dem beharrlichen Wunsch geprägt ist, Dinge besser zu machen. Als Kind aus dem Sudetenland vertrieben, ohne Startkapital und ohne Netzwerk, wurde er zu einem international anerkannten Erfinder mit über 40 Patenten; Entwicklungen wie der ASB SquashCourt und der ASB GlassFloor haben Sportstätten weltweit verändert und führen bis heute ihre Märkte an.

The first major biography of Peter Higgs, revealing how a short burst of work changed modern physics On July 4, 2012, the announcement came that one of the longest-running mysteries in physics had been solved: the Higgs boson, the missing piece in understanding why particles have mass, had...

Dr. Anthony Fauci reflects on the meaning of knowledge, excellence, and service in his life in "A Goal of Service to Humankind", his contribution to NPR’s This I Believe series. This I Believe is a National Public Radio program that features Americans, from the famous to the unknown...

Grazie al pensiero e alle opere di Isaac Newton, oggi siamo in grado di applicare le leggi matematiche alla fisica, di calcolare con precisione la diversa forza di gravità sui vari pianeti o di comprendere la natura della luce e della rifrazione dei colori. Il suo apporto alle scienze moderne è inestimabile e moltissime teorie che oggi diamo per scontate derivano dai suoi lavori in molteplici campi della scienza, ma anche della filosofia e della teologia.

Nikola Tesla, a Serbian immigrant, invented the radio, the induction motor, the neon lamp, and the remote control. Tesla's personal life was magnificently bizarre. Strikingly handsome and impeccably dressed, he was germophobic and never shook hands. He required nine napkins when he sat down to dinner. In later years, he ate only white food and conversed with the pigeons in Bryant Park. This clear, authoritative, and highly enjoyable biography takes account of all phases of this remarkable life.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind by Barbara K. Lipska, read by Emma Powell. All we think, feel and dream, how we move, if we move, everything that makes us who we are, comes from the brain. We are the brain. So what happens when the brain fails?...

Separating fiction from fact, award-winning author Daniel Alef, tells the true story of Zuckerberg's meteoric rise and his indelible mark on the evolution of American culture through social networking and now advertising. The curly-haired wunderkind rubs elbows with Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Rupert Murdoch, Donald Graham, and other prominent players in today's business, technological, and media world and is an emerging philanthropist.

Once one of Silicon Valley's greatest success stories, for the past five years, Facebook has been under constant fire, roiled by controversies and crises. It turns out that while the tech giant was connecting the world, they were also mishandling users' data, allowing the spread of fake news and the amplification of dangerous, polarising hate speech. Critics framed the narrative as the irreconcilable conflict between the platform's lofty mission to advance society by bringing people together while also profiting off of them. But the truth is far more complex.