Télécharger le livre :  Visions of Tomorrow
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This anthology invites readers to revisit twelve timeless stories from visionary authors while pondering the scientific advancements they foreshadowed, making it ideal for fans of both science fiction and science. In Algernon Blackwood’s A Victim of Higher Space, the...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-01-31
Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre :  The Quizzer's Guide to the Cosmos
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Have you ever gazed up at the night sky and wondered how many stars you can see? Whether the universe is infinite? Or, more prosaically, what the chances are of you being hit by a rock from space? The Quizzer’s Guide to the Cosmos is here to satisfy your curiosity...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2024-04-18

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Télécharger le livre :  Around the World in 80 Ways
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Around the World in 80 Ways offers a (sometimes opinionated) discussion of 80 data-driven maps of our planet. Taken together, the maps tell a story about the physical world; about the impact our species is having on the world; and about how people live in the world – or...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2023-03-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Wo sind sie alle?
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Allein in unserer Galaxie gibt es etwa eine Milliarde erdähnlicher Planeten. Im sichtbaren Universum finden sich etwa 200 Milliarden Galaxien. Liegt es daher nicht nahe, dass sich irgendwo da draußen eine Zivilisation entwickelt hat, die mindestens genauso...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-10-26

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Télécharger le livre :  New Light Through Old Windows: Exploring Contemporary Science Through 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales
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This book presents the reader with some of the earliest classic SF short stories – all of them published between 1858 and 1934, featuring both well-known and long-forgotten writers – dealing for the first time with topics to which science had (some) answers only at much...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-01-07
Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre :  Clash of Symbols
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From the ampersat and amerpsand, via smileys and runes to the ubiquitous presence of mathematical and other symbols in sciences and technology: both old and modern documents abound with many familiar as well as lesser known characters, symbols and other glyphs. Yet, who...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-01-09

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Télécharger le livre :  All the Wonder that Would Be
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It has been argued that science fiction (SF) gives a kind of weather forecast – not the telling of a fortune but rather the rough feeling of what the future might be like. The intention in this book is to consider some of these bygone forecasts made by SF and to use...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-05-03
Collection : Science and Fiction
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Télécharger le livre :  We Need To Talk
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Chris and Stephen off Gogglebox are known and loved by millions of viewers for their outrageous humour, filthy language and adorable sausage dogs. But there's a lot more to them than that. The ex-partners have both had their fair share of ups and downs, and here in...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2016-09-22

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Télécharger le livre :  If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?
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Given the fact that there are perhaps 400 billion stars in our Galaxy alone, and perhaps 400 billion galaxies in the Universe, it stands to reason that somewhere out there, in the 14-billion-year-old cosmos, there is or once was a civilization at least as advanced as...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-05-18
Collection : Science and Fiction
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