Popular science (243)

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:Wussten Siedass durch Honig schon mal eine Schlacht entschieden wurde?dass sich das Reinheitsgebot für Bier ursprünglich gegen eine einheimische Rauschgiftpflanze gerichtet hat? dass der Wunderbaum Palma Christi ein Eiweiß produziert, das im deutsche...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This book analyses the emergence of a transformed Big Science in Europe and the United States, using both historical and sociological perspectives. It shows how technology-intensive natural sciences grew to a prominent position in Western societies d...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Eine Einladung in die Biologie der Vielfalt Dieses Buch berichtet über ein ebenso spannendes wie aktuelles Thema an der Schnittstelle zwischen naturwissenschaftlicher Grundlagenforschung und globaler gesellschaftlicher Herausforderung: die Biodivers...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This timely book is a compilation of edited articles by distinguished international scientists discussing global warming, its causes as well as present and future solutions. Social and economic growth at global level is measured in terms of GDP, whic...

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:Sequencing is often associated with the Human Genome Project and celebrated achievements concerning the DNA molecule. However, the history of this practice comprises not only academic biology, but also the world of computer-assisted information manag...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This compact and elegant work (equally fitting for both academic as well as the trade audiences) provides a readily accessible and highly readable overview of Bhutan’s unique opportunities and challenges; all her prominent environmental legislation, ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2013
description:Zu den wesentlichen Qualitäten des Kinos gehört es, die Wirklichkeit in Frage stellen zu können, mit Identitäten zu spielen und Traumwelten zu inszenieren. Damit eröffnet das Kino für uns Zuschauer neue Erfahrungs- und Erlebnisräume. In den vergangen...

publisher: Springer
year: 2006
description:What is the Turin Shroud? When were the Pyramids built? Why did the dinosaurs die out? How did the Earth take shape? With questions like these, says Chris Turney, time is of the essence. And understanding how we pinpoint the past, he cautions, is cru...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This first-of-a-kind volume provides a snapshot of existing science communication policy and practice in India across different S&T sectors, and offers solutions to building effective communication. It provides an understanding on how to avoid societ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2005
description:This important new study provides a critical analysis of the foreign policies conducted during the first two terms of Tony Blair's government. It focuses upon the government's key foreign policy commitments; three of its most important international ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This richly illustrated book celebrates the diversity, importance, and intrinsic beauty of soils around the world and helps the reader to understand the ways that soils are related to the landscapes in which they form. The book unravels the complex b...

publisher: Springer
year: 2010
description:Provides insights into a lively field of international human rights politics – the protection of children and their rights – by looking at the negotiations leading to the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.