Kategória: Tudományos ismeretterjesztő

The Flower of Empire : An Amazonian Water Lily, The Quest to Make It Bloom, and the World It Created

In 1837, while charting the Amazonian country of Guiana for Great Britain, German naturalist Robert Schomburgk discovered an astounding’vegetable wonder’–a huge water lily whose leaves were five or six feet across and whose flowers were dazzlingly white. In The Flower of Empire, Tatiana Holway tells the story of this magnificent lily, revealing how it touched nearly every aspect of Victorian life, art, and culture. Holway’s colorful narrative captures the sensation stirred by Victoria regia in England, particularly the intense race among prominent Britons to be the first to coax the flower to bloom.

The Science of Cooking : Understanding the Biology and Chemistry Behind Food and Cooking

Each chapters begins with biological, chemical, and /or physical principles underlying food topics, and a discussion of what is happening at the molecular level. This unique approach is unique should be attractive to chemistry, biology or biochemistry departments looking for a new way to bring students into their classroom.

When a Gene Makes You Smell Like a Fish : …and Other Amazing Tales About the Genes in Your Body

From the gene that causes people to age prematurely to the’bitter gene’that may spawn broccoli haters, this book explores a few of the more exotic locales on the human genome, highlighting some of the tragic and bizarre ways our bodies go wrong when genes fall prey to mutation and the curious ways in which genes have evolved for our survival.

Will Eisner: Az összeesküvés

A Cion bölcseinek jegyzőkönyve egy 19. században született írás, ma is az antiszemita csoportok alapkönyve. Nagy kultusz övezi, pedig elég kevéssé hihető történet: a zsidók százévente összegyűlnek egy prágai temetőben és a világ elleni összesküvést tervezgetik. A könyv keletkezését és cáfolatát ma is sokan kutatják, köztük Umberto Eco is.