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Plant Fever
The World on the Windowsill
Edited by Pernille Leth-Espensen Gertrud Oelsner Anette Vandsø
Plant Fever. The World on the Windowsill uncovers the hidden story of how plants from tropical and subtropical regions found their way into Danish hom…
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Seconds to Midnight
A History of Nuclear Weapons
Seconds to Midnight is a concise history of nuclear weapons, tracing their development from the scientific breakthroughs of the 1930s to the Cold War…
299,95 kr. -
Thomas Bartholin
The Doctor and the Anatomist
The Danish physician and anatomist Thomas Bartholin (1616–1680) was one of the most diligent communicators of scientific knowledge of his time. He is…
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Why Cultures Persist
Toward a Cultural Immunology
(book + e-book)
Why do humans form groups? Why would a brain, preoccupied with predicting the world, make the formation of cultures possible? And how does our socio-h…
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Splendid Isolation
The eruption of the Laacher See volcano and southern Scandinavian Late Glacial hunter-gatherers
(book + e-book)
The year is 12,800 BP. Europe is entirely occupied by people of the so-called Upper Magdalenian culture. Well, not entirely ... one small region, sout…
249,95 kr. -
Stochastic Dynamics
(book + e-book)
Buildings, bridges and tunnels are continuously exposed to forces of nature such as wind, waves, earthquakes and even traffic. Because these forces ar…
199,95 kr. -
The Na+, K+-pumps keep us going
(book + e-book)
Every second throughout life, billions of sodium-potassium pumps enable the human muscle cells to function. The pump is an enzyme found in the plasma…
249,95 kr. -
Past Vulnerability
Vulcanic eruptions and human vulnerability in traditional societies past and present
Edited by Felix Riede
(book + e-book)
Volcanic eruptions can affect everything - nature, wildlife, people. From the earliest times, human resilience has been tested by this most severe env…
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Literature and Chemistry
Elective Affinities
Edited by Margareth Hagen Margery Vibe Skagen
(book + e-book)
Literature and Chemistry: Elective Affinities investigates literary and chemical encounters, from medieval alchemy to contemporary science fiction, in…
349,95 kr. -
Zackenberg
on the edge of winter
Zachenberg on the edge of winter gives a unique portrait of the winter at one of the desolate research stations in the High Arctic. With his camera as…
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The Art of Discovery
Encounters in Literature and Science
Edited by Margareth Hagen Randi Koppen Margery Vibe Skagen
(book + e-book)
Robots, human hybrids and fictional monsters assembled from graveyard body parts by mad scientists have haunted literature for centuries. The frighten…
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An Observer of Observatories
The Journal of Thomas Bugge's Tour of Germany, Holland and England in 1777
Edited by Peter de Clercq Kurt Møller Pedersen
(book + e-book)
In 1777, the Danish astronomer Thomas Bugge (1740-1815) was appointed professor of mathematics and astronomy at the University of Copenhagen. Keen to…
298,00 kr.