Название: The Universe As It Really Is : Earth, Space, Matter, and Time
Автор: Thomas R. Scott and James Lawrence Powell
Издательство: Columbia University Press
Год: 2018
Формат: PDF
Размер: 19 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The universe that science reveals to us can seem far outside the comfort zone of the human mind. Subjects near and far open up dizzying vistas, from the infinitesimal to the colossal. Humanity, the unlikely product of uncountable coincidences on unimaginable scales, inhabits a tumultuous universe that extends from our immediate environs to the most distant galaxies and beyond. But when the mind balks at the vertiginous complexity of the universe, science unveils the elegance amid the chaos.

Название: Русские клады: Исследование древностей велико­княжеского периода / Кондаков Н.П. / 1896
Автор: Н.П. Кондаков
Издательство: СПб.: Типография Главного Управления Уделова
Год выпуска: 1896
Жанр: Библиотека Российской Империи : Древности, археология, редкости
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 262
Размер: 20.7 Мб
Язык: Русский


Автор данного издания — выдающийся историк искусства и археолог Никодим Павлович Кондаков (1844–1925), академик историко-филологического отделения Императорской академии наук, член Археологической комиссии и старший хранитель отделения средних веков и эпохи Возрождения в Эрмитаже, с 1901 г. — управляющий делами Комитета попечительства о русской иконописи. Основным кругом его научных интересов было византийское и древнерусское искусство.

Название: Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality
Автор: Edward Frenkel
Издательство: Basic Books
Год: 2014
Формат: PDF
Размер: 28 Мб
Язык: английский / English

What if you had to take an art class in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of van Gogh and Picasso, weren't even told they existed? Alas, this is how math is taught, and so for most of us it becomes the intellectual equivalent of watching paint dry.

Название: Как мыслят леса: к антропологии по ту сторону человека
Автор: Эдуардо Кон
Язык: русский
Издательство: Ад Маргинем Пресс
Год: 2018
Страниц: 344
Формат: pdf
Размер: 16,2 Мб

В своей книге «Как мыслят леса: к антропологии по ту сторону человека» Эдуардо Кон (род. 1968), профессор-ассистент Университета Макгилл, лауреат премии Грегори Бэйтсона (2014), опирается на многолетний опыт этнографической работы среди народа руна, коренных жителей эквадорской части тропического леса Амазонии…

Название: Alien Seas: Oceans in Space
Автор: Michael Carroll and Rosaly Lopes
Издательство: Springer
Год: 2013
Формат: PDF
Размер: 10 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Oceans were long thought to exist in all corners of the Solar System, from carbonated seas percolating beneath the clouds of Venus to features on the Moon's surface given names such as "the Bay of Rainbows” and the "Ocean of Storms." With the advent of modern telescopes and spacecraft exploration these ancient concepts of planetary seas have, for the most part, evaporated. But they have been replaced by the reality of something even more exotic. For example, although it is still uncertain whether Mars ever had actual oceans, it now seems that a web of waterways did indeed at one time spread across its surface.

Название: Moongazing: Beginner’s guide to exploring the Moon
Автор: Tom Kerss
Издательство: Collins
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 30 Мб
Язык: английский / English

An in-depth guide for aspiring astronomers and Moon observers. Includes detailed Moon maps and covers the history of lunar observation and exploration, the properties of the Moon, its origin and orbit. Optimised for colour tablets, the images in this ebook are not best-suited for viewing on black and white devices. This is the ideal book for Moon observers covering essential equipment, and the key events to look out for. Detailed advice is given on how to choose a telescope and how to capture the Moon in sketches. Discover all you need to know about eclipses, blue moons, supermoons, conjunctions and occultations.

Название: The Story of Stone. Intertextuality, Ancient Chinese Stone Lore, and the Stone Symbolism in Dream of the Red Chamber, Water Margin, and The Journey to the West
Автор: ing Wang; Stanley Fish
Издательство:
Год: 1992
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 361
Для сайта: vtome.ru
Размер: 23,62 МБ
Язык: english

In this pathbreaking study of three of the most familiar texts in the Chinese tradition—all concerning stones endowed with magical properties—Jing Wang develops a monumental reconstruction of ancient Chinese stone lore. Wang’s thorough and systematic comparison of these classic works illuminates the various tellings of the stone story and provides new insight into major topics in traditional Chinese literature.

Название: Introducing Infinity: A Graphic Guide
Автор: Brian Clegg and Oliver Pugh
Издательство: Icon Books
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 36 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Infinity is a profoundly counter-intuitive and brain-twisting subject that has inspired some great thinkers – and provoked and shocked others. The ancient Greeks were so horrified by the implications of an endless number that they drowned the man who gave away the secret. And a German mathematician was driven mad by the repercussions of his discovery of transfinite numbers.

Название: Introducing Barthes: A Graphic Guide
Автор: Philip Thody and Piero
Издательство: Icon Books
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 61 Мб
Язык: английский / English

INTRODUCING guide to the cult author, semiologist and analyzer of advertising, Roland Barthes. Roland Barthes is best known as a semiologist, a student of the science of signs. This sees human beings primarily as communicating animals, and looks at the way they use language, clothes, gestures, hair styles, visual images, shapes and colour to convey to one another their tastes, their emotions, their ideal self-image and the values of their society.

Название: S=EX2: The Science of Sex
Автор: Mara Faye Lethem and Pere Estupiny
Издательство: Springer
Год: 2016
Формат: PDF
Размер: 13 Мб
Язык: английский / English

You have in your hands the most rigorous, complete and readable book ever written about the fascinating science of human sexuality. This book goes beyond the well-worn sexual education advice and the usual evolutionist psychology. After The Brain Snatcher, Pere Estupiny comes back with the first popular science book on sex aimed at a wide audience. While there are some tips for the more adventurous, there is also a wealth of new information to be discovered.