100 Ideas that Changed the World
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (708 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1849901961 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Jheni Osman is the award-winning former editor of the BBC's award-winning science and technology magazine, Focus. She launched the Focus app and presented the podcast and FocusTV. She has also written for Countryfile and Lonely Planet magazines, and in TV production at the BBC's Natural History Unit
"Informative Educational Unsurprising Superficial Competent" according to Shalom Freedman. One hundred experts select one hundred ideas that have changed the world. The ideas are predominantly from the areas of Science and Technology. The experts write short essays frequently relating the 'story of the idea' and how it came to be important. One has ideas w. Please use the correct data liyunzhen Refer to the section of magnetism, page 161 the section writer states that: demand for these rare earth is high, but China has stranglehold on these vital material, holding 97 per cent of the known global resource". China is flexing its muscles ", says Heap. It has a. "Disapointed" according to Sam Maguire. Wanted an easy read for book of same titleput out by Readers digest. Particularly ability to change font size, That I received but this book does noy address to the era in which I had the most interest. Religious ideas. I felt cheated!
About the AuthorJheni Osman is the award-winning former editor of the BBC's award-winning science and technology magazine, Focus. . She launched the Focus app and presented the podcast and FocusTV. She has also written for Countryfile and Lonely Planet magazines, and in TV production at the BBC's Natural History Unit
Each essay looks at the logic behind these great inventions, discoveries, theories, and experiments, studying the circumstances that brought them into being and assessing the impact that they had on the world at large. From the earliest understandings of our place in the solar system, via Darwinism, DNA, neutrons, and quarks, right up to the theories that are pushing the boundaries of our knowledge today, we are forever propelled forward by our most gifted scientific minds.. Essays from such authorities as Brian Cox, Patrick Moore, Richard Dawkins, and Marcus du Sautoy offer glimpses into the minds behind history's greatest eureka momentsWith selections nominated by experts from all fields of science and engineering, this fascinating book explores 100 of the most forward thinking, far-reaching, and downright inspired ideas and inventions in history. The essays cover topics as diverse as the Big Bang, vaccination, computing, radioactivity, human genomes, the wheel, and more