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Book 2023

Von Mund zu Gesund

Wie ein gesunder Mund vor Krankheiten schützt

Diana Kessler

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Healthy begins in the mouth – a bit of well-known proverbial wisdom. This exciting book takes you on a journey through the fascinating world of our oral cavity and takes you to more distant regions of your body that are related to it. In fact, by knowing the structures and the processes in our mouth, we can not only conquer the fear of the dentist but also improve our overall health.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111026299
ISBN:: 9783111026299
ISBN:: 9783111026282
ISBN:: 9783111026824
Subject:: Medicine
Subject:: Basic Medical Science
Subject:: Basic Medical Science, other
Subject:: Immunology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2022

Lila macht kleine Füße

Können wir unseren Augen trauen?

Werner Rudolf Cramer

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Modern knowledge of color perception – physical and physiological! Pigments play a major role in manipulating the light rays. This can be done by absorption, reflection or interference. The eye does not care how this manipulation takes place. A green colored pigment produces the same color impression as a mixture of yellow and blue colored pigment. These exciting aspects will guide you through the book.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110793918
ISBN:: 9783110793918
ISBN:: 9783110794250
ISBN:: 9783110793901
Subject:: Chemistry
Subject:: Physical Chemistry
Subject:: Industrial Chemistry
Subject:: Paints, Pigments, Coatings and Dyes
Subject:: Materials Sciences
Subject:: Thin Films, Surfaces and Interfaces
Subject:: Physics
Subject:: Electromagnetism, Optics and Photonics
Publisher:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Book 2022

Zeit (t) – Die Sphinx der Physik

Lag der Ursprung des Kosmos in der Zukunft?

Jörg Karl Siegfried Schmitz-Gielsdorf

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This volume is the first to incorporate perspectives from both science and the humanities into a comprehensive theory of time. In the inverse-entropic arrow of time, physics, biology, philosophy, and medicine share the theoretical principles of one understanding of the world. Understanding the real direction in which time flows restructures the world. It gives the reader cause for well-founded, enlightened optimism.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110789355
ISBN:: 9783110789355
ISBN:: 9783110789386
ISBN:: 9783110789270
Subject:: General Interest
Subject:: Mathematics
Subject:: History and Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Science
Subject:: Philosophy of the Natural Sciences
Subject:: Physics
Subject:: Relativity and Gravitational Physics
Publisher:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Book 2022

Wie alles anfing

Von Molekülen über Einzeller zum Menschen

Manfred Bühner

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This volume describes with great clarity the significance of chemistry as the foundation of evolution: from star dust to self-replicating molecules to chemical proliferation and, gradually, to the development of the first cells. It explains in depth the significance of mutations that led to photosynthesis and complex cells, which was ultimately what made the unbelievable diversity of multicellular organisms possible in the first place.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110783155
ISBN:: 9783110783155
ISBN:: 9783110783049
ISBN:: 9783110783247
Subject:: Chemistry
Subject:: Chemistry, other
Subject:: Physics
Subject:: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Subject:: Biophysics
Subject:: Physics, other
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Book 2023

Sterngucker

Wie Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler und Simon Marius die Weltbilder veränderten

Wolfgang Osterhage

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This volume explores the lives of Galileo, Kepler, and Marius, and the circumstances of their times that influenced their extraordinary achievements. It traces the joint and opposing paths they took and sets them in relation both to ancient worldviews and insights from modern cosmology.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110762778
ISBN:: 9783110762778
ISBN:: 9783110762785
ISBN:: 9783110762679
Subject:: Mathematics
Subject:: History and Philosophy
Subject:: Applied Mathematics
Subject:: Physics
Subject:: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Publisher:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Book 2022

Einstein über Einstein

Autobiographische und wissenschaftliche Reflexionen

Hanoch Gutfreund, Jürgen Renn

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This work views Einstein’s Autobiographical Notes, a classic in the history of science, as a key to opening up a new perspective on Einstein’s intellectual life, from childhood to old age, and to reconstructing the becoming of this philosophical scientist. Scientific reflections and personal correspondence add to this compelling portrait of Albert Einstein.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110744811
ISBN:: 9783110744811
ISBN:: 9783110744682
ISBN:: 9783110744873
Subject:: General Interest
Subject:: Mathematics
Subject:: History and Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Science
Subject:: Philosophy of the Natural Sciences
Subject:: Physics
Subject:: Relativity and Gravitational Physics
Publisher:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Book 2021

Der fliegende Zirkus der Physik

Fragen und Antworten

Jearl Walker

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Lightening or blue skies, glow worms, tea cups, and bubbles – we are constantly running into natural phenomena in our everyday lives. In this volume, Jearl Walker takes up the funniest and most interesting of these and provides physical explanations – not in formulas, but in words. Some of the solutions are easy to find, others are extremely difficult.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110760637
ISBN:: 9783110760637
ISBN:: 9783110760552
ISBN:: 9783110760668
Subject:: General Interest
Subject:: Physics
Subject:: Experimental Physics
Subject:: Technical and Applied Physics
Subject:: Physics, other
Publisher:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Book 2021

Können Hunde rechnen?

Norbert Herrmann

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If you, too, are the kind of person who often asks themselves things like whether dogs can do sums, how to calculate the weight of a pig, or what the difference is between big and giant numbers, the updated and revised edition of this book will provide you with the mathematical solutions. Discover the surprising explanations that mathematics can provide to everyday questions in a humorous way.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110733952
ISBN:: 9783110733952
ISBN:: 9783110733983
ISBN:: 9783110738360
Subject:: General Interest
Subject:: Mathematics
Subject:: History and Philosophy
Subject:: Applied Mathematics
Subject:: General Mathematics
Publisher:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Book 2023

Unterwegs im Cyber-Camper

Annas Reise in die digitale Welt

Magdalena Kayser-Meiller, Dieter Meiller

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Wie wäre es, wenn Software-Pionierin Ada Lovelace aus dem 19. Jahrhundert in der Jetztzeit landet und ihrem Freund Charles Babbage, einem Computer-Vorreiter aus England, Briefe schreibt? Darin erklärt sie alles, was man über das Thema Digitalisierung wissen muss – verständlich für jede und jeden. Es geht um Nullen und Einsen, um Verschlüsselung und virtuelle Realität, um Bitcoin und Blockchain, um Handys und Hypertext. Genau das macht Anna, die unter dem Pseudonym Ada L. einen Blog startet: über das, was die digitale Welt im Innersten zusammenhält. Die digitale Nomadin arbeitet in Thailand und Australien, im Elektrobus reist sie durch Europa. Auf ihrer Tour knüpft sie Kontakte, verliebt sich und kommt üblen Machenschaften auf die Spur. Dabei gerät sie selbst in Gefahr. Hilfe kommt von Freunden, von Fremden – und immer wieder von Hühnern.

Anna Blog: https://postlagernd.org/

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110733396
ISBN:: 9783110733396
ISBN:: 9783110733426
ISBN:: 9783110738216
Subject:: Computer Sciences
Subject:: Fundamentals of Computer Sciences
Subject:: History of Computer Sciences
Subject:: Engineering
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Subject:: History of Engineering
Subject:: General Interest
Publisher:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg