DNA: The Secret of Life is released to coincide with the 50th anniversary one of the most momentous breakthroughs in the history of science. In 1953 at The Eagle pub in Cambridge, two jubilant students professed to have found 'the secret of life'. Hardy regulars may have raised half an eyebrow at such wild claims--perhaps putting it down to the drink talking--but, even today, it is hard …
Sumba adalah salah satu pulau di gugusan Kepulauan Nusa Tenggara, terletak di antara Pulau Flores dan Timar. Topografi Sumba berbukit-bukit dan bergelombang, secara umum bagian timur pulau lebih tinggi daripada bagian barat dengan puncak tertinggi Gunung Wanggameti (1.225 m) yang terletak di bagian tenggara pulau. Melalui buku ini, LIPI berusaha menunjukkan bahwa kawasan Sumba memiliki potens…
As Julie Urbanik vividly illustrates, non-human animals are central to our daily human lives. We eat them, wear them, live with them, work them, experiment on them, try to save them, spoil them, abuse them, fight them, hunt them, buy and sell them, love them, and hate them. Placing Animals is the first book to bring together the historical development of the field of animal geography with a com…
Buku ini mengisahkan bagaimana teori-teori modern tentang bumi lahir dari lereng-lereng gunung berapi Indonesia. Sejak akhir abad ke-19 para ilmuwan kolonial ditugaskan untuk meneliti misteri gunung berapi karena pemerintah kolonial berkepentingan melindungi ekonomi perkebunannya dari gempa dan letusan gunung. Adam Bobbette menelusuri pengetahuan tradisional Jawa, sepak terjang para ahli geolog…
Buku “Gesang di Lahan Gersang” adalah sebuah buku cerita pengalaman pribadi Diah Widuretno, seorang ibu yang peduli dengan masyarakat, yang mendampingi proses perkembangan anak-anak di Gunung Kidul, Jawa Tengah, yang gersang dan terbelakang sejak 2008. Diawali dengan pendampingan dalam pendidikan untuk mencari solusi riil atas kondisi masyarakat yang sebagian besar hanya lulusan SD, Diah…
Buku ini membahas tentang pulau dan ekosistemnya . Di Indonesia pulau adalah fokus kajian yang masih terabaikan. Fokus ini penting dan menarik karena kita tinggal di kepulauan; negara kita memiliki lebih dari 17 ribu pulau, besar dan kecil"sekitar 6000 pulau di antaranya berpenghuni. Buku ini bertujuan mengamati dan mendokumentasikan proses pengubahan yang berlangsung di Kabupaten dan Pulau Sum…
Di satu desa di pesisir utara Flores Timur, peladang tempatan mengenal satu perilaku tertentu curah hujan yang mereka namai ‘ura timu’. Secara harfiah berarti ‘hujan timur’. Dalam bahasa tempatan, ‘timu’ juga sebutan untuk musim kemarau. Sehingga, ungkapan ‘ura timu’ juga bermakna ‘hujan [yang terjadi pada] musim kemarau’, amsal yang bagus untuk menggambarkan kekacauan iklim…
This work is an illustrated bestiary of 75 animals and plants native to Southeast Asia. Conceived by Zedeck Siew, each creature is described in short, single-page prose pieces, reminiscent of naturalist’s entries or notes in kitabs of animal lore. Illustrated by Sharon Chin, the book’s animals are depicted in linocut-print illustrations; while its plants are rendered in fabric pattern desig…
Human Evolution: A Very Short Introduction traces the history of palaeoanthropology from its beginnings in the 18th century to the very latest fossil finds. In this new edition it discusses how ancient DNA studies have revolutionized how we view the recent (post-550,000 years ago) human evolution, and the process of speciation. The combination of ancient and modern human DNA has contributed to …
Tahukah Anda, bahwa ada banyak sekali dunia lain di luar sana? Fisika memberikan pemahaman atas dunia. Berbagai temuan dan teori baru terus memperbarui pengetahuan sains dan mengubah gambaran dunia yang disajikan fisika. Fisika kuantum menghadirkan teka-teki di gambaran itu, dengan dualitas zarah-gelombang dan prinsip ketidakpastian- dari dunia klasik yang serba pasti ke dunia kuantum yang d…
�In the Amazon Basin the greatest violence sometimes begins as a flicker of light beyond the horizon. There in the perfect bowl of the night sky, untouched by light from any human source, a thunderstorm sends its premonitory signal and begins a slow journey to the observer, who thinks: the world is about to change.� Watching from the edge of the Brazilian rain forest, witness to the sort of…
Joining the ranks of popular science classics like The Botany of Desire and The Selfish Gene, a groundbreaking, wondrously informative, and vastly entertaining examination of the most significant revolution in biology since Darwin—a “microbe’s-eye view” of the world that reveals a marvelous, radically reconceived picture of life on earth. Every animal, whether human, squid, or wasp, …
The uplifting, amazing true story—a New York Times bestseller This edition of Margot Lee Shetterly's acclaimed book is perfect for young readers. It is the powerful story of four African-American female mathematicians at NASA who helped achieve some of the greatest moments in our space program. Now a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten …
On its 10th anniversary, a gift edition of this classic book, with a forward by one of history's greatest explorers, and eight pages of color illustrations.
A much needed and clear investigation of why and how science has so powerfully shaped the way we understand ourselves, our behaviour towards others and our place in the world.
It's hard to talk about The Origin of Species without making statements that seem overwrought and fulsome. But it's true: this is indeed one of the most important and influential books ever written, and it is one of the very few groundbreaking works of science that is truly readable.
To a certain extent it suffers from the Hamlet problem--it's full of clich�s! Or what are now clich…
When first published in 1959, this book revolutionized contemporary thinking about science and knowledge. It remains the one of the most widely read books about science to come out of the twentieth century.
In this classic work David Bohm, writing clearly and without technical jargon, develops a theory of quantum physics which treats the totality of existence as an unbroken whole.
'Nagel and Newman accomplish the wondrous task of clarifying the argumentative outline of Kurt Godel's celebrated logic bomb.' � The Guardian In 1931 the mathematical logician Kurt Godel published a revolutionary paper that challenged certain basic assumptions underpinning mathematics and logic....
The genome's been mapped.
But what does it mean?
Arguably the most significant scientific discovery of the new century, the mapping of the twenty-three pairs of chromosomes that make up the human genome raises almost as many questions as it answers. Questions that will profoundly impact the way we think about disease, about longevity, and about free will. Que…
Cosmic Jackpot is Paul Davies�s eagerly awaited return to cosmology, the successor to his critically acclaimed bestseller The Mind of God. Here he tackles all the 'big questions,' including the biggest of them all: Why does the universe seem so well adapted for life? In his characteristically clear and elegant style, Davies shows how recent scientific discoveries point to a perplexing fa…
The origin of life remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of science. Is life a bizarre chemical accident, unique to the Earth's history? Or is it somehow written into the underlying laws of the universe, destined to emerge wherever conditions allow? Acclaimed scientist and science writer Paul Davies examines the very latest theories of biogenesis. Recent discoveries of bizarre 'living fos…
Simon Winchester, penulis The Professor and The Madman, karya best seller versi New York Times, menelusuri kisah legendaris hancurnya pulau gunung berapi Krakatoa (Krakatau) tahun 1883. Sebuah drama yang diikuti tsunami raksasa yang membinasakan hamour 40.000 penduduk. Efek dari gelombang luar biasa ini dirasakan hingga wilayah Perancis
A collection of meditations like polished stones--painstakingly worded, tough-minded yet partial to mystery, and peerless when it comes to injecting larger resonances into the natural world.'-- 'Kirkus Reviews' 'A collection of meditations like polished stones--painstakingly worded, tough-minded, yet partial to mystery, and peerless when it comes to injecting larger resonances into the natural …
BALAPAN mendapatkan jumlah desimal pi terbanyak amat gila-gilaan. Gregory dan David Chudnovsky membidik rekor dua miliar digit pi. Mereka mengejar jumlah itu dengan mesin superkomputer rakitan sendiri di apartemen Gregory yang sempit. Kondisi alakadarnya untuk mengejar ambisi yang nyaris mustahil itu harus dilakukan karena mereka tak punya uang untuk menggunakan superkomputer �sebenarnya…
A symbol for what is not there, an emptiness that increases any number it's added to, an inexhaustible and indispensable paradox. As we enter the year 2000, zero is once again making its presence felt. Nothing itself, it makes possible a myriad of calculations. Indeed, without zero mathematics as we know it would not exist. And without mathematics our understanding of the universe would be vast…
Buku ini tidak hanya memaparkan perkemabngan fisika dari rumus ke rumus; dari penemu ke penemu; dan dari kebudayaan ke kebudayaan, tetapi juga menempatkan perubahan itu dalam konteks perbedaan cara manusia memandang posisi dirinya di alam semesta dri masa ke masa, dari alam gaib ke alam nyata
In 1793, a canal digger named William Smith made a startling discovery. He found that by tracing the placement of fossils, which he uncovered in his excavations, one could follow layers of rocks as they dipped and rose and fell -- clear across England and, indeed, clear across the world -- making it possible, for the first time ever, to draw a chart of the hidden underside of the earth.