Hugh Aldersey-Williams, geboren 1959, ist Naturwissenschaftler und Kurator. Er hat unter anderem Ausstellungen für das Londoner Victoria and Albert Museum und die Wellcome Collection konzipiert. Zudem verfasst er Bücher zu Wissenschafts- und Designthemen. Im Jahr 2011 erschien bei Hanser «Das wilde Leben der Elemente» und darauf folgend «Anatomien. Kulturgeschichten vom menschlichen Körper». Er lebt in London und Norfolk.
13 Ebooks de Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Hugh Aldersey-Williams: Flut
Die Hälfte der Menschheit lebt an Küsten – trotzdem wissen wir wenig über die Elementarkraft der Gezeiten. Und das obwohl deren physische Präsenz uns seit jeher beeinflusst und vielleicht sogar unser …
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Hugh Aldersey-Williams: Periodic Tales
In the spirit of A Short History of Nearly Everything comes Periodic Tales. Award-winning science writer Hugh Andersey-Williams offers readers a captivating look at the elements—and the amazing …
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Hugh Aldersey-Williams & Simon Briscoe: Panicology
What exactly are your chances of being struck by a meteorite?Think you’re having less sex than the French?How high will sea levels actually rise?We live in an increasingly uncertain world. There’s so …
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Hugh Aldersey-Williams: Periodic Tales
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER’If only chemistry had been like this at school’ Matt Ridley, Prospect ________________Elements. Everything in the universe is made of them, including you. And like you, th …
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Hugh Aldersey-Williams: Tide
From Cnut to D-Day: the history and science of the unceasing tide explored for the first time.Half of the world’s population lives in coastal regions lapped by tidal waters. Yet how little most of us …
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Hugh Aldersey-Williams: Anatomies
The Sunday Times Science Book of the Year, Anatomies by Hugh Aldersey-Williams, author of bestseller Periodic Tales, is a splendidly entertaining journey through the art, science, literature and hist …
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Hugh Aldersey-Williams: Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century
A profound and delightful jeu d’esprit of a book, mixing biography, etymology, cultural history and quixotic scientific experiments. Aldersey-Williams pulls the unfairly neglected yet enormously infl …
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Hugh Aldersey-Williams: Anatomies: A Cultural History of the Human Body
‘A marvelous, organ-by-organ journey through the body eclectic…Irresistible [and] impressive.’ —John J. Ross, Wall Street Journal The human body is the most fraught and fascinating, talked-about and …
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Hugh Aldersey-Williams: The Tide: The Science and Stories Behind the Greatest Force on Earth
“Superb. . . . A gently studious Bill Bryson crossed with an upbeat and relaxed WG Sebald.”—James Mc Connachie, Sunday Times (UK) Half of the world’s population today lives in coastal regions lapped …
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Hugh Aldersey-Williams: In Search of Sir Thomas Browne: The Life and Afterlife of the Seventeenth Century’s Most Inquiring Mind
The extraordinary life and ideas of one of the greatest—and most neglected—minds in history. Sir Thomas Browne (1605–1682) was an English writer, physician, and philosopher whose work has inspired ev …
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€41.99
Hugh Aldersey-Williams: Die Wellen des Lichts
Die Wiederentdeckung eines vergessenen Genies: Wie der Niederländer Christian Huygens die Grundlagen der modernen Naturwissenschaft legte Das 17. Jahrhundert war das Goldene Zeitalter für die Niederl …
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Hugh Aldersey-Williams & James Drake: Letters for the Ages Great Scientists
A collection of the most fascinating letters by the world’s greatest scientists.’Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character’ Albert Einste …
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Hugh Aldersey-Williams & James Drake: Letters for the Ages Great Scientists
A collection of the most fascinating letters by the world’s greatest scientists.’Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character’ Albert Einste …
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