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Wrinkles in Time: Witness to the Birth of the Universe

Autoren: George Smoot, Keay Davidson

Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War (Vintage)

Autor: Michael Neufeld

LERNEN WIE EINSTEIN: Geheimnisse und Techniken, um besser zu lernen, Kreativität zu entwickeln und das Genie in Ihnen zu entdecken (Genius Strategies, Band 1)

Autor: Robert Meyer

Diario di un'apprendista astronauta (I delfini. Best seller)

Autor: Samantha Cristoforetti
Illustrator: Jessica Lagatta

Anaximander: And the Nature of Science

Autor: Carlo Rovelli
Übersetzer: Marion Lignana Rosenberg

Exotische Tiere und Pflanzen, Malbuch für Erwachsene und Jugendliche, 59 tropische Motive im A4 Format zum kreativen Ausmalen für Entspannung und Stressabbau

Autor: Lilly Bertolly

The Smallest Lights In The Universe

Autor: Sara Seager

Alexander Gerst: Biografie

Felix Westermühl

Neil Armstrong: Der erste Mensch auf dem Mond

Katrin Hahnemann

Mars Rover Curiosity: An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer

Rob Manning, William L. Simon

In the course of our enduring quest for knowledge about ourselves and our universe, we haven't found answers to one of our most fundamental questions: Does life exist anywhere else in the universe? Ten years and billions of dollars in the making, the Mars rover Curiosity is poised to answer this all-important question.

Here, Rob Manning, the project's chief engineer, tells of bringing the groundbreaking spacecraft to life. Manning and his team at N A S A's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, tasked with designing a lander many times larger and more complex than any before, faced technical setbacks, fights over inadequate resources, and the challenges of leading an army of brilliant, passionate, and often frustrated experts.

Manning's fascinating personal account - which includes information from his exclusive interviews with leading Curiosity scientists - is packed with tales of revolutionary feats of science, technology, and engineering. Listeners experience firsthand the disappointment at encountering persistent technical problems, the agony of near defeat, the sense of victory at finding innovative solutions to these problems, the sheer terror of staking careers and reputations on a lander that couldn't be tested on Earth, and the rush of triumph at its successful touchdown on Mars on August 5, 2012. This is the story of persistence, dedication, and unrelenting curiosity.

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Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray

Sabine Hossenfelder

A contrarian argues that modern physicists' obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but bad science

Whether pondering black holes or predicting discoveries at C E R N, physicists believe the best theories are beautiful, natural, and elegant, and this standard separates popular theories from disposable ones. This is why, Sabine Hossenfelder argues, we have not seen a major breakthrough in the foundations of physics for more than four decades. The belief in beauty has become so dogmatic that it now conflicts with scientific objectivity: observation has been unable to confirm mindboggling theories, like supersymmetry or grand unification, invented by physicists based on aesthetic criteria. Worse, these "too good to not be true" theories are actually untestable and they have left the field in a cul-de-sac. To escape, physicists must rethink their methods. Only by embracing reality as it is can science discover the truth.

Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

Simon Winchester

An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

Chris Hadfield

Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys: 50th Anniversary Edition

Michael Collins

Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery

Scott Kelly

The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe

Stephon Alexander

The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Die verborgene Wirklichkeit: Paralleluniversen und die Gesetze des Kosmos

Autor: Brian Greene
Übersetzer: Sebastian Vogel