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This guidebook introduces the reader to the visible memorabilia of science and scientists in Budapest - statues, busts, plaques, buildings, and other artefacts. According to the Hungarian-American Nobel laureate Albert Szent-Györgyi, this metropolis atthe crossroads of Europe has a special atmosphere of respect for science. It has been the venue of numerous scientific achievements and the cradle, literally, of many individuals who in Hungary, and even more beyond its borders, became world-renownedcontributors to science and culture.Six of the eight chapters of the book cover the Hungarian Nobel laureates, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the university, the medical school, agricultural sciences, and technology and engineering. One chapter is about selected secondary schools fromwhich seven Nobel laureates (Szent-Györgyi, de Hevesy, Wigner, Gabor, Harsanyi, Olah, and Kertész) and the five Martians of Science (von Kármán, Szilard, Wigner, von Neumann, and Teller) had graduated. The concluding chapter is devoted to scientistmartyrs of the Holocaust.

The Nobel Prizes enjoy enormous prestige throughout the world. Every year, science is propelled into the limelight, and in October, when the prizes are announced, and December, when they are awarded at a ceremony in Stockholm, a chosen few scientistsacquire celebrity status and their science receives wide coverage in the news media. First awarded in 1901, the Nobel Prize remains the only science prize widely recognized by the general public. What sort of scientists become Nobel laureates? How arethey chosen? Are there features common to them, and to their prize-winning research? These sorts of questions have long intrigued Istvan Hargittai and seeking answers, he began interviewing Nobel prize-winning scientists about their careers. Some 70laureates, and a similar number of other distinguished scientists, have been interviewed, most of them during the late 1990s, and the result is this remarkable book. Written for a general readership, The Road to Stockholm illuminates the nature ofscientific discovery, the Nobel Prize selection process, the factors common to award-winning research, and the effects of the Nobel Prize on science itself. Here are stories of scientists who overcame adversity, eventually to win the Prize

Oxford Bible AtlasFourth EditionAdrian Curtis Comprehensively revised to take account of modern scholarship Now with full-color maps and illustrations A superb guide to the geography, history, and archaeology of Bible lands

Women & Power. Igazán remek téma - nők a történelembenBritain's best known classicist, Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit she shows howhistory has treated powerful women. Her examples range from Medusa and Athena to Theresa May and Elizabeth Warren as she explores the cultural underpinnings of misogyny, considering the public voiceof women, how we look at women who exercise power, ourcultural assumptions about women's relationship with power, and how powerful women resist being packaged into a male template.

From the author of the phenomenal million copy bestseller SapiensSapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going.War is obsolete. You are more likely to commit suicide than be killed in conflict.Famine is disappearing. You are at more risk of obesity than starvation.Death is just a technical problem. Equality is out - but immortality is in.What does our future hold?

When do you think the Second World War ended? If the end of the war was supposed to have brought 'freedom' to countries that suffered under Nazi occupation, then for millions it did not really end until the fall of Communism. In the summer of 1945 many of the countries in Eastern Europe simply swapped the rule of one tyrant, Adolf Hitler, for that of another: Joseph Stalin. Why this happened has remained one of the most troubling questions of the entire conflict, and is atthe heart of Laurence Rees'dramatic book. In World War II: Behind Closed Doors, Rees provides an intimate 'behind the scenes' history ofthe West's dealings with Joseph Stalin - an account which uses material only available since the opening of archives in the East as well as new testimony from witnesses from the peri...The real story about what went on between the powerhouses of the Second World War.

Mary Beard az ókori kultúrát hozza közel hozzánk nem szokványos módon: mai szemmel tekint a múltba és így mutatja meg az akkori életet, gondolkodást. Olyannak mutatja meg az akkori embereket, amilyenek ma is vagyunk: esendők, kétkedők, kíváncsiak ésakaratosak. Mary Beard könyvei olvasmányosak és szórakoztatóak, amolyan könnyed tudomány.