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Roger Highfield

    January 1, 1958

    Roger Highfield focuses on the intersection of science and society. His work explores how scientific discoveries impact our world and how we can best understand them. He writes accessibly and engagingly to make complex concepts understandable to a wider audience.

    Roger Highfield
    The Arrow of Time
    The Private Lives of Albert Einstein
    The arrow of time : the quest to solve science's greatest mystery
    Frontiers of Complexity
    The Science of Harry Potter
    After Dolly
    • After Dolly

      The Promise and Perils of Human Cloning

      • 336 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      An argument for the benefits of cloning, co-written by a scientist whose team was responsible for a famous cloned sheep, presents the reasons for his opposition to the cloning of humans and explains that cloning technology can be ethically applied to free families from serious hereditary diseases. Reprint.

      After Dolly2007
      3.4
    • Las vidas privadas de Albert Einstein

      • 380 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      Einstein fue el científico más importante de su siglo y también el centro de los debates más importantes de su época.

      Las vidas privadas de Albert Einstein2003
    • Podtitul: Hranice komplexity - Hledání řádu v chaotickém světě Průkopnická práce ukazující nové obzory vědy. Komplexita, hlavní téma knihy, je moderní interdisciplinární záležitostí, zabývající se souborem témat z takových vědních oborů, jako je umělá inteligence, statistická fyzika, neurobiologie, či dokonce sociologie. Komplexita je všude tam, kde hraničí chaos s řádem. Z vědeckého hlediska je složitější a zajímavější než chaos, jemuž bylo věnováno mnoho vědeckého úsilí a o němž už byla napsána řada knih. Právě tam, kde se chaos setkává s řádem, se totiž odehrávají tak úžasné věci, jako je život či myšlení. Autoři navazují na práce takových velikánů vědy, jako byl Richard Feynman, Kurt Gödel, John von Neumann, Ilya Prigogine a Alan Turing, kteří otevřeli cestu od redukcionismu ke komplexitě. S předmluvou Barucha Blumberga.

      Mezi chaosem a řádem : hranice komplexity: hledání řádu v chaotickém světě2003
      4.6
    • The Science of Harry Potter

      • 384 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      Behind the magic of Harry Potter—a witty and illuminating look at the scientific principles, theories, and assumptions of the boy wizard's world, newly come to life again in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and the upcoming film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find ThemCan Fluffy the three-headed dog be explained by advances in molecular biology? Could the discovery of cosmic "gravity-shielding effects" unlock the secret to the Nimbus 2000 broomstick's ability to fly? Is the griffin really none other than the dinosaur Protoceratops? Roger Highfield, author of the critically acclaimed The Physics of Christmas, explores the fascinating links between magic and science to reveal that much of what strikes us as supremely strange in the Potter books can actually be explained by the conjurings of the scientific mind. This is the perfect guide for parents who want to teach their children science through their favorite adventures as well as for the millions of adult fans of the series intrigued by its marvels and mysteries.• An ALA Booklist Editors' Choice •From the Trade Paperback edition.

      The Science of Harry Potter2002
      4.1
    • Können Engel fliegen?

      Die Wissenschaft der Weihnachtszeit

      • 319 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      Können Engel fliegen?: Die Wissenschaft der Weihnachtszeit

      Können Engel fliegen?1999
    • Zum ersten Mal in der Geschichte wagt sich ein Wissenschaftler an die Ergründung unseres heiligsten Festes. Fragen von eminenter Bedeutung gilt es zu klären: Kann der Rentierschlitten des Weihnachtsmannes wirklich so schnell fliegen, dass er es schafft, über 800 Millionen Haushalte an einem einzigen Abend anzusteuern? Stimmt die Theorie, dass seine Leibesfülle auf einen genetischen Defekt und Rentier Rudolfs rote Nase auf eine arktische Virusinfektion zurückzuführen ist? Wie kam es zur Jungfrauengeburt? Welcher evolutionsbiologische Sinn steckt hinter dem Schenktrieb?

      Warum ist der Weihnachtsmann so dick?1999
      2.0
    • Frontiers of Complexity

      The Search for Order in a Chaotic World

      • 462 pages
      • 17 hours of reading

      Explores how complexity, a new way of thinking about the behaviour of interacting units, is transforming the way we think, and the assumptions that underlie conventional science. Examines the rise of the electronic computer as key and catalyst to the study of complexity; explores current innovations such as fuzzy logic, and computers which exploit quantum mechanics and run on light; and reveals cyberspace universes where organisms compete for resources as they reproduce, mutate and evolve

      Frontiers of Complexity1995
      4.0
    • Šíp času

      Cesta vědou za rozluštěním největší záhady lidstva

      • 472 pages
      • 17 hours of reading

      Co je to čas, jak jej chápeme a jak je důležitý pro náš život

      Šíp času1995
      4.6
    • The Private Lives of Albert Einstein

      • 355 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      A shocking portrait of the greatest genius of this century. So intensely guarded & obscured were the details of Einstein's personal life that it took the authors six months to gain permission to quote from Einstein's correspondence. Even then many letters could only be paraphrased. The book reveals that the Nobel Prize-winner whose genius & work for peace have long been associated with a kind of personal nobility had an adulterous, egomaniacal & misogynist side with which very few people are familiar. "A deeply melancholic & moving tale that forces its readers to grapple with the enigma of the Einstein myth."-- The Economist

      The Private Lives of Albert Einstein1994
      3.9
    • La flecha del tiempo

      • 488 pages
      • 18 hours of reading

      ¿Se puede viajar a través del tiempo? ¿Es irrecuperable el pasado? ¿Cuál es la verdadera naturaleza del devenir? Los diversos significados del tiempo en las actuales teorías científicas.

      La flecha del tiempo1992
      4.0
    • In this book physical chemist Dr Peter Coveney and award-winning science journalist Dr Roger Highfield have questioned our understanding of science with their humorous reinterpretation of the most profound aspect of time - why it points from the past to the future. The author's challenge to scientific preconceptions about the irreversibility of time is designed to link apparently irreconcilable features of science, from Einstein's obsession with causality to chaos theory, from the cause of jet lag to the Monday morning feeling.

      The arrow of time : the quest to solve science's greatest mystery1991
      3.9
    • The Arrow of Time

      A Voyage Through Science to Solve Time's Greatest Mystery

      • 378 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
      The Arrow of Time1990