Gesprekken van een jonge neurowetenschapper met zeven leermeesters en voorgangers over hersenen en bewustzijn.

Bespreking van de medische en ethische aspecten van klonen, met name bij de mens.

Autobiografie van een van de ontdekkers van de dubbelspiraal van het DNA-molecuul.

To many outsiders, mathematicians appear to think like computers, grimly grinding away with a strict formal logic and moving methodically--even algorithmically--from one black-and-white deduction to another. Yet mathematicians often describe their most important breakthroughs as creative, intuitive responses to ambiguity, contradiction, and paradox. A unique examination of this less-familiar aspect of mathematics, How Mathematicians Think reveals that mathematics is a profoundly creative activity and not just a body of formalized rules and results. Nonlogical qualities, William Byers shows, play an essential role in mathematics. Ambiguities, contradictions, and paradoxes can arise when ideas developed in different contexts come into contact. Uncertainties and conflicts do not impede but rather spur the development of mathematics. Creativity often means bringing apparently incompatible perspectives together as complementary aspects of a new, more subtle theory. The secret of mathematics is not to be found only in its logical structure. The creative dimensions of mathematical work have great implications for our notions of mathematical and scientific truth, and How Mathematicians Think provides a novel approach to many fundamental questions. Is mathematics objectively true? Is it discovered or invented? And is there such a thing as a "final" scientific theory? Ultimately, How Mathematicians Think shows that the nature of mathematical thinking can teach us a great deal about the human condition itself.

Kritisch-ironische analyse van denkfouten in krantenartikelen.

According to this erratic manifesto, the Walt Disney Company, and especially its CEO Michael Eisner, symbolize everything that's wrong with American business. Surrounded by yes-men, indifferent to quality and focused solely on cost-cutting and quarterly earnings, Eisner, the author claims, presides over a totalitarian Disney "cult" that stifles creative types and has debased Mickey's image in the name of fear and greed. Ex-Disney ad exec Caroselli awkwardly marries this critique to a treatise on "innovation," something that few might expect from the world's leading producer of family entertainment. Caroselli's rambling "free-associative approach" extols such bona-fide innovators as the Wright Brothers and Bill Gates, throws out some vague tips like "Embrace New Technology" and "Ask Why? Why? Why?" and warns readers about various types of corporate scumbags who will try to quash or steal their great ideas. But he returns compulsively to the diatribe against Eisner, whom he feels did not grant him enough one-on-one meetings. What Caroselli sees as the decline of Disney from the days when Walt himself ran it is, he contends, emblematic of the triumph of marketing hype over solid "real-deal ideas" and, indeed, reality itself whose last refuge, according to Caroselli, is Disneyland, which he feels was an oasis of authenticity before Eisner tarnished it with his "somewhat phony" add-on California Adventure theme parklet. Hopelessly confused about the distinction between fantasy and reality while bemoaning its loss, Caroselli's axe-grinding abounds in unintended ironies.

Just the mention of mathematics is enough to strike fear into the hearts of many, yet without it, the human race couldn't be where it is today. By exploring the subject through its 50 key insights - from the simple (the number one) and the subtle (the invention of zero) to the sophisticated (proving Fermat's last theorem) - this book shows how mathematics has changed the way we look at the world around us.

Published in 1913, a best-seller in the 1930s and long out of print, Physics for Entertainment was translated from Russian into many languages and influenced science students around the world. Among them was Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman, the Russian mathematician (unrelated to the author), who solved the Poincare conjecture, and who was awarded and rejected the Fields Medal. Grigori's father, an electrical engineer, gave him Physics for Entertainment to encourage his son's interest in mathematics. In the foreword, the book's author describes the contents as "conundrums, brain-teasers, entertaining anecdotes, and unexpected comparisons," adding, "I have quoted extensively from Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Mark Twain and other writers, because, besides providing entertainment, the fantastic experiments these writers describe may well serve as instructive illustrations at physics classes." The book's topics included how to jump from a moving car, and why, "according to the law of buoyancy, we would never drown in the Dead Sea." Ideas from this book are still used by science teachers today."

Ideally suited for students in critical care rotations and residents, this concise, practical handbook presents the essentials of medical and surgical critical care in an easy-to-read format. The authors succinctly explain the pathophysiology underlying clinical disorders and the key principles of diagnosis and patient management, emphasizing cost-effective approaches. The Fourth Edition includes Controversies in Critical Care boxes in many chapters, which briefly summarize opposing arguments on controversial points. Other highlights include enhanced discussion of CT for abdominal disorders, new ACLS guidelines, and new material on removable IVC filters, interventional radiologic techniques for GI bleeding, and use of vascular ultrasound.

Informatie over bloed, bloedtransfusie en transfusiegeneeskunde.

Informatie in woord en beeld.