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De l'univers à nous, ou, Les hasards de la vie
By Robert Clarke. 1985
Depuis quinze milliards d'années que notre univers est né se déroule une prodigieuse aventure : sont apparus successivement la matière,…
la vie, l'homme. Les scientifiques sont presque parvenus à tout comprendre de cette longue histoire. Pourquoi l'univers a-t-il commencé un jour ? De quoi est faite la matière ? Comment la vie est-elle née ? En quoi les hommes sont-ils différents des autres êtres ? Les extraterrestres existent-ils et où ? Ce livre tente de montrer ce qui lie entre elles les multiples aventures du monde, de la matière et du vivant. Une place particulière est consacrée à la naissance de l'homme et l'émergence de notre civilisation. Il faut réhabiliter nos ancêtres de la préhistoire, trop mal connus. Grands chasseurs, grands inventeurs, artistes géniaux, nous leurs devons d'exister.La bombe et l'orchidée
By Fernand Seguin. 1987
Ce livre présente une centaine de courts textes d'abord écrits pour la radio et diffusés sur les ondes de Radio-Canada…
dans le cadre de l'émission Aujourd'hui la science, avant que Fernand Seguin ne les adapte pour leur publication, en 1987 et 1988. Grâce à cette réédition, continue de rayonner « la joie de connaître » qui a animé toute la carrière de Fernand Seguin pour qui « la science fait (ou mieux devrait faire » partie intégrante de la culture ».Les plantes carnivores: comment les cultiver? (Monarch notes and study guides)
By Adrian Slack. 1988
Joseph-Armand Bombardier: le rêve d'un inventeur
By Roger Lacasse. 1988
Voici, pour la première fois, l'histoire de cet homme au destin peu commun que l'on a surnommé le "Henry Ford…
de la neige. Dans ce livre, Roger Lacasse nous fait revivre l'odyssée de Joseph-Armand Bombardier qui, à partir d'un modeste garage de campagne, allait jeter les bases du plus grand complexe manufacturier de propriété québécoise.Hasard et chaos
By David Ruelle. 1991
Si le hasard a ses raisons, il a aussi une raison. L'auteur, mathématicien, un des fondateurs de la théorie moderne…
du chaos, étudie celle-ci dans cet essai, véritable promenade à travers la physique et les mathématiques.Guide du jardinage et de l'aménagement paysager au Québec (Lire à tout âge)
By Benoit Prieur. 1993
Benoit Prieur œuvre en horticulture depuis une trentaine d'années et il a déjà publié plusieurs ouvrages sur le sujet. Chroniqueur…
à l'Essentiel, à Décormag, au Bulletin des agriculteurs, et à Vidéo-Presse, il a également contribué à faire aimer le jardinage aux lecteurs d'un grand nombre de revues. Son style, accessible à tous et teinté d'humour, en a fait l'un des vulgarisateurs horticoles les plus respectés au Québec. En 1993, il a d'ailleurs été nommé Communicateur horticole de l'année par la Fédération des sociétés d'horticulture.Le dernier Néandertalien: comprendre comment meurent les hommes (Histoire)
By Ludovic Slimak. 2023
L'archéologue relate les conséquences de la découverte des restes de Thorin, considéré comme l'un des derniers Néandertaliens, devant la grotte…
Mandrin, dans la vallée du Rhône. La datation des ossements a fait évoluer les connaissances sur la société néandertalienne et les circonstances de son extinction ainsi que sur l'expansion d'Homo sapiens en Europe.The Handy science answer book
By The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. 1994
Collection of answers "to some of the mysteries of daily life." Addressed are a wide variety of topics of a…
scientific or technological nature including space, transportation, weather, communications, animals, and plants. Examples of questions are "Is glass a liquid or a solid?" "Why are eye transplants not available?" "How much data can a floppy disk hold?" and "How is the date for Easter determined?"The author, of the original All Things Considered staff, presents pieces aired on National Public Radio in its first twenty-five…
years. The hard-news items reflect the history of the times from Vietnam to Watergate to AIDS to the 1994 Republican shift. The human side of the broadcasts reflects the moods, thoughts, and mores of the country since 1971Eighteen essays by astronomers, physicists, science historians, and philosophers presented at the conference commemorating the tercentenary of Newton's "Principia" and…
the 1985-1986 return of Halley's Comet. Four parts treat Newton's and Halley's parallel careers individually, portray the lesser-known Newton, depict the many sides of Halley, and discuss cometsOn Borrowed Time: North America's Next Big Quake
By Gregor Craigie. 2024
Finalist, Balsillie Prize for Public Policy and Victoria Butler Book PrizeA Globe and Mail Top 100 BookThe Big One and…
what we can do to get ready for it.Mention the word earthquake and most people think of California. But while the Golden State shakes on a regular basis, Washington State, Oregon, and British Columbia are located in a zone that can produce the world’s biggest earthquakes and tsunamis. In the eastern part of the continent, small cities and large, from Ottawa to Montréal to New York City, sit in active earthquake zones. In fact, more than 100-million North Americans live in active seismic zones, many of whom do not realize the risk to their community.Pour Laïka: La chienne qui a rencontré les étoiles
By Kai Cheng Thom. 2022
Connaissez-vous la chienne Laïka, la première de tous les êtres vivants à avoir voyagé dans l’espace? Ce livre vous raconte…
son histoire et les raisons qui l’ont poussée à quitter sa meute pour aller à la rencontre des étoiles. Quelque part entre le conte et la leçon d’histoire, Pour Laïka est un hommage aux liens qui unissent toutes les créatures de la Terre - et de l’Univers.Un jour, j'irai sur Mars (Clin d'oeil)
By Paul Martin. 2021
Le 3e album de Paul Martin invite les tout-petits à monter à bord d’un vaisseau spatial avec Stella et sa…
chienne Laïka et partir à la découverte de cette planète si intrigante, Mars, la planète rouge!Mon encyclopetit de l'espace (Mon encyclopetit)
By Kim Huynh, David Marchand, Guillaume Prévôt. 2022
Mon ENCYCLOPETIT L'ESPACEUne excellente initiation aux mystères de l'Univers.Chaque page, plastifiée et entièrement illustrée, dévoile une panoplie d'informations parfaitement adaptées…
à un lectorat de petits curieux. Les enfants apprendront à connaître le système solaire, les galaxies et le quotidien des astronautes. Une excellente façon d'insuffler le plaisir d'apprendre aux jeunes enfants.Lever de Terre
By James Gladstone. 2021
Lever de Terre raconte l’histoire de la première navette spatiale habitée qui a quitté l’orbite de la Terre pour voler…
vers la Lune. Mais c’est également l’histoire de la photo prise par Bill Anders pendant ce vol, en orbite autour de la Lune, alors qu’il admirait la Terre.One Tiny Bubble: The Story of Our Last Universal Common Ancestor
By Karen Krossing. 2022
How to build a car: The autobiography of the world's greatest formula 1 designer
By Adrian Newey. 2017
'Adrian has a unique gift for understanding drivers and racing cars. He is ultra competitive but never forgets to have…
fun. An immensely likeable man.' Damon Hill The world's foremost designer in Formula One, Adrian Newey OBE is arguably one of Britain's greatest engineers and this is his fascinating, powerful memoir. How to Build a Car explores the story of Adrian's unrivalled 35-year career in Formula One through the prism of the cars he has designed, the drivers he has worked alongside and the races in which he's been involved. A true engineering genius, even in adolescence Adrian's thoughts naturally emerged in shape and form – he began sketching his own car designs at the age of 12 and took a welding course in his school summer holidays. From his early career in IndyCar racing and on to his unparalleled success in Formula One, we learn in comprehensive, engaging and highly entertaining detail how a car actually works. Adrian has designed for the likes of Mario Andretti, Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost, Damon Hill, David Coulthard, Mika Hakkinen, Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel, always with a shark-like purity of purpose: to make the car go faster. And while his career has been marked by unbelievable triumphs, there have also been deep tragedies; most notably Ayrton Senna's death during his time at Williams in 1994. Beautifully illustrated with never-before-seen drawings, How to Build a Car encapsulates, through Adrian's remarkable life story, precisely what makes Formula One so thrilling – its potential for the total synchronicity of man and machine, the perfect combination of style, efficiency and speedEvery Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
By Jason Roberts. 2024
From the bestselling author of A Sense of the World comes this dramatic, globe-spanning and meticulously-researched story of two scientific…
rivals and their race to survey all life on Earth.In the 18th century, two men dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing all life on Earth. Their approaches could not have been more different. Carl Linnaeus, a pious Swedish doctor with a huckster's flair, believed that life belonged in tidy, static categories. Georges-Louis de Buffon, an aristocratic polymath and keeper of France's royal garden, viewed life as a dynamic swirl of complexities. Both began believing their work to be difficult, but not impossible—how could the planet possibly hold more than a few thousand species? Stunned by life's diversity, both fell far short of their goal. But in the process they articulated starkly divergent views on nature, on humanity's role in shaping the fate of our planet and on humanity itself. The rivalry between these two unique, driven individuals created reverberations that still echo today. Linnaeus, with the help of acolyte explorers he called "apostles" (only half of whom returned alive), gave the world such concepts as mammal, primate and homo sapiens—but he also denied species change and promulgated racist pseudo-science. Buffon coined the term reproduction, formulated early prototypes of evolution and genetics, and argued passionately against prejudice. It was a clash that, during their lifetimes, Buffon seemed to be winning. But their posthumous fates would take a very different turn.With elegant, propulsive prose grounded in more than a decade of research, featuring appearances by Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin and Charles Darwin, bestselling author Jason Roberts tells an unforgettable true-life tale of intertwined lives and enduring legacies, tracing an arc of insight and discovery that extends across three centuries into the present day.Teach Yourself VISUALLY MacBook Pro and MacBook Air (Teach Yourself VISUALLY (Tech))
By Guy Hart-Davis. 2024
The visual learner's guide to getting up and running with your Apple laptop Teach Yourself VISUALLY MacBook Pro and MacBook…
Air covers all the vital information you need to start working on your MacBook. With this highly illustrated and easy-to-follow guide, you'll learn to navigate the macOS interface like a pro; customize your desktop with the widgets you need; and get your MacBook working with iCloud, your iPhone, and your iPad. This book's graphical, step-by-step instructions walk you through everything from installation to troubleshooting, helping you to get the most out of the investment you've made in your MacBook. This fully updated edition helps you become a power user of the latest MacBook models and exploit the features in macOS Sonoma, Apple's state-of-the-art operating system, and the apps that come with it. If you prefer to learn visually, this is the book you need. Get up to speed with the latest macOS version, Sonoma, and its new features Perform everyday tasks quickly and easily Customize settings to make macOS and its apps work the way you prefer Communicate via audio and video with FaceTime, via instant messaging with Messages, and via email with Mail Organize your life with Calendar, Contacts, Reminders, Notes, and Maps Make the most of your iCloud account Instead of confusing tech-speak and vague instructions, this guide is packed with screenshots, easy-to-follow instructions, and a practical sensibility. Grab Teach Yourself VISUALLY MacBook Pro and MacBook Air and explore all that your MacBook can do.Policy Choice in Local Responses to Climate Change: A Comparison of Urban Strategies
By Hubert Heinelt and Wolfram Lamping. 2016
Since the 1990s ‘beliefs’, ‘ideas’ or ‘knowledge’ as well as processes of communicative interactions such as persuasion, argumentation and learning…
have received increasing attention in social science for the understanding of political changes. This book makes a significant contribution to this scholarly debate and will be of interest to practitioners, showing on one side how climate change has received more and more attention in policy making at the local level and changed the urban agenda and on the other how different the responses of cities to this global challenge are – and how these differences between cities can be explained. This book was previously published as a special issue of Urban Research and Practice.