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John C. Kendrew (1917-1997) was a pioneer in structural biology and a catalyst for the emergence of molecular biology in the second half of the 20th century. He was the first person to determine the three-dimensional structure of a protein at atomic resolution and, for this, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1962. Kendrew ultimately became an international organizer, administrator, and advocate for science, and his expansive legacy lives on today.

Christmas, 1859. Just one month after the publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin received an unsettling letter. He had expected criticism; in fact, letters were arriving daily, most expressing outrage and accusations of heresy. But this letter was different. It accused him of failing to acknowledge his predecessors, of taking credit for a theory that had already been discovered by others. Darwin realized that he had made an error in omitting from Origin of Species any mention of his intellectual forebears.

De toute éternité, les communications à distance, les télécommunications, se sont avérées essentielles pour les humains. Selon les époques, elles ont fait appel à l'imagination ou à l'ingénierie, et toujours de manière industrieuse. Ainsi, les trompettes, les tambours, la fumée ou le langage sifflé transmettaient des messages aux populations locales bien avant l'avènement du télégraphe optique, du télex ou de la téléphonie.

The philosopher - whose teachings have followers even more than 20 centuries after his death – was a genius without a doubt. Many of his ideas are hotly debated ever since. Even beyond heated philosophical debates, there are plenty of useful ideas by Plato. Studying thick books for this is not necessary - just listen to this audiobook published by AB Publishing! Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

In this book, you will hear the aphorisms and sayings of the outstanding thinker of ancient China. Confucius gathered his faithful disciples and followers in one of the most famous books in the world, the Lun Yu book (Conversations and Judgments), which is the holy book for all followers of Confucianism. The book will allow you to open up the treasury of the world's wisdom and is equally relevant to all peoples at all times.

This book really needed to be written. The Bill of Rights, applied to artificial intelligence. Food for thought.

Art is the creative manifestation of essences. In order to understand the relation between art and reality, we need a philosophical guide. The best way to comprehend how the creative act of imagining enables the mind to seek reality is to employ the kind of dialectical thinking that Plato used in his dialogues. Beginning with the shadows on the wall of the cave in which each person dwells, that process gradually enables us to grasp the essences that are manifested in individual works of art.

Mudrost Konfutsiya dlya dostizheniya uspeha i bogatstva! Kitayskiy myislitel ostavil mnozhestvo prostyih v svoey genialnosti idey, kotoryie pomogut vam dostich protsvetaniya! Eta kniga napolnit vashu povsednevnuyu zhizn smyislom i dast vozmozhnost vyiyti iz vechnoy nehvatki deneg. Dostigayte uspeha v delah, delaya schastlivyim ne tolko sebya, no i okruzhayuschih lyudey.

Istorija primenenija Lean-tehnologij - tak nazyvaemye tehnologii berezhlivogo proizvodstva - naschityvaet uzhe neskol'ko desjatiletij. Nesmotrja na jeto, povsjudu, osobenno v nashej strane, sistemu Lean vosprinimajut kak iskljuchitel'no novuju i ne vpolne primenimuju dlja evropejskih i amerikanskih, a tem bolee rossijskih, realij. Chasto govorjat, chto tol'ko japonskie rabotniki, privykshie k odnoobraznoj dejatel'nosti i poslushaniju, sposobny osvoit' rabotu po tehnologijam Lean: ritmichnuju, akkuratnuju, osnovannuju na komandnom vzaimodejstvii.

The explorers featured in this volume include: Michele Dougherty, the mathematician who persuaded the Cassini mission to Saturn to make a diversion; Richard Fortey on his love of trilobites; Monica Grady, Meteorite Lady; neurosurgeon Henry Marsh on slicing through our thoughts; the Director of the British Antarctic Survey, Jane Francis; Jocelyn Bell Burnell describing how she missed out on a Nobel Prize; Brian Cox on quantum mechanics; and Nobel Prize winner John Sulston on why he thought it would be a good idea to sequence the human genome.

In 1910, Mary Acworth Evershed (1867-1949) sat on a hill in southern India staring at the moon as she grappled with apparent mistakes in Dante's Divine Comedy. Was Dante's astronomy unintelligible? Or was he, for a man of his time and place, as insightful as one could be about the sky? As the 20th century began, women who wished to become professional astronomers faced difficult cultural barriers, but Evershed joined the British Astronomical Association and, from an Indian observatory, became an experienced observer of sunspots, solar eclipses, and variable stars.