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29,90 ₾კაცობრიობის ისტორიის განმავლობაში ყოველგვარი ტექნოლოგიური ცვლილება – იქნება ეს შუა საუკუნეებში სოფლის მეურნეობის გაუმჯობესება, ინდუსტრიული რევოლუცია თუ თანამედროვე ხელოვნური ინტელექტი – განიხილებოდა კეთილდღეობის უპირველეს მამოძრავებელ ძალად, რომელსაც საზოგადოებისთვის სიკეთე მოაქვს. თუმცა, სინამდვილეში, ტექნოლოგია ვითარდება იმის მიხედვით, თუ რა სურთ და რის სჯერათ ძლევამოსილ ადამიანებს – გამორჩეულებს სიმდიდრით, სოციალური სტატუსითა თუ პოლიტიკური გავლენით. დანარჩენებისთვის – ანუ უმეტესობისთვის – პროგრესი ილუზიაა.
დარონ აჯემოღლუ და საიმონ ჯონსონი, ეკონომიკის დარგში 2024 წლის ნობელის პრემიის ლაურეატები, გვთავაზობენ ეკონომიკისა და ისტორიის გაბედულ ინტერპრეტაციას, ძირს უთხრიან მიღებულ აზრს იმის შესახებ, როგორ მუშაობს ეკონომიკა და აღწერენ, ვინ სარგებლობს კეთილდღეობით და ვინ რჩება კეთილდღეობის მიღმა.
ავტორები გვთავაზობენ ხედვას, როგორ უნდა გადაიხედოს და შეიცვალოს ტექნოლოგიების განვითარების გზა, რათა ნამდვილი, საყოველთაო კეთილდღეობით მთელმა საზოგადოებამ ისარგებლოს.
Stuff Matters
24,00 ₾Stuff Matters by Mark Miodnownik is a unique and inspiring exploration of human creativity. ‘Enthralling. A mission to re-acquaint us with the wonders of the fabric that sustains our lives’ Guardian Everything is made of something… From the everyday objects in our homes to the most extraordinary new materials that will shape our future, Stuff Matters reveals the inner workings of the man-made world, the miracles of craft, design, engineering and ingenuity that surround us every day. From the tea-cup to the jet engine, the silicon chip to the paper clip, from the ancient technologies of fabrics and ceramic to today’s self-healing metals and bionic implants, this is a book to inspire amazement and delight at mankind’s creativity. ‘A certain sort of madness may be necessary to pull off what he has attempted here, which is a wholesale animation of the inanimate: Miodownik achieves precisely what he sets out to’ The Times ‘Insightful, fascinating. The futuristic materials will elicit gasps. Makes even the most everyday substance seem exciting’ Sunday Times ‘Wonderful. Miodownik writes well enough to make even concrete sparkle’ Financial Times ‘I stayed up all night reading this book’ Oliver Sacks ‘Expert, deftly written, immensely enjoyable’ Observer Mark Miodownik is Professor of Materials and Society at UCL, scientist-in-residence on Dara O Briain’s Science Club (BBC2) and presenter of several documentaries, including The Genius of Invention (BBC2). In 2010, he gave the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, broadcast on BBC4. He is Director of the UCL Institute of Making, which is home to a materials library containing some of the most wondrous matter on earth, and has collaborated to make interactive events with many museums, such as Tate Modern, the Hayward Gallery and Wellcome Collection. In 2014 Stuff Matters won the Royal Society Winton Prize.
Pathfinders- The Golden Age of Arabic Science
28,00 ₾For over 700 years the international language of science was Arabic. Surveying the golden age of Arabic science, Jim Al-Khalili reintroduces such figures as the Iraqi physicist Ibn al-Haytham, who practised the modern scientific method over half a century before Bacon; al-Khwarizmi, the greatest mathematician of the medieval world; and Abu Rayhan al-Biruni, a Persian polymath to rival Leonardo da Vinci.
Elementary
32,00 ₾Chemistry’s most significant chart, the Periodic Table, and its 118 elements, is laid bare in this lively, accessible and compelling expose. The periodic table, created in the early 1860s by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, marked one of the most extraordinary advances in modern chemistry. This basic visual aid helped scientists to gain a deeper understanding of what chemical elements really were and the role they played in everyday life. Here, in the authoritative Elementary, James Russell uses his engaging narrative to explain the elements we now know about. From learning about the creation of the first three elements, hydrogen, lithium and helium, in the big bang, through to oxygen and carbon, which sustain life on earth – along with the many weird and wonderful uses of elements as varied as fluorine, arsenic, krypton and einsteinium – even the most unscientifically minded will be enthralled by this fascinating subject. This is the story of the building blocks of the universe, and the people who identified, isolated and even created them. Perfect for: • Readers interested in learning more about the elements in an accessible, engaging manner • Chemistry students
How to Lie with Statistics
27,00 ₾Over Half a Million Copies Sold–an Honest-to-Goodness Bestseller
Darrell Huff runs the gamut of every popularly used type of statistic, probes such things as the sample study, the tabulation method, the interview technique, or the way the results are derived from the figures, and points up the countless number of dodges which are used to full rather than to inform.