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The Perfect Swarm
Basic Books 2009; US$ 14.99The IgNobel Prize-winner and author of Rock, Paper, Scissors applies science-based solutions to seemingly complex problems in life. more...
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Basic Books 2008; US$ 15.95The IgNobel Prize-winning author of How to Dunk a Doughnut draws on the science of game theory to explain how human beings cooperate in everyday life. more...
Crashes, Crises, and Calamities
Basic Books 2011; US$ 23.99Master of popular science Len Fisher is back again, to shed new light on how we can predict catastrophe and avoid disaster. more...
Weighing the Soul
Orion 2011; US$ 24.45Good science and common sense often don't mix. In Weighing the Soul, Len Fisher shows the path to scientific discovery is frequently a bumpy one that follows Schopenhauer's famous maxim - 'All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; and Third, it is accepted as self-evident.' Fisher tells the fascinating,... more...
How to Dunk a Doughnut
Orion 2011; US$ 22.64Science is all around us. In this brilliant, entertaining book, Len Fisher provides scientific answers to familiar questions such as how to boil the perfect egg, how to catch a ball, the physics of sex, and why some vegetables absorb more gravy than others In doing so, he reveals the world of the scientist - how they think, what they do, and how they... more...
Weighing the Soul
Orion 2011; Not AvailableGood science and common sense often don't mix. In Weighing the Soul, Len Fisher shows the path to scientific discovery is frequently a bumpy one that follows Schopenhauer's famous maxim - 'All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; and Third, it is accepted as self-evident.' Fisher tells the fascinating,... more...
How to Dunk a Doughnut
Orion 2011; Not AvailableScience is all around us. In this brilliant, entertaining book, Len Fisher provides scientific answers to familiar questions such as how to boil the perfect egg, how to catch a ball, the physics of sex, and why some vegetables absorb more gravy than others In doing so, he reveals the world of the scientist - how they think, what they do, and how they... more...
Reise zum Mittelpunkt des Frühstückseis
Campus Verlag 2003; US$ 9.73Hauptbeschreibung Anhand unserer Alltagsaktivitäten erklärt uns Len Fisher die Welt der Naturwissenschaften: angefangen von der Chemie des morgendlichen Frühstückseis über die Physik der Heimwerkerei, die Statistik im Supermarkt bis hin zum Geheimnis eines gut gezapften Bieres am Abend. Nach der Lektüre sieht man die Welt mit anderen Augen. Für... more...
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