Voorloper van de moderne wetenschap

Vader van alle wetenschappen

Van kwantumsprong tot 'big science'

Een geheim wiskundig genootschap

De verovering van het brein

De mathematisering van de werkelijkheid

Bedenker van de catastrofetheorie

Leven voor een idee, de evolutietheorie

Pioniers in de radioactiviteit

Twee generaties in de ban van radioactiviteit.

Een alternatief voor Einsteins heelalmodel

Todd Anderson and his friends at Welton Academy can hardly believe how different life is since their new English professor, the flamboyant John Keating, has challenged them to ''make your lives extraordinary! Inspired by Keating, the boys resurrect the Dead Poets Society--a secret club where, free from the constraints and expectations of school and parents, they let their passions run wild. As Keating turns the boys on to the great words of Byron, Shelley, and Keats, they discover not only the beauty of language, but the importance of making each moment count. Can the club and the individuality it inspires survive the pressure from authorities determined to destroy their dreams? But the Dead Poets pledges soon realize that their newfound freedom can have tragic consequences. Can the club and the individuality it inspires survive the pressure from authorities determined to destroy their dreams?

Pionier van de moderne wetenschappen

Kwanten en relativiteit: revolutie in de natuurkunde

Een magistraal fysicus

Leven en werken van een onrustige geest

Mathematische waarheid en logische paradoxen

Van kwantumrevolutie tot wereldformule Werner Heisenberg stond aan de basis van de kwantummechanica. Hij werd als jongste Duitser ooit benoemd tot hoogleraar en kreeg een Nobelprijs voor zijn baanbrekende werk in de fysica. Toen Hitler begin jaren dertig aan de macht kwam in Duitsland, besloot Heisenberg zich, na een aanvankelijke confrontatie, te schikken naar de wensen van het nazi-regime. Tijdens de oorlog leidde hij het Duitse kernfysische onderzoek. In die tijd sprak hij met Niels Bohr over het grootste geheim van zijn tijd: de atoombom. Op 6 augustus 1945 werd Heisenberg gearresteerd door de geallieerden. In gevangenschap hoorde hij dat de Amerikanen al een atoombom hadden gemaakt en zelfs hadden gebruikt, om Hiroshima en Nagasaki in de as te leggen. Dit boek schetst het leven van een groot, maar uiterst controversieel wetenschapper, de bedenker van de onzekerheidstheorie: 'Hoe preciezer de positie van een deeltje is bepaald, des te onzekerder is het momentum van dat deeltje en vice versa.' Door: William Shea

Grondlegger van de bacteriologie

Sprongen in de evolutie

Homo universalis

Ontdekker van de samenhang van elektriciteit, magnetisme en licht

Vader van de genetica

Alchemist, filosoof en natuurwetenschapper

The Penguin English Library Edition of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 'A parish child - the orphan of a workhouse - the humble, half-starved drudge - to be cuffed and buffeted through the world, despised by all, and pitied by none' Dark, mysterious and mordantly funny, Oliver Twist features some of the most memorably drawn villains in all of fiction - the treacherous gangmaster Fagin, the menacing thug Bill Sikes, the Artful Dodger and their den of thieves in the grimy London backstreets. Dicken's novel is both an angry indictment of poverty, and an adventure filled with an air of threat and pervasive evil. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

Van microscoop tot légion d'honneur

De 'Einstein van de chemie'

Aidan Chambers' Carnegie-medal winning novel is about love, discovery and betrayal. It is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first. Jacob, aged 17, is abroad on his own for the time, visiting his grandfather's grave at the commemoration of the Second World War Battle of Arnhem in Holland. Jacob's life-changing experiences are interwoven with the extraordinary wartime story of passion and treachery that he learns from Geertrui, whose family is linked to Jacob's in a way he never suspected. The Originals are the pioneers of fiction for young adults. From political awakening, war and unrequited love to addiction, teenage pregnancy and nuclear holocaust, The Originals confront big issues and articulate difficult truths. The collection includes: The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton, I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith, Postcards from No Man's Land - Aidan Chambers, After the First Death - Robert Cormier, Dear Nobody - Berlie Doherty, The Endless Steppe - Esther Hautzig, Buddy - Nigel Hinton, Across the Barricades - Joan Lingard, The Twelfth Day of July - Joan Lingard, No Turning Back - Beverley Naidoo, Z for Zachariah - Richard C. O'Brien, The Wave - Morton Rhue, The Red Pony - John Steinbeck, The Pearl - John Steinbeck, Stone Cold - Robert Swindells.

''In Slaughterhouse Five, -- Or the Children's Crusade, Vonnegut finally delivers a complete treatise on the World War II bombing of Dresden. The main character, Billy Pilgrim, is a very young infantry scout who is captured in the Battle of the Bulge and quartered in a Dresden slaughterhouse where he and other prisoners are employed in the production of a vitamin supplement for pregnant women. During the February 13, 1945, firebombing by Allied aircraft, the prisoners take shelter in an underground meat locker. When they emerge, the city has been levelled and they are forced to dig corpses out of the rubble. The story of Billy Pilgrim is the story of Kurt Vonnegut who was captured and survived the firestorm in which 135,000 German civilians perished, more than the number of deaths in the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. 

Bizarre and bewildering - that's what so many murder investigations in the past had proved to be ... In this respect, at least, Lewis was correct in his thinking. What he could not have known was what unprecedented anguish the present case would cause to Morse's soul.' Chief Superintendent Strange's opinion was that too little progress had been made since the discovery of a corpse in a North Oxford flat. The victim had been killed by a single stab wound to the stomach. Yet the police had now weapon, no suspect, no motive. Within days of taking over the case Chief Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis uncover startling new information about the life and death of Dr Felix McClure. When another body is discovered Morse suddenly finds himself with rather too many suspects. For once, he can see no solution. But then he receives a letter containing a declaration of love...

The Rain Before it Falls - Jonathan Coe's heartbreaking novel of family secrets. Deeply moving and compelling, The Rain Before it Falls is the story of three generations of one family riven by tragedy. When Rosamund, a reluctant bearer of family secrets, dies suddenly, a mystery is left for her niece Gill to unravel. Some photograph albums and tapes point towards a blind girl named Imogen whom no one has seen in twenty years. The search for Imogen and the truth of her inheritance becomes a shocking story of mothers and daughters and of how sadness, like a musical refrain, may haunt us down the years. Spectacular, heartbreaking, beautifully written. 

Krachten die de wereld bijeenhouden

De nazi-raketbouwer die de Amerikanen naar de maan bracht

Filosoof en mathematicus

Grondlegger van het moderne wereldbeeld

De meester van de moderne mathematica

De ordening van plant en dier

Astronoom op zoek naar harmonie

Wiskundige van God

Grondlegger van de elektrochemie

Grondlegger van de ethologie

Prins der wiskundigen en veelzijdig wetenschapper

De revolutie van de scheikunde

Het genie dat de hiërogliefen ontcijferde

De drie musketiers van de nieuwe biologie

Van atoomkern tot kosmos

Melkwegonderzoeker en grondlegger van de radioastronomie

Pionier van de wetenschappelijke methode

Priester, filosoof, vrijdenker en astronoom