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Alexander Belyaev

    Alexander Belyayev vestigde zich als een sleutelfiguur in de Russische sciencefiction, wiens verhalen zich vaak verdiepten in de diepgaande ethische vraagstukken die door wetenschappelijke vooruitgang werden opgeworpen. Zijn persoonlijke reis door ernstige ziekte en langdurig herstel, een periode waarin hij de werken van sciencefictionpioniers ontdekte, beïnvloedde zijn onderzoek naar menselijk potentieel en beperkingen diepgaand. Belyayevs verhalen worstelen vaak met thema's als kunstmatige intelligentie, genetische manipulatie en de essentie van bewustzijn, waarbij hij onderzoekt hoe wetenschappelijke ambitie kruist met fundamentele menselijke verlangens en angsten. Zijn kenmerkende proza biedt een boeiende mix van fantasierijke vertelkunst en scherp psychologisch inzicht, waardoor lezers worden uitgenodigd na te denken over de toekomstige koers van de mensheid.

    Голова Профессора Доуэля
    The Amphibian
    The Basics of Nuclear and Particle Physics
    • This undergraduate textbook breaks down the basics of Nuclear Structure and modern Particle Physics. Based on a comprehensive set of course notes, it covers all the introductory material and latest research developments required by third- and fourth-year physics students. The textbook is divided into two parts. Part I deals with Nuclear Structure, while Part II delves into Particle Physics. Each section contains the most recent science in the field, including experimental data and research on the properties of the top quark and Higgs boson. Detailed mathematical derivations are provided where necessary to helps students grasp the physics at a deeper level. Many of these have been conveniently placed in the Appendices and can be omitted if desired. Each chapter ends with a brief summary and includes a number of practice problems, the answers to which are also provided.

      The Basics of Nuclear and Particle Physics
    • The Amphibian will throw you back to a time when skin and deep-sea diving had not yet made the Silent World begin yielding up its secrets on a really big scale, as aqualung and snorkel are doing today, and present to you Alexander Belayev's 1928 prevision of the ocean mastered by mankind. Sea-devil has appeared in the Rio de la Plata. Weird cries out at sea, slashed fishermen's nets, glimpses of a most queer creature astride a dolphin leave no room for doubt. The Spaniard Zurita, greed overcoming his superstition, tries to catch Sea-devil and force it to pearl-dive for him but fails. On a lonely stretch of shore, not far from Buenos Aires, Dr. Salvator lives in seclusion behind a high wall, whose steel-plated gates only open to let in his Indian patients. The Indians revere him as a God but Zurita has a hunch that the God on land and the devil in the sea have something in common. Enlisting the help of two wily Araucanian brothers he sets out to probe the mystery. As action shifts from the bottom of the sea to the Spaniard's schooner The Jellyfish and back again, with interludes in sun-drenched Buenos Aires and countryside, the mystery of Ichthyander the sea-devil is unfolded before the reader in a narrative as gripping as it informative.

      The Amphibian