Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 32,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4214-4372-0
EAN 9781421443720
The Industrial Revolution meets the quantum-technology revolution! A steampunk adventure guide to how mind-blowing quantum physics is transforming our understanding of information and energy. Victorian era steam engines and particle physics may seem worlds (as well as centuries) apart, yet a new branch of science, quantum thermodynamics, reenvisions the scientific underpinnings of the Industrial Revolution ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-1-71850-268-0
EAN 9781718502680
In 2004, Android was two people who wanted to build camera software but couldn't get investors interested. Today, Android is a large team at Google, delivering an operating system (including camera software) to over 3 billion devices worldwide. This is the inside story, told by the people who made it happen.This is a first-hand chronological ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-525-53886-8
EAN 9780525538868
Offers a useful reminder of the role of modern science in fundamentally transforming all of our lives." --President Barack Obama (on Twitter)"An important book." --Steven Pinker, The New York Times Book ReviewThe surprising and important story of how humans gained what amounts to an extra life, from the bestselling author of How We Got to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 16,30 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198954-9
EAN 9780141989549
'An incredible odyssey' Financial Times'Today I woke up on Earth. And I will fall asleep in space'In space the sun rises and sets 16 times a day. You fly over every sea, every mountain and desert, every city and every port.The most ordinary things -- eating, sleeping, brushing your teeth or cutting your hair -- ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 42,00 €
ISBN 978-1-80035-028-1
EAN 9781800350281
In this eagerly anticipated book, renowned space historian and author David Baker turns his attention to the Saturn I and IB rockets. Although considered as merely a 'stepping stone' from the Mercury and Gemini programs to the mighty Saturn V and the Apollo missions that put the first humans on the Moon, the Saturn I ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 396 páginas
PVP: 40,00 €
ISBN 978-3-8365-7738-0
EAN 9783836577380
Casi un siglo antes de que Mondrian popularizase sus líneas geométricas rojas, amarillas y azules, Oliver Byrne utilizó ese mismo esquema cromático para su edición de 1847 del tratado matemático y geométrico de Euclides, Elementos. La idea de Byrne era usar el color para facilitar el aprendizaje y difundir un conocimiento permanente . El resultado ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-832-1
EAN 9781785788321
Brian Clegg was always fascinated by Isaac Asimov's classic Foundation series of books, in which the future is predicted using sophisticated mathematical modelling of human psychology and behaviour. Only much later did he realise that Asimov's 'psychohistory' had a real-world equivalent: game theory. Originating in the study of probabilistic gambling games that depend on a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-44710-9
EAN 9780241447109
Pre-order the incredible book behind the primetime Channel 4 documentary, Peter: The Human Cyborg. Peter, a brilliant scientist, is told that he will lose everything he loves. His husband.His family. His friends. His ability to travel the world.All will be gone. But Peter will not give up. He vows that this will not be the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4746-1997-4
EAN 9781474619974
Every day, most of us will read or watch something in the news that is based on statistics in some way. Sometimes it'll be obvious - 'X people develop cancer every year' - and sometimes less obvious - 'How smartphones destroyed a generation'. Statistics are an immensely powerful tool for understanding the world, but in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 15,20 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199519-9
EAN 9780141995199
'A majestic story' David Bodanis, Financial Times From the international bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible and Physics of the FutureThis is the story of a quest: to find a Theory of Everything. Einstein dedicated his life to seeking this elusive Holy Grail, a single, revolutionary 'god equation' which would tie all the forces ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-8193-1
EAN 9781529381931
As you read this, billions of neutrinos from the sun are passing through your body, antimatter is sprouting from your dinner and the core of your being is a chaotic mess of particles known only as quarks and gluons.If the recent discovery of the Higgs boson piqued your interest, then Why The Universe Exists will ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-8195-5
EAN 9781529381955
Sometime in the future the intelligence of machines will exceed that of human brain power. So are we on the edge of an AI-pocalypse, with superintelligent devices superseding humanity, as predicted by Stephen Hawking? Or will this herald a kind of Utopia, with machines doing a far better job at complex tasks than us? You ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-5291-1244-3
EAN 9781529112443
What would happen if you fell into a Black Hole?Black holes are found throughout the universe. They can be microscopic. They can be billions of times larger than our Sun.They are dark on the outside but not on the inside. Anything that enters them can never escape, and yet they contain nothing at all. In ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199028-6
EAN 9780141990286
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'A scientific memoir as gripping as any HBO drama series' Kate Kellaway, ObserverA dazzling scientific detective story from the ecologist who first discovered the hidden language of trees No one has done more to transform our understanding of trees than the world-renowned scientist Suzanne Simard. Now she shares the secrets of a lifetime ...
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Frith, Alex; Frith, Chris; Frith, Uta
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-5266-0155-1
EAN 9781526601551
'Charming and addictively accessible' STEVEN PINKER'Original, authoritative and beautiful' BRIAN COX'The most wonderful adventure' ROBIN INCEA brilliantly illustrated journey through the wonders and mysteries of the human brain - from a renowned husband-and-wife team of cognitive neuroscientists. Professors and husband-and-wife team Uta and Chris Frith have pioneered major studies of brain disorders throughout their nearly ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-0484-8
EAN 9781529304848
'VISIONARY' Stephen GreenblattHarvard's top astronomer takes us inside the mind-blowing story of the first interstellar visitor to our solar system In late 2017, scientists at a Hawaiian observatory glimpsed a strange object soaring through our inner solar system. Astrophysicist Avi Loeb conclusively showed it was not an asteroid; it was moving too fast along a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-707-9
EAN 9781788167079
'A fascinating read for anyone interested in the future of the planet' Adam Hart, author and BBC science presenterOur planet hasn't seen the current rate of extinction since the demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, and global conservation efforts are failing to halt this. As a society, we face choices which will determine ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-914484-19-3
EAN 9781914484193
The forgotten garden that inspired Charles Darwin becomes the modern-day setting for an exploration of memory, family, and the legacy of genius. Darwin's childhood garden at The Mount in Shrewsbury was the site of some of the great scientist's earliest experiments. It was where, under the tutelage of his green-fingered mother and sisters, and the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 350 páginas
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-50680-6
EAN 9780241506806
This Way to the Universe is a celebration of the astounding, ongoing scientific investigations that have revealed the nature of reality at its smallest, at its largest, and at the scale of our daily lives. The enigmas Professor Michael Dine discusses are like landmarks on a fantastic journey to the edge of the universe.Dine is ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-86154-215-4
EAN 9780861542154
'Entertaining and engrossing' Sean CarrollPress the snooze button on your alarm once too often and you soon remember the importance of good timekeeping. That need to tell the time connects you to over five thousand years of human history, from the first solstice markers at Newgrange to quartz crystal oscillating in your watch today. Science ...
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