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This book reviews the theory and applications of the normal-mode functions in numerical weather prediction and weather and climate dynamics. The normal-mode functions, the eigensolutions of the linearized primitive equations describing the evolution of atmospheric winds and mass variables, have been used for a long time. They have played an important role in the development ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-9413-9
EAN 9781529394139
Introduced by Jim Al-KhaliliCould you surf down an erupting volcano?Why do zebras have stripes?Are you breathing the same air as Leonardo da Vinci?Are there any green mammals?Why do pineapples have spikes?Why do songs get stuck in your head?What happens when black holes collide?Can you extract your DNA?New Scientist has been a treasure trove of fascinating ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 350 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-598-5
EAN 9781847925985
The Song of the Cell is the vivid, thrilling and suspenseful story of the fundamental unit of life. It describes how scientists discovered cells, began to understand them, and are now using that knowledge to create new humans. Both panoramic and intimate, it is Siddhartha Mukherjee's most spectacular book yet.In the late 1600s, a distinguished ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-61659-8
EAN 9780241616598
Is the metaverse a brave new world? An immersive digital playground? The next generation of online gaming? Or just the latest manifestation of our human tendency to create other realities?Herman Narula argues that it is all of these things. His vision of the metaverse, deeply rooted in history and psychology, looks to the Egyptians, whose ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 560 páginas
PVP: 36,25 €
ISBN 978-0-85752-769-1
EAN 9780857527691
Number One Bestseller in both hardback and paperbackThe Sunday Times Book of the YearThe ideal gift for everybody
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 25,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-26463-0
EAN 9780300264630
The hidden costs of artificial intelligence-from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality, and freedom"This study argues that artificial intelligence is neither artificial nor particularly intelligent. . .. A fascinating history of the data on which machine-learning systems are trained."-New Yorker"A valuable corrective to much of the hype surrounding AI and a useful instruction manual ...
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PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-00-854322-8
EAN 9780008543228
Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time-war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, race, and tribalism-in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of unity for us all.In a time when our ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-5290-6058-4
EAN 9781529060584
Exhilaratingly whizzes through billions of years . . .Gee is a marvellously engaging writer, juggling humour, precision, polemic and poetry to enrich his impossibly telescoped account . . . making clear sense out of very complex narratives' - The Times'Henry Gee makes the kaleidoscopically changing canvas of life understandable and exciting. Who will enjoy reading ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4736-8063-0
EAN 9781473680630
WHAT IF... one man decided to answer all the unanswerable questions, using science.The Sunday Times-bestselling author and xkcd creator, Randall Munroe is here to provide the best answers yet to the important questions you probably never thought to askThe millions of people around the world who read and loved What If? still have questions, and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 30,00 €
ISBN 978-3-8365-9007-5
EAN 9783836590075
Fritz Kahn (1888 1968) fue un médico alemán, pedagogo, autor de textos de divulgación científica y pionero de la representación gráfica de la información. Obligado a salir de Alemania por los nazis, quienes prohibieron y quemaron sus libros, Kahn emigró a Palestina, Francia y finalmente a Estados Unidos para continuar con el trabajo de su ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-571-33772-9
EAN 9780571337729
A BOOK OF THE YEARGUARDIAN, THE ECONOMIST, NEW STATESMAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, BLOOMBERGAnil Seth's radical new theory of consciousness challenges our understanding of perception and reality, doing for brain science what Dawkins did for evolutionary biology. 'A brilliant beast of a book.' DAVID BYRNE'Hugely important.' JIM AL-KHALILI'Masterly . .. An exhilarating book: a vast-ranging, phenomenal achievement ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199372-0
EAN 9780141993720
In the constellation of Eridanus there lurks a cosmic mystery. It's as if something has taken a huge bite out of the universe, leaving a super-void. What could be the culprit? A super massive black hole? Another, bigger universe? Or an expanding vacuum bubble, destined to envelop and annihilate everything in existence?Scientists now understand the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-5290-8671-3
EAN 9781529086713
The Moon goes around the Earth, the Earth goes around the Sun, the Sun goes around the centre of the Milky Way: a supermassive black hole. As you read this you are currently orbiting a black hole. Money might make the world go round, but black holes make the universe go round.Black holes are not ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-922-9
EAN 9781785789229
The thrilling scientific quest for almost limitless clean energy from nuclear fusion.Since the 1950s, scientists have attempted to harness nuclear fusion - the process that creates the Sun's energy - to generate near-limitless amounts of electricity.But the fact that we still have no fusion power plants is testament to the complexities of the challenge. Now, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78763-647-7
EAN 9781787636477
'I have long been a fan of David Christian' - Bill GatesA user's guide to the future from the algorithms in DNA to why time is like a cocktail glass, interstellar migrations, transhumanism, the fate of the galaxy, and the last black holeEvery second of our lives - whether we're looking both ways before crossing ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4746-1160-2
EAN 9781474611602
Is it possible to build a star on earth?When asked what problem he hoped scientists will have solved by the end of the century, Professor Stephen Hawking replied 'I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.' But what is ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197543-6
EAN 9780141975436
A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020How did we end up in a world where humans coexist with technologies we can no longer fully control or understand?George Dyson plots an unexpected course through the past 300 years to reveal the hidden connections that underpin our digital age, ending with a premonition of what lies ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199733-9
EAN 9780141997339
THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR NEW NETFLIX SERIES, HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND'It's a trip - engrossing, eye-opening, mind altering' New Statesman 'Fascinating. Pollan is the perfect guide ... curious, careful, open minded' The Guardian Of all the many things humans rely on plants for, surely the most curious is our use of them to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-6495-8
EAN 9781529364958
'The most sheerly enjoyable history of science of recent years' The Spectator'This is one of the best science books I have read in a decade' Paul DaviesLife is Simple tells the remarkable story of how a thirteenth century monk's search for simplicity led to the emergence of the modern world. We begin in the turbulent ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-8201-3
EAN 9781529382013
Where did we come from? Where are we going?Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and the most influential species ever to walk the Earth. In the blink of an evolutionary eye we have spread around the globe, taken control of Earth's biological and mineral resources, transformed the environment, discovered the secrets of ...
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