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Masters of Sex
. The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Lov
- Basic Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 424 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-465-07999-5
EAN 9780465079995
Now a New Showtime Original Series Showtime's dramatic series Masters of Sex, starring Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan, is based on this real-life story of sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson. Before Sex and the City and ViagraTM, America relied on Masters and Johnson to teach us everything we needed to know about what ...
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- Basic Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 28,00 €
ISBN 978-0-465-05074-1
EAN 9780465050741
A top mathematician's lifelong quest to find a theory for every number. What if you had to take an art class in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of van Gogh and Picasso, weren't even told they existed? Alas, this is how math ...
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- Basic Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
ISBN 978-0-465-08999-4
EAN 9780465089994
"A fun, spunky, wise little book that would be helpful to both the consumers of the news and its purveyors." -Washington Post In this lively volume, mathematician John Allen Paulos employs his singular wit to guide us through an unlikely mathematical jungle-the pages of the daily newspaper. From the Senate and sex to celebrities and ...
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Measure of the Earth
The Enlightenment Expedition That Reshaped Our World
- Basic Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 376 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-465-06381-9
EAN 9780465063819
An award-winning historian of science reveals the riveting and little-known story of a team of eighteenth-century European scientists that journeyed to South America to calculate the shape of the earth.In the 18th century, Europe's scientific community was torn between two opposing theories: Descartes' argument that the Earth was spherical, and Newton's contention that it was ...
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A fascinating and colorful journey into the microscopic but massively influential worlds of germs, bacteria, and virusesWith the wit of Bill Bryson and the spirit of Natalie Angier, Idan Ben-Barak takes us on a fantastic voyage into the infinitesimal world of microbiology. In The Invisible Kingdom, he introduces us to the amazing lives of genes, ...
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The Infinity Puzzle
Quantum Field Theory and the Hunt for an Orderly Universe
- Basic Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-0-465-06382-6
EAN 9780465063826
Speculation is rife that by 2012 the elusive Higgs boson will be found at the Large Hadron Collider. If found, the Higgs boson would help explain why everything has mass. But there's more at stake-what we're really testing is our capacity to make the universe reasonable. Our best understanding of physics is predicated on something ...
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Cosmic Numbers
The Numbers That Define Our Universe
- Basic Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 16,70 €
ISBN 978-0-465-06379-6
EAN 9780465063796
In Cosmic Numbers, mathematics professor James Stein traces the discovery, evolution, and interrelationships of the great numbers that define our world. Some numbers, like the speed of light and absolute zero, are well known to the general public. Others, such as Boltzmann's constant and the Chandrasekhar limit, are known only to those with a deep ...
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For God, Country and Coca-Cola
The Definitive History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company That Makes It
- Basic Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 23,05 €
ISBN 978-0-465-02917-4
EAN 9780465029174
Now fully updated, the classic account of how a bottle of sweetened caramel-colored soda water became synonymous with American capitalismFrom its invention as a cocaine-laced patent medicine in the Gilded Age to its globe-drenching ubiquity as the definitive symbol of consumer capitalism in the twenty-first century, Coca-Cola's dramatic history unfolds as the ultimate business saga. ...
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- Basic Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 608 páginas
PVP: 36,60 €
ISBN 978-0-465-01847-5
EAN 9780465018475
From this singular premise, Pulitzer-Prize winning author Doug Hofstadter and French psychologist Emmanuel Sander construct a broad argument that explains how analogies help us find order out of the chaos of the world. From the simplest forms (a single word, category, or phrase) to infinitely complex constructions (an idiom, or proverb, or algorithm) analogies are ...
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Keepers of the Keys of Heaven
A History of the Papacy
- Basic Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
ISBN 978-0-465-06182-2
EAN 9780465061822
From Saint Peter to John Paul II, a brilliantly lucid and comprehensive single-volume history of the papacy by a distinguished religious scholarOne of the most enduring and influential of all human institutions, the Papacy has also been among the most controversial. From the founding of the Christian Church in the first century AD to the ...
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- Basic Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,40 €
ISBN 978-0-465-06185-3
EAN 9780465061853
A novel by the masterful storyteller and psychotherapist Irvin Yalom interweaves the philosophical life of Benedict Spinoza with the story of the obsessive Nazi "philosopher" Alfred Rosenberg Annotation: A novel by the masterful storyteller and psychotherapist Irvin Yalom interweaves the philosophical life of Benedict Spinoza with the story of the obsessive Nazi "philosopher" Alfred Rosenberg
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Alone Together
Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
- Basic Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 18,05 €
ISBN 978-0-465-03146-7
EAN 9780465031467
Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends, and confusing tweets and wall posts with authentic communication. But this relentless connection leads to a new solitude. We turn to new technology to fill the void, but as MIT technology ...
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- Basic Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 20,80 €
ISBN 978-0-465-02797-2
EAN 9780465027972
Essential advice on problem solving from physics' clearest teacherFeynman's Tips on Physics is a book in two parts. The first will be a treat for any Feynman fan: it includes a memoir by Matthew Sands about the origins of the Feynman Lectures on Physics, and is dominated by four lectures, delivered with the rest of ...
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Massive
The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science
- Basic Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
ISBN 978-0-465-05873-0
EAN 9780465058730
A prize-winning science writer's history of the forty-year search for the Higgs boson, and the intense rivalries, clashing egos, and grand ambition that led to a world-changing discoveryThe biggest science story of our time, Massive spans four decades, weaving together the personal narratives and international rivalries behind the search for the "God" particle, or Higgs ...
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The Abacus and the Cross
The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages
- Basic Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 328 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-465-03144-3
EAN 9780465031443
The medieval Catholic Church, widely considered a source of intolerance and inquisitorial fervor, was not anti-science during the Dark Ages,in fact, the pope in the year 1000 was the leading mathematician and astronomer of his day. Called The Scientist Pope," Gerbert of Aurillac rose from peasant beginnings to lead the church. By turns a teacher, ...
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- Basic Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-465-02011-9
EAN 9780465020119
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- Basic Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 22,15 €
ISBN 978-0-465-02865-8
EAN 9780465028658
A Wicked Company tells the remarkable story of Baron Thierry Holbach's Parisian salon, an epicenter of freethinking that brought together the greatest minds of the 18th century. Over wine-soaked dinner parties, the finest intellectuals of the Western world-figures such as Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, Adam Smith, Horace Walpole, and Benjamin Franklin-matched wits and ...
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- Basic Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
ISBN 978-0-465-02828-3
EAN 9780465028283
Controversial and bestselling economist Dambisa Moyo tackles one of the most vital geopolitical stories of our time: China's aggressive global crusade to secure natural resources.Commodities permeate virtually every aspect of modern daily living, but for all their importance-their breadth, their depth, their intricacies, and their central role in daily life-few people who are not economists ...
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- Basic Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-0-465-03167-2
EAN 9780465031672
Tracking us in elevators and on emails, at home and at work, a leading primatologist uncovers the rules that govern the social life of the human animal.Most humans don't realize that when they exchange emails with someone, anyone, they are actually exhibiting certain unspoken rules about dominance and hierarchy. The same rules regulate the exchange ...
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