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- Icon Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-1-83773-182-4
EAN 9781837731824
In Rome the echoes of the past resound clearly in its palaces and monuments, and in the remains of the ancient imperial city. But another presence has dominated Rome for 2,000 years -the pope, whose actions and influence echo down the ages. In this epic tale, historian Jessica Wärnberg tells, for the first time, the ...
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UPROAR!
Satire, Scandal and Printmakers in Georgian London
- Icon Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-955-7
EAN 9781785789557
**A brilliant new history of Georgian Britain through the eyes of the artists who immortalised it, by one of the UK's most exciting young historians**'Alice Loxton is the star of her generation ... the next big thing in history' DAN SNOW'Vivid, pacey and endlessly engaging, this brilliant debut brings the late Georgian period dazzlingly to ...
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Elon Musk
Risking It All
- Icon Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-915563-10-1
EAN 9781915563101
In 2022 Elon Musk - one of the richest and best-known people on earth - made headlines worldwide with his bid to buy Twitter, and he is often in the news for his entrepreneurial exploits and his controversial tweets. Who is this boundary-pushing billionaire with grand plans of inhabiting Mars, and what lies at the ...
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Eight Improbable Possibilities
The Mystery of the Moon, and Other Implausible Scientific Truths
- Icon Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-979-3
EAN 9781785789793
'Gribbin casts a wide net and displays his breadth of knowledge in packing a lot into each chapter . . .a brief read, but one that may inspire readers to dig deeper.' Giles Sparrow, BBC Sky at Night MagazineA mind-warping excursion into the wildly improbable truths of science. Echoing Sherlock Holmes' famous dictum, John Gribbin ...
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Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid
How the Natural World is Adapting to Climate Change
- Icon Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-978-6
EAN 9781785789786
'An original, wide-ranging and carefully researched book ... contains important lessons for humanity.' Mark Cocker, The SpectatorA fascinating insight into climate change biology around the globe, as well as in our own backyards. Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid is the first major book by a biologist to focus on the fascinating story of how the ...
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Nuclear Fusion
The Race to Build a Mini-Sun on Earth
- Icon Books, 2022
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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Game Theory
Understanding the Mathematics of Life
- Icon Books, 2022
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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- Icon Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-823-9
EAN 9781785788239
'Scorching ... a brave book.' Helen Brown, Telegraph'A wise and vivid memoir of a disintegrating marriage and a study of the role of the spouse in the life of a literary giant.' Fiona Sturges, i Paper18TH JANUARY 1990Paul left today at 8am. We had been married just over 22 years.The previous evening we had gone ...
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- Icon Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-843-7
EAN 9781785788437
A groundbreaking history of the Black Joke, the most famous member of the British Royal Navy's anti-slavery squadron, and the long fight to end the transatlantic slave trade. Initially a slaving vessel itself, the Black Joke was captured in 1827 and repurposed by the Royal Navy to catch its former compatriots. Over the next five ...
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Seven Pillars of Science
The Incredible Lightness of Ice, and Other Scientific Surprises
- Icon Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-858-1
EAN 9781785788581
John Gribbin, author of Six Impossible Things, shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize, presents a tour of seven fundamental scientific truths that underpin our very existence. These 'pillars of science' also defy common sense. For example, solid things are mostly empty space, so how do they hold together? There appears to ...
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Beyond Bitcoin
Decentralised Finance and the End of Banks
- Icon Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 252 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-830-7
EAN 9781785788307
After over a decade of Bitcoin, which has now moved beyond lore and hype into an increasingly robust star in the firmament of global assets, a new and more important question has arisen. What happens beyond Bitcoin? The answer is decentralised finance - 'DeFi'. Tech and finance experts Steven Boykey Sidley and Simon Dingle argue ...
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Women in the Picture
Women, Art and the Power of Looking
- Icon Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-695-2
EAN 9781785786952
'Terrifically smart ... On this grand tour of western visual culture, you couldn't ask for a better guide than McCormack, an art historian with attitude who offers a rousing new lens for looking "beyond the exchange of seeing and being seen".' Bridget Quinn, author of Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History ...
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- Icon Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-747-8
EAN 9781785787478
The breakthroughs that have had the most transformative practical impacts, from thermodynamics to the Internet. Physics informs our understanding of how the world works - but more than that, key breakthroughs in physics have transformed everyday life. We journey back to ten separate days in history to understand how particular breakthroughs were achieved, meet the ...
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- Icon Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 16,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-719-5
EAN 9781785787195
Nearing half a century since the last Apollo mission, mankind has yet to return to the Moon, but that is about to change. With NASA's Artemis program scheduled for this decade, astronomer David Whitehouse takes a timely look at what the next 50 years of space exploration have in store. The thirteenth man and the ...
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Past Mistakes
How We Misinterpret History and Why it Matters
- Icon Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 306 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-690-7
EAN 9781785786907
From the fall of Rome to the rise of the Wild West, David Mountain brings colour and perspective to historical mythmaking. The stories we tell about our past matter. But those stories have been shaped by prejudice, hoaxes and misinterpretations that have whitewashed entire chapters of history, erased women and invented civilisations.Today history is often ...
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- Icon Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-718-8
EAN 9781785787188
Lucy Jane Santos presents the surprising history of radium in everyday life. Of all the radioactive elements discovered at the end of the 19th century, it was radium that became the focus of both public fascination and entrepreneurial zeal.Half Lives tells the fascinating, curious, sometimes macabre story of the element through its ascendance as a ...
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How Iceland Changed the World
The Big History of a Small Island
- Icon Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-765-2
EAN 9781785787652
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- Icon Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-591-7
EAN 9781785785917
The Middle Ages: A Graphic History busts the myth of the 'Dark Ages', shedding light on the medieval period's present-day relevance in a unique illustrated style. This history takes us through the rise and fall of empires, papacies, caliphates and kingdoms; through the violence and death of the Crusades, Viking raids, the Hundred Years War ...
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Hitler's South African Spies
Secret Agents and the Intelligence War in South Africa
- Icon Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 16,05 €
ISBN 978-1-77619-116-1
EAN 9781776191161
The story of the intelligence war in South Africa during the Second World War is one of suspense, drama and dogged persistence. In 1939, when the Union of South Africa entered the war on Britain's side, the German government secretly contacted the political opposition, and the leadership of the anti-war movement, the Ossewabrandwag. The Nazis' ...
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- Icon Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 178 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-707-2
EAN 9781785787072
The ultimate non-technical guide to the fast-developing world of quantum computing. Computer technology has improved exponentially over the last 50 years. But the headroom for bigger and better electronic solutions is running out. Our best hope is to engage the power of quantum physics.'Quantum algorithms' had already been written long before hardware was built. These ...
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