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NOVEDAD!!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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NOVEDAD!!For courses in Networking/Communications. Motivate your students with a top-down, layered approach to computer networking Unique among computer networking texts, the Seventh Edition of the popular Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach builds on the author's long tradition of teaching this complex subject through a layered approach in a "top-down manner." The text works its ...
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Pluses and Minuses
How Maths Makes the World More Manageable
NOVEDAD!!- Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4746-1248-7
EAN 9781474612487
Thousands of years ago the inhabitants of Mesopotamia became the first to use numbers. Since then, mathematics has been unstoppable. It's behind almost everything, from search-engines to cruise-control, from coffee-makers to timetables.But now that we hardly ever need to do arithmetic, how relevant is mathematics to everyday life? Pluses and Minuses demonstrates the role mathematics ...
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NOVEDAD!!- Ebury, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-1-5291-0554-4
EAN 9781529105544
A deep dive into what the future holds for our digital lives, from how we die online to how to tell the truth in the era of Deep Fakes, by the prizewinning author of The People Vs Tech and The Dark NetPuts you and your life at the centre of the story about our digital ...
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NOVEDAD!!- Vintage, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5291-1064-7
EAN 9781529110647
Medicine, education, psychology, economics - wherever it really matters, we look to science for guidance. But what if science itself can't always be relied on? 'Required reading for everyone' Adam RutherfordIn this vital investigation, Stuart Ritchie reveals the disturbing flaws in today's science that undermine our understanding of the world and threaten human lives. With ...
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NOVEDAD!!- Hodder & Stoughton, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-5158-3
EAN 9781529351583
'A clear, compelling guide to some of the most pressing debates in technology today.' Bill Gates, from the foreword 'The de facto ambassador for the technology industry at large.' The New York Times 'This is a colourful and insightful insiders' view of how technology is both empowering us and threatening us. From privacy to cyberattacks, ...
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NOVEDAD!!- Profile Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 23,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-807-6
EAN 9781788168076
Many people think mathematics is useless. They're wrong. In the UK, the 2.8 million people employed in mathematical science occupations contributed GBP208 billion to the economy in a single year -- that's 10 per cent of the workforce contributing 16 per cent of the economy.What's the Use? asks why there is such a vast gulf ...
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NOVEDAD!!- Hodder & Stoughton, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-2766-3
EAN 9781529327663
Meteorite tells the fascinating story of the stones from outer space scattered across our planet. From the impact that finished off the dinosaurs to the dagger made of extraterrestrial iron found in Tutankhamun's tomb, this book is packed full of surprising information, unlikely pioneers and eye-opening science. Dr Tim Gregory explains how these rocky fragments ...
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NOVEDAD!!- Random House USA, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 381 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-101-97415-5
EAN 9781101974155
As the head of Open Learning at MIT, Sanjay Sarma has a daunting job description: to fling open the doors of the MIT experience for the benefit of the wider world. But if you're going to undertake such an ambitious project, you must first ask: How exactly does learning work? What conditions are most conducive? ...
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Bergström, Carl T.; West, Jevin D.
Calling Bullshit
The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World
NOVEDAD!!- Penguin Books Ltd, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198705-7
EAN 9780141987057
The world is awash in bullshit, and we're drowning in it. Politicians are unconstrained by facts. Science is conducted by press release.Start-up culture elevates hype to high art. These days, calling bullshit is a noble act. Based on a popular course at the University of Washington, Calling Bullshit gives us the tools to see through ...
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NOVEDAD!!- Quercus, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78747-540-3
EAN 9781787475403
Maths is the story of the world around us, and the wisdom it gives us can be the difference between success and disaster. We are all doing maths all the time, from the way we communicate with each other to the way we travel, from how we work to how we relax. Many of us ...
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NOVEDAD!!- Random House USA, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-1-101-90483-1
EAN 9781101904831
Mars was once similar to Earth, but today there are no rivers, no lakes, no oceans. Coated in red dust, the terrain is bewilderingly empty. And yet multiple spacecraft are circling Mars, sweeping over the dunes of Elysium and Mare Sirenum'on the brink, perhaps, of a staggering find, one that would inspire humankind as much ...
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NOVEDAD!!- Pan, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-6052-4
EAN 9781509860524
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Elephant's on Acid comes a collection of the wackiest theories from science and history. What if we're living inside a black hole? What if we've already found extraterrestrial life? What if the dinosaurs died in a nuclear war? What if Jesus Christ was actually a mushroom?In Psychedelic Apes, ...
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NOVEDAD!!- Octopus Publishing Group, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78840-294-1
EAN 9781788402941
'The definitive book on testosterone . . . A brave and significant book . . . simply fascinating and filled with extraordinary facts.' EVENING STANDARDThrough riveting personal stories and the latest research, Harvard evolutionary biologist Carole Hooven shows how testosterone drives the behaviour of the sexes apart and how understanding the science behind this hormone ...
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NOVEDAD!!- Icon Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
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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- Penguin UK, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198648-7
EAN 9780141986487
Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Do numbers truly exist? What sort of reality do formulas describe?The complexity of mathematics - its abstract rules and obscure symbols - can seem very distant from the everyday. There are those things that are real and present, it is supposed, and then there are mathematical concepts: creations ...
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Quantum Computing (WIRED guides)
How It Works and How It Could Change the World
- Cornerstone, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84794-326-2
EAN 9781847943262
Quantum computing has been hailed as a technological game-changer. But what precisely is it and what is its true potential?In this superbly insightful, one-stop guide WIRED journalist Amit Katwala tells you everything you need to know about the next computer revolution. He explains the highly complex science that lies behind it.He describes the competing efforts ...
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- Icon Books, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
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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