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- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 11,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199152-8
EAN 9780141991528
How did we get from the Big Bang to today's staggering complexity, in which seven billion humans are connected into networks powerful enough to transform the planet? And why, in comparison, are our closest primate relatives reduced to near-extinction?Big History creator David Christian gives the answers in a mind-expanding cosmological detective story told on the ...
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- Harper Collins, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-00-829430-4
EAN 9780008294304
Updated edition of David Attenborough's groundbreaking Life on Earth. David Attenborough's unforgettable meeting with gorillas became an iconic moment for millions of television viewers. Life on Earth, the series and accompanying book, fundamentally changed the way we view and interact with the natural world setting a new benchmark of quality, influencing a generation of nature ...
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- Arcturus Publishing Ltd, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78888-523-2
EAN 9781788885232
Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary the 1969 moon landings, The Apollo Missions is illustrated with documents, blueprints and photographs of the missions as they happened. Analysing the Apollo Space Program, it looks back at a key period in the development of space technology. From early attempts to send a manned vessel into space ...
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- Harry N. Abrams Inc, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 173 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4197-3274-4
EAN 9781419732744
Math is universal, but it's also the least understood and most undervalued subject taught in school. Is This Math?: Number Problems for Word People seeks to offer readers an opportunity to experience math like never before. You must use the Pythagorean Theorem to figure out how far apart two ex-lovers are when they simultaneously realize ...
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- MIT Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 29,35 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03983-3
EAN 9780262039833
An argument that what makes science distinctive is its emphasis on evidence and scientists' willingness to change theories on the basis of new evidence. Attacks on science have become commonplace. Claims that climate change isn't settled science, that evolution is "only a theory," and that scientists are conspiring to keep the truth about vaccines from ...
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- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19191-1
EAN 9780691191911
How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens business, medicine, education, government--and the quality of our livesToday, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the results, and dividing up the rewards based on the numbers. But in our zeal to instill the evaluation ...
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- Princeton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 31,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18386-2
EAN 9780691183862
On their 100th anniversary, the story of the extraordinary scientific expeditions that ushered in the era of relativityIn 1919, British scientists led extraordinary expeditions to Brazil and Africa to test Albert Einstein's revolutionary new theory of general relativity in what became the century's most celebrated scientific experiment. The result ushered in a new era and ...
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- MIT Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03995-6
EAN 9780262039956
How a team of researchers, led by the author, discovered our home galaxy's location in the universe. You are here: on Earth, which is part of the solar system, which is in the Milky Way galaxy, which itself is within the extragalactic supercluster Laniakea. And how can we pinpoint our location so precisely? For twenty ...
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For freshman/sophomore-level courses treating calculus of both one and several variables. Clear and Concise! Varberg focuses on the most critical concepts freeing you to teach the way you want! This popular calculus text remains the shortest mainstream calculus book available - yet covers all the material needed by, and at an appropriate level for, students ...
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Brown, Jpat; Lipton, B.C.D.; Morisy, Michael
Scientists under surveillance
The FBI Files
- MIT Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 440 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53688-2
EAN 9780262536882
Cold War-era FBI files on famous scientists, including Neil Armstrong, Isaac Asimov, Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Alfred Kinsey, and Timothy Leary.Armed with ignorance, misinformation, and unfounded suspicions, the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover cast a suspicious eye on scientists in disciplines ranging from physics to sex research. If the Bureau surveilled writers because of what ...
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- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 32,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-00448-7
EAN 9780241004487
Human beings, says Lee Smolin, author of The Trouble With Physics, have always had a problem with the boundary between reality and fantasy, confusing our representations of the world with the world itself. Nowhere is this more evident than in quantum physics, which forms the basis for our understanding of everything from elementary particles to ...
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- MIT Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 16,95 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53701-8
EAN 9780262537018
A guide to understanding the inner workings and outer limits of technology and why we should never assume that computers always get it right. In Artificial Unintelligence, Meredith Broussard argues that our collective enthusiasm for applying computer technology to every aspect of life has resulted in a tremendous amount of poorly designed systems. We are ...
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- Hodder & Stoughton, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4736-3747-4
EAN 9781473637474
'One of the most important books I've ever read - an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.' BILL GATES'Hans Rosling tells the story of "the secret silent miracle of human progress" as only he can. But Factfulness does much more than that. It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198496-4
EAN 9780141984964
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Modern physics has found its poet. A captivating, fascinating, profoundly beautiful book' - John BanvilleThe bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics takes us on an enchanting, consoling journey to discover the meaning of time'We are time. We are this space, this clearing opened by the traces of memory inside the ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 20,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-38859-4
EAN 9780241388594
Of all species that have ever existed on earth, only one has reached human levels of intelligence and social organisation: us. Why? In Genesis, celebrated biologist Edward O. Wilson traces the great transitions of evolution, from the origin of life to the invention of sexual reproduction to the development of language itself.The only way for ...
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- MIT Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53668-4
EAN 9780262536684
An accessible introduction to 3D printing that outlines the additive manufacturing process, industrial and household markets, and emerging uses. The use of 3D printing-digitally controlled additive manufacturing-is growing rapidly. Consumer models of 3D printers allow people to fabricate small plastic objects, from cabinet knobs to wedding cake toppers.Industrial uses are becoming widespread, as businesses use ...
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Ripples in Spacetime
Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy
- Harvard University Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,15 €
ISBN 978-0-674-23774-2
EAN 9780674237742
The detection of gravitational waves has already been called the scientific breakthrough of the century. Einstein predicted these tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime over a hundred years ago, but they were only recently perceived directly for the first time.Ripples in Spacetime is an engaging account of the international effort to complete Einstein's project, ...
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- Penguin UK, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 24,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-39863-0
EAN 9780241398630
Statistics has played a leading role in our scientific understanding of the world for centuries, yet we are all familiar with the way statistical claims can be sensationalised, particularly in the media. In the age of big data, as data science becomes established as a discipline, a basic grasp of statistical literacy is more important ...
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- Black Swan, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78416-306-8
EAN 9781784163068
`One of the best books yet written on data and algorithms. . .deserves a place on the bestseller charts.' (The Times) You are accused of a crime.Who would you rather determined your fate - a human or an algorithm?An algorithm is more consistent and less prone to error of judgement. Yet a human can look ...
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- Random House, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 21,10 €
ISBN 978-1-84794-806-9
EAN 9781847948069
The next great technological disruption is coming.The titans of Silicon Valley are racing to build the last, best computer that the world will ever need. They know that whoever successfully creates it will revolutionise our relationship with technology - and make billions of dollars in the process. They call it conversational AI.Computers that can speak ...
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