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- Allen Lane, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 30,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-44537-2
EAN 9780241445372
What are the mysterious numbers that unlock the secrets of the universe?In Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them, leading theoretical physicist and YouTube star Tony Padilla takes us on an irreverent cosmic tour of the most extraordinary numbers in physics, using them to build a picture of how the universe works. These include Graham's ...
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- Quercus Publishing, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5294-0173-8
EAN 9781529401738
The Four Horsemen - War, Pestilence, Famine and Death - first appeared in the Book of Revelations a thousand years ago, but they continue to track us in our own time. This original and inspiring study bycelebrated historian Emily Mayhew traces the advances in science, technology and humanitarianism that are enabling us to take them ...
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- Random House Uk, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84794-340-8
EAN 9781847943408
Genome sequencing is one of the most exciting scientific breakthroughs of the past thirty years. But what precisely does it involve and how is it developing? In this brilliantly wide-ranging, one-stop guide WIRED journalist Rachael Pells explains the science behind genomics. She analyses its practical applications in medical diagnosis and the treatment of conditions that ...
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- Profile Books, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-053-7
EAN 9781788160537
Your brain is a collection of maps. That is no metaphor: scrawled across your brain's surfaces are actual schematic images of the sights, sounds, and actions that hold the key to your survival. Scientists first began uncovering these maps over a century ago, but we are only now beginning to unlock their secrets.Our inner cartography ...
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Light in the Darkness
Black Holes, The Universe and Us
- Headline, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4722-7453-3
EAN 9781472274533
As featured in THE EDGE OF ALL WE KNOW - the new Netflix documentary about Black HolesFor readers of Stephen Hawking, a fascinating account of the universe from the perspective of world-leading astrophysicist Heino Falcke, who took the first ever picture of a black hole.10th April 2019: a global sensation. Heino Falcke, a man "working ...
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Pluses and Minuses
How Maths Makes the World More Manageable
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,75 €
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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- Harper Collins USA, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-06-295156-4
EAN 9780062951564
By one of the stars of modern paleontology (National Geographic), a sweeping and revelatory new history of mammals, illuminating the lost story of the extraordinary family tree that led to usThough humans claim to rule the Earth, we are the inheritors of a dynasty that has reigned over the planet for nearly 66 million years, ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-54799-1
EAN 9780241547991
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- Viking, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199151-1
EAN 9780141991511
The international bestseller - a whip-smart, entertaining exploration of the geometry that underlies our world, from the author of How Not to Be WrongHow should a democracy choose its representatives? How can you stop a pandemic from sweeping the world? How do computers learn to play chess? Can ancient Greek proportions predict the stock market? ...
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Quantum Steampunk
The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 32,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4214-4372-0
EAN 9781421443720
The Industrial Revolution meets the quantum-technology revolution! A steampunk adventure guide to how mind-blowing quantum physics is transforming our understanding of information and energy. Victorian era steam engines and particle physics may seem worlds (as well as centuries) apart, yet a new branch of science, quantum thermodynamics, reenvisions the scientific underpinnings of the Industrial Revolution ...
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Androids
The Team that Built the Android Operating System
- No Starch Press, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-1-71850-268-0
EAN 9781718502680
In 2004, Android was two people who wanted to build camera software but couldn't get investors interested. Today, Android is a large team at Google, delivering an operating system (including camera software) to over 3 billion devices worldwide. This is the inside story, told by the people who made it happen.This is a first-hand chronological ...
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- Penguin USA, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-525-53886-8
EAN 9780525538868
Offers a useful reminder of the role of modern science in fundamentally transforming all of our lives." --President Barack Obama (on Twitter)"An important book." --Steven Pinker, The New York Times Book ReviewThe surprising and important story of how humans gained what amounts to an extra life, from the bestselling author of How We Got to ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 16,30 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198954-9
EAN 9780141989549
'An incredible odyssey' Financial Times'Today I woke up on Earth. And I will fall asleep in space'In space the sun rises and sets 16 times a day. You fly over every sea, every mountain and desert, every city and every port.The most ordinary things -- eating, sleeping, brushing your teeth or cutting your hair -- ...
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The Saturn I/IB Rocket
NASA's First Apollo Launch Vehicle
- Crecy Publishing, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 42,00 €
ISBN 978-1-80035-028-1
EAN 9781800350281
In this eagerly anticipated book, renowned space historian and author David Baker turns his attention to the Saturn I and IB rockets. Although considered as merely a 'stepping stone' from the Mercury and Gemini programs to the mighty Saturn V and the Apollo missions that put the first humans on the Moon, the Saturn I ...
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- Taschen, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 396 páginas
PVP: 40,00 €
ISBN 978-3-8365-7738-0
EAN 9783836577380
Casi un siglo antes de que Mondrian popularizase sus líneas geométricas rojas, amarillas y azules, Oliver Byrne utilizó ese mismo esquema cromático para su edición de 1847 del tratado matemático y geométrico de Euclides, Elementos. La idea de Byrne era usar el color para facilitar el aprendizaje y difundir un conocimiento permanente . El resultado ...
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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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First Steps
How Walking Upright Made Us Human
- Harper Collins, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-00-834287-6
EAN 9780008342876
Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is an illogical development, as it slows us down. But here we are, suggesting there must have been something tremendous to gain from bipedalism.First Steps takes our ordinary, everyday walking experience and reveals how unusual and extraordinary ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-44710-9
EAN 9780241447109
Pre-order the incredible book behind the primetime Channel 4 documentary, Peter: The Human Cyborg. Peter, a brilliant scientist, is told that he will lose everything he loves. His husband.His family. His friends. His ability to travel the world.All will be gone. But Peter will not give up. He vows that this will not be the ...
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- Orion, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4746-1997-4
EAN 9781474619974
Every day, most of us will read or watch something in the news that is based on statistics in some way. Sometimes it'll be obvious - 'X people develop cancer every year' - and sometimes less obvious - 'How smartphones destroyed a generation'. Statistics are an immensely powerful tool for understanding the world, but in ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 15,20 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199519-9
EAN 9780141995199
'A majestic story' David Bodanis, Financial Times From the international bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible and Physics of the FutureThis is the story of a quest: to find a Theory of Everything. Einstein dedicated his life to seeking this elusive Holy Grail, a single, revolutionary 'god equation' which would tie all the forces ...
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