Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-435-3
EAN 9781847924353
When we talk about human history, we focus on great leaders, mass migration and decisive wars. But how has the Earth itself determined our destiny? How has our planet made us?As a species we are shaped by our environment. Geological forces drove our evolution in East Africa; mountainous terrain led to the development of democracy ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-19-880728-5
EAN 9780198807285
Most people are familiar with the dodo and the dinosaur, but extinction has occurred throughout the history of life, with the result that nearly all the species that have ever existed are now extinct. Today, species are disappearing at an ever increasing rate, whilst past losses have occurred during several great crises. Issues such as ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-8418-6
EAN 9781509884186
In forty years, the population of the Earth will reach ten billion. Can our world support so many people? What kind of world will it be? In this unique, original and important book, Charles C. Mann illuminates the four great challenges we face - food, water, energy, climate change - through an exploration of the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-78487-362-2
EAN 9781784873622
PATTERNS OF LIFE: SPECIAL EDITIONS OF GROUNDBREAKING SCIENCE BOOKSWhen the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board the HMS Beagle in 1836, he brought with him the notes and evidence that would form the basis of a world-changing theory: the evolution of species by a process of natural selection. This theory, published ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78669-189-7
EAN 9781786691897
The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge has been at the forefront of scientific endeavour for more than 350 years, since receiving its royal charter from Charles II in 1662. Philosophical Transactions, published in 1665, established the concepts of scientific priority and peer review and is the oldest scientific journal in continuous publication ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-78487-365-3
EAN 9781784873653
PATTERNS OF LIFE: SPECIAL EDITIONS OF GROUNDBREAKING SCIENCE BOOKSThis book proposes a new vision for modern industry. Instead of our current wasteful and polluting methods of manufacturing, we could be taking nature as a model for making things. With the right redesign, objects that have come to the end of their useful lives should provide ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 656 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-78487-363-9
EAN 9781784873639
PATTERNS OF LIFE: SPECIAL EDITIONS OF GROUNDBREAKING SCIENCE BOOKSWhy has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious synthesis of history, biology, ecology ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-78487-361-5
EAN 9781784873615
PATTERNS OF LIFE: SPECIAL EDITIONS OF GROUNDBREAKING SCIENCE BOOKSIn recent decades human beings have altered the planet beyond anything it has experienced in its 4.5 billion-year history. We have become a force on a par with earth-shattering asteroids and planet-cloaking volcanoes. As a result, our planet is said to be crossing a geological boundary - ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 253 páginas
PVP: 9,50 €
ISBN 978-1-984801-82-1
EAN 9781984801821
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-29475-8
EAN 9780241294758
How to be Human is the only manual you need to help you upgrade your mind as much as you've upgraded your iphone. 'With this marvellous book, Ruby Wax has confirmed her position as one of the most readable, inspirational and engaging writers in the field of human mental health, happiness and fulfilment.' Stephen Fry ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-0-525-55799-9
EAN 9780525557999
Science world luminary John Brockman assembles twenty-five of the most important scientific minds, people who have been thinking about the field artificial intelligence for most of their careers, for an unparalleled round-table examination about mind, thinking, intelligence and what it means to be human."Artificial intelligence is today's story--the story behind all other stories. It is ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 27,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17691-8
EAN 9780691176918
An engaging collection of intriguing problems that shows you how to think like a mathematical physicistPaul Nahin is a master at explaining odd phenomena through straightforward mathematics. In this collection of twenty-six intriguing problems, he explores how mathematical physicists think. Always entertaining, the problems range from ancient catapult conundrums to the puzzling physics of a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 326 páginas
PVP: 50,95 €
ISBN 978-0-202-30953-8
EAN 9780202309538
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4456-8657-8
EAN 9781445686578
Science has a reputation as the most logical and rational of human pastimes - but this has not always been the case. From the inventor Nikola Tesla, who fell in love with his favourite pigeon and tried to broadcast his own thoughts, to the wannabe chemist August Strindberg, who injected apples with drugs to see ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 10,75 €
ISBN 978-0-19-879716-6
EAN 9780198797166
Robin Attfield introduces environmental ethics, exploring the values involved in issues such as pollution, habitat loss, and climate change. Considering the different groups involved in environmental ethics, and the attitudes of the world's religions to environmental stewardship, he calls for action from us all to manage our environment ethically.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 560 páginas
PVP: 37,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17487-7
EAN 9780691174877
A book that finally demystifies Newton's experiments in alchemyWhen Isaac Newton's alchemical papers surfaced at a Sotheby's auction in 1936, the quantity and seeming incoherence of the manuscripts were shocking. No longer the exemplar of Enlightenment rationality, the legendary physicist suddenly became "the last of the magicians." Newton the Alchemist unlocks the secrets of Newton's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-571-32766-9
EAN 9780571327669
The first account of one of the 21st century's greatest business stories, Tesla and Elon Musk.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 232 páginas
PVP: 14,90 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53595-3
EAN 9780262535953
A concise history of GPS, from its military origins to its commercial applications and ubiquity in everyday life. GPS is ubiquitous in everyday life. GPS mapping is standard equipment in many new cars and geolocation services are embedded in smart phones.GPS makes Uber and Lyft possible; driverless cars won't be able to drive without it. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198634-0
EAN 9780141986340
An intellectual hero ... A superb celebrator of science in all its manifestations' Ian McEwan'Darwin's great successor' Jeffrey SachsThe legendary biologist Edward O. Wilson offers his most philosophically probing work to date'Creativity is the unique and defining trait of our species; and its ultimate goal, self-understanding,' begins Edward Wilson's sweeping examination of the humanities and ...
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With active geysers coating its surface with dazzlingly bright ice crystals, Saturns large moon Enceladus is one of the most enigmatic worlds in our solar system. Underlying this activity are numerous further discoveries by the Cassini spacecraft, tantalizing us with evidence that Enceladus harbors a subsurface ocean of liquid water. Enceladus is thus newly realized ...
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