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- Hodder & Stoughton, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-6495-8
EAN 9781529364958
'The most sheerly enjoyable history of science of recent years' The Spectator'This is one of the best science books I have read in a decade' Paul DaviesLife is Simple tells the remarkable story of how a thirteenth century monk's search for simplicity led to the emergence of the modern world. We begin in the turbulent ...
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Human Origins
7 million years and counting
- Hodder & Stoughton, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-8201-3
EAN 9781529382013
Where did we come from? Where are we going?Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and the most influential species ever to walk the Earth. In the blink of an evolutionary eye we have spread around the globe, taken control of Earth's biological and mineral resources, transformed the environment, discovered the secrets of ...
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How Numbers Work
Discover the strange and beautiful world of mathematics
- Hodder & Stoughton, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-8204-4
EAN 9781529382044
Think of a number between one and ten. No, hang on, let's make this interesting. Between zero and infinity.Even if you stick to the whole numbers, there are a lot to choose from - an infinite number in fact. Throw in decimal fractions and infinity suddenly gets an awful lot bigger (is that even possible?) ...
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- Hodder & Stoughton, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-8197-9
EAN 9781529381979
There's a whole universe out there... Imagine you had a spacecraft capable of travelling through interstellar space. You climb in, blast into orbit, fly out of the solar system and keep going.Where do you end up, and what do you see along the way?The answer is: mostly nothing. Space is astonishingly, mind-blowingly empty. As you ...
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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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