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Uncertainty is everywhere. It lurks in every consideration of the future - the weather, the economy, the sex of an unborn child - even quantities we think that we know such as populations or the transit of the planets contain the possibility of error. It's no wonder that, throughout that history, we have attempted to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 672 páginas
PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-101-98461-1
EAN 9781101984611
2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Finalist"Science book of the year"The GuardianOne of New York Times100 Notable Books for 2018One of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Books of 2018One of Kirkus's Best Books of 2018One of Mental Floss's Best Books of 2018One of Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2018';Extraordinary'New York Times Book Review "Magisterial"The ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 12,40 €
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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 17,15 €
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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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 173 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198241-0
EAN 9780141982410
The hugely influential book on how the understanding of causality revolutionized science and the world, by the pioneer of artificial intelligence'Wonderful ... illuminating and fun to read' Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize-winner and author of Thinking, Fast and Slow'Correlation does not imply causation.' For decades, this mantra was invoked by scientists in order to avoid taking ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 33,00 €
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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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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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
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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,95 €
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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 486 páginas
PVP: 138,36 €
ISBN 978-3-03-005092-4
EAN 9783030050924
This monograph offers a wide array of contemporary information on weather radar polarimetry and its applications. The book tightly connects the microphysical processes responsible for the development and evolution of the clouds' bulk physical properties to the polarimetric variables, and contains the procedures on how to simulate realistic polarimetric variables. With up-to-date polarimetric methodologies and ...
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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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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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