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- Penguin USA, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 17,35 €
ISBN 978-0-399-18436-9
EAN 9780399184369
The Knowledge Illusion is filled with insights on how we should deal with our individual ignorance and collective wisdom. Steven PinkerWe all think we know more than we actually do. Humans have built hugely complex societies and technologies, but most of us don't even know how a pen or a toilet works. How have we ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
PVP: 36,80 €
ISBN 978-0-19-954600-8
EAN 9780199546008
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- Seven Stories Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 25,80 €
ISBN 978-1-60980-666-8
EAN 9781609806668
In essays like How to Fake Faking, and the title essay, The Other Left Side: the Phenomenon of Left and Right in Evolution, Tijs Goldschmidt shatters our expectations of what a scientific essay is and then rebuilds it in intensely personal, artful and wry ways. Goldschmidt has won the top awards in Holland and is ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-0-19-967289-9
EAN 9780199672899
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- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17069-7
EAN 9780231170697
On Christmas Eve 1951, Santa Claus was hanged and then publicly burned outside of the Cathedral of Dijon in France. That same decade, ethnologists began to study the indigenous cultures of central New Guinea, and found men and women affectionately consuming the flesh of the ones they loved. "Everyone calls what is not their own ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 32,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17416-7
EAN 9780691174167
A fascinating account of the breakthrough ideas that transformed probability and statisticsIn the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, gamblers and mathematicians transformed the idea of chance from a mystery into the discipline of probability, setting the stage for a series of breakthroughs that enabled or transformed innumerable fields, from gambling, mathematics, statistics, economics, and finance to ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17863-9
EAN 9780691178639
The year's finest mathematics writing from around the world This annual anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in the field, The Best Writing on Mathematics 2017 makes available to a wide audience many articles not easily found anywhere else--and ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 21,40 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17809-7
EAN 9780691178097
Our universe seems strangely ''biophilic,'' or hospitable to life. Is this happenstance, providence, or coincidence? According to cosmologist Martin Rees, the answer depends on the answer to another question, the one posed by Einstein's famous remark: ''What interests me most is whether God could have made the world differently.'' This highly engaging book explores the ...
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- Basic Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 33,80 €
ISBN 978-0-465-09695-4
EAN 9780465096954
Inspired by Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and Bertrand Russell and David Hilbert's pursuit of the fundamental rules of mathematics, some of the most brilliant minds of the generation came together in post-World War I Vienna to present the latest theories in mathematics, science, and philosophy and to build a strong foundation for scientific investigation. ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 21,35 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17811-0
EAN 9780691178110
To Infinity and Beyond explores the idea of infinity in mathematics and art. Eli Maor examines the role of infinity, as well as its cultural impact on the arts and sciences. He evokes the profound intellectual impact the infinite has exercised on the human mind--from the "horror infiniti" of the Greeks to the works of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 13,70 €
ISBN 978-0-19-880454-3
EAN 9780198804543
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 168 páginas
PVP: 34,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17533-1
EAN 9780691175331
A lavishly illustrated book that explores the language of curves that spans the human body, science, engineering, and artCurves are seductive. These smooth, organic lines and surfaces-like those of the human body-appeal to us in an instinctive, visceral way that straight lines or the perfect shapes of classical geometry never could. In this large-format book, ...
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Knowledge is Power
How Magic, the Government and an Apocalyptic Vision Helped Francis Bacon to Create Modern Science
- Icon Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-236-7
EAN 9781785782367
Francis Bacon - a leading figure in the history of science - never made a major discovery, provided a lasting explanation of any physical phenomena or revealed any hidden laws of nature. How then can he rank as he does alongside Newton? Bacon was the first major thinker to describe how science should be done, ...
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- Collins (Uk), 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 33,80 €
ISBN 978-0-00-824950-2
EAN 9780008249502
All the winning and shortlisted images from the 2017 Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, hosted by the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. The images are submitted in one of the following categories: Image Categories* Earth and Space* Our Solar System* Deep Space* Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year Special Prize Categories* Best Newcomer* People and ...
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- Harper Collins, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 36,20 €
ISBN 978-0-00-819680-6
EAN 9780008196806
The world's foremost designer in Formula One, Adrian Newey OBE is arguably one of Britain's greatest engineers and this is his fascinating, powerful memoir.How to Build a Car explores the story of Adrian's unrivalled 35-year career in Formula One through the prism of the cars he has designed, the drivers he has worked alongside and ...
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- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 31,15 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17808-2
EAN 9780231178082
Few people have done as much to change how we view the world as Charles Darwin. Yet On the Origin of Species is more cited than read. Some of it is considered outdated; in some ways, it has been consigned to the nineteenth century.In The Theory That Changed Everything, the renowned cognitive scientist Philip Lieberman ...
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- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17833-4
EAN 9780231178334
Animals fall in love, establish rules for fair play, exchange valued goods and services, hold "funerals" for fallen comrades, deploy sex as a weapon, and communicate with one another using rich vocabularies. Animals also get jealous and violent or greedy and callous and develop irrational phobias, just like us. Monkeys address inequality, wolves miss each ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 24,90 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16935-4
EAN 9780691169354
A treasure trove of illuminating and entertaining quotations from the legendary naturalistHere is Charles Darwin in his own words--the naturalist, traveler, scientific thinker, and controversial author of On the Origin of Species, the book that shook the Victorian world. Featuring hundreds of quotations carefully selected by world-renowned Darwin biographer Janet Browne, The Quotable Darwin draws ...
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On two days in 1761 and 1769 hundreds of astronomers pointed their telescopes towards the skies to observe a rare astronomical event: the transit of Venus across the face of the sun. United by this momentous occasion, scientists from around the globe came together to answer the essential question: how can the universe be measured? ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 21,35 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17810-3
EAN 9780691178103
Among the many constants that appear in mathematics, � , e, and i are the most familiar. Following closely behind is y,, or gamma, a constant that arises in many mathematical areas yet maintains a profound sense of mystery. In a tantalizing blend of history and mathematics, Julian Havil takes the reader on a journey ...
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