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- Transworld, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-593-07751-1
EAN 9780593077511
Science in the Soul is a kaleidoscopic argument for the power and the glory of science. Breathtaking, brilliant and passionate, the essays, journalism, lectures and letters in this new collection make an unanswerable case for the wonder of scientific discovery and its power to stir the imagination; for the practical necessity of scientific endeavour to ...
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Humans are awesome. Our brains are gigantic, seven times larger than they should be for the size of our bodies. The human brain uses 25% of all the energy the body requires each day. And it became enormous in a very short amount of time in evolution, allowing us to leave our cousins, the great ...
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-252-5
EAN 9781631492525
History is not a prerogative of the human species, Edward O. Wilson declares in Half-Earth. Demonstrating that we blindly ignore the histories of millions of other species, Wilson warns us that a point of no return is imminent.Refusing to believe that our extinction is predetermined, Wilson has written Half-Earth as a cri de coeur, proposing ...
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What We Cannot Know
From Consciousness to the Cosmos, the Cutting Edge of Science Explained
- Harper Collins, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-00-757659-3
EAN 9780007576593
'Brilliant and fascinating. No one is better at making the recondite accessible and exciting' Bill Bryson Britain's most famous mathematician takes us to the edge of knowledge to show us what we cannot know. Is the universe infinite? Do we know what happened before the Big Bang? Where is human consciousness located in the brain? ...
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- Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017
Libro · 496 páginas
PVP: 33,80 €
ISBN 978-0-297-86965-8
EAN 9780297869658
Geoffrey West's research centres on a quest to find unifying principles and patterns connecting everything, from cells and ecosystems to cities, social networks and businesses.'An absolutely riveting read . . .groundbreaking' Marcus du Sautoy'This book will expand your thinking from three dimensions to four' Nassim Nicholas Taleb'Scale is a firework display of popular science' Niall ...
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- Little&Brown, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 14,85 €
ISBN 978-1-4087-0594-0
EAN 9781408705940
Paris at the time of the French Revolution was the world capital of science. Its scholars laid the foundations of today's physics, chemistry and biology. They were true revolutionaries: agents of an upheaval both of understanding and of politics.Many had an astonishing breadth of talents. The Minister of Finance just before the upheaval did research ...
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- Icon Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-205-3
EAN 9781785782053
Riddled with jealousy, rivalry, missed opportunities and moments of genius, the history of the atom's discovery is as bizarre, as capricious, and as weird as the atom itself. John Dalton gave us the first picture of the atom in the early 1800s. Almost 100 years later the young misfit New Zealander, Ernest Rutherford, showed the ...
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A concise and illuminating tour of the human body - learn about how our bodies work and why they work the way do, in minutes. From the basic unit of the cell, through the tissues and organs that make up the body's systems, to how these systems work together to form a complete human being, ...
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- Quercus Publishing, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-1-78648-121-4
EAN 9781786481214
The fastest way to understanding quantum physics - learn about how our universe works, in minutes. Quantum physics is the most fundamental, but also the most bewildering, of sciences. Allowing for simultaneously dead-and-alive cats, teleportation, antimatter and parallel universes, it also underpins all digital technology and even life itself.But at last it's possible through this ...
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- Penguin USA, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-101-98425-3
EAN 9781101984253
Already internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging notions in modern physics, Sean Carroll is emerging as one of the greatest humanist thinkers of his generation as he brings his extraordinary intellect to bear not only on Higgs bosons and extra dimensions but now also on our deepest personal questions: Where ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
PVP: 55,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4214-2267-1
EAN 9781421422671
"In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began."-Albert Einstein The year was 1915, and the young mathematician Emmy Noether had just settled into Gottingen University when Albert Einstein visited to lecture on his nearly finished ...
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- Norton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-0-393-71144-8
EAN 9780393711448
From magazine covers to Hollywood blockbusters, neuroscience is front and centre. This popular interest has inspired many questions from people who wonder just what is going on in the three pounds of tissue between their ears. In Brain Bytes, neuroscience educators Eric Chudler and Lise Johnson get right to it, asking and answering more than ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 30,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17591-1
EAN 9780691175911
In the mid-eighteenth century, Swiss-born mathematician Leonhard Euler developed a formula so innovative and complex that it continues to inspire research, discussion, and even the occasional limerick. Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula shares the fascinating story of this groundbreaking formula--long regarded as the gold standard for mathematical beauty--and shows why it still lies at the heart ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17600-0
EAN 9780691176000
Boolean algebra, also called Boolean logic, is at the heart of the electronic circuitry in everything we use--from our computers and cars, to home appliances. How did a system of mathematics established in the Victorian era become the basis for such incredible technological achievements a century later? In The Logician and the Engineer, Paul Nahin ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17599-7
EAN 9780691175997
Heavenly Mathematics traces the rich history of spherical trigonometry, revealing how the cultures of classical Greece, medieval Islam, and the modern West used this forgotten art to chart the heavens and the Earth. Once at the heart of astronomy and ocean-going navigation for two millennia, the discipline was also a mainstay of mathematics education for ...
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- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 408 páginas
PVP: 47,65 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17842-6
EAN 9780231178426
For countless generations people have been told that their potential as humans is limited and fundamentally unequal. The social order, they have been assured, is arranged by powers beyond their control. More recently the appeal has been to biology, specifically the genes, brain sciences, the concept of intelligence, and powerful new technologies. Reinforced through the ...
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- Orion, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 20,30 €
ISBN 978-1-4746-0187-0
EAN 9781474601870
Gravity is the weakest force in the everyday world yet it is the strongest force in the universe. It was the first force to be recognised and described yet it is the least understood. It is a 'force' that keeps your feet on the ground yet no such force actually exists.Gravity, to steal the words ...
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- Princeton, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 245 páginas
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17486-0
EAN 9780691174860
In 2000, Keith Devlin set out to research the life and legacy of the medieval mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, popularly known as Fibonacci, whose book Liber abbaci has quite literally affected the lives of everyone alive today. Although he is most famous for the Fibonacci numbers--which, it so happens, he didn't invent--Fibonacci's greatest contribution was ...
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- Columbia, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 280 páginas
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-231-18098-6
EAN 9780231180986
From the outback of Australia to the Gobi Desert of Mongolia and the savanna of Madagascar, award-winning science writer and dinosaur enthusiast John Pickrell embarks on a world tour of new finds, meeting the fossil hunters working at the frontier of discovery. He reveals the dwarf dinosaurs unearthed by an eccentric Transylvanian baron; an aquatic, ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-674-05969-6
EAN 9780674059696
I'm not a scientist is a familiar refrain among people asked to evaluate scientific claims they feel are beyond their ken. Most citizens learn about science from media coverage, and even the most conscientious reporters sometimes struggle to offer a clear, unbiased explanation to readers. Politicians, activists, business spokespersons, and religious leaders with their own ...
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