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With this trusty guide, you can create a world in which humanity matures quickly and efficiently, instead of spending 200,000 years stumbling around in the dark without language, not knowing that tying a rock to a string would unlock navigating the entire world, and thinking disease was caused by weird smells. It contains all the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-19-884189-0
EAN 9780198841890
This book predicts the decline of today's professions and introduces the people and systems that will replace them. In an internet-enhanced society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will neither need nor want doctors, teachers, accountants, architects, the clergy, consultants, lawyers, and many others, to work as they did in the 20th century. ...
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An exploration of the cutting-edge technology that will enable us to confront the realities of climate change.For decades scientists and environmentalists have sounded the alarm about the effects of global warming. We are now past the tipping point. As floods, storms, and extreme temperatures become our daily reality, "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" efforts aren't enough anymore.In ...
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- Princeton, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 152 páginas
PVP: 23,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19578-0
EAN 9780691195780
The cutting-edge science that is taking the measure of the universeThe Little Book of Cosmology provides a breathtaking look at our universe on the grandest scales imaginable. Written by one of the world's leading experimental cosmologists, this short but deeply insightful book describes what scientists are revealing through precise measurements of the faint thermal afterglow ...
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'So staggering you go "whoa!" every few seconds' Guardian 'Really impressive' Eamonn Holmes, ITV This Morning A companion book to the critically acclaimed BBC series. The bestselling authors of Wonders of the Universe are back with another blockbuster, a groundbreaking exploration of our Solar System as it has never been seen before. Mercury, a lifeless ...
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he next great technological disruption is coming. The titans of Silicon Valley are racing to build the last, best computer that the world will ever need. Whoever successfully creates it will revolutionise our relationship with technology - and make billions of dollars in the process.It is known as conversational AI. For years, computers that can ...
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Will a computer ever compose a symphony, write a prize-winning novel, or paint a masterpiece? And if so, would we be able to tell the difference? As humans, we have an extraordinary ability to create works of art that elevate, expand and transform what it means to be alive. Yet in many other areas, new ...
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- Random House USA, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 23,25 €
ISBN 978-1-63388-520-2
EAN 9781633885202
An entertaining history of mathematics as chronicled through fifty short biographies. Mathematics today is the fruit of centuries of brilliant insights by men and women whose personalities and life experiences were often as extraordinary as their mathematical achievements. This entertaining history of mathematics chronicles those achievements through fifty short biographies that bring these great thinkers ...
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- Princeton, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 20,40 €
ISBN 978-0-691-20296-9
EAN 9780691202969
How music has influenced mathematics, physics, and astronomy from ancient Greece to the twentieth centuryMusic is filled with mathematical elements. The works of Bach are often said to possess a math-like logic, and Arnold Schoenberg, Iannis Xenakis, and Karlheinz Stockhausen wrote music explicitly based on mathematical principles. Yet Eli Maor argues that it is music ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197916-8
EAN 9780141979168
Human beings, says Lee Smolin, 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 the behaviour of materials. While quantum ...
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Seeds of Science
Why We Got It So Wrong On GMOs
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4729-4697-3
EAN 9781472946973
'Mark Lynas is a saint' Sunday Times'Fluent, persuasive and surely right.' Evening StandardMark Lynas was one of the original GM field wreckers. Back in the 1990s - working undercover with his colleagues in the environmental movement - he would descend on trial sites of genetically modified crops at night and hack them to pieces. Two ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-39674-2
EAN 9780241396742
In this mythbusting guide to AI past and present, one of the world's leading researchers shows why our fears for the future are misplacedThe ultimate dream of artificial intelligence is to build machines that are like us: conscious and self-aware. While this remains a remote possibility, rapid progress on AI in this century is already ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 520 páginas
PVP: 35,70 €
ISBN 978-0-19-885129-5
EAN 9780198851295
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- Princeton, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-20416-1
EAN 9780691204161
Discovering the secrets of animal movement and what they can teach usInsects walk on water, snakes slither, and fish swim. Animals move with astounding grace, speed, and versatility: how do they do it, and what can we learn from them? How to Walk on Water and Climb up Walls takes readers on a wondrous journey ...
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Highfield, Roger; Zernicka-Goetz, Magdalena
The Dance of Life : Symmetry, Cells and How We Become Human
- Random House Uk, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 20,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7535-5292-6
EAN 9780753552926
How does life begin? What drives a newly fertilized egg to keep dividing and growing until it becomes 40 trillion cells, a greater number than stars in the galaxy? How do these cells know how to make a human, from lips to heart to toes? How does your body build itself?Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz was pregnant at ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 22,76 €
ISBN 978-0-241-31217-9
EAN 9780241312179
Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Do numbers truly exist? What sort of reality do formulas describe?The complexity of mathematics - its abstract rules and obscure symbols - can seem very distant from the everyday. There are those things that are real and present, it is supposed, and then there are mathematical concepts: creations ...
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- Penguin UK, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-103057-9
EAN 9780141030579
From the internationally bestselling, prize-winning author of Landmarks, The Lost Words and The Old Ways'Dazzling' Guardian'Heart-stopping' Daily Telegraph'Mesmerizing' Observer'Epic' Financial Times 'You'd be crazy not to read this book' The Sunday TimesUnderland is an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory and the land itself. At once ancient and ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 432 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-29598-4
EAN 9780241295984
In both time and space, the cosmos is astoundingly vast, and yet is governed by simple, elegant, universal mathematical laws. On this cosmic timeline, our human era is spectacular but fleeting. Someday, we know, we will all die.And, we know, so too will the universe itself. Until the End of Time is Brian Greene's breathtaking ...
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- Princeton, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18230-8
EAN 9780691182308
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- Princeton, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 34,00 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17722-9
EAN 9780691177229
Why the living world may be the next great frontier of physicsThe frontiers of physics can seem impossibly remote-located in the invisible quantum realm or the farthest reaches of the cosmos. But one of physics' most exciting frontiers lies much closer than we realize: within our own bodies and other living organisms, which display astonishingly ...
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