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Elephants on Acid
From Zombie Kittens to Tickling Machines
- Pan, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-2219-5
EAN 9781509822195
Have you ever wondered if a severed head retains consciousness long enough to see what happened to it? Or whether your dog would run to fetch help, if you fell down a disused mineshaft? And what would happen if you were to give an elephant the largest ever single dose of LSD? The chances are ...
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- Pan, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-2218-8
EAN 9781509822188
'By the end of the astonishing E=mc2, a dedicated reader will have achieved, if only by osmosis, an understanding of Einstein's theory of relativity and feel quite at ease dining with Nobel Prize winners. It's a lucid, even thrilling study: the very best kind of science journalism. I didn't know I could know so much.' ...
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- Gerald Duckworth, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 704 páginas
PVP: 31,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7156-5121-6
EAN 9780715651216
What are we? And why are we here? are questions that have fascinated humans for at least 25,000 years. Cosmosapiens takes us on a quest to ascertain what science can reliably tell us about how and why we evolved from the origin of the universe and whether what we are makes us different from all ...
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Dodging Extinction
Power, Food, Money, and the Future of Life on Earth
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ISBN 978-0-520-29264-2
EAN 9780520292642
Paleobiologist Anthony D. Barnosky weaves together evidence from the deep past and the present to alert us to the looming Sixth Mass Extinction and to offer a practical, hopeful plan for avoiding it. Writing from the front lines of extinction research, Barnosky tells the overarching story of geologic and evolutionary history and how it informs ...
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- Vintage UK, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-959043-9
EAN 9780099590439
If you could be invisible, what would you do? The chances are that it would have something to do with power, wealth or sex. Perhaps all three. But there's no need to feel guilty.Impulses like these have always been at the heart of our fascination with invisibility: it points to realms beyond our senses, serves ...
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Convergence
The Deepest Idea in the Universe
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 576 páginas
PVP: 36,90 €
ISBN 978-1-4711-2900-1
EAN 9781471129001
Convergence is a history of modern science with an original and significant twist. Various scientific disciplines, despite their very different beginnings, and disparate areas of interest have been coming together over the past 150 years, converging and coalescing, to identify one extraordinary master narrative, one overwhelming interlocking coherent story: the history of the universe. Intimate ...
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Next Gen PhD
A Guide to Career Paths in Science
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-50465-3
EAN 9780674504653
For decades, top scientists in colleges and universities pursued a clear path to success: enroll in a prestigious graduate program, conduct research, publish papers, complete the PhD, pursue postdoctoral work. With perseverance and a bit of luck, a tenure-track professorship awaited at the end. In todays academic job market, this scenario represents the exception. As ...
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ISBN 978-0-226-42247-3
EAN 9780226422473
While the influence of Alexander von Humboldt (1769 1859) looms large over the natural sciences, his legacy reaches far beyond the field notebooks of naturalists. Von Humboldt's 1799 1804 research expedition to Central and South America with botanist Aime Bonpland not only set the course for the great scientific surveys of the nineteenth century, but ...
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- Penguin USA, 2016
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PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-310936-5
EAN 9780143109365
Does the universe embody beautiful ideas? Artists as well as scientists throughout human history have pondered this beautiful question. With Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek as your guide, embark on a voyage of related discoveries, from Plato and Pythagoras up to the present. Wilczek s groundbreaking work in quantum physics was inspired by his intuition to ...
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- Oneworld, 2016
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PVP: 12,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-989-1
EAN 9781780749891
Eating is the most pleasurable, gross, necessary, unspeakable biological process we undertake. But very few of us realise what strange wet miracles of science operate inside us after every meal - let alone have pondered the results (of the research). How have physicists made crisps crispier? What do laundry detergent and saliva have in common? ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
ISBN 978-1-78239-109-8
EAN 9781782391098
In Concorde, Jonathan Glancey tells the story of this magnificent and hugely popular aircraft anew, taking the reader from the moment Captain Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in 1947 through to the last commercial flight of the supersonic airliner in 2003. It is a tale of national rivalries, technological leaps, daring prototypes, tightrope ...
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- Corgi, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 672 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78416-185-9
EAN 9781784161859
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from ...
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- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16918-7
EAN 9780691169187
The ordinary atoms that make up the known universe--from our bodies and the air we breathe to the planets and stars--constitute only 5 percent of all matter and energy in the cosmos. The rest is known as dark matter and dark energy, because their precise identities are unknown. The Cosmic Cocktail is the inside story ...
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We use addition on a daily basis--yet how many of us stop to truly consider the enormous and remarkable ramifications of this mathematical activity? Summing It Up uses addition as a springboard to present a fascinating and accessible look at numbers and number theory, and how we apply beautiful numerical properties to answer math problems. ...
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Mapping the Heavens
The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos
- Yale University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 23,15 €
ISBN 978-0-300-20441-4
EAN 9780300204414
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Physics can explain many of the things that we commonly encounter. It can tell us why the night is dark, what causes the tides, and even how best to catch a baseball. With In Praise of Simple Physics, popular math and science writer Paul Nahin presents a plethora of situations that explore the science and ...
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The Universe in Your Hand
A Journey Through Space, Time and Beyond
- Pan, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 300 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4472-8410-9
EAN 9781447284109
Imagine if The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy were a real, practical book about the mysteries of the universe...The Universe In Your Hand takes us on a wonder-filled journey to the surface of our dying Sun, shrinks us to the size of an atom and puts us in the deathly grip of distant Black Holes. ...
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- Allen Lane, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 25,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-25796-8
EAN 9780241257968
From the best-selling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics comes a new book about the mind-bending nature of the universe. What are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? And what exactly is reality? Scientist Carlo Rovelli has spent his whole life exploring these questions and pushing the boundaries of what ...
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- Profile Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78125-288-8
EAN 9781781252888
Mobius bagels, Euclid's flourless chocolate cake and apple pi - this is maths, but not as you know it. In How to Bake Pi, mathematical crusader and star baker Eugenia Cheng has rustled up a batch of delicious culinary insights into everything from simple numeracy to category theory ('the mathematics of mathematics'), via Fermat, Poincare ...
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