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- Yale University Press, 2015
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PVP: 17,45 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21275-4
EAN 9780300212754
In 1492 Columbus set out across the Atlantic; in 1776 American colonists declared their independence. Between these two events old authorities collapsed--Luther's Reformation divided churches, and various discoveries revealed the ignorance of the ancient Greeks and Romans. A new, empirical worldview had arrived, focusing now on observation, experiment, and mathematical reasoning.This engaging book takes us ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-73689-4
EAN 9780674736894
August Weismann's 1892 theory that inheritance is transmitted through eggs and sperm provided the biological mechanism for natural selection. In this full-length biography, Frederick Churchill situates Weismann in the swirling intellectual currents of his day and shows how his work paved the way for the modern synthesis of genetics and evolution.The evolutionist Ernst Mayr considered ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-74412-7
EAN 9780674744127
Noise, as we usually think of it, is background sound that interferes with our ability to hear more interesting sounds. In general terms, though, it is anything that interferes with the reception of signals of any sort. It includes extraneous energy in the environment, degradation of signals in transit, and spontaneous random activity in receivers ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-72906-3
EAN 9780674729063
This compact history traces the computer industry from its origins in 1950s mainframes, through the establishment of standards beginning in 1965 and the introduction of personal computing in the 1980s. It concludes with the Internet's explosive growth since 1995. Across these four periods, Martin Campbell-Kelly and Daniel Garcia-Swartz describe the steady trend toward miniaturization and ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-1-934510-38-4
EAN 9781934510384
Digital information and communication technologies (ICTs) foster innovative means for communication but also require a buildup in physical space for infrastructure. New Geographies, 7 presents historical perspectives, theoretical framings, and new design paradigms to aid in understanding the hybrid virtual and physical spaces that ICTs need. Almost fifty years after the spatial experiments with the ...
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- Harper Collins, 2015
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PVP: 13,60 €
ISBN 978-0-00-812508-0
EAN 9780008125080
Human life is a staggeringly strange thing. On the surface of a ball of rock falling around a nuclear fireball in the blackness of a vacuum, the laws of nature somehow conspired to create a naked ape that can look up at the stars and wonder where it came from. In this spectacular new book, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 396 páginas
PVP: 58,75 €
ISBN 978-1-107-46379-0
EAN 9781107463790
How much of global warming is due to human activities? How far will it be possible to adapt to changes of climate? Sir John Houghton's definitive, full colour guide to climate change answers these questions and more by providing the best and latest information available, including the latest IPCC findings. The simple, logical flow of ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 520 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16561-5
EAN 9780691165615
Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the twentieth century. His inventions, patents, and theoretical work formed the basis of modern AC electricity, and contributed to the development of radio and television. Like his competitor Thomas Edison, Tesla was one of America's first celebrity ...
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How to Clone a Mammoth
The Science of De-Extinction
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 28,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15705-4
EAN 9780691157054
Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? The science says yes. In How to Clone a Mammoth, Beth Shapiro, evolutionary biologist and pioneer in "ancient DNA" research, walks readers through the astonishing and controversial process of de-extinction. From deciding which species should be restored, to sequencing their genomes, to ...
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- Penguin UK, 2015
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PVP: 17,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-312716-1
EAN 9780143127161
Few ideas have been more harmful to society than the idea that there is a biological reality to race. Indeed, it has been practically banished from polite academic discussion. Human evolution, the consensus holds, ended in prehistory. Convenient as it seems, that view cannot be right. Nicholas Wade cites mounting evidence that humans have in ...
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Quantum Mechanics
The Theoretical Minimum
- Penguin UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197781-2
EAN 9780141977812
In The Theoretical Minimum, world-class physicist Leonard Susskind provided a brilliant first course in classical mechanics, offering readers not an oversimplified introduction but the real thing - everything you need to start doing physics, and nothing more. Now he returns with the next challenge that every aspiring physics buff must tackle: quantum mechanics. Unlike most ...
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Gutfreund, Hanoch; Renn, Jürgen
The Road to Relativity
The History and Meaning of Einstein's The Foundation of General Relativity Featuring the Original Manuscript of Einstein s Masterpiece
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 216 páginas
PVP: 43,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16253-9
EAN 9780691162539
This richly annotated facsimile edition of The Foundation of General Relativity introduces a new generation of readers to Albert Einstein's theory of gravitation. Written in 1915, this remarkable document is a watershed in the history of physics and an enduring testament to the elegance and precision of Einstein's thought. Presented here is a beautiful facsimile ...
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- Skyhorse Publishing, 2015
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PVP: 16,40 €
ISBN 978-1-63220-665-7
EAN 9781632206657
The creator of the blog My Plastic-Free Life provides personal anecdotes, stats about the environmental and health problems related to plastic and personal solutions, handy lists and charts and tips on how to limit one's plastic footprint and get involved in community action
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- Oneworld, 2015
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PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-642-5
EAN 9781780746425
On August 10, 1632, five Jesuits convened in a sombre Roman palazzo to pass judgment on a simple idea: that a continuous line is composed of distinct and limitlessly tiny parts. This would become the foundation of calculus. But with the stroke of a pen, the judges banned the idea, setting off a war for ...
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- Oneworld, 2015
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PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-688-3
EAN 9781780746883
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The Container Principle
How a Box Changes the Way we Think
- MIT Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 34,95 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02857-8
EAN 9780262028578
We live in a world organized around the container. Standardized twenty- and forty-foot shipping containers carry material goods across oceans and over land; provide shelter, office space, and storage capacity; inspire films, novels, metaphors, and paradigms. Today, TEU (Twenty Foot Equivalent Unit, the official measurement for shipping containers) has become something like a global currency. ...
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- Penguin UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-96141-4
EAN 9780241961414
In A Rough Ride to the Future, James Lovelock - the great scientific visionary of our age - presents a radical vision of humanity's future as the thinking brain of our Earth-system. James Lovelock, who has been hailed as 'the man who conceived the first wholly new way of looking at life on earth since ...
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Higgs Force by Nicholas Mee is the definitive account of the science leading up to the discovery of the Higgs particle and the researchers involved in this quest. This discovery, by what is arguably the world's biggest and most expensive experiment - the Large Hadron Collider - represents the most important scientific breakthrough for 50 ...
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Flatland
A Romance of Many Dimensions
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 104 páginas
PVP: 14,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16555-4
EAN 9780691165554
In 1884, Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote a mathematical adventure set in a two-dimensional plane world, populated by a hierarchical society of regular geometrical figures-who think and speak and have all too human emotions. Since then Flatland has fascinated generations of readers, becoming a perennial science-fiction favorite. By imagining the contact of beings from different dimensions, ...
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- MIT Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 184 páginas
PVP: 18,30 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52773-6
EAN 9780262527736
We turn on the lights in our house from a desk in an office miles away. Our refrigerator alerts us to buy milk on the way home. A package of cookies on the supermarket shelf suggests that we buy it, based on past purchases. The cookies themselves are on the shelf because of a smart ...
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