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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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The remarkable story of how an artist and a scientist in seventeenth-century Holland transformed the way we see the world. "See for yourself!" was the clarion call of the 1600s. Natural philosophers threw off the yoke of ancient authority, peered at nature with microscopes and telescopes, and ignited the Scientific Revolution. Artists investigated nature with ...
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- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 33,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-799-4
EAN 9781781687994
Are we entitled to say that Earth is 4.55 billion years old, and its trajectory an ellipse centered on the Sun, with an average radius of 150 million kilometers? Most educated people today would say yes. Curiously, however, three hundred years after the century of Enlightenment, the fact that these assertions constitute what it is ...
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- Pan, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4472-7254-0
EAN 9781447272540
The much-acclaimed biography of Ada Lovelace, reissued to tie-in with the bicentenary of her birth in 2015Ada Lovelace, the daughter of Lord Byron was born in 1815 just after the Battle of Waterloo, and died aged 36, soon after the Great Exhibition of 1851. She was connected with some of the most influential and colourful ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-50423-3
EAN 9780674504233
Meredith Ray shows that women were at the vanguard of empirical culture during the Scientific Revolution. They experimented with medicine and alchemy at home and in court, debated cosmological discoveries in salons and academies, and in their writings used their knowledge of natural philosophy to argue for women's intellectual equality to men.The era of the ...
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Sarah Bridger examines the ethical debates that tested the U.S. scientific community during the Cold War, and scientists' contributions to military technologies and strategic policymaking, from the dawning atomic age through the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) in the 1980s, which sparked cross-generational opposition among scientists.Scientists at War examines the ethical debates that severely tested ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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ISBN 978-0-674-74443-1
EAN 9780674744431
The primacy of words over images has deep roots in Western culture. But what if the two are inextricably linked, equal partners in meaning-making? Written and drawn entirely as comics, Unflattening is an experiment in visual thinking. Nick Sousanis defies conventional forms of scholarly discourse to offer readers both a stunning work of graphic art ...
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- Quercus Publishing, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84866-723-5
EAN 9781848667235
What happens when a star dies? How many asteroids are in our solar system? Can galaxies collide? What is dark energy? Astronomy in Minutes answers all these questions and more as it condenses 200 key concepts into easily digestible essays. From Trojan asteroids to stellar black holes, and from superclusters to cosmic microwave background, this ...
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Alan Turing's Systems of Logic
The Princeton Thesis
Between inventing the concept of a universal computer in 1936 and breaking the German Enigma code during World War II, Alan Turing (1912-1954), the British founder of computer science and artificial intelligence, came to Princeton University to study mathematical logic. Some of the greatest logicians in the world--including Alonzo Church, Kurt Gödel, John von Neumann, ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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PVP: 39,60 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73691-7
EAN 9780674736917
Between 1608 and 1610 the canopy of the night sky changed forever, ripped open by an object created almost by accident: a cylinder with lenses at both ends. Galileo's Telescope tells the story of how an ingenious optical device evolved from a toy-like curiosity into a precision scientific instrument, all in a few years. In ...
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- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35089-0
EAN 9780393350890
Augustin Fresnel (1788-1827) shocked the scientific elite with his view of the physics of light. The lens he invented was a feat of engineering that made lighthouses blaze many times brighter, further and more efficiently than they had before. As secretary of France's Lighthouse Commission, he planned and oversaw the lighting of the nation's coast.Although ...
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