Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 600 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-691-17198-2
EAN 9780691171982
A fundamentally new approach to the history of science and technologyThis book presents a new way of thinking about the history of science and technology, one that offers a grand narrative of human history in which knowledge serves as a critical factor of cultural evolution. Jurgen Renn examines the role of knowledge in global transformations ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-78649-297-5
EAN 9781786492975
Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2019A magisterial history of calculus (and the people behind it) from one of the world's foremost mathematicians. This is the captivating story of mathematics' greatest ever idea: calculus. Without it, there would be no computers, no microwave ovens, no GPS, and no space travel.But before it gave ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-59327-958-5
EAN 9781593279585
An illustrated guide to computer algorithms for students and experienced programmers. Learn how to manipulate arrays, what steps you need to go through to write a k-clustering algorithm, and how public key cryptography works. Each algorithm is broken down into step by step diagrams with helpful descriptions. This book is perfect for the visual learner.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 34,10 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17685-9
EAN 9780231176859
Historical biogeography-the study of the history of species through both time and place-first convinced Charles Darwin of evolution. This field was so important to Darwin's initial theories and line of thinking that he said as much in the very first paragraph of On the Origin of Species (1859) and later in his autobiography. His methods ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 168 páginas
PVP: 10,40 €
ISBN 978-0-19-882540-1
EAN 9780198825401
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4767-5448-2
EAN 9781476754482
The Like Switch is packed with all the tools you need for turning strangers into friends, whether you are on a sales call, a first date, or a job interview. As a Special Agent for the FBI's National Security Division's Behavioural Analysis Program, Dr. Jack Schafer developed dynamic and breakthrough strategies for profiling terrorists and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-19-880910-4
EAN 9780198809104
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 32,50 €
ISBN 978-1-64313-204-4
EAN 9781643132044
A vivid narrative that connects the lives of four great astronomers as they discovered, refined, and popularized the first major scientific discovery of the modern era: that the Earth moves around the Sun.Today we take for granted that a telescope allows us to see galaxies millions of light years away. But before its invention, people ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 168 páginas
PVP: 10,75 €
ISBN 978-0-19-882663-7
EAN 9780198826637
The tide is the greatest synchronised movement of matter on our planet. Every drop of seawater takes part in tidal motion, driven by the gravitational pull of the moon and sun. At the coast, we see the tide as a twice-daily rise and fall of sea level that moves the edge of the sea up ...
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Libro · 160 páginas
PVP: 11,20 €
ISBN 978-0-19-881392-7
EAN 9780198813927
Modern societies require energy systems to provide energy for cooking, heating, transport, and materials processing, as well as for electricity generation. Energy systems include the primary fuel, its conversion, and transport to the point of use. In many cases this primary fuel is still a fossil fuel, a one-use resource derived from a finite supply ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 248 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-18356-5
EAN 9780691183565
A new look at the first few seconds after the Big Bang'and how research into these moments continues to revolutionize our understanding of our universeScientists in the past few decades have made crucial discoveries about how our cosmos evolved over the past 13.8 billion years. But there remains a critical gap in our knowledge: we ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 17,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78730-096-5
EAN 9781787300965
When was the last time you listened to someone, or someone really listened to you?This life-changing book will transform your conversations foreverAs a society, we've forgotten how to listen. Modern life is noisy and frenetic, and technology provides constant distraction. So we tune things out or listen selectively - even to those we love most.We've ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198640-1
EAN 9780141986401
When Darwin set out to explain the origin of species, he made no attempt to answer the deeper question: what is life? For generations, scientists have struggled to make sense of this fundamental question. Life really does look like magic: even a humble bacterium accomplishes things so dazzling that no human engineer can match it. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-23587-4
EAN 9780241235874
In recent years, extraordinary advances in our understanding of the wider Universe have led us to uncover even greater mysteries: what, for example, are the mysterious 'dark' parts of the Universe? And, what happens in those parts of space where conditions are so intense that our laws of physics break down?In this new Pelican book, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 19,55 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53797-1
EAN 9780262537971
Everything you've always wanted to know about self-driving cars, Netflix recommendations, IBM's Watson, and video game-playing computer programs. The future is here: Self-driving cars are on the streets, an algorithm gives you movie and TV recommendations, IBM's Watson triumphed on Jeopardy over puny human brains, computer programs can be trained to play Atari games. But ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 17,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84604-601-8
EAN 9781846046018
From a leading philosopher of mind comes this lucid, provocative argument that offers a radically new picture of human consciousness-panpsychism. Understanding how brains produce consciousness is one of the great scientific challenges of our age. Some philosophers argue that consciousness is something "extra," beyond the physical workings of the brain.Others think that if we persist ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35744-8
EAN 9780393357448
We have created the ultimate hive-mind robot: an Internet of interconnected devices that senses, thinks and acts. Bruce Schneier calls it the "World-Sized Web". It includes everything from driverless cars to smart thermostats, from billboards that respond to specific people to drones equipped with their own behavioural algorithms.While the World-Sized Web carries enormous potential, Schneier ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 17,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-97663-0
EAN 9780241976630
John Maeda is one of the world's preeminent thinkers on technology and design, and in How to Speak Machine, he offers a set of simple laws that govern not only the computers of today, but the unimaginable machines of the future. Machines are already more powerful than we can comprehend, and getting more powerful at ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 41,50 €
ISBN 978-1-250-62495-6
EAN 9781250624956
The international best-selling phenomenon loved by BARACK OBAMA and BILL GATES is now available in a gift edition with the illustrations in color throughout."A hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases." --Barack Obama"One of the most important books I've ever read--an indispensable guide to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-332-3
EAN 9781788163323
The world can be an amazing place if you know the right questions to ask:How did carrots become orange? What's stopping us from having a four-day week? How can we remove all the broken bits of satellite from orbit? If everything is so terrible, why is the global suicide rate falling?The keen minds of the ...
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