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The Weather Experiment
The Pioneers Who Sought to See the Future
- Chatto & Windus, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 417 páginas
ISBN 978-0-7011-8799-6
EAN 9780701187996
In 1865 a broken Admiral Robert FitzRoy locked himself in his dressing room and cut his throat. His grand meteorological project had failed. Yet only a decade later, FitzRoy's storm-warning system and 'forecasts' would return, the model for what we use today.In an age when a storm at sea was evidence of God's great wrath, ...
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Life's Engines
How Microbes Made Earth Habitable
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 31,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15537-1
EAN 9780691155371
For almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to themselves. The stewards of Earth, these organisms transformed the chemistry of our planet to make it habitable for plants, animals, and us. Life's Engines takes readers deep into the microscopic world to explore how these marvelous creatures made life on Earth possibleand how ...
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Relativity, The Special and The General Theory
100th Anniversary Edition
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 312 páginas
PVP: 30,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16633-9
EAN 9780691166339
After completing the final version of his general theory of relativity in November 1915, Albert Einstein wrote a book about relativity for a popular audience. His intention was 'to give an exact insight into the theory of relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested in the ...
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- Harper Collins, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-00-754906-1
EAN 9780007549061
How could a relatively simple chemical code give rise to the complexity of a human being? How could our human genome have evolved? And how does it actually work? Your genome defines you at the most profound level. That same genome is present in every one of the approximately 100,000 billion cells that make you ...
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- Oneworld, 2015
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PVP: 15,85 €
ISBN 978-1-85168-895-1
EAN 9781851688951
Twenty years after Stephen Hawking's 9-million-copy selling A Brief History of Time, pioneering theoretical physicist Sean Carroll takes our investigation into the nature of time to the next level. You can't unscramble an egg and you can't remember the future. But what if time doesn't (or didn't!) always go in the same direction? Carroll's paradigm-shifting ...
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- Oneworld, 2015
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PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-518-3
EAN 9781780745183
Coal, iron ore and oil were the fuel of the Industrial Revolution. Today's economies and governments are powered by something far less tangible: the explosive abundance of digital data. Steve Lohr, the New York Times' chief technology reporter, charts the ascent of Data-ism, the dominating philosophy of the day in which data is at the ...
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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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- John Wiley, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 81,40 €
ISBN 978-1-118-32655-8
EAN 9781118326558
Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Bayesian Models with R-INLA provides a much needed, practically oriented x{0026} innovative presentation of the combination of Bayesian methodology and spatial statistics. The authors combine an introduction to Bayesian theory and methodology with a focus on the spatial and spatio--temporal models used within the Bayesian framework and a series of practical examples ...
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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
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 10,40 €
ISBN 978-0-19-968397-0
EAN 9780199683970
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- Manning Publications, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 600 páginas
PVP: 52,75 €
ISBN 978-1-61729-139-5
EAN 9781617291395
DESCRIPTION PostGIS is an open source spatial database extender for PostgreSQL. It equals or surpasses proprietary alternatives, allowing the creations of location-aware queries with just a few lines of SQL code, and provides a back-end for mapping, raster analysis, and routing applications with minimal effort. PostGIS in Action, Second Edition teaches readers of all levels ...
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- Penguin UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
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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