Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-14-197543-6
EAN 9780141975436
A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020How did we end up in a world where humans coexist with technologies we can no longer fully control or understand?George Dyson plots an unexpected course through the past 300 years to reveal the hidden connections that underpin our digital age, ending with a premonition of what lies ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-324-09203-2
EAN 9781324092032
The term "metaverse" is suddenly everywhere, from debates over Fortnite to the pages of The New York Times to the speeches of Mark Zuckerberg, who proclaimed in June 2021 that "the overarching goal" of Facebook is to "bring the metaverse to life." But what, exactly, is the metaverse? As pioneering theorist and venture capitalist Matthew ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-5293-4600-8
EAN 9781529346008
In this sequel to his prescient New York Times bestseller Rise of the Robots, Martin Ford presents us with a striking vision of the very near future. He argues that AI is a uniquely powerful technology, a kind of "electricity of intelligence" that is altering every dimension of human life, often for the better with ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-14-199733-9
EAN 9780141997339
THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR NEW NETFLIX SERIES, HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND'It's a trip - engrossing, eye-opening, mind altering' New Statesman 'Fascinating. Pollan is the perfect guide ... curious, careful, open minded' The Guardian Of all the many things humans rely on plants for, surely the most curious is our use of them to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-5293-6495-8
EAN 9781529364958
'The most sheerly enjoyable history of science of recent years' The Spectator'This is one of the best science books I have read in a decade' Paul DaviesLife is Simple tells the remarkable story of how a thirteenth century monk's search for simplicity led to the emergence of the modern world. We begin in the turbulent ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-5293-8201-3
EAN 9781529382013
Where did we come from? Where are we going?Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and the most influential species ever to walk the Earth. In the blink of an evolutionary eye we have spread around the globe, taken control of Earth's biological and mineral resources, transformed the environment, discovered the secrets of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-5293-8204-4
EAN 9781529382044
Think of a number between one and ten. No, hang on, let's make this interesting. Between zero and infinity.Even if you stick to the whole numbers, there are a lot to choose from - an infinite number in fact. Throw in decimal fractions and infinity suddenly gets an awful lot bigger (is that even possible?) ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-5293-8197-9
EAN 9781529381979
There's a whole universe out there... Imagine you had a spacecraft capable of travelling through interstellar space. You climb in, blast into orbit, fly out of the solar system and keep going.Where do you end up, and what do you see along the way?The answer is: mostly nothing. Space is astonishingly, mind-blowingly empty. As you ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-241-44537-2
EAN 9780241445372
What are the mysterious numbers that unlock the secrets of the universe?In Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them, leading theoretical physicist and YouTube star Tony Padilla takes us on an irreverent cosmic tour of the most extraordinary numbers in physics, using them to build a picture of how the universe works. These include Graham's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-5294-0173-8
EAN 9781529401738
The Four Horsemen - War, Pestilence, Famine and Death - first appeared in the Book of Revelations a thousand years ago, but they continue to track us in our own time. This original and inspiring study bycelebrated historian Emily Mayhew traces the advances in science, technology and humanitarianism that are enabling us to take them ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-84794-340-8
EAN 9781847943408
Genome sequencing is one of the most exciting scientific breakthroughs of the past thirty years. But what precisely does it involve and how is it developing? In this brilliantly wide-ranging, one-stop guide WIRED journalist Rachael Pells explains the science behind genomics. She analyses its practical applications in medical diagnosis and the treatment of conditions that ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-78816-053-7
EAN 9781788160537
Your brain is a collection of maps. That is no metaphor: scrawled across your brain's surfaces are actual schematic images of the sights, sounds, and actions that hold the key to your survival. Scientists first began uncovering these maps over a century ago, but we are only now beginning to unlock their secrets.Our inner cartography ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-4722-7453-3
EAN 9781472274533
As featured in THE EDGE OF ALL WE KNOW - the new Netflix documentary about Black HolesFor readers of Stephen Hawking, a fascinating account of the universe from the perspective of world-leading astrophysicist Heino Falcke, who took the first ever picture of a black hole.10th April 2019: a global sensation. Heino Falcke, a man "working ...
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ISBN 978-1-4746-1248-7
EAN 9781474612487
Thousands of years ago the inhabitants of Mesopotamia became the first to use numbers. Since then, mathematics has been unstoppable. It's behind almost everything, from search-engines to cruise-control, from coffee-makers to timetables.But now that we hardly ever need to do arithmetic, how relevant is mathematics to everyday life? Pluses and Minuses demonstrates the role mathematics ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-06-295156-4
EAN 9780062951564
By one of the stars of modern paleontology (National Geographic), a sweeping and revelatory new history of mammals, illuminating the lost story of the extraordinary family tree that led to usThough humans claim to rule the Earth, we are the inheritors of a dynasty that has reigned over the planet for nearly 66 million years, ...
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ISBN 978-0-241-54799-1
EAN 9780241547991
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-14-199151-1
EAN 9780141991511
The international bestseller - a whip-smart, entertaining exploration of the geometry that underlies our world, from the author of How Not to Be WrongHow should a democracy choose its representatives? How can you stop a pandemic from sweeping the world? How do computers learn to play chess? Can ancient Greek proportions predict the stock market? ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-4214-4372-0
EAN 9781421443720
The Industrial Revolution meets the quantum-technology revolution! A steampunk adventure guide to how mind-blowing quantum physics is transforming our understanding of information and energy. Victorian era steam engines and particle physics may seem worlds (as well as centuries) apart, yet a new branch of science, quantum thermodynamics, reenvisions the scientific underpinnings of the Industrial Revolution ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-71850-268-0
EAN 9781718502680
In 2004, Android was two people who wanted to build camera software but couldn't get investors interested. Today, Android is a large team at Google, delivering an operating system (including camera software) to over 3 billion devices worldwide. This is the inside story, told by the people who made it happen.This is a first-hand chronological ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-525-53886-8
EAN 9780525538868
Offers a useful reminder of the role of modern science in fundamentally transforming all of our lives." --President Barack Obama (on Twitter)"An important book." --Steven Pinker, The New York Times Book ReviewThe surprising and important story of how humans gained what amounts to an extra life, from the bestselling author of How We Got to ...
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