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- John Wiley, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 51,60 €
ISBN 978-0-7645-6757-5
EAN 9780764567575
Cowritten by Ralph Kimball, the world's leading data warehousing authority, whose previous books have sold more than 150,000 copies Delivers real-world solutions for the most time- and labor-intensive portion of data warehousing-data staging, or the extract, transform, load (ETL) process Delineates best practices for extracting data from scattered sources, removing redundant and inaccurate data, transforming ...
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Prime numbers are the very atoms of arithmetic. They also embody one of the most tantalising enigmas in the pursuit of human knowledge. How can one predict when the next prime number will occur? Is there a formula which could generate primes? These apparently simple questions have confounded mathematicians ever since the Ancient Greeks.
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- Penguin UK, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 7,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-101896-6
EAN 9780141018966
Charles Darwin's seismic theory of evolution turned the Victorian world upside down, utterly rewrote our notions of life on earth, and is still attacked by religious creationists today.
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The Biology of Transcendence
A Blueprint of the Human Spirit
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-59477-016-6
EAN 9781594770166
Why do we seem stuck in a culture of violence and injustice? How is it that we can recognize the transcendent ideal represented by figures such as Jesus, Lao-tzu, and many others who have walked among us and yet not seem to reach the same state? In The Biology of Transcendence Joseph Chilton Pearce examines ...
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- Black Swan, 2004
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 688 páginas
PVP: 16,49 €
ISBN 978-0-552-99704-1
EAN 9780552997041
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from ...
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With this reader-friendly book, it doesn't take an Einstein to understand the theory of relativity and its remarkable consequences.In clear, understandable terms, physicist Richard Wolfson explores the ideas at the heart of relativity and shows how they lead to such seeming absurdities as time travel, curved space, black holes, and new meaning for the idea ...
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- Everyman's Library, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1024 páginas
PVP: 23,70 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-258-6
EAN 9781857152586
When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board the H.M.S Beagle in 1836, he brought with him the notes and evidence which would form the basis of his landmark theory of evolution of species by a process of natural selection. This theory, published as The Origin of Species in 1859, is ...
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Caveman Chemistry
28 Projects, from the Creation of Fire to the Production of Plastics
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- Dover, 2003
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 17,35 €
ISBN 978-0-486-42540-5
EAN 9780486425405
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Un clásico entre los manuales de física universitaria, incluye todos los conocimientos que se requieren en física general.Con el objetivo de reforzar los conocimientos teóricos adquiridos en cada tema, se proponen a lo largo de todo el texto un total de 2.100 problemas cuya solución se encuentra en el libro "problemas de física" de los ...
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Repackaged, this profound and accessible book details how science is studying nature s best ideas to solve our toughest 21st-century problems.If chaos theory transformed our view of the universe, biomimicry is transforming our life on earth. Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature--taking advantage of evolution s 3.8 billion years of Rx{0026}D since the first bacteria. ...
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Innumeracy
Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences
- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-029120-9
EAN 9780140291209
Why do even well-educated people understand so little about mathematics? And what are the costs of our innumeracy? John Allen Paulos, in his celebrated bestseller first published in 1988, argues that our inability to deal rationally with very large numbers and the probabilities associated with them results in misinformed governmental policies, confused personal decisions, and ...
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- Heinle & Heinle, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 520 páginas
PVP: 147,85 €
ISBN 978-0-534-37388-7
EAN 9780534373887
The CLASSIC EDITION of Zill's respected book was designed for instructors who prefer not to emphasize technology, modeling, and applications, but instead want to focus on fundamental theory and techniques. Zill's CLASSIC EDITION, a reissue of the fifth edition, offers his excellent writing style, a flexible organization, an accessible level of presentation, and a wide ...
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Spectrum of Belief
Joseph von Fraunhofer and the Craft of Precision Optics
- MIT Press, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 32,50 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52723-1
EAN 9780262527231
In the nineteenth century, scientific practice underwent a dramatic transformation from personal endeavor to business enterprise. In Spectrum of Belief, Myles Jackson explores this transformation through a sociocultural history of the rise of precision optics in Germany. He uses the career of the optician Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787-1826) to probe the relationship between science and ...
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Physics and Philosophy
The Revolution in Modern Science
- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 16,45 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118215-5
EAN 9780141182155
Nobel Prize winner Werner Heisenberg's classic account explains the central ideas of the quantum revolution, and his celebrated Uncertainty Principle. The theme of Heisenberg's exposition is that words and concepts familiar in daily life can lose their meaning in the world of relativity and quantum physics. This in turn has profound philosophical implications for the ...
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- Fourth Estate, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 14,85 €
ISBN 978-1-85702-889-8
EAN 9781857028898
The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography From the best-selling author of Fermat's Last Theorem, The Code Book is a history of man's urge to uncover the secrets of codes, from Egyptian puzzles to modern day computer encryptions. As in Fermat's Last Theorem, Simon Singh brings life to an anstonishing story of ...
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The Sun
(Spinning Through Space)
- Hodder Wayland, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,74 €
ISBN 978-0-7502-2665-3
EAN 9780750226653
This text explains the Sun's role in the solar system and discusses phenomena to do with it, such as eclipses, heat, sunspots and solar flares.
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The Age of Spiritual Machines is no mere list of predictions but a prophetic blueprint for the future. Kurzweil guides us through the inexorable advances that will result in computers exceeding the memory capacity and computational ability of the human brain. According to Kurzweil, machines will achieve all this by 2020, with human attributes not ...
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