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The Bonobo and the Atheist
In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34779-1
EAN 9780393347791
In this engaging book, leading primatologist and thinker Frans de Waal offers an illuminating new perspective on human nature. Bringing together his pioneering research on primate behaviour, the latest findings in evolutionary biology and insights from moral philosophy, de Waal explains that we don't need the spectres of God or the law in order to ...
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The King of Infinite Space
Euclid and His Elements
- Basic Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 15,85 €
ISBN 978-0-465-06571-4
EAN 9780465065714
For more than two thousand years, geometry has been equated with Euclid's Elements, the world's first mathematical treatise. The system of shapes and space it describes is at once so powerful and so natural that it has intrigued men and women for centuries, and continues to be taught in classrooms around the world. In The ...
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Math Bytes
Google Bombs, Chocolate-Covered Pi, and Other Cool Bits in Computing
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 152 páginas
PVP: 24,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16060-3
EAN 9780691160603
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The Amoeba in the Room
Lives of the Microbes
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 23,35 €
ISBN 978-0-19-966593-8
EAN 9780199665938
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- Penguin UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95721-9
EAN 9780241957219
Why didnt the rise of network technologies bring great wealth to the world in the last decade? We should be experiencing great financial health because of the efficiencies of digital technologies, but instead the information economy - as it is falsely construed - is merely centralizing wealth while wealth stagnates overall.Jaron Lanier, author of the ...
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It Began with Babbage
The Genesis of Computer Science
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 35,45 €
ISBN 978-0-19-930941-2
EAN 9780199309412
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Enlightening Symbols
A Short History of Mathematical Notation and Its Hidden Powers
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 34,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15463-3
EAN 9780691154633
While all of us regularly use basic math symbols such as those for plus, minus, and equals, few of us know that many of these symbols weren't available before the sixteenth century. What did mathematicians rely on for their work before then? And how did mathematical notations evolve into what we know today? In Enlightening ...
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- MIT Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 33,70 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52584-8
EAN 9780262525848
A pioneering proposal for a pluralistic extension of evolutionary theory, now updated to reflect the most recent research. This new edition of the widely read Evolution in Four Dimensions has been revised to reflect the spate of new discoveries in biology since the book was first published in 2005, offering corrections, an updated bibliography, and ...
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Stuff Matters
The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-Made World
- Penguin UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-95518-5
EAN 9780241955185
Stuff Matters by Mark Miodnownik is a unique and inspiring exploration of human creativity. "Enthralling. A mission to re-acquaint us with the wonders of the fabric that sustains our lives".(Guardian). Everything is made of something...From the everyday objects in our homes to the most extraordinary new materials that will shape our future, Stuff Matters reveals ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 23,10 €
ISBN 978-0-674-28438-8
EAN 9780674284388
Lockhart's 'Mathematician's Lament' outlined how we introduce mathematics to students in the wrong way. This book explains how mathematics should be done. With plain English and pictures, he makes complex ideas about shape and motion intuitive and graspable, and offers a solution to mathematic phobia.
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Paleofantasy
What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live
- Norton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 18,35 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34792-0
EAN 9780393347920
Theories about how our ancestors lived and why we should emulate them are often based on pseudoscience and speculation rather than actual research. Taking us to the cutting edge of biology, Marlene Zuk explains that evolution can work faster than was previously realised, meaning that we are not biologically the same as our caveman ancestors. ...
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- Thames & Hudson, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-500-51724-6
EAN 9780500517246
Creativity isn't an occupation, it's a preoccupation. It is at the very core of what makes us human. It's also a fundamental challenge that everyone faces in the modern world, be they in business, in education or a struggling artist or musician.Being creative and innovative and communicating our ideas effectively and persuading others is vital. ...
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Networked
The New Social Operating System
- MIT Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 376 páginas
PVP: 20,60 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52616-6
EAN 9780262526166
Daily life is connected life, its rhythms driven by endless email pings and responses, the chimes and beeps of continually arriving text messages, tweets and retweets, Facebook updates, pictures and videos to post and discuss. Our perpetual connectedness gives us endless opportunities to be part of the give-and-take of networking. Some worry that this new ...
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- Profile Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-337-4
EAN 9781846683374
There are some mathematical problems whose significance goes beyond the ordinary - like Fermat's Last Theorem or Goldbach's Conjecture - they are the enigmas which define mathematics. The Great Mathematical Problems explains why these problems exist, why they matter, what drives mathematicians to incredible lengths to solve them and where they stand in the context ...
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The Joy of X
A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
- Atlantic Books, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84887-845-7
EAN 9781848878457
A delightful tour of the greatest ideas of math, showing how math intersects with philosophy, science, art, business, current events, and everyday life, by an acclaimed science communicator and regular contributor to the New York Times."Delightful . . . easily digestible chapters include plenty of helpful examples and illustrations. You'll never forget the Pythagorean theorem ...
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To Save Everything, Click Here
The Folly of Technological Solutionism
- Public Affairs, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 21,00 €
ISBN 978-1-61039-370-6
EAN 9781610393706
In the very near future, "smart" technologies and "big data" will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions in politics, culture, and everyday life. Technology will allow us to solve problems in highly original ways and create new incentives to get more people to do the right thing. But how will such "solutionism" affect ...
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Hrabovsky, George; Susskind, Leonard
Classical Mechanics
The Theoretical Minimum
- Penguin UK, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-197622-8
EAN 9780141976228
This is the ultimate master class in modern physics. World-class physicist and father of string theory Leonard Susskind and citizen-scientist George Hrabovsky combine forces in a primer that teaches the skills you need to do physics yourself. Combining crystal-clear explanations of the laws of the universe with basic exercises (including essential equations and maths), the ...
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What is Relativity?
An Intuitive Introduction to Einstein's Ideas and Why they Matter
- Columbia, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 29,70 €
ISBN 978-0-231-16726-0
EAN 9780231167260
It is common knowledge that if the Sun suddenly turned into a black hole, it would suck Earth and the rest of the planets into oblivion. Yet as bestselling author and astrophysicist Jeffrey Bennett points out, black holes don't suck. With that simple idea in hand, Bennett begins an entertaining introduction to Einstein's theories, describing ...
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- MIT Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 44,40 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52600-5
EAN 9780262526005
Robots today serve in many roles, from entertainer to educator to executioner. As robotics technology advances, ethical concerns become more pressing: Should robots be programmed to follow a code of ethics, if this is even possible? Are there risks in forming emotional bonds with robots? How might society -- and ethics -- change with robotics? ...
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Aluminum Dreams
The Making of Light Modernity
- MIT Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02682-6
EAN 9780262026826
Aluminum shaped the twentieth century. It enabled high-speed travel and gravity-defying flight. It was the material of a streamlined aesthetic that came to represent modernity. And it became an essential ingredient in industrial and domestic products that ranged from airplanes and cars to designer chairs and artificial Christmas trees. It entered modern homes as packaging, ...
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