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- Routledge, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 23,80 €
ISBN 978-0-415-60301-0
EAN 9780415603010
DescriptionPeople rarely stop to think about where the energy they use to power their everyday lives comes from and when they do it is often to ask a worried question: is mankind's energy usage killing the planet? How do we deal with nuclear waste? What happens when the oil runs out? Energy: The Basics answers ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-4373-4
EAN 9781408843734
Some have seen philosophy embedded in episodes of The Simpsons; others have detected elements of psychology and religion. Simon Singh, bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem, The Code Book and The Big Bang, instead makes the compelling case that what The Simpsons' writers are most passionate about is mathematics. He reveals how the writers have ...
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- Andre Deutsch, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 24,30 €
ISBN 978-0-233-00385-6
EAN 9780233003856
Mathematics opens new doors to the amazing world of maths. Telling the exciting story from a historical perspective, its shows how mathematical science advanced through the discoveries of the ancient Babylonians, Egyptians and Greeks, the great scholars of medieval Islam and Europe, and the Renaissance and the birth of the Scientific Revolution. From the simplest ...
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- Basic Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 360 páginas
ISBN 978-0-465-08598-9
EAN 9780465085989
"An engaging tour of vital math for a modern world . A wonderfully accessible book." -Scientific American Most people are familiar with history's great equations: Newton's Law of Gravity, for instance, or Einstein's theory of relativity. But the way these mathematical breakthroughs have contributed to human progress is seldom appreciated. In In Pursuit of the ...
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Einstein and the Quantum
The Quest of the Valiant Swabian
- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 360 páginas
PVP: 31,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13968-5
EAN 9780691139685
Einstein and the Quantum reveals for the first time the full significance of Albert Einstein's contributions to quantum theory. Einstein famously rejected quantum mechanics, observing that God does not play dice. But, in fact, he thought more about the nature of atoms, molecules, and the emission and absorption of light--the core of what we now ...
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- MIT Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 246 páginas
PVP: 15,60 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52543-5
EAN 9780262525435
Taking "Gangnam Style" seriously: what Internet memes can tell us about digital culture. In December 2012, the exuberant video "Gangnam Style" became the first YouTube clip to be viewed more than one billion times. Thousands of its viewers responded by creating and posting their own variations of the video-"Mitt Romney Style," "NASA Johnson Style," "Egyptian ...
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- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 19,80 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16014-6
EAN 9780691160146
This is the definitive edition of the hugely popular collection of Einstein quotations that has sold tens of thousands of copies worldwide and been translated into twenty-five languages.The Ultimate Quotable Einstein features roughly 1,600 quotes in all. This paperback edition includes sections unique to the ultimate collection--"On and to Children," "On Race and Prejudice," and ...
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- MIT Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 17,40 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52525-1
EAN 9780262525251
In this latest version of humanity, we are equipped with a fully re-engineered immune system; the latest set of cultural assumptions about gender, ethnicity, and sexuality; and a suite of customized enhancements, including artificial joints, neurochemical mood modulators, and performance-boosting hormones. In The Techno-Human Condition, Braden Allenby and Daniel Sarewitz explore what it means to ...
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Stat Spotting
A Field Guide to Identifying Dubious Data
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 158 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-520-27998-8
EAN 9780520279988
Does a young person commit suicide every thirteen minutes in the United States? Are four million women really battered to death by their husbands or boyfriends each year? Is methamphetamine our number one drug problem today? Alarming statistics bombard our daily lives, appearing in the news, on the Web, seemingly everywhere. But all too often, ...
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Williams, Mark; Zalasiewicz, Jan
The Goldilocks Planet
The 4 Billion Year Story of Earth's Climate
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,80 €
ISBN 978-0-19-968350-5
EAN 9780199683505
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PVP: 10,95 €
ISBN 978-0-19-967598-2
EAN 9780199675982
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- Rowman & Littlefield, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 16,15 €
ISBN 978-1-4422-2638-8
EAN 9781442226388
Before Thomas Edison, light and fire were thought to be one and the same. Turns out, they were separate things altogether. This book takes a similar relationship, that of time and place, and shows how they, too, were once inseparable.Time keeping was once a local affair, when small towns set their own pace according to ...
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The Universe in Zero Words
The Story of Mathematics as Told through Equations
- Princeton, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 20,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16016-0
EAN 9780691160160
Most popular books about science, and even about mathematics, tiptoe around equations as if they were something to be hidden from the reader's tender eyes. Dana Mackenzie starts from the opposite premise: He celebrates equations. No history of art would be complete without pictures. Why, then, should a history of mathematics--the universal language of science--keep ...
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- Penguin USA, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-312404-7
EAN 9780143124047
The bestselling author of "The Singularity Is Near" explores the limitless potential of reverse-engineering the human brain Ray Kurzweil is arguably today's most influential futurist. In "How to Create a Mind," he presents a provocative exploration of the most important project in the human-machine civilization: reverse-engineering the brain to understand precisely how it functions and ...
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- Collins (Uk), 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 33,80 €
ISBN 978-0-00-752579-9
EAN 9780007525799
All the winning and shortlisted images from the 2013 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, which is organized by the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. The images are submitted in one of the following categories:* Earth and Space* Our Solar System* Deep Space* Young Astronomy Photographer of the YearAnd can also be entered for one of the ...
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- Bantam, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
PVP: 21,10 €
ISBN 978-0-345-53528-3
EAN 9780345535283
Stephen Hawking has dazzled readers worldwide with a string of bestsellers exploring the mysteries of the universe. Now, for the first time, perhaps the most brilliant cosmologist of our age turns his gaze inward for a revealing look at his own life and intellectual evolution. "My Brief History" recounts Stephen Hawking's improbable journey, from his ...
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- Bantam, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-593-07252-3
EAN 9780593072523
Stephen Hawking has dazzled readers worldwide with a string of bestsellers exploring the mysteries of the universe. Now, for the first time, the most brilliant cosmologist of our age turns his gaze inward for a revealing look at his own life and intellectual evolution. My Brief History recounts Stephen Hawking's improbable journey, from his post-war ...
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Smarter than you Think
How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better
- William Collins, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-0-00-748872-8
EAN 9780007488728
From the 'Wired' and 'New York Times Magazine' contributor, a brilliant examination into how the internet is profoundly changing the way we think. In this groundbreaking book, Clive Thompson argues that the internet is boosting our brainpower, encouraging new ways of thinking, and making us more - not less - intelligent as is so often ...
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Steve Jobs
The Exclusive Biography
- Little&Brown, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 20,00 €
ISBN 978-0-349-13959-3
EAN 9780349139593
The phenomenal worldwide bestseller from the author of the acclaimed biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein. From bestselling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography, Isaacson provides an extraordinary account of Jobs' professional and personal life.Drawn from three years of exclusive and unprecedented ...
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- Basic Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
ISBN 978-0-465-08999-4
EAN 9780465089994
"A fun, spunky, wise little book that would be helpful to both the consumers of the news and its purveyors." -Washington Post In this lively volume, mathematician John Allen Paulos employs his singular wit to guide us through an unlikely mathematical jungle-the pages of the daily newspaper. From the Senate and sex to celebrities and ...
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