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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 18,40 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-2483-2
EAN 9781408824832
The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. Our scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming.But at the same time, a small yet potent subset of this community ...
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- Viking, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-670-91898-0
EAN 9780670918980
You write an email. You hit send. It appears ten thousand miles away. How did that happen? In April 2011, a seventy-five year old woman deprived Armenia of its internet access when she sliced through a buried cable with her garden spade. That January, Egyptian authorities simply switched off 70 per cent of the country's ...
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The Magic of Reality
How we know what s really true
- Bantam, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-552-77890-9
EAN 9780552778909
Magic takes many forms. The ancient Egyptians explained the night by suggesting that the goddess Nut swallowed the sun. The Vikings believed a rainbow was the gods' bridge to earth.These are magical, extraordinary tales. But there is another kind of magic, and it lies in the exhilaration of discovering the real answers to these questions. ...
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Chases and Escapes
The Mathematics of Pursuit and Evasion
- Princeton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 19,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15501-2
EAN 9780691155012
We all played tag when we were kids. What most of us don't realize is that this simple chase game is in fact an application of pursuit theory, and that the same principles of games like tag, dodgeball, and hide-and-seek are also at play in military strategy, high-seas chases by the Coast Guard, and even ...
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- MIT Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 216 páginas
PVP: 14,90 €
ISBN 978-0-262-51767-6
EAN 9780262517676
The history of computing could be told as the story of hardware and software, or the story of the Internet, or the story of smart hand-held devices, with subplots involving IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Twitter. In this concise and accessible account of the invention and development of digital technology, computer historian Paul Ceruzzi offers ...
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The Universe in Zero Words
The Story of Mathematics as Told through Equations
- Princeton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 25,95 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15282-0
EAN 9780691152820
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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Why Cats Land on their Feet
and 76 other Physical Paradoxes and Puzzles
- Princeton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 216 páginas
PVP: 18,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14854-0
EAN 9780691148540
Ever wonder why cats land on their feet? Or what holds a spinning top upright? Or whether it is possible to feel the Earth's rotation in an airplane? Why Cats Land on Their Feet is a compendium of paradoxes and puzzles that readers can solve using their own physical intuition. And the surprising answers to ...
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- Vintage USA, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-0-307-27846-3
EAN 9780307278463
Leading physicist and mathematician Roger Penrose, bestselling author of The Emperor's New Mind and The Road to Reality, offers a radical new theory of the origin, and ultimate end, of the universe.This groundbreaking book presents a new perspective on three of cosmology's essential questions: What came before the Big Bang? What is the source of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 17,80 €
ISBN 978-0-19-982807-4
EAN 9780199828074
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- O'Reilly Media, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 772 páginas
PVP: 88,49 €
ISBN 978-1-4493-1428-6
EAN 9781449314286
High Performance MySQL teaches you advanced techniques in depth so you can bring out MySQL's full power. Learn how to design schemas, indexes, queries, and advanced MySQL features for maximum performance, and get detailed guidance for tuning your MySQL server, operating system, and hardware to their fullest potential. You'll also learn practical, safe, high-performance ways ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 412 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104957-1
EAN 9780141049571
The internet will set us free or will it? In this spirited critique of "internet freedom," blogger and commentator Evgeny Morozov shows how social media and web 2.0 do not always foster civic engagement and democratic reform. In fact, the net can make authoritarian governments even more powerful and repressive.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 218 páginas
PVP: 25,95 €
ISBN 978-0-226-45812-0
EAN 9780226458120
A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted, and we forget how provocative and challenging its ideas once were and still are. The Structure of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 143 páginas
PVP: 10,40 €
ISBN 978-0-19-958848-0
EAN 9780199588480
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Mathletics
. How Gamblers, Managers, and Sports Enthusiasts Use Mathematics in Baseball, and Football
- Princeton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 18,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15458-9
EAN 9780691154589
Mathletics is a remarkably entertaining book that shows readers how to use simple mathematics to analyze a range of statistical and probability-related questions in professional baseball, basketball, and football, and in sports gambling. How does professional baseball evaluate hitters? Is a singles hitter like Wade Boggs more valuable than a power hitter like David Ortiz? ...
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- Norton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 12,95 €
ISBN 978-0-393-34065-5
EAN 9780393340655
"A worthy addition to the Feynman shelf and a welcome follow-up to the standard-bearer, James Gleick's Genius." -Kirkus Reviews Perhaps the greatest physicist of the second half of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman changed the way we think about quantum mechanics, the most perplexing of all physical theories. Here Lawrence M. Krauss, himself a theoretical ...
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St Augustine, the fifth century theologian and Church father, famously discussed the nature of time in Book XI of his Confessions: What is by now evident and clear is that neither future nor past exists, and it is inexact language to speak of three times past, present, and future. Perhaps it would be exact to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-19-964569-5
EAN 9780199645695
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- Harper Collins USA, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 20,25 €
ISBN 978-0-00-743485-5
EAN 9780007434855
The behind-the-scenes story of the world's most notorious and controversial video games company - Rockstar Games. Jacked is the incredible story behind the phenomenon that changed video games for ever - Grand Theft Auto. Powerful politicians tried to stop it, parents and activists vigorously campaigned against it, but they couldn't stop GTA breaking records.GTA IV ...
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Periodic Tales
The Curious Lives of the Elements
- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104145-2
EAN 9780141041452
Welcome to a dazzling tour through history and literature, science and art. Here you'll meet iron that rains from the heavens and noble gases that light the way to vice. You'll learn how lead can tell your future while zinc may one day line your coffin. You'll discover what connects the bones in your body ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104424-8
EAN 9780141044248
Welcome to the future, where you'll be able to take an elevator hundreds of miles into space, the internet will be in your contact lens, nanobots will scan your DNA for signs of disease and you'll be able to control computers with your brain - and even rearrange the physical world itself. It may sound ...
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