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The Golden Mole
and Other Vanishing Treasure
- Faber, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-571-36250-9
EAN 9780571362509
A gloriously illustrated and fascinating bestiary of the world's most extraordinary endangered animals a treasure trove of vanishing wonders. A pangolin's tongue is longer than its body. It keeps it furled in a nifty pouch near the hip A swift flies 200,000 miles in its lifetime. That's far enough to get to the moon and ...
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The Janus Point
A New Theory of Time
- Vintage UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78470-667-8
EAN 9781784706678
What is time? The Janus Point offers a ground-breaking solution to one of the greatest mysteries in physics. For over a century, the greatest minds have sought to understand why time seems to flow in one direction, ever forward. In The Janus Point, Julian Barbour offers a radically new answer: it doesn't.At the heart of ...
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- William Collins, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 24,50 €
ISBN 978-0-00-856010-2
EAN 9780008560102
A Brief History of Intelligence bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the evolutionary story of how the brain came to be.The entirety of the human brain's 4-billion-year story can be summarised as the culmination of five evolutionary breakthroughs, starting from the very first brains, all the way to the modern human brains. ...
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Black Holes
The Key to Understanding the Universe
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Around the World in 80 Games
A mathematician unlocks the secrets of the greatest games
- Harper Collins, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-0-00-852592-7
EAN 9780008525927
'Brilliantly clear and captivating prose' Stephen FryA WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR 2023An award-winning mathematician explores the maths behind the games we love and why we love to play them.Where should you move first in Connect 4?What is the best property in Monopoly?And how can pi help you win rock paper scissors?Spanning millennia, oceans and continents, ...
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The Biggest Ideas in the Universe 1
Space, Time and Motion
- Oneworld, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-86154-614-5
EAN 9780861546145
A landmark new series from the prize-winning scientist and communicator In this major trilogy, Sean Carroll opens up the world of physics and shows that you don't necessarily need a science degree to gain a deeper insight into the workings of the universe. Starting with the ideas that revolutionised our view of nature, Space, Time ...
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Extremely Online
The Untold Story of Fame, Influence and Power on the Internet
- Random House UK, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 25,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7535-6079-2
EAN 9780753560792
'A terrific history of the online creator economy.' The New York Times'This book is about a revolution. It has radically upended how we've understood and interacted with our world. It has demolished traditional barriers and empowered millions who were previously marginalized.It has created vast new sectors of our economy, while devastating legacy institutions. It is ...
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The Song of the Cell
The Story of Life
- Vintage, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5291-1178-1
EAN 9781529111781
Siddhartha Mukherjee is published in 38 languages, has won a Pulitzer amongst many prizes and The Emperor of All Maladies is one of TIME magazine's 100 Best Non-Fiction books of all time. The Observer said about it 'The notion of popular science doesn't come close to describing this achievement. It is literature.' Shot through with ...
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- Crown Business, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 20,50 €
ISBN 9780593728178
EAN 9780593728178
This important book is a vivid wake-up call. It carefully outlines the threats and opportunities associated with the exhilarating scientific advances of recent years. The Coming Wave is rich with interesting facts, arresting arguments, and compelling observations; it is essential reading.' Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize winner and bestselling author of Thinking Fast and Slow. A ...
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- Bodley Head, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 20,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-749-1
EAN 9781847927491
A stark and urgent warning on the unprecedented risks that a wave of fast-developing technologies poses to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance-from a cofounder of the pioneering AI company DeepMindWe are about to cross a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to ...
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The End of Reality
How four billionaires are selling out our future
- Transworld, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-911709-50-3
EAN 9781911709503
'A wake-up call ... fascinating' Scott Galloway, author of The Four'Please read this' Jaron Lanier, author of Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social MediaA withering takedown of four billionaires (from Andreessen to Zuckerberg) who are selling us fantasies while the world burns.At a time when multiple crises are compounding to create epic inequality, four billionaires ...
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The Universe in a Box
A New Cosmic History
How did our universe develop? What will it become? And why should we care? We are a miniscule part of an incredible continuum: a chain of events spanning 13.8 billion years, with an infinite future. But what does that future hold? And where do we fit in? The Universe In a Box is Andrew Pontzen's ...
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Wallace, Amy; Wallechinsky, David
The Book Of Lists
The Original Compendium of Curious Information
- Canongate, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 624 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-83885-806-3
EAN 9781838858063
The first and best compendium of facts weirder than fiction, of intriguing information and must-talk-about trivia has spawned many imitators - but none as addictive or successful. For nearly three decades the editors researched curious facts, unusual statistics and the incredible stories behind them. The most entertaining and informative of these have been brought together ...
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The Dawn of Modern Cosmology
From Copernicus to Newton
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-36063-7
EAN 9780241360637
New to Penguin Classics, the astonishing story of the Copernican Revolution, told through the words of the ground-breaking scientists who brought it aboutIn the late fifteen-century, the earth stood motionless at the centre of a small, ordered cosmos. Around us, it was believed, the moon, the sun and the planets revolved in crystalline spheres, their ...
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Beyond Measure
The Hidden History of Measurement
- Faber & Faber, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-0-571-35422-1
EAN 9780571354221
A revelatory and vibrant story of measurement which will make you look at the world around you anew. 'A wildly ambitious book by a formidably talented young writer.' ROBERT MACFARLANE 'Vivid, epic, and full of curiosities. This is a book to delight and fascinate.' TIM HARFORD, bestselling author of How to Make the World Add ...
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The Other Pandemic
How QAnon Contaminated the World
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5266-4253-0
EAN 9781526642530
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist James Ball takes us into the depths of the internet to trace the origins and rapid ascent of QAnon, the movement that mutated from a niche online conspiracy theory into the world s first digital pandemic. *A Financial Times Book to Read in 2023* Imagine a deadly pathogen that, once created, ...
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The Matter of Everything
A History of Discovery
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-1-5266-1899-3
EAN 9781526618993
The astonishing story of twentieth-century physics, told through the twelve experiments that changed our worldA 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: NEW SCIENTIST * WATERSTONES * SUNDAY TIMES'A splendid idea, vividly carried out: I enjoyed this book enormously' PHILIP PULLMAN'A rich history of beautiful discoveries' ROBIN INCE'An all-action thriller, laced with some of the most ...
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Elusive
How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199758-2
EAN 9780141997582
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Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them
A Journey to the Edge of Physics
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199282-2
EAN 9780141992822
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 Antonio Padilla takes us on an irreverent cosmic tour of nine of the most extraordinary numbers in physics. These include Graham's number, which is so large that if you thought ...
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