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Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
From one of our leading thinkers, a dazzling philosophical journey through virtual worldsIn the coming decades, the technology that enables virtual and augmented reality will improve beyond recognition. Within a century, world-renowned philosopher David J. Chalmers predicts, we will have virtual worlds that are impossible to distinguish from non-virtual worlds. But is virtual reality just ...
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Eight Improbable Possibilities
The Mystery of the Moon, and Other Implausible Scientific Truths
- Icon Books, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-979-3
EAN 9781785789793
'Gribbin casts a wide net and displays his breadth of knowledge in packing a lot into each chapter . . .a brief read, but one that may inspire readers to dig deeper.' Giles Sparrow, BBC Sky at Night MagazineA mind-warping excursion into the wildly improbable truths of science. Echoing Sherlock Holmes' famous dictum, John Gribbin ...
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This Way to the Universe
A Journey into Physics
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-99203-6
EAN 9780241992036
'Extraordinary' Leonard Susskind'A rare event' Sean Carroll When leading theoretical physicist Professor Michael Dine was asked where you could find an accessible and authoritative book that would teach you about the Big Bang, Dark Matter, the Higgs boson and the cutting edge of physics now, he had nothing he could recommend. So he wrote it ...
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Firmament
The Hidden Science of Weather, Climate Change and the Air That Surrounds Us
- Hodder & Stoughton, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-6231-2
EAN 9781529362312
Compelling . . .Clark's enthusiasm shines through on every page' Sunday Times'An engaging and lively history' Financial Times A thin, invisible layer of air surrounds the Earth, sustaining all known life on the planet and creating the unique climates and weather patterns that make each part of the world different. In Firmament, atmospheric scientist and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-1-80499-118-3
EAN 9781804991183
The revolution is here. In breakthrough after breakthrough, pioneering physicists are unlocking a new quantum universe which provides a better representation of reality than our everyday experiences and common sense ever could. The birth of quantum computers - which, like Schroedinger's famous dead-and-alive cat, rely on entities like electrons existing in a mixture of states ...
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Liftoff
Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched Spacex
'Just read it.' Elon MuskThe dramatic inside story of the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX-and Elon Musk-from a shaky startup into the world's leading edge rocket company.SpaceX has enjoyed a miraculous decade. Less than 20 years after its founding, it boasts the largest constellation of commercial satellites in orbit, has pioneered reusable rockets, ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 30,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-56258-1
EAN 9780241562581
The latest volume in the New York Times bestselling physics series explains Einstein's masterpiece: the general theory of relativityHe taught us classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, and special relativity. Now, physicist Leonard Susskind, assisted by a new collaborator, Andre Cabannes, returns to tackle Einstein's general theory of relativity. Starting from the equivalence principle and covering the ...
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- MIT Press, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-262-54449-8
EAN 9780262544498
We're surrounded by screens; our music comes in the form of digital files; we tap words into a notes app. Why do we still crave the realness of analog, seeking out vinyl records, fountain pens, cameras with film? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Robert Hassan explores our deep connection to ...
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Spatial Data Science
With Applications in R
- Routledge, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 300 páginas
PVP: 111,50 €
ISBN 978-1-138-31118-3
EAN 9781138311183
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- Pan, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-1-5290-7765-0
EAN 9781529077650
A Sunday Times Business Book of the Year'No one ever regrets reading anything Mo Gawdat has written.' - Emma Gannon, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Multi-Hyphen Method and host of award-winning podcast Ctrl Alt Delete'Mo is an exquisite writer and speaker with deep expertise of technology . . .This book will teach you how ...
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This book reviews the theory and applications of the normal-mode functions in numerical weather prediction and weather and climate dynamics. The normal-mode functions, the eigensolutions of the linearized primitive equations describing the evolution of atmospheric winds and mass variables, have been used for a long time. They have played an important role in the development ...
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Eureka!
Mindblowing Science Every Day of the Year
- Hodder & Stoughton, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-9413-9
EAN 9781529394139
Introduced by Jim Al-KhaliliCould you surf down an erupting volcano?Why do zebras have stripes?Are you breathing the same air as Leonardo da Vinci?Are there any green mammals?Why do pineapples have spikes?Why do songs get stuck in your head?What happens when black holes collide?Can you extract your DNA?New Scientist has been a treasure trove of fascinating ...
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- Random House UK, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 350 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-598-5
EAN 9781847925985
The Song of the Cell is the vivid, thrilling and suspenseful story of the fundamental unit of life. It describes how scientists discovered cells, began to understand them, and are now using that knowledge to create new humans. Both panoramic and intimate, it is Siddhartha Mukherjee's most spectacular book yet.In the late 1600s, a distinguished ...
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- Del Nuevo Extremo, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 148 páginas
PVP: 14,90 €
ISBN 978-84-18354-91-5
EAN 9788418354915
Un libro singular que aborda un tema muy complejo de manera sencilla y divulgativa: las relaciones entre las matemáticas y las leyes de la probabilidad.
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- Princeton, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 50,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-21523-5
EAN 9780691215235
A scientist's inspiring vision of our return to the Moon as humanity's next thrilling step in space explorationJust over half a century since Neil Armstrong first stepped foot on the lunar surface, a new space race to the Moon is well underway and rapidly gaining momentum. Laying out a vision for the next fifty years, ...
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Virtual Society
The Metaverse and the New Frontiers of Human Experience
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-61659-8
EAN 9780241616598
Is the metaverse a brave new world? An immersive digital playground? The next generation of online gaming? Or just the latest manifestation of our human tendency to create other realities?Herman Narula argues that it is all of these things. His vision of the metaverse, deeply rooted in history and psychology, looks to the Egyptians, whose ...
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- Transworld, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 560 páginas
PVP: 36,25 €
ISBN 978-0-85752-769-1
EAN 9780857527691
Number One Bestseller in both hardback and paperbackThe Sunday Times Book of the YearThe ideal gift for everybody
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- Yale University Press, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-26463-0
EAN 9780300264630
The hidden costs of artificial intelligence-from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality, and freedom"This study argues that artificial intelligence is neither artificial nor particularly intelligent. . .. A fascinating history of the data on which machine-learning systems are trained."-New Yorker"A valuable corrective to much of the hype surrounding AI and a useful instruction manual ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-98967-8
EAN 9780241989678
* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . .If you want a brief but thorough education in numeric thinking about many of the fundamental forces that shape human life, this is the book to read. It's a tour de force' BILL GATES We have never had ...
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