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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 20,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-50700-1
EAN 9780241507001
To answer the most important questions of our age, and secure our future, we must understand size. Neither bacteria nor empires are immune to its laws. Measuring it is challenging, especially where complex systems like economies are concerned, yet mastering it offers rich rewards.Grounded in history and drawing on the latest science, with much recourse ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 20,25 €
ISBN 978-0-593-72262-6
EAN 9780593722626
Perhaps the biggest question Stephen Hawking tried to answer in his extraordinary life was how the universe could have created conditions so perfectly hospitable to life. In order to solve this mystery, Hawking studied the big bang origin of the universe, but his early work ran into a crisis when the math predicted many big ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5293-3106-6
EAN 9781529331066
You've got questions: about space, time, gravity, and the odds of meeting your older self inside a wormhole. All the answers you need are right here. As a species, we may not agree on much, but one thing brings us all together: a need to know.We all wonder, and deep down we all have the ...
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-0-00-854322-8
EAN 9780008543228
Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time-war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, race, and tribalism-in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of unity for us all.In a time when our ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 21,00 €
ISBN 978-0-86154-288-8
EAN 9780861542888
Knowledge is power... A landmark new series from a prize-winning scientist and communicatorIn 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, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-5290-6058-4
EAN 9781529060584
Exhilaratingly whizzes through billions of years . . .Gee is a marvellously engaging writer, juggling humour, precision, polemic and poetry to enrich his impossibly telescoped account . . . making clear sense out of very complex narratives' - The Times'Henry Gee makes the kaleidoscopically changing canvas of life understandable and exciting. Who will enjoy reading ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4736-8063-0
EAN 9781473680630
WHAT IF... one man decided to answer all the unanswerable questions, using science.The Sunday Times-bestselling author and xkcd creator, Randall Munroe is here to provide the best answers yet to the important questions you probably never thought to askThe millions of people around the world who read and loved What If? still have questions, and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 30,00 €
ISBN 978-3-8365-9007-5
EAN 9783836590075
Fritz Kahn (1888 1968) fue un médico alemán, pedagogo, autor de textos de divulgación científica y pionero de la representación gráfica de la información. Obligado a salir de Alemania por los nazis, quienes prohibieron y quemaron sus libros, Kahn emigró a Palestina, Francia y finalmente a Estados Unidos para continuar con el trabajo de su ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199372-0
EAN 9780141993720
In the constellation of Eridanus there lurks a cosmic mystery. It's as if something has taken a huge bite out of the universe, leaving a super-void. What could be the culprit? A super massive black hole? Another, bigger universe? Or an expanding vacuum bubble, destined to envelop and annihilate everything in existence?Scientists now understand the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
ISBN 978-1-5290-8671-3
EAN 9781529086713
The Moon goes around the Earth, the Earth goes around the Sun, the Sun goes around the centre of the Milky Way: a supermassive black hole. As you read this you are currently orbiting a black hole. Money might make the world go round, but black holes make the universe go round.Black holes are not ...
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