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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 376 páginas
PVP: 96,80 €
ISBN 978-1-4696-4047-1
EAN 9781469640471
Cameron Strang takes American scientific thought and discoveries away from the learned societies, museums, and teaching halls of the Northeast and puts the production of knowledge about the natural world in the context of competing empires and an expanding republic in the Gulf South. People often dismissed by starched northeasterners as nonintellectuals-Indian sages, African slaves, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 112 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-499-6
EAN 9781785784996
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2019. 'An accessible primer on all things quantum' - Sunday TimesQuantum physics is strange. It tells us that a particle can be in two places at once.Indeed, that particle is also a wave, and everything in the quantum world can be described entirely in terms ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4736-9642-6
EAN 9781473696426
'A fantastic compendium of skeptical thinking and the perfect primer for anyone who wants to separate fact from fiction.' Richard Wiseman, author 59 Seconds'Thorough, informative, and enlightening... If this book does not become required reading for us all, we may well see modern civilization unravel before our eyes.' Neil deGrasse Tyson, author of Astrophysics for ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-0-262-04307-6
EAN 9780262043076
Exploring the science in George R. R. Martin's fantastical world, from the physics of an ice wall to the genetics of the Targaryens and Lannisters.Game of Thrones is a fantasy that features a lot of made-up science-fabricated climatology (when is winter coming?), astronomy, metallurgy, chemistry, and biology. Most fans of George R. R.Martin's fantastical world ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 200 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-0-262-04286-4
EAN 9780262042864
A fascinating account of the pioneering astronomer who claimed (erroneously) to have discovered a planet outside the solar system. There are innumerable planets revolving around innumerable stars across our galaxy. Between 2009 and 2018, NASA's Kepler space telescope discovered thousands of them.But exoplanets-planets outside the solar system-appeared in science fiction before they appeared in telescopes. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 20,95 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35746-2
EAN 9780393357462
In this fascinating foray into the millennia-long relationship between science and military power, "the world's best science communicator" (Times Literary Supplement), astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war. "The overlap is strong, and it's a two- way street", ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 15,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78678-249-6
EAN 9781786782496
WhenGalileo Galilei pointed his telescope to the skies, he ushered in a scientificrevolution: the Moon turned out to be covered with mountains and craters, starspopped out of nowhere, and four satellites were found to be orbiting Jupiter. Hisdiscovery of the phases of Venus in 1610 forever shattered the notion that theSun orbited the Earth and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-900-9
EAN 9781846149009
What will the world of tomorrow be like? How does progress happen? And why don't we have a lunar colony already? In this witty and entertaining book, Kelly and Zach Weinersmith give us a snapshot of the transformative technologies that are coming next - from robot swarms to nuclear fusion powered-toasters - and explain how ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 19,55 €
ISBN 978-0-85752-241-2
EAN 9780857522412
'We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us.'In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson achieved ...
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A NATIONAL BESTSELLERSy Montgomery, New York Times best-selling author and recipient of numerous awards, edits this year'svolume of the finestscience and nature writing.';Science is important because this is how we seek to discover the truth about the world. And this is what makes excellent science and nature writing essential,' observes New York Times best-selling author ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 18,10 €
ISBN 978-0-393-65270-3
EAN 9780393652703
Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. What would happen to an astronaut's body if it were pushed out of a space shuttle? Do people poop when they die? Can Grandma have a Viking funeral? In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, Doughty blends her mortician's knowledge of the body ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 11,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4736-7016-7
EAN 9781473670167
Where did we come from? How did it all begin? These are the biggest questions in the universe, and New Scientist has the answers ... Introduction by Professor Stephen Hawking From what actually happened in the Big Bang to the accidental discovery of post-it notes, science is packed with surprising discoveries. Did you know, for ...
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An accessible introduction to the artificial intelligence technology that enables computer vision, speech recognition, machine translation, and driverless cars. Deep learning is an artificial intelligence technology that enables computer vision, speech recognition in mobile phones, machine translation, AI games, driverless cars, and other applications. When we use consumer products from Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, or ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-640-3
EAN 9781786076403
A Sunday Times Book of the YearFrom the author of the international bestseller How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your DogYour humble alarm clock, digital cameras, the smell of coffee, the glow of a grill, fibre broadband, smoke detectors... all hold secrets about quantum physics. Beginning at sunrise, Chad Orzel reveals the extraordinary science that ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198887-0
EAN 9780141988870
An epoch-defining book' Matt Haig'If you read just one work of non-fiction this year, it should probably be this' David Sexton, Evening StandardIt is worse, much worse, than you think. The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't happening at all, and if your ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-342-5
EAN 9781785783425
Are we alonein the Universe, or are there as many planets supporting life as there arestars in the sky?It's one ofthe most important and fascinating questions human beings can ponder, andastrobiology is the emerging field of science that tries to answer it. AstronomerRhodri Evans gives an expert overview of our current state of knowledge,looking at ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4736-8033-3
EAN 9781473680333
For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole.Bestselling ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 26,90 €
ISBN 978-1-948836-58-6
EAN 9781948836586
2020 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Winner - Science Category2018 Forward Indies Finalist - Psychology CategoryWhy are we obsessed with the things we want only to be bored when we get them? Why is addiction perfectly logical to an addict? Why does love change so quickly from passion to indifference? Why are some people die-hard ...
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Water dominates the surface of Earth and is vital to life on our planet. It is a remarkable liquid which shows anomalous behaviour. In this Very Short Introduction John Finney introduces the science of water, and explores how the structure of water molecules gives rise to its physical and chemical properties.Considering water in all three ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 412 páginas
PVP: 221,65 €
ISBN 978-0-367-24459-0
EAN 9780367244590
Weather forecasting is the most visible branch of meteorology and has its modern roots in the nineteenth century when scientists redefined meteorology in the way weather forecasts were made, developing maps of isobars, or lines of equal atmospheric pressure, as the main forecasting tool. This book is the history of how weather forecasting was moulded ...
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