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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198640-1
EAN 9780141986401
When Darwin set out to explain the origin of species, he made no attempt to answer the deeper question: what is life? For generations, scientists have struggled to make sense of this fundamental question. Life really does look like magic: even a humble bacterium accomplishes things so dazzling that no human engineer can match it. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 18,65 €
ISBN 978-1-84604-601-8
EAN 9781846046018
From a leading philosopher of mind comes this lucid, provocative argument that offers a radically new picture of human consciousness-panpsychism. Understanding how brains produce consciousness is one of the great scientific challenges of our age. Some philosophers argue that consciousness is something "extra," beyond the physical workings of the brain.Others think that if we persist ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 41,50 €
ISBN 978-1-250-62495-6
EAN 9781250624956
The international best-selling phenomenon loved by BARACK OBAMA and BILL GATES is now available in a gift edition with the illustrations in color throughout."A hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases." --Barack Obama"One of the most important books I've ever read--an indispensable guide to ...
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This Topical Volume focuses on aviation meteorology for operations and research, covering important topics related to wind and turbulence, visibility, fog and precipitation, convection and lightning, icing, blowing snow, and ice cloud microphysics and dynamics. In addition to forecasting issues, the impact of climate on aviation operations is also highlighted, as temperature and moisture changes ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 12,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-332-3
EAN 9781788163323
The world can be an amazing place if you know the right questions to ask:How did carrots become orange? What's stopping us from having a four-day week? How can we remove all the broken bits of satellite from orbit? If everything is so terrible, why is the global suicide rate falling?The keen minds of the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-1-5247-4796-1
EAN 9781524747961
From a leading philosopher of the mind comes this lucid, provocative argument that offers a radically new picture of human consciousnesspanpsychism.Understanding how brains produce consciousness is one of the great scientific challenges of our age. Some philosophers argue that consciousness is something "extra," beyond the physical workings of the brain. Others think that if we ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 376 páginas
PVP: 28,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17900-1
EAN 9780691179001
Why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthyDo doctors really know what they are talking about when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of global warming? Why should we trust science when our own politicians don't? In this ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 29,70 €
ISBN 978-1-60358-905-5
EAN 9781603589055
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 17,95 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35750-9
EAN 9780393357509
Black holes are the most extreme objects in the universe, yet every galaxy harbours a black hole at its centre. In Einstein's Monsters, Chris Impey builds on this profound discovery to explore questions at the cutting edge of cosmology, such as what happens if you travel into a black hole and whether the galaxy or ...
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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
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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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