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Wallace, Amy; Wallechinsky, David
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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 22,00 €
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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5291-1211-5
EAN 9781529112115
A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive the world - from Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of I Contain Multitudes.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 22,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84792-671-5
EAN 9781847926715
Being Human is history made flesh. It will change the way you see the world.We are a wonder of evolution. Powerful yet dextrous, instinctive yet thoughtful, we are expert communicators and innovators.Our exceptional abilities have created the civilisation we know today.But we're also deeply flawed. Our bodies break, choke and fail, whether we're kings or ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-50700-1
EAN 9780241507001
Following his New York Times bestseller How the World Really Works, Vaclav Smil returns with a mind-opening exploration of how size defines life on Earth (and beyond) - from microbes to economies and the expanding universe.
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Acemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 20,75 €
ISBN 978-1-399-80446-2
EAN 9781399804462
Throughout history, technological change - whether in the form of agricultural improvements in the Middle Ages, the Industrial Revolution, or today's artificial intelligence - has been viewed as a main driver of prosperity, working in the public interest. The reality, though, is that technology is shaped by what powerful people want and believe, generating riches, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 22,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-296-8
EAN 9781788162968
There are more than 100 billion brain cells in our heads, and every single one represents a fragment of thought and feeling. And yet each cell is a mystery of beauty, with branching, intricate patterns like shattered glass. Richard Wingate has been scrutinizing them for decades, yet he is still moved when he looks at ...
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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 · 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 · 146 páginas
PVP: 34,35 €
ISBN 978-3-907363-19-5
EAN 9783907363195
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-98626-4
EAN 9780241986264
A radical retelling of the history of science that foregrounds the scientists erased from historyIn this major retelling of the history of science from 1450 to the present day, James Poskett explodes the myth that science began in Europe.The blinkered Western gaze focusing on individual 'genius' - Copernicus, Newton, Darwin, Einstein - was only one ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 232 páginas
PVP: 29,50 €
ISBN 978-0-262-04805-7
EAN 9780262048057
From the New York Timesbestselling author, a new volume on the history of human ingenuityx{0026}mdashand its attendant breakthroughs and busts.Included in BILL GATES's 2023 Holiday Reading List Included in Lit Hubx{0026}rsquos Most Anticipated Books of 2023 Included in The Next Big Idea Clubx{0026}rsquos February 2023 MustRead Books"Every Smil book that I own is marked up ...
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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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