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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
ISBN 978-0-674-73689-4
EAN 9780674736894
August Weismann's 1892 theory that inheritance is transmitted through eggs and sperm provided the biological mechanism for natural selection. In this full-length biography, Frederick Churchill situates Weismann in the swirling intellectual currents of his day and shows how his work paved the way for the modern synthesis of genetics and evolution.The evolutionist Ernst Mayr considered ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
ISBN 978-0-674-74412-7
EAN 9780674744127
Noise, as we usually think of it, is background sound that interferes with our ability to hear more interesting sounds. In general terms, though, it is anything that interferes with the reception of signals of any sort. It includes extraneous energy in the environment, degradation of signals in transit, and spontaneous random activity in receivers ...
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- Harper Collins, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,60 €
ISBN 978-0-00-812508-0
EAN 9780008125080
Human life is a staggeringly strange thing. On the surface of a ball of rock falling around a nuclear fireball in the blackness of a vacuum, the laws of nature somehow conspired to create a naked ape that can look up at the stars and wonder where it came from. In this spectacular new book, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 396 páginas
PVP: 58,75 €
ISBN 978-1-107-46379-0
EAN 9781107463790
How much of global warming is due to human activities? How far will it be possible to adapt to changes of climate? Sir John Houghton's definitive, full colour guide to climate change answers these questions and more by providing the best and latest information available, including the latest IPCC findings. The simple, logical flow of ...
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How to Clone a Mammoth
The Science of De-Extinction
- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 28,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15705-4
EAN 9780691157054
Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? The science says yes. In How to Clone a Mammoth, Beth Shapiro, evolutionary biologist and pioneer in "ancient DNA" research, walks readers through the astonishing and controversial process of de-extinction. From deciding which species should be restored, to sequencing their genomes, to ...
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- Penguin UK, 2015
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PVP: 17,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-312716-1
EAN 9780143127161
Few ideas have been more harmful to society than the idea that there is a biological reality to race. Indeed, it has been practically banished from polite academic discussion. Human evolution, the consensus holds, ended in prehistory. Convenient as it seems, that view cannot be right. Nicholas Wade cites mounting evidence that humans have in ...
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- Skyhorse Publishing, 2015
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PVP: 16,40 €
ISBN 978-1-63220-665-7
EAN 9781632206657
The creator of the blog My Plastic-Free Life provides personal anecdotes, stats about the environmental and health problems related to plastic and personal solutions, handy lists and charts and tips on how to limit one's plastic footprint and get involved in community action
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- Oneworld, 2015
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PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-642-5
EAN 9781780746425
On August 10, 1632, five Jesuits convened in a sombre Roman palazzo to pass judgment on a simple idea: that a continuous line is composed of distinct and limitlessly tiny parts. This would become the foundation of calculus. But with the stroke of a pen, the judges banned the idea, setting off a war for ...
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- Oneworld, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-688-3
EAN 9781780746883
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- Penguin UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-96141-4
EAN 9780241961414
In A Rough Ride to the Future, James Lovelock - the great scientific visionary of our age - presents a radical vision of humanity's future as the thinking brain of our Earth-system. James Lovelock, who has been hailed as 'the man who conceived the first wholly new way of looking at life on earth since ...
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Higgs Force by Nicholas Mee is the definitive account of the science leading up to the discovery of the Higgs particle and the researchers involved in this quest. This discovery, by what is arguably the world's biggest and most expensive experiment - the Large Hadron Collider - represents the most important scientific breakthrough for 50 ...
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The remarkable story of how an artist and a scientist in seventeenth-century Holland transformed the way we see the world. "See for yourself!" was the clarion call of the 1600s. Natural philosophers threw off the yoke of ancient authority, peered at nature with microscopes and telescopes, and ignited the Scientific Revolution. Artists investigated nature with ...
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- Pan, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4472-7254-0
EAN 9781447272540
The much-acclaimed biography of Ada Lovelace, reissued to tie-in with the bicentenary of her birth in 2015Ada Lovelace, the daughter of Lord Byron was born in 1815 just after the Battle of Waterloo, and died aged 36, soon after the Great Exhibition of 1851. She was connected with some of the most influential and colourful ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
ISBN 978-0-674-50423-3
EAN 9780674504233
Meredith Ray shows that women were at the vanguard of empirical culture during the Scientific Revolution. They experimented with medicine and alchemy at home and in court, debated cosmological discoveries in salons and academies, and in their writings used their knowledge of natural philosophy to argue for women's intellectual equality to men.The era of the ...
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Sarah Bridger examines the ethical debates that tested the U.S. scientific community during the Cold War, and scientists' contributions to military technologies and strategic policymaking, from the dawning atomic age through the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) in the 1980s, which sparked cross-generational opposition among scientists.Scientists at War examines the ethical debates that severely tested ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
ISBN 978-0-674-74443-1
EAN 9780674744431
The primacy of words over images has deep roots in Western culture. But what if the two are inextricably linked, equal partners in meaning-making? Written and drawn entirely as comics, Unflattening is an experiment in visual thinking. Nick Sousanis defies conventional forms of scholarly discourse to offer readers both a stunning work of graphic art ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 39,60 €
ISBN 978-0-674-73691-7
EAN 9780674736917
Between 1608 and 1610 the canopy of the night sky changed forever, ripped open by an object created almost by accident: a cylinder with lenses at both ends. Galileo's Telescope tells the story of how an ingenious optical device evolved from a toy-like curiosity into a precision scientific instrument, all in a few years. In ...
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- Norton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35089-0
EAN 9780393350890
Augustin Fresnel (1788-1827) shocked the scientific elite with his view of the physics of light. The lens he invented was a feat of engineering that made lighthouses blaze many times brighter, further and more efficiently than they had before. As secretary of France's Lighthouse Commission, he planned and oversaw the lighting of the nation's coast.Although ...
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The Moral Arc
How Science and Reason Lead Humanity toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom
- Henry Holt, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 560 páginas
PVP: 31,75 €
ISBN 978-0-8050-9691-0
EAN 9780805096910
From Galileo and Newton to Thomas Hobbes and Martin Luther King, Jr., thinkers throughout history have consciously employed scientific techniques to better understand the non-physical world. The Age of Reason and the Enlightenment led theorists to apply scientific reasoning to the non-scientific disciplines of politics, economics, and moral philosophy. Instead of relying on the woodcuts ...
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The Invention of Nature
The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt. The Lost Hero of Science .
- Random House UK, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 36,60 €
ISBN 978-0-385-35066-2
EAN 9780385350662
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