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Half-Earth
Our Planet's Fight for Life
History is not a prerogative of the human species, Edward O. Wilson declares in Half-Earth. Demonstrating that we blindly ignore the histories of millions of other species, Wilson warns us that a point of no return is imminent.Refusing to believe that our extinction is predetermined, Wilson has written Half-Earth as a cri de coeur, proposing ...
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- Granta Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-902-1
EAN 9781847089021
A profound and delightful jeu d'esprit of a book, mixing biography, etymology, cultural history and quixotic scientific experiments. Aldersey-Williams pulls the unfairly neglected yet enormously influential writer Thomas Browne out of the obscure pages of Pseudodoxia Epidemica and into the 21st century, to apply his generous curiosity and rational intelligence to the vagaries and contradictions ...
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15 Million Degrees
A Journey to the Centre of the Sun
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2016
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PVP: 23,50 €
ISBN 978-0-670-92219-2
EAN 9780670922192
110 times wider than Earth; 15 million degrees at its core; an atmosphere so huge that Earth is actually within it: come and meet the star of our solar system Light takes eight minutes to reach Earth from the surface of the Sun. But its journey within the Sun takes hundreds of thousands of years. ...
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Invisible
The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen
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ISBN 978-0-226-37825-1
EAN 9780226378251
If offered the chance'by cloak, spell, or superpower'to be invisible, who wouldnt want to give it a try? We are drawn to the idea of stealthy voyeurism and the ability to conceal our own acts, but as desirable as it may seem, invisibility is also dangerous. It is not just an optical phenomenon, but a ...
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ISBN 978-0-19-875755-9
EAN 9780198757559
"Can you Count the Clouds?" asks the voice of God from the whirlwind in the stunningly beautiful catalogue of nature-questions from the Old Testament Book of Job. Tom McLeish takes a scientist's reading of this ancient text as a centrepiece to make the case for science as a deeply human and ancient activity, embedded in ...
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- St. Martins Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 244 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-1-250-08491-0
EAN 9781250084910
The invention of numerals is perhaps the greatest abstraction the human mind has ever created. Virtually everything in our lives is digital, numerical, or quantified. The story of how and where we got these numerals has for thousands of years been shrouded in mystery.Finding Zero is an adventure-filled saga of Amir Aczel's lifelong obsession: to ...
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The Principia
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 616 páginas
PVP: 26,15 €
ISBN 978-0-520-29074-7
EAN 9780520290747
In his monumental 1687 work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton laid out in mathematical terms the principles of time, force, and motion that have guided the development of modern physical science. Even after more than three centuries and the revolutions of Einsteinian relativity and quantum mechanics, Newtonian physics continues ...
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To Explain the World
The Discovery of Modern Science
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2016
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PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198087-4
EAN 9780141980874
In To Explain the World, pre-eminent theoretical physicist Steven Weinberg offers a rich and irreverent history of science from a unique perspective - that of a scientist. Moving from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad to Oxford, and from the Museum of Alexandria to the Royal Society of London, he shows that the scientists of the ...
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Touch
The Science of the Sense That Makes Us Human
- Viking, 2016
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PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-18406-6
EAN 9780241184066
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- Norton, 2016
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PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35064-7
EAN 9780393350647
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Skeptic
Viewing the World with a Rational Eye
- Henry Holt, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 24,35 €
ISBN 978-1-62779-138-0
EAN 9781627791380
Collected essays from bestselling author Michael Shermer's celebrated columns in Scientific AmericanFor fifteen years, bestselling author Michael Shermer has written a column in Scientific American magazine that synthesizes scientific concepts and theory for a general audience. His trademark combination of deep scientific understanding and entertaining writing style has thrilled his huge and devoted audience for ...
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The Maverick Mountaineer: The Remarkable Life of George Ingle Finch: Climber, Scientist, Inventor
The Remarkable Life of George Ingle Finch: Climber, Scientist, Inventor
- Atlantic Books, 2016
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PVP: 31,25 €
ISBN 978-1-76011-192-2
EAN 9781760111922
In the spring of 1901 a teenager stood on top of a hill, gazed out in wonderment at the Australian landscape and decided he wanted to be a mountaineer. Two decades later, the same man stood in a blizzard beneath the summit of Mount Everest, within sight of his goal to be the first to ...
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- Atlantic Books, 2016
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PVP: 26,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78239-910-0
EAN 9781782399100
Science is on the cusp of a revolutionary breakthrough. We now understand more about ageing - and how to prevent and reverse it - than ever before. Twenty years ago, there was still considerable debate of the nature of human ageing, with a variety of competing theories in play.But scientific consensus is forming around the ...
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Misa, Thomas J. / Yost, Jeffrey R.
Fastlane
Managing Science in the Internet World
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- John Wiley, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 328 páginas
PVP: 72,25 €
ISBN 978-1-119-08622-2
EAN 9781119086222
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'The only thing that I know is that I know nothing ...but I'm working on it.' (after Socrates) In this age of increasing specialisation and information overload, how can anyone ever hope to emulate Renaissance man or woman, accomplished and informed across many fields? Surely T. H. Huxley's maxim 'try to learn something about everything ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2015
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PVP: 24,80 €
ISBN 978-0-674-08807-8
EAN 9780674088078
Long before GPS and Google Earth, humans traveled vast distances using environmental clues and simple instruments. What is lost when technology substitutes for our innate capacity to find our way? Illustrated with 200 drawings, this narrative-part treatise, part travelogue, and part navigational history-brings our own world into sharper view.
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- Penguin USA, 2015
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PVP: 20,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-312798-7
EAN 9780143127987
Both a travelogue and a study of the origins of science, The Lagoon shows how an ancient thinker still has much to teach us today. Aristotle's philosophy looms large over the history of Western thought, but the subject he most loved was biology. He wrote vast treatises on animals, dissecting them, classifying them, recording how ...
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- MIT Press, 2015
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PVP: 22,15 €
ISBN 978-1-58435-170-2
EAN 9781584351702
Franco "Bifo" Berardi's newest book analyzes the contemporary changes taking place in our aesthetic and emotional sensibility -- changes the author claims are the result of semio-capitalism's capturing of the inner resources of the subjective process: our experience of time, our sensibility, the way we relate to each other, and our ability to imagine a ...
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