How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation are Changing Life on Earth"We are the primary drivers of change. We will directly and indirectly determine what lives, what dies, where, and when. We are in a different phase of evolution; the future of lif...9999903102632Juan Enriquez Steve Gulla...
Editors Varis
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
How Humans and Matter Transformed One AnotherIn the bestselling tradition of Stuff Matters and The Disappearing Spoon: a clever and engaging look at materials, the innovations they made possible, and how these technologies ch...9999903102625Ainissa Ramirez
The MIT Press
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
The History and Mystery of the World's Greatest Ciphers from Ancient Egypt to Online Secret SocietiesWatch Craig Bauer discuss the Zodiac Killer's cipher on HISTORY's miniseries The Hunt for the Zodiac Killer In 1953, a man was found dead from cyanide poisoning near the Philadelph...9999903102618Craig P. Bauer
Princeton University Press
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
Prospects for HumanityA provocative and inspiring look at the future of humanity and science from world-renowned scientist and bestselling author Martin ReesHumanity has reached a critical moment. Our w...9999903102601Martin Rees
Princeton University Press
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
Where Science Meets PseudoscienceEveryone has heard of the term "pseudoscience", typically used to describe something that looks like science, but is somehow false, misleading, or unproven. Many would be able to a...9999903102595Michael D. Gordin
Oxford University Press
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
The Physics of Everyday LifeA physicist explains daily phenomena from the mundane to the magisterial. Take a look up at the stars on a clear night and you get a sense that the universe is vast and untouchable...9999903102588Helen Czerski
Black Swan
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
The Many Lives of the Multiverse??Multiverse ? cosmologies imagine our universe as just one of a vast number of others. While this idea has captivated philosophy, religion, and literature for millennia, it is no...9999903102571Mary-Jane Rubenstein
Columbia University Press
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
The Science of When We Laugh and WhyHumor, like pornography, is famously difficult to define. We know it when we see it, but is there a way to figure out what we really find funny ??and why?In this fascinating invest...9999903102564Scott Weems
Basic Books
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
How We Came to beOur world is nested, both physically and socially, and at each level we find innovations that are necessary for the next. Consider: atoms combine to form molecules, molecules combi...9999903102557Tyler Volk
Columbia University Press
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
What Science Shows We Gain from Letting Go of Our Soul BeliefsMost Americans believe they possess an immaterial soul that will survive the death of the body. In sharp contrast, the current scientific consensus rejects the traditional soul, al...9999903102540Julien Musolino
Pyr
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
Can you tell the difference between talking to a human and talking to a machine? Or, is it possible to create a machine which is able to converse like a human? In fact, what is it ...9999903102533Kevin Warwick Huma Shah
Cambridge UP
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
Animal and Human EmotionsA New York Times Bestseller and winner of the PEN / E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Primatologist Frans de Waal explores the fascinating world of animal and human emot...9999903102526Frans de Waal
W. W. Norton & Company
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
Scientists Answer the Most Provocative QuestionsQuestions about the physical world, the mind, and technology in conversations that reveal a rich seam of interacting ideas.Science today is more a process of collaboration than mom...9999903102502Adolfo Plasencia
The MIT Press
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
Today's Most Interesting and Important Scientific Ideas, Discoveries, and DevelopmentsToday's most visionary thinkers reveal the cutting-edge scientific ideas and breakthroughs you must understand.Scientific developments radically change and enlighten our understand...9999903102496John Brockman
HarperCollins
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
The 'Quanta of Solace' and the Mysteries of the Subatomic WorldQuantum 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 ent...9999903102489John Gribbin
Icon Books
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
Ten Keys to RealityOne of our great contemporary scientists reveals the ten profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical world In Fundamentals, Nobel laureate Frank...9999903102465Frank Wilczek
Penguin
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
A New Theory of TimeIn The Janus Point renowned physicist Julian Barbour presents a major new solution to one of the most profound questions in physics - what is time? - with ground-breaking implicati...9999903102458Julian Barbour
Bodley Head
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
How Irrationality Created Modern Science? Why is science so powerful? ? Why did it take so long ??two thousand years after the invention of philosophy and mathematics ??for the human race to start using science to lea...9999903102441Michael Strevens
Editors Varis
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
Knowledge, Innovation, and American CountercultureIn his 1969 book The Making of a Counterculture, Theodore Roszak described the youth of the late 1960s as fleeing science ??as if from a place inhabited by plague, ? and even see...9999903102427David Kaiser W. Patrick M...
University Of Chicago Press
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
The Universe WithinTurok explores the transformative scientific discovers of the past three centuries, from classical mechanics to the nature of light and the evolution of the cosmos, and shows how t...9999903102410Turok, Neil
Faber
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the WorldA Soul of a New Machine for our time, a gripping account of invention, commerce, and duplicity in the age of technology A worldwide race is on to perfect the next engine of economi...9999903100683Steve LeVine
Viking
jueves, 28 de marzo de 2024
What My Conversations with Chimpanzees Have Taught Me about Intelligence, Compassion and Being HumanRoger Fouts, a leading animal psychologist and pioneer in the field of animal language research, achieved almost celebrity status in the late 1960s when he successfully taught his ...9999903098737Roger Fouts Stephen Mills
Penguin Books Ltd
martes, 26 de marzo de 2024
"On the Origin of Species" as a Work in ProgressFew people have done as much to change how we view the world as Charles Darwin. Yet On the Origin of Species is more cited than read, and parts of it are even considered outdated. ...9999903097686Philip Lieberman
Columbia University Press
viernes, 22 de marzo de 2024
Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the CosmosFrom the best-selling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos comes his most expansive and accessible book to date--a book that takes on the grandest question: ...9999903097655Brian Greene
Vintage
viernes, 22 de marzo de 2024
What Star Trek Can Teach Us about Evolution, Genetics, and Life on Other WorldsAn engaging journey into the biological principles underpinning a beloved science-fiction franchiseIn Star Trek, crew members travel to unusual planets, meet diverse beings, and en...9999903097624Mohamed A. F. Noor
Princeton University Press
viernes, 22 de marzo de 2024
How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World-- and UsA FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, SMITHSONIAN, AND WALL STREET JOURNAL A major reimagining of how evolutionary for...9999903097617Richard O. Prum
DoubleDay
viernes, 22 de marzo de 2024
The Science Behind Our Most Creative PowerAll humans, but no other species, have the capacity to create and understand language. It provides structure to our thoughts, allowing us to plan, communicate, and create new ideas...9999903097600David Adger
Oxford University Press
viernes, 22 de marzo de 2024
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