Revolutionary Science in the Age of the GuillotineParis at the time of the French Revolution was the world capital of science. Its scholars laid the foundations of today's physics, chemistry and biology. They were true revolutiona...9999903221487Steve Jones
Little Brown Hardbacks (a & C)
jueves, 14 de noviembre de 2024
Let the real world show you how maths works.Maths is often cited as the 'most difficult' or 'complex' subject to study, many people admitting to a wariness that was probably ingrai...9999903221470Chris Waring
Editors Varis
jueves, 14 de noviembre de 2024
Animal Minds and the Birth of ConsciousnessThe follow-up to the BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Other Minds A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The scuba-diving philosopher explor...9999903221258Peter Godfrey-Smith
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
miércoles, 13 de noviembre de 2024
Sex, Hysteria and the Riddle of Mental IllnessIn 1882, Jean-Martin Charcot was the premiere physician in Paris, having just established a neurology clinic at the infamous Salpetriere Hospital, a place that was called a 'grand ...9999903221210Allan Ropper Brian Burrel...
Atlantic Books
miércoles, 13 de noviembre de 2024
The Making of the Modern ComputerThe history of the computer is entwinedwith that of the modern world and with the life of one man, the brilliant buttroubled Alan Turing. How did the computer come to structureand ...9999903221135Jon Agar
Icon Books
miércoles, 13 de noviembre de 2024
A Complete IntroductionTrigonometry: A Complete Introduction is the most comprehensive yet easy-to-use introduction to Trigonometry. Written by a leading expert, this book will help you if you are studyi...9999903221128Hugh Neill
Hodder
miércoles, 13 de noviembre de 2024
How Humanity (and You) Can Make Our Globe Clean AgainEnough plastic is thrown away every year to circle the world 4 times More than 8 million tonnes of plastic enter the oceans each year 300 million tonnes of new plastic is produced ...9999903221104Siegle, Lucy
Orion
miércoles, 13 de noviembre de 2024
'The clouds are nature's poetry, and the most egalitarian of her displays, since everyone has an equally fantastic view of them. Clouds are for dreamers, and their contemplation be...9999903220985Gavin Pretor-Pinney,
Hodder And Stoughton Ltd.
miércoles, 13 de noviembre de 2024
The Radical New Science of Ecological RecoveryNature conservation in the 21st century has taken a radical new turn. Instead of conserving particular species in nature reserves as 'museum pieces', frozen in time, the thinking n...9999903220831Paul Jepson Cain Blythe
Icon Books
miércoles, 13 de noviembre de 2024
This study of the solar system takes into account all the latest findings of radio astronomy, the space programmes of Russia and America and the work that is still being done with ...9999903137962Patrick Moore
Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd
sábado, 1 de junio de 2024
Explores the mystery of the body, the fantastic way in which it works and its amazing ability to repair itself. The book relates dramatic tales offuturistic medicine taking place t...9999903131328Robert M. L. Winston Lori...
BBC Books
jueves, 23 de mayo de 2024
"From one of the world's foremost physicians and researchers, a monumental work that radically redefines our conventional conceptions of health and illness to offer new methods for...9999903125655David B. Agus Kristin Lob...
Pocket Books
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
Adventures in Bringing Back the Recently DeadNot too long ago, there was no coming back from death. But now, with revolutionary medical advances, death has become just another serious complication. As a young medical student...9999903125556David J. Casarett
Portfolio Hardcover
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
Adventures on the Alimentary CanalIn this international bestseller, Mary Roach breaks bread with spit connoisseurs, beer and pet-food tasters, stomach slugs, potato crisp engineers, enema exorcists, rectum-examinin...9999903125488Mary Roach
Oneworld Publications
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the PlanetOn March 27, 1964, at 5-36 p.m., the biggest earthquake ever recorded in North America--and the second biggest ever in the world, measuring 9.2 on the Richter scale--struck Alaska,...9999903125297Henry Fountain
Anchor Books
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
Written by a leading dermatologist, The Blue Man and Other Stories of the Skin provides a compelling and accessible introduction to the life of our largest organ, while also recoun...9999903125273Robert A. Norman
University of California Press
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
Letters on the Evolution of Life and Human Nature"Stimulated by Darwin's relatively uninformed but obviously intelligent questions, Dover takes the father of evolution on an exhilarating roller-coaster ride through recent genetic...9999903112679Gabriel A. Dover
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
lunes, 22 de abril de 2024
The Accelerating Pace of Human EvolutionAre we still evolving? Or has our mastery of the environment stopped evolution in its tracks? Spurred by a rapidly changing environment, and acting on our ever-expanding gene pool,...9999903112525Christopher Wills
Allen Lane
lunes, 22 de abril de 2024
An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the EnvironmentPublished more than three decades after Rachel Carson's Silent Spring warned of the impact of chemicals on the environment, this book offers a critique of current thinking on cance...9999903105688Sandra Steingraber
Virago Press Ltd
miércoles, 10 de abril de 2024
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
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
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