A Drama of Science, Faith and LoveWhile Galileo Galilei was under house arrest, accused of heresy for his claim that the earth revolved around the sun, his daughter Virginia, a cloistered nun, proved to be her fath...9999903095545Dava Sobel,
Fourth Estate
viernes, 15 de marzo de 2024
The Curious Lives of the ElementsEverything is made of them, from the furthest reaches of the universe to this book that you hold in your hands, including you. Like you, the elements have lives- personalities and...9999903093343Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Viking
sábado, 9 de marzo de 2024
Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry and Space-timeTaken from his celebrated Caltech lectures, Six Not-So-Easy Piecesis more challenging in its content than the previous volume Six Easy Pieces(Penguin 1998), providing an exhilarati...9999903092018Richard Phillips Feynman
Penguin Books Ltd
viernes, 8 de marzo de 2024
How We Know What's Really TrueMagic takes many forms. The ancient Egyptians explained the night by suggesting that the goddess Nut swallowed the sun. The Vikings believed a rainbow was the gods' bridge to earth...9999903086703Richard Dawkins, Dave McK...
Black Swan
sábado, 24 de febrero de 2024
In his most extraordinary book, Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. These are case studies of...9999903085898Sacks, Oliver
Pan Books
viernes, 23 de febrero de 2024
Have you ever seen something that wasn't really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing?Hallucinations...9999903085881Sacks, Oliver
Picador
viernes, 23 de febrero de 2024
The New Science of EatingFreakonomics for food Why do we consume 35% more food when eating with one more person, and 75% more when with three? Why are 27% of drinks bought on aeroplanes tomato juice? How a...9999903083818Charles Spence
Penguin
sábado, 17 de febrero de 2024
The Unknown History of Human HeredityThe untold story of how hereditary data in mental hospitals gave rise to the science of human heredityIn the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physic...9999903083795Theodore M. Porter
Princeton University Press
sábado, 17 de febrero de 2024
From the Cosmos to the Kitchen Counter, the Big Consequences of Little ThingsHannah Holmes A mesmerizing expedition around our dusty worldSome see dust as dull and useless stuff. But in the hands of author Hannah Holmes, it becomes a dazzling and mysterious...9999903082507Hannah Holmes
Wiley
sábado, 10 de febrero de 2024
A Short History of Modern DelusionsIn 1979 two events occurred that would shape the next 25 years. In Britain, an era of weary consensualist politics was displaced by the arrival of Margaret Thatcher, whose ambition...9999903082088Francis Wheen,
Perennial
sábado, 10 de febrero de 2024
The Coming Age of HyperintelligenceJames Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth. He argues th...9999903081876James Lovelock
Penguin Books Ltd
sábado, 10 de febrero de 2024
A Journey in Search of Modern Marvels"We live in a world that is known, every corner thoroughly explored. But has this knowledge cost us the ability to wonder? Wonder, Caspar Henderson argues, is at its most supremely...9999903081869Caspar Henderson
Granta
sábado, 10 de febrero de 2024
The New Science of Cause and Effect'Correlation does not imply causation.' This mantra was invoked by scientists for decades in order to avoid taking positions as to whether one thing caused another, such as smoking...9999903081845Judea Pearl Dana Mackenzi...
Penguin
sábado, 10 de febrero de 2024
How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New WorldScientists have just announced an historic discovery on a par with the splitting of the atom: the Higgs boson, the key to understanding why mass exists has been found. In The Parti...9999903077398Sean M. Carroll
Dutton Adult
viernes, 2 de febrero de 2024
How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) EverythingIf you want to understand how our world works, the periodic table holds the answers. This book shows you how to use it to understand all the ingredients necessary to make a world. ...9999903077374Tim James
Corsair
viernes, 2 de febrero de 2024
The Science That Is Rewriting the Boundaries Between Life and DeathErasing Death: The Science That Is Rewriting the Boundaries Between Life and Death reveals that death is not a moment in time. Death, rather, is a process ??a process that can be i...9999903077367Sam Parnia
HarperCollins
viernes, 2 de febrero de 2024
The irresistible, ever-curious, and always best-selling Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside. ??America ??s funniest science writer...9999903077343Mary Roach
W. W. Norton & Company
viernes, 2 de febrero de 2024
Using Science to See Our Species as We Really areHuman beings have long seen themselves as the center of the universe, the apple of God's eye, specially-created creatures who are somehow above and beyond the natural world. This v...9999903077329David P. Barash
Oxford University Press
viernes, 2 de febrero de 2024
Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable PeopleThis book of thoroughly engaging essays from one of today's most prodigious innovators provides a uniquely personal perspective on the lives and achievements of a selection of intr...9999903077312Stephen Wolfram
Wolfram Media
viernes, 2 de febrero de 2024
Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our TimeRevised and Expanded Edition.In this age of supposed scientific enlightenment, many people still believe in mind reading, past-life regression theory, New Age hokum, and alien abdu...9999903075899Michael Shermer
Holt Paperbacks
miércoles, 31 de enero de 2024
The fast and easy way to get up and running with Windows 10 Windows 10 For Dummies covers the latest version of Windows and gets you up and running with the changes and new feature...9999903075639Andy Rathbone
John Wiley & Sons
miércoles, 31 de enero de 2024
A Story of Memory, Madness and Family SecretsIn the summer of 1953 maverick neurosurgeon William Beecher Scoville performed a groundbreaking operation on a twenty-seven-year-old epileptic patient named Henry Molaison. The ope...9999903073994Luke Dittrich
Chatto & Windus
viernes, 26 de enero de 2024
Essays on Biology and SocietyAn authoritative exploration of why understanding evolution is crucial to human life todayIt is easy to think of evolution as something that happened long ago, or that occurs only ...9999903073932Jonathan B. Losos Richard...
Princeton University Press
jueves, 25 de enero de 2024
The History and Science of how We Talk to OurselvesWe all hear voices. Ordinary thinking is often a kind of conversation, filling our heads with speech: the voices of reason, of memory, of self-encouragement and rebuke, the inner d...9999903073567Charles Fernyhough
Profile
jueves, 25 de enero de 2024
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