A Doctor and a Diplomat on the Ebola FrontlineIn 2014, a 28-year old British doctor found himself co-running the Ebola isolation unit in Sierra Leone's main hospital after the doctor in charge had been killed by the virus. Com...9999902863589Sinead Walsh Oliver Johns...
Editors Varis
viernes, 1 de julio de 2022
A Graphic GuideGenetics is the newest of all sciences - nothing useful was known about inheritance until just over a century ago. Now genetics is exploding, and before long we will have the compl...9999902863060Jones, Steve
Icon Books Ltd
martes, 28 de junio de 2022
Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the living planet to the brink of collapse, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to d...9999902862476Amitav Ghosh
Penguin Books Ltd
martes, 28 de junio de 2022
Why are women more verbal than men? Why do women remember details of fights that men can???t remember at all? Why do women tend to form deeper bonds with their female friends than ...9999902860854Louann Md Brizendine
Editors Varis
sábado, 18 de junio de 2022
Great Breakthroughs in 20th-century Science, Including the Original PapersAn extraordinarily accessible, illuminating chronicle of the great moments of scientific discovery in the 20th century, and an exploration into the minds of the remarkable men and ...9999902858165Alan Lightman,
Vintage
martes, 14 de junio de 2022
A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human BodyDetails on a Major New Discovery included in a New AfterwordWhy do we look the way we do? Neil Shubin, the paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the ...9999902858158Shubin, Neil
Editors Varis
martes, 14 de junio de 2022
The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing NumberThroughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario...9999902858134Mario Livio
Broadway
martes, 14 de junio de 2022
Electromagnetism And The Foundation Of LifeThe Body Electric tells the fascinating story of our bioelectric selves. Robert O. Becker, a pioneer in the filed of regeneration and its relationship to electrical currents in liv...9999902854662Robert Becker Gary Selden
William Morrow & Co
miércoles, 1 de junio de 2022
This book shows how the latest scans, which reveal thoughts, memories - even our moods - as clearly as an X-ray reveals our bones, can be used to help explain aspects of our behavi...9999902853733Rita Carter Christopher D...
PHOENIX
martes, 31 de mayo de 2022
The Story of a Riddle that Confounded the World's Greatest Minds for 358 YearsIn 1963, a schoolboy browsing in his local library stumbled across a great mathematical problem: Fermat's Last Theorem, a puzzle that every child can now understand, but which has ...9999902851982Simon Singh,
Fourth Estate
lunes, 23 de mayo de 2022
Evolution is the most important idea in biology, with implications that go far beyond science. But despite more than a century's progress in understanding, there is still widesprea...9999902851586Ernst Mayr
PHOENIX
viernes, 20 de mayo de 2022
Greeted with terrific reviews, the first edition of this book proved to be widely popular as both a teaching aid and an entertaining introduction to modern mathematics. It succeede...9999902851555Stewart, Ian
Editors Varis
viernes, 20 de mayo de 2022
The Mathematical Breakthroughs that Changed HistoryGod Created The Integersis Stephen Hawking's personal choice of the greatest mathematical works in history. He allows the reader to peer into the mind of genius by providing us wit...9999902851548Stephen W. Hawking
Penguin Books Ltd
viernes, 20 de mayo de 2022
How One Thing Leads to AnotherBall shows how much can be understood of human behavior when we cease to predict and analyze the behavior of individuals and instead look to the impact of individual decisions--whe...9999902845127Philip Ball
London : Arrow, 2005.
miércoles, 4 de mayo de 2022
Remarkable Expeditions to the Solar System's 63 MoonsAn account of the men and women on the other side of the right stuff - they probe the billions of miles that separate the Earth from the moons of the other planets. The book tells ...9999902845110Jeffrey Kluger
Abacus
miércoles, 4 de mayo de 2022
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...9999902844106Sacks, Oliver
Pan Books
martes, 3 de mayo de 2022
The Greatest Story Never Told : the Human Story of the Search for the Cure for Tuberculosis and the New Global ThreatTuberculosis is the greatest killer of all time. In this century and the previous one, it was responsible for the deaths of a thousand million human beings. Half way through the 20...9999902843710Frank Ryan
Editors Varis
martes, 3 de mayo de 2022
1918's Forgotten Tragedy and the Scientific Hunt for the Virus that Caused itThis text presents the story of the 1918 flu pandemic and discusses current scientific efforts to isolate the particular strain that was so virulent, in order to prevent the same t...9999902842744Pete Davis
London : Michael Joseph, 1999.
viernes, 29 de abril de 2022
A Discussion of the Mysteries of Quantum PhysicsQuantum physics, born in the first quarter of this century, dominates modern physical science, yet this supremely successful theory is built on foundations that appear to defy comm...9999902842737P. C. W. Davies Julian R....
Cambridge University Press
viernes, 29 de abril de 2022
A Field Guide to Human BehaviourFotografie ; Kommunikation ; Psychologie ; Körper ; Zeichnung.9999902839911Desmond Morris
Panther
miércoles, 20 de abril de 2022
The Autobiography of a Species in 23 ChaptersLooks at one newly described gene from each of the twenty-three human chromosomes and explains how each one contributes to our uniqueness as a species.9999902838020Ridley, Matt
Editors Varis
sábado, 16 de abril de 2022
Sea turtles have existed for millions of years, making them fascinating subjects of study. In the last 20 years, the science of sea turtle biology has expanded at an exponential ra...9999902837627Peter L. Lutz John A. Mus...
Editors Varis
sábado, 16 de abril de 2022
Bias in the Science of EvolutionWhy women evolved to have orgasms--when most of their primate relatives don't--is a persistent mystery among evolutionary biologists. In pursuing this mystery, Elisabeth Lloyd arri...9999902833421Elisabeth A. Lloyd
Harvard University Press
martes, 12 de abril de 2022
The Origins of Human Language, Thought, and CivilizationThe Recursive Mind challenges the commonly held notion that language is what makes us uniquely human. In this compelling book, Michael Corballis argues that what distinguishes us i...9999902833322Michael C. Corballis
Princeton University Press
martes, 12 de abril de 2022
New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking Featuring a foreword by David Brooks, This Will Make You Smarter presents brilliant???but accessible???ideas to expand every mind. What scientific concept would improve everybod...9999902833216Brockman, John
HarperCollins
martes, 12 de abril de 2022
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