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  • GREAT BEAR WILD
    GREAT BEAR WILD
    MCALLISTER, IAN
    The Great Bear Rainforest is the fabled region that stretches up the rugged Pacific coast from the top of Vancouver Island to southern Alaska. A longtime resident of the area, award-winning photographer and conservationist Ian McAllister takes us on a deeply personal journey from the headwaters of the Great Bear Rainforest's unexplored river valleys down to where the ocean meet...
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    Q. 500

  • SEX ON EARTH
    SEX ON EARTH
    One thousand million years ago, a huge revolution occurred on Earth-sex happened for the first time. From that moment on, the world became ever more colorful and bizarre, ringing with elaborate songs and dances, epic battles, and rallying cries as the desires of males and females collided, generation after generation, in an unbroken chain of sex going back to the dawn of comple...
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    Q. 270

  • EYES WIDE OPEN
    EYES WIDE OPEN
    FLEISCHMAN, PAUL
    Paul Fleischman offers teens an environmental wake-up call and a tool kit for decoding the barrage of conflicting information confronting them. We're living in an Ah-Ha moment. Take 250 years of human ingenuity. Add abundant fossil fuels. The result: a population and lifestyle never before seen. The downsides weren't visible for centuries, but now they are. Suddenly everything ...
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    Q. 180

  • AGUJEROS NEGROS Y PEQUEÑOS UNIVERSOS
    AGUJEROS NEGROS Y PEQUEÑOS UNIVERSOS
    STEPHEN HAWKING
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    Q. 140

  • 50 COSAS QUE HAY QUE SABER SOBRE MATEMATICAS
    50 COSAS QUE HAY QUE SABER SOBRE MATEMATICAS
    TONY CRILLY
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    Q. 150

  • THE COMPLETE COSMICOMICS
    THE COMPLETE COSMICOMICS
    ITALO CALVINO
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    Q. 240

  • LOS SIMPSON Y LAS MATEMÁTICAS
    LOS SIMPSON Y LAS MATEMÁTICAS
    SIMON SINGH
    De cómo la serie más longeva y exitosa de la historia de la televisión trató, por todos los medios, de hacernos amar el cálculo, el álgebra y la geometría. Aunque muchos han tratado de encontrar enseñanzas filosóficas, psicológicas o incluso literarias en Los Simpson, lo cierto es que si hay una disciplina por la que sus guionistas sientes devoción, esa es las matemáticas. Ya e...
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    Q. 170

  • ORÍGENES
    ORÍGENES
    DEGRASSE TYSON, NEIL / DONALD GOLDSMITH
    Una exploración accesible y magníficamente bien escrita sobre las profundas aguas de la cosmología, la astrofísica y la exobiología. Nuestros verdaderos orígenes no son sólo humanos, ni siquiera terrestres, sino cósmicos. Orígenes es un libro sorprendente y absorbente, que empieza con el Big Bang y termina con la búsque da de vida extraterrestre, en el cual los autores sintetiz...
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    Q. 280

  • SMART
    SMART
    FRÉDÉRIC MARTEL
    Un análisis sorprendente del uso de internet y las redes sociales en el mundo, por el autor del aclamado Cultura mainstream ¿Cómo ha podido China crear sus propios clones de Google, Facebook y YouTube? ¿De qué manera los países árabes supieron emplear las redes sociales para emprender sus revoluciones? ¿Debemos temer q ue el inglés se convierta en la lengua empleada «por defect...
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    Q. 210

  • PROFESSOR STEWART’S INCREDIBLE NUMBERS
    PROFESSOR STEWART’S INCREDIBLE NUMBERS
    IAN STEWART
    At its heart, mathematics is about numbers, our fundamental tools for understanding the world. In Professor Stewart’s Incredible Numbers, Ian Stewart offers a delightful introduction to the numbers that surround us, from the common (Pi and 2) to the uncommon but no less consequential (1.059463 and 43,252,003,274,489,856,000). Along the way, Stewart takes us through prime number...
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    Q. 170

  • THE RED QUEEN: SEX AND THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN NATURE
    THE RED QUEEN: SEX AND THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN NATURE
    MATT RIDLEY
    Referring to Lewis Carroll's Red Queen from Through the Looking-Glass, a character who has to keep running to stay in the same place, Matt Ridley demonstrates why sex is humanity's best strategy for outwitting its constantly mutating internal predators. The Red Queen answers dozens of other riddles of human nature and culture -- including why men propose marriage, the method be...
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    Q. 160

  • NATURAL HAZARDS: EARTH'S PROCESSES AS HAZARDS, DISASTERS, AND CATASTROPHES
    NATURAL HAZARDS: EARTH'S PROCESSES AS HAZARDS, DISASTERS, AND CATASTROPHES
    EDWARD KELLER
    Marc Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-531) and index.Table of Contents:1. Introduction to Natural Hazards 2. Internal Structure of Earth and Plate Tectonics 3. Earthquakes 4. Tsunamis 5. Volcanoes 6. Flooding 7. Mass Wasting 8. Subsidence and Soils 9. Atmospheric Processes and Severe Weather 10. Hurricanes and Extratropical Cyclones 11. Coastal Hazards 12. C...
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    Q. 1.890

  • CLIMATE FORCING OF GEOLOGICAL HAZARDS
    CLIMATE FORCING OF GEOLOGICAL HAZARDS
    MARK MASLIN & BILL MACGUIRE
    Review Quotes:"Further, this book convincingly demonstrates the need for greater inclusion of the geoscience research community in discussions on climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction planning." ("Geological Journal", 25 February 2014)"I heartily recommend this book. We all have a stake in surviving climate change." ("International Journal of Environmental Studi...
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    Q. 2.450

  • LANDSLIDES
    LANDSLIDES
    KYOJI SASSA / HIROSHI FUKUOKA
    Review Quotes:From the reviews: This volume represents the proceedings of the First General Assembly of the International Consortium on Landslides which was held in Washington . The illustrations and images are mainly of the highest quality. I highly recommend the book as a library resource for all institutions. Professionals involved in landslide work will find several interes...
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    Q. 3.700

  • GEOMORPHOLOGICAL HAZARDS AND DISASTER PREVENTION
    GEOMORPHOLOGICAL HAZARDS AND DISASTER PREVENTION
    IRASEMA ALCANTARA AYALA / ANDREW GOUDRE
    Review Quotes:' surely one of the most relevant and timely Earth science texts for the early 21st century given the rapidity of current global climate change and predicted increase in associated natural disasters and infrastructural consequences. This comprehensive text on hazards brings fresh relevance and application to geomorphology and is an essential read for environmental...
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    Q. 610

  • ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE
    ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE
    MARK RELLING
    Biographical Note:Mark Pelling is Reader in Geography at King s College London and before this at the University of Liverpool and University of Guyana. His research and teaching focus on human vulnerability and adaptation to natural hazards and climate change. He has served as a lead author with the IPCC and as a consultant for UNDP, DFID and UN-HABITAT. "Table of Contents:List...
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    Q. 870

  • RISK AND UNCERTAINTY ASSESSMENT FOR NATURAL HAZARDS
    RISK AND UNCERTAINTY ASSESSMENT FOR NATURAL HAZARDS
    JONATHAN ROUGIER / STEVEN SPARKS
    Brief Description:A state-of-the-art overview of natural hazard risk assessment, for researchers and professionals in natural-hazard science, risk management and environmental science.Table of Contents:List of contributors; Preface; 1. Risk and uncertainty assessment in natural hazards L. J. Hill, R. S. J. Sparks and J. C. Rougier; 2. Quantifying natural hazard risk J. C. Rougi...
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    Q. 2.110

  • ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARS
    ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARS
    KEITH SMITH
    Biographical Note:Keith Smith is Emeritus Professor of Environmental Science and former Dean of Natural Sciences at the University of Stirling. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.Review Quotes:"The latest edition of Environmental Hazards provides a reliable guide to the ever changing field of natural hazards and disasters. The sixth edition covers a remarkable ran...
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    Q. 1.340

  • HAZARD ANALYSIS REDUCING THE IMPACT OF DISASTERS
    HAZARD ANALYSIS REDUCING THE IMPACT OF DISASTERS
    JOHN C. PINE
    Biographical Note:John C. Pine serves as the director of the Research Institute for Environment, Energy & Economics (RIEEE), and professor in the department of Geography and Planning, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina. He joined the Appalachian faculty in 2009 after serving thirty years at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge where he directed the graduat...
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    Q. 1.560

  • NATURAL DISASTERS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
    NATURAL DISASTERS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
    STEPHANE SPRINGE HALLEGATTE.
    Table of Contents:1 Introduction and summary.- 2 What is a disaster? An economic point of view.- 3 Disaster risks: evidence and theory.- 4 Trends in Hazards and the Role of Climate Change.- 5 Climate change impact on natural disaster losses.- 6 Methodologies for disaster risk management in a changing environment.- 7 Decision making for disaster risk management in a changing cli...
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    Q. 1.920

  • CITIES DISASTER RISK AND ADAPTION
    CITIES DISASTER RISK AND ADAPTION
    CHRISTINE WAMSLER
    Brief Description:Introduction. 1.Setting the Scene -- Part 1: Theoretical Framework. 2. Sorting out the Conceptual 'Jungle' Associated with Urban Risk Reduction and Adaptation; 3. The City-- disasters Nexus: A Two-way Relationship -- Part 2: Current Practice. 4. City Authorities' Approaches to Urban Risk Reduction and Adaptation; 5. City dwellers' Own Ways to Reduce and Adapt ...
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    Q. 850

  • THE ROLE OF ECOSYSTEMS IN DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
    THE ROLE OF ECOSYSTEMS IN DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
    FABRICE RENAUD / KAREN SUDMEIER RIEUX
    Biographical Note:Fabrice G. Renaud is head of section at the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security.Karen Sudmeier-Rieux is a researcher at the Center for Research of the Terrestrial Environment, University of Lausanne.Marisol Estrella is the program coordinator of the Disaster Risk Reduction Unit, Post-Conflict and Disaster Management Branch, U...
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    Q. 600

  • DISASTER THEORY
    DISASTER THEORY
    DAVID ETKIN
    Marc Notes:'Disaster Theory' offers a theoretical background in the important topics related to understanding disaster. Drawing on related disciplines including sociology, risk theory, and seminal research on disasters and emergency management, 'Disaster Theory' clearly lays out the conceptual framework of the emerging field of disaster studies. Tailored to the needs of advance...
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    Q. 1.260

  • ANTIFRAGILE
    ANTIFRAGILE
    NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB
    Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, and The Bed of Procrustes.Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of The Black Swan a...
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    Q. 210

  • ALTERED GENES, TWISTED TRUTH
    ALTERED GENES, TWISTED TRUTH
    This book uncovers the biggest scientific fraud of our age. It tells the fascinating and frequently astounding story of how the massive enterprise to restructure the genetic core of the world's food supply came into being, how it advanced by consistently violating the protocols of science, and how for more than three decades, hundreds of eminent biologists and esteemed institut...
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    Q. 220

  • MATEMATICAS PARA TODOS Y CODIGOS
    MATEMATICAS PARA TODOS Y CODIGOS
    MARTIN GARDNER
    Acertijos y códigos. Juegos y enigmas. Matemáticas recreativas para divertirse aprendiendo. Dice Martin Gardner en la introducción a esta recopilación de juegos matemáticos que "al seleccionar el material de esta colección, he hecho todo lo posible por encontrar acertijos que fueran inusuales y divertidos, que sólo requiri eran el más elemental conocimiento de matemática, pero ...
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    Q. 150

  • DARWIN ON EVOLUTION
    DARWIN ON EVOLUTION
    CHARLES DARWIN
    The father of evolution imbibed history with his controversial book On the Origin of Species. As a young scientist studying natural history, Charles Darwin set out on the HMS Beagle for a five-year voyage that would bring him in contact with animal species, plant species, and rock formations all over the world. This voyage established him as an eminent geologist, and his public...
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    Q. 130

  • 17 ECUACIONES QUE CAMBIARON EL MUNDO
    17 ECUACIONES QUE CAMBIARON EL MUNDO
    IAN STEWART
    Las ecuaciones, esos conjuntos de números y símbolos separados por el signo igual, son el alma de las matemáticas, la ciencia y la tecnología. Sin ellas, nuestro mundo no existiría en su forma actual: escondidas para muchos, han constituido una fuerza motriz en la civilización humana durante miles de años, abriendo nuevas perspectivas en campos tan variados como las comunicacio...
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    Q. 230

  • UNIVERSO CUANTICO,EL
    UNIVERSO CUANTICO,EL
    COX,BRIAN / FORSHAW,JEFF
    ¿Qué es la física cuántica? ¿Cómo nos ayuda a entender el mundo? ¿Dónde deja a Newton y a Einstein? Y sobre todo, ¿por qué podemos estar seguros de que es una buena teoría? Brian Cox y Jeff Forshaw ofrecen un modelo concreto de la naturaleza que es comparable en esencia a las leyes del movimiento de Newton, la teoría electromagnética de Maxwell y la teoría de la relatividad de ...
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    Q. 210

  • EL NÚMERO OMEGA
    EL NÚMERO OMEGA
    GREGORY CHAITIN
    El revolucionario hallazgo de Chaitin, el número Omega, es una representación exquisitamente lograda de aquello que las matemáticas deben a la intuición y la experiencia. Sus investigaciones arrojan luz sobre lo que podemos llegar a saber acerca del universo y la propia naturaleza de la vida. Chaitin esboza los pasos intelectuales e intuitivos específicos que lo llevaron hasta ...
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    Q. 165