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  • TESORO COSMICO, EL
    TESORO COSMICO, EL
    STEPHEN HAWKING / LUCY HAWKING
    Algo no marcha bien. Eric, el antiguo vecino de George, está en Florida trabajando en un proyecto científico para descubrir si hay vida en el planeta Marte y en otros lugares del sistema solar. El robot encargado de la misión actúa de forma muy extraña y, según le cuenta Annie a George, ¡un alien les ha enviado un mensaje para decirles que deben volver al espacio si no quieren ...
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    Q. 95

  • THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY: TERRAFORMING MARS, INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL, IMMORTALITY, AND OUR DESTINY BEYOND EARTH
    THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY: TERRAFORMING MARS, INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL, IMMORTALITY, AND OUR DESTINY BEYOND EARTH
    MICHIO KAKU
    The #1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind traverses the frontiers of astrophysics, artificial intelligence, and technology to offer a stunning vision of man's future in space, from settling Mars to traveling to distant galaxies.Formerly the domain of fiction, moving human civilization to the stars is increasingly becoming a scientific possibility--and a necessity. Whe...
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    Q. 305

  • BEHAVE
    BEHAVE
    ROBERT M. SAPOLSKY
    A New York Times-bestselling inquiry into the great mystery of why we do the things we doNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal "It has my vote for science book of the year.” —Parul Sehgal, The New York Times"Hands-down one of the best books I’ve read in years. I loved it." —Dina Temple-Raston, The Washington Post“It’s no exaggeration t...
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  • THE ORDER OF TIME
    THE ORDER OF TIME
    CARLO ROVELLI
    From the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, a concise, elegant exploration of time.From the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, a concise, elegant exploration of time.Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to "flow"? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli in...
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    Q. 200

  • ENLIGHTENMENT NOW
    ENLIGHTENMENT NOW
    STEVEN PINKER
    "A terrific book...[Pinker] recounts the progress across a broad array of metrics, from health to wars, the environment to happiness, equal rights to quality of life." --The New York TimesThe follow-up to Pinker's groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while ou...
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    Q. 180

  • SCIENCE IN THE SOUL
    SCIENCE IN THE SOUL
    RICHARD DAWKINS
    From the evolutionary biologist, and bestselling author, a timely, passionate defense of rational, scientific thinking in this career-spanning collection--including twenty pieces published in the US for the first time.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The legendary biologist and bestselling author mounts a timely and passionate defense of science and clear thinking with this career-s...
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    Q. 180

  • THE STRANGE ORDER OF THINGS
    THE STRANGE ORDER OF THINGS
    ANTONIO DAMASIO
    From one of our preeminent neuroscientists: a landmark reflection on the origins of life, mind, and culture that spans the biological and social sciences, offering a new way of understanding life, culture, and feeling.From one of our preeminent neuroscientists: a landmark reflection that spans the biological and social sciences, offering a new way of understanding the origins o...
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    Q. 290

  • LA CONQUISTA DEL CEREBRO
    LA CONQUISTA DEL CEREBRO
    TAMMET, DANIEL
    ? Puedo aprender cualquier idioma en una semana. ? Puedo recitar de memoria miles de decimales del número pi. ? Puedo recordar el color del jersey de la primera cita de mi vida. ? Puedo evitar un atasco de tráfico con un pensamiento matemático. ? Puedo predecir las respuestas de la persona con la que estoy hablando. Me llamo Daniel Tammet y puedo hacer todo esto gracias al sín...
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    Q. 330

  • HOW SCIENCE WORKS
    HOW SCIENCE WORKS
    DK PUBLISHING
    ABOUT HOW SCIENCE WORKSExplore answers to questions on 70 topics in the areas of matter, physics, energy, chemistry, life science, earth science, technology, and the universe.How Science Works uses clear, easy-to-understand graphics to answer common questions and explain difficult concepts–not only the core science topics that eluded us at school, but also the cutting-edge scie...
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  • EL LIBRO DE ASTRONOMIA
    EL LIBRO DE ASTRONOMIA
    DK PUBLISHING
    ¿Cómo medimos el universo? ¿Dónde se halla el horizonte de sucesos? ¿Qué es la materia oscura? Desde los inicios de la humanidad, la gente ha alzado la vista al cielo con el afán de entenderlo. Así, a lo largo de los siglos, la ciencia astronómica ha ensanchado las fronteras del conocimiento humano en el intento de comprender el universo y nuestro lugar en él.Con un lenguaje cl...
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    Q. 290

  • GAME THEORY: AN INTRODUCTION
    GAME THEORY: AN INTRODUCTION
    STEVEN TADELIS
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    Q. 940

  • EL JUEGO DEL COSMOS
    EL JUEGO DEL COSMOS
    CDECIENCIA
    El conocimiento científico no está reñido con el entretenimiento, y la mejor prueba de ello es este libro, cuyo autor, Martí Montferrer, un youtuber que ha consagrado su canal, CdeCiencia, a la divulgación de temáticas fascinantes relacionadas con el mundo de la ciencia. Martí te invita a comprender las reglas del universo, el juego más apasionante que existe. Desde el mundo su...
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    Q. 110

  • EL AS DE LA MANGA
    EL AS DE LA MANGA
    RITA LEVI- MONTALCINI
    En este breve pero intenso libro, la doctora Levi Montalcini desdeña las reflexiones consolatorias o las lamentaciones lúgubres sobre la vejez, para explicarnos que el cerebro puede seguir funcionando perfectamente incluso a una edad avanzada, a diferencia de lo que ocurre con otras funciones fisiológicas, ya que si bien es cierto que pierde algunas de sus capacidades, las sust...
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    Q. 100

  • EL JARDÍN DE NEWTON
    EL JARDÍN DE NEWTON
    JOSÉ MANUEL SÁNCHEZ
    ¿Qué sería de nuestras vidas si no poseyésemos ningún conocimiento científico, si no dispusiéramos de instrumento alguno construido con la ayuda de la ciencia? ¿Cómo habríamos sobrevivido sin conocer el origen y el comportamiento de las enfermedades que nos afectan? ¿Qué clase de mundo sería el que ignorara la dinámica de los movimientos físicos o las leyes de las combinaciones...
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    Q. 125

  • ASTRONOMY
    ASTRONOMY
    DK BOOKS
    An accessible but genuinely comprehensive illustrated handbook of every aspect of astronomy, featuring the latest discoveries and the most recently available images of the universe.Take a tour of the universe, from the 90-mile-wide impact craters on the moon to Jupiter's Great Red Spot--a 400 mph swirling storm that started before anyone on Earth was born.This stunningly illust...
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    Q. 305

  • LOS SIETE PILARES DE LA SABIDURÍA ESTADÍSTICA
    LOS SIETE PILARES DE LA SABIDURÍA ESTADÍSTICA
    STEPHEN M. STIGLER
    La estadística está en todas partes: en las calificaciones de la escuela, en las encuestas que aspiran a anticipar un resultado electoral, en el descubrimiento de nuevas partículas elementales. Pero, ¿qué tiene de singular esta disciplina? Stephen M. Stigler propone que la sabiduría estadística se apoya en siete grandes pilares conceptuales que han ido madurando con el paso de ...
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    Q. 105

  • A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME (ANNIVERSARY)
    A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME (ANNIVERSARY)
    HAWKING, STEPHEN
    A landmark volume in science writing by one of the great minds of our time, Stephen Hawking’s book explores such profound questions as: How did the universe begin—and what made its start possible? Does time always flow forward? Is the universe unending—or are there boundaries? Are there other dimensions in space? What will happen when it all ends?Told in language we all can und...
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    Q. 190

  • BLACK HOLES AND BABY UNIVERSES
    BLACK HOLES AND BABY UNIVERSES
    HAWKING, STEPHEN
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    Q. 180

  • LA BUSQUEDA DEL ALGORITMO
    LA BUSQUEDA DEL ALGORITMO
    ED FINN
    Finn explica de manera pormenorizada cómo internet ha cambiado nuestra cultura y ha abierto nuevas posibilidades creativas: el uso de Google, la confianza en las recomendaciones supuestamente arbitrarias de Spotify o la manera en que compañías como Netflix se sirven de la gestión masiva de datos para dar con productos televisivos de éxito son solo una pequeña parte de un profun...
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    Q. 310

  • LAS MUJERES DE LA NASA
    LAS MUJERES DE LA NASA
    NATHALIA HOLT
    En el Laboratorio de Retropropulsión creado durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial para que los Estados Unidos iniciaran su carrera espacial, se necesitaban matemáticos con una agilidad mental excepcional. Fue entonces cuando reclutaron a un grupo de élite: 16 mujeres jóvenes, verdaderas computadoras humanas, que con solo lápiz y papel transformaron el diseño de los cohetes gracias ...
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    Q. 185

  • CIENTIFICO REBELDE, EL
    CIENTIFICO REBELDE, EL
    DYSON, FREEMAN
    Desde Galileo hasta los astrónomos aficionados de la actualidad, los científicos siempre han sido rebeldes, espíritus libres que se resisten a las ataduras que la sociedad les impone. En su búsqueda de las verdades de la naturaleza les guía tanto la imaginación como la razón, y sus teorías más importantes tienen la excepcionalidad y la belleza de las grandes obras de arte. Free...
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    Q. 205

  • SHE HAS HER MOTHER'S LAUGH: THE POWERS, PERVERSIONS, AND POTENTIAL OF HEREDITY
    SHE HAS HER MOTHER'S LAUGH: THE POWERS, PERVERSIONS, AND POTENTIAL OF HEREDITY
    CARL ZIMMER
    Award-winning, celebrated New York Times columnist and science writer Carl Zimmer presents a history of our understanding of heredity in this sweeping, resonating overview of a force that shaped human society--a force set to shape our future even more radically.She Has Her Mother's Laugh presents a profoundly original perspective on what we pass along from generation to generat...
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    Q. 300

  • BROAD BAND
    BROAD BAND
    CLAIRE L. EVANS
    If you loved Hidden Figures or The Rise of the Rocket Girls, you’ll love Claire Evans’ breakthrough book on the women who brought you the internet–written out of history, until now.“This is a radically important, timely work,” says Miranda July, filmmaker and author of The First Bad Man. The history of technology you probably know is one of men and machines, garages and riches,...
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    Q. 270

  • THE PHYSICS OF EVERYDAY THINGS: THE EXTRAORDINARY SCIENCE BEHIND AN ORDINARY DAY
    THE PHYSICS OF EVERYDAY THINGS: THE EXTRAORDINARY SCIENCE BEHIND AN ORDINARY DAY
    JAMES KAKALIOS
    Physics professor, bestselling author, and dynamic storyteller James Kakalios reveals the mind-bending science behind the seemingly basic things that keep our daily lives running, from our smart phones and digital "clouds" to x-ray machines and hybrid vehicles. Most of us are clueless when it comes to the physics that makes our modern world so convenient. What's the simple scie...
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    Q. 180

  • INVENTIONS, RESEARCHES AND WRITINGS OF NIKOLA TESLA (BARNES & NOBLE COLLECTIBLE EDITIONS)
    INVENTIONS, RESEARCHES AND WRITINGS OF NIKOLA TESLA (BARNES & NOBLE COLLECTIBLE EDITIONS)
    NIKOLA TESLA
    The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla is the definitive record of the pioneering work of one of the modern world's most groundbreaking inventors. During the early twentieth century, Tesla blazed the trail that electrical technology followed for decades afterward. Although he pioneered inventions like alternating current (AC), radio, wireless transmission, and ...
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    Q. 355

  • HOW THE ZEBRA GOT ITS STRIPES
    HOW THE ZEBRA GOT ITS STRIPES
    BARBARA MELLOR / GRASSET, LEO
    Why do giraffes have such long necks? Why are zebras striped? And why does the clitoris of the female hyena exactly resemble and in most respects function like the male's penis?Deploying the latest scientific research and his own extensive observations in Africa, Léo Grasset offers answers to these questions and many more in a book of post-Darwinian. Complex natural phenomena a...
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    Q. 125

  • CALCULATING THE COSMOS
    CALCULATING THE COSMOS
    IAN STEWART
    Ian Stewart's up-to-the-minute guide to the cosmos moves from the formation of the Earth and its Moon to the planets and asteroids of the solar system and from there out into the galaxy and the universe. He describes the architecture of space and time, dark matter and dark energy, how galaxies form, why stars implode, how everything began, and how it will end. He considers para...
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    Q. 120

  • BEING A BEAST
    BEING A BEAST
    CHARLES FOSTER
    Charles Foster wanted to know what it was like to be a beast: a badger, an otter, a deer, a fox, a swift. What it was really like. And through knowing what it was like he wanted to get down and grapple with the beast in us all. So he tried it out; he lived life as a badger for six weeks, sleeping in a dirt hole and eating earthworms, he came face to face with shrimps as he live...
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    Q. 120

  • WHEN EINSTEIN WALKED WITH GÖDEL: EXCURSIONS TO THE EDGE OF THOUGHT
    WHEN EINSTEIN WALKED WITH GÖDEL: EXCURSIONS TO THE EDGE OF THOUGHT
    HOLT , JIM
    From Jim Holt, the New York Times bestselling author of Why Does the World Exist?, comes an entertaining and accessible guide to the most profound scientific and mathematical ideas of recent centuries in When Einstein Walked with Gödel Excursions to the Edge of Thought.Does time exist? What is infinity? Why do mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down? In this scintill...
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    Q. 280

  • LIGHT OF THE STARS: ALIEN WORLDS AND THE FATE OF THE EARTH
    LIGHT OF THE STARS: ALIEN WORLDS AND THE FATE OF THE EARTH
    ADAM FRANK
    Light of the Stars tells the story of humanity's coming of age as we awaken to the possibilities of life on other worlds and their sudden relevance to our fate on Earth. Astrophysicist Adam Frank traces the question of alien life and intelligence from the ancient Greeks to the leading thinkers of our own time, and shows how we as a civilization can only hope to survive climate ...
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    Q. 275