Libros de Ciencia - STEM 2487 resultados

Joel Levy

La historia de la ciencia es tanto un relato sobre las personalidades como sobre las ideas, y a menudo ha progresado a través de luchas feroces por la supremacía científica y personal. En este libro se presenta su verdadera historia, en la que se recogen algunas de las disputas más ásperas, escandalosas, turbias, interminables, mezquinas, personales, destempladas y rotundamente...

Francisco Mora

Todo el mundo aspira a alcanzar la felicidad verdadera, permanente,pero nadie lo ha conseguido. La felicidad es como un teoremauniversal, sin resolver, que sólo las religiones y la filosofía, y más recientemente la Psicología y hasta la misma Sociología y Economía,han intentando abordar. Ahora lo hacen las Neurociencias poniendo como referencia a ese cerebro que la produce. Y d...

Hawking, Stephen

In the last thirty years of his life Albert Einstein searched for a unified theory - a theory which could describe all the forces of nature in a single framework. But the time was not right for such a discovery in Einstein's day. Neither was the time right when, in 1988, Professor Stephen Hawking wrote A Brief History of Time in which he took us on a journey through classical p...

Tim Parks / Italo Calvino / William Weaver / Martin Mclaughlin

The definitive edition of Calvino's cosmicomics, bringing together all of these enchanting stories—including some never before translated—in one volume for the first timeIn Italo Calvino's cosmicomics, primordial beings cavort on the nearby surface of the moon, play marbles with atoms, and bear ecstatic witness to Earth's first dawn. Exploring natural phenomena and the origins ...

Alan Weisman

The author of The World Without Us returns with a powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future.In his widely influential bestseller The World Without Us, Alan Weisman considered how the Earth could heal if relieved of humanity's constant pressures. Behind that groundbreaking thought experiment was Weisman's hope that we would be inspired to find a way to add hu...

Claus Priesner

Este libro es la primera obra científica de consulta sobre alquimia en lengua española. Con más de 200 entradas, numerosas ilustraciones y un índice exhaustivo el lector podrá formarse una idea de los personajes, las materias, los símbolos y las ideas propias de la alquimia que pretenden definir lo que, en esencia, es la alquimia: una doctrina acerca del sentido y la esencia de...

Frank R. Wilson

Como dijo Sir Charles Bell en 1833, «la mano humana está tan bellamente formada, sus acciones son tan poderosas, tan libres y, sin embargo, tan delicadas que no se piensa en su complejidad como instrumento; la utilizamos de la misma manera que respiramos: de manera inconsciente». Precisamente al estudio de la mano se dedican algunas de las investigaciones más apasionantes y de ...

Jean Piaget

Steven Strogatz

A delightful tour of the greatest ideas of math, showing how math intersects with philosophy, science, art, business, current events, and everyday life, by an acclaimed science communicator and regular contributor to the New York Times. ...

Jose Roda

With thirteen new chapters, Let It Shine is a fully revised and expanded edition of A Golden Thread, Perlin’s classic history of solar technology, detailing the past forty years of technological developments driving today’s solar renaissance. This unique and compelling compendium of humankind’s solar ideas tells the fascinating story of how our predecessors throughout tim...

J.a.lopez Cerezo

Paul Strathern

En este libro elegante, erudito y, aún así, entretenido, Paul Strathern desenmaraña la dramática historia de la química a través de la búsqueda de los elementos. Para enmarcar esta historia recurre a la vida del científico ruso Dimitri Mendeléiev. Éste se quedó dormido sentado a su mesa y despertó habiendo concebido la Tabla Periódica de los elementos en sueños, la idea matriz ...

Douglas Mulhall

Nicholas Wade

Drawing on startling new evidence from the human genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human storyFewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different races are biologically different from one another. For this understandable reason, the idea has bee...

Joshua Greene

The Boston Globe"Surprising and remarkable... Toggling between big ideas, technical details, and his personal intellectual journey, Greene writes a thesis suitable to both airplane reading and PhD seminars."Our brains were designed for tribal life, for getting along with a select group of others (Us) and for fighting off everyone else (Them). But modern times have forced the wo...

Dava Sobel

Katherine Tasheff Carlton

Ken Coupland

Deborah Halber

Solving cold cases from the comfort of your living room... "The Skeleton Crew" provides an entree into the gritty and tumultuous world of Sherlock Holmes-wannabes who race to beat out law enforcement--and one another--at matching missing persons with unidentified remains. In America today, upwards of forty thousand people are dead and unaccounted for. These murder, suicide, and...

Petranek, Stephen

Seth Darling / Doug Sisterson / Douglas L Sisterson

The essential climate-debate handbook everything you need to know about climate science to change mindsHave you ever heard someone say that climate change is simply the result of natural cycles? Or that there can t be global warming because it still gets so cold out? While the claims climate-change deniers make can seem, on their surface, quite plausible, they simply don t hold...

A pharmacologist and a veterinarian pull back the curtain on the human and animal health effects of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking" Across the country, fracking--the extraction of natural gas by hydraulic fracturing--is being touted as the nation's answer to energy independence and a fix for a flagging economy. Drilling companies assure us that the process is safe, politici...

William Klug

Known for its focus on conceptual understanding, problem solving, and practical explanations, this best-seller strengthens problem solving coverage and explores the essential genetics content today's students need to know. This edition maintains the book's briefer, less-detailed approach to teaching core concepts. New features of the Eighth Edition include four new Special Topi...

William Klug

This valuable manual provides a detailed, step-by-step solution or extended discussion for every problem in the text in a chapter-by-chapter format. The handbook also contains extra study problems and a thorough review of the concepts and vocabulary. ...

Paul Bogard

The "terrific ... moving, poetic, immersive, multifaceted, and thought-provoking" book "(Publishers Weekly) "that will open your eyes to the night. A brilliantly starry night is one of nature's most thrilling wonders. Yet in our world of nights as bright as day, most of us no longer experience true darkness. Eight out of ten Americans born today won't ever live where they can s...

Austin, John

Author and toy designer John Austin provides detailed, step-by-step instructions with diagrams to show stealth warriors how to build 37 different ninja weapons for the modern era. Each of the projects in "MiniWeapons of Mass Destruction 4" are built from common household and office items--plastic utensils, markers, clothespins, paper clips, wire hangers, and discarded packaging...

Davis, Andrew S, Phd

This handbook covers basic neurodevelopmental research that any paediatric neuropsychologist will need to know. The authors discuss practical issues in paediatric assessment, and provide a comprehensive overview of the most common medical conditions that neuropsychologists encounter while dealing with paediatric populations. ...

Lezak, Muriel Deutsch / Howieson, Diane B / Bigler, Erin D

The long-awaited new edition of this time-honored classic has arrived. Now in its Fifth Edition, the text includes fully updated testing references and a neuroimaging primer. ...

De La Maza, Luis M

A unique visual reference for the diagnostic microbiology laboratory. Conceived by a team of authors with decades of classroom and laboratory experience.Includes more than 730 brilliant, four-color images of common pathogenic bacteria and descriptions of the methods used to identify them.Valuable illustrative supplement for lectures and laboratory presentations, this easy-to-us...