Libros de Ciencia - STEM 2469 resultados

Yudelson, Jerry

Engineers, architects and contractors seeking to expand their involvement in the green buildings market need a firm grounding in the marketing strategies and tactics which are being used most successfully in this specialized and growing field. This book is intended to serve as an effective tool for professional green building enthusiasts and advocates in presenting green design...

Madrigal, Alexis

Eye-opening micro-histories about America's energy past, with an eye to the future...A well-told cautionary tale about the need for widespread renewable energy production.--Kirkus Reviews ...

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Shaw, Scott Richard

Starting in the shallow oceans of ancient Earth and ending in the far reaches of outer space - where, Shaw proposes, insect - like aliens may have achieved similar preeminence. This book spins an account of insects' evolution from humble arthropod ancestors into the bugs we know and love (or fear and hate) today. ...

Luis Gonzalez De Alba

Todos los pueblos antiguos comenzaron por explicarse los fenómenos naturales atribuyéndolos a seres poderosos e invisibles. Para todos los pueblos antiguos, el mundo era incomprensible salvo como capricho de dioses y espíritus. Sin embargo, los humanos comenzaron a encontrar regularidades en la naturaleza, las más notorias de las cuales podían observarse en el cielo: el sol, la...

Luis Gonzalez De Alba

¿La ciencia en la calle? En efecto, mientras el puritanismo cultural que da en tomar a la ciencia como un recinto inviolable y prohibido a legos y profanos, se sorprende ante este atrevimiento -esta serie de atrevimientos- de Luis González de Alba: Quitarle a la ciencia la bata blanca, o la toga y el birrete, y ponerla a circular en traje de calle, con playera y zapatos cómodos...

Emlen, Douglas J

The story behind the stunning, extreme weapons we see in the animal world--teeth and horns and claws--and what they can tell us about the way humans develop and use arms and other weaponsIn "Animal Weapons, " Doug Emlen takes us outside the lab and deep into the forests and jungles where he's been studying animal weapons in nature for years, to explain the processes behind the ...

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...

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...

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 ...

Italo Calvino

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Taleb, Nassim Nicholas

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...

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...

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 ...