Libros de Ciencia - STEM 2515 resultados

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...

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 ...

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

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

Lawrence Krauss

Según Richard Dawkins este libro es a la física lo que El origen delas especies a la biología. En él se explica de forma sencilla yapasionada los complejos mecanismo por los que surgió un Universo apartir de la Nada (con todo lo que eso conlleva) y la importancia deesa Nada (la llamada materia oscura) en el Universo que hoy habitamos. Por su claridad de exposición y su pericia ...

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...

Estill, Lyle

Biodiesel in North America is in its infancy. As air quality deteriorates in major centres, governments are scrambling for ways to reduce emissions and are embracing biodiesel in their fleets. Conferences on biodiesel are often 'inaugural', as society begins discussing this fuel in earnest. Lightly touching on the technical aspects of the fuel, its qualities and specifications,...

Gipe, Paul

Paul Gipe presents an overview of the use of wind energy around the world providing information on planning, purchasing, siting, and installing a wind system and the integration of wind power with solar photovoltaics. ...

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...