Libros de Ciencia - STEM 2487 resultados

Frova, Andrea

Entre las muchas dificultades con que se encuentra la divulgación científica, no son las menores el uso de un lenguaje excesivamente complejo y el planteamiento de cuestiones que resultan demasiado abstractas y teóricas para la mayoría de los lectores. Consciente de estos problemas, Andrea Frova nos proporciona de forma directa y clara la explicación científica de fenómenos pre...

Jon Duckett

A full-color introduction to the basics of HTML and CSS from the publishers of Wrox!Every day, more and more people want to learn some HTML and CSS. Joining the professional web designers and programmers are new audiences who need to know a little bit of code at work (update a content management system or e-commerce store) and those who want to make their personal blogs more at...

National Geographic

Albert Einstein encarna como pocos el potencial de la ciencia para redefinir nuestra visión del mundo. Noen vano su rostro se cuenta entre los más reconocibles del siglo pasado, a la altura de las estrellas de cine o de lasgrandes figuras de la política. Apagados los ecos de la época convulsa en la que vivió y creó, de las guerras mundialesy el pánico nuclear, perduran sus extr...

Carroll,Sean

Carroll,Sean

Already internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging notions in modern physics, Sean Carroll is emerging as one of the greatest humanist thinkers of his generation as he brings his extraordinary intellect to bear not only on Higgs bosons and extra dimensions but now also on our deepest personal questions: Where are we? Who are we? Are our emo...

Hacyan Shahen

Las ideas que, además del tiempo, se tenían sobre la materia y la energía, el espacio y la gravitación, han cambiado radicalmente a partir del cataclismo que, para la física, significó Einstein y su teoría de la relatividad. El autor aclara y explica muchos de los nuevos problemas que afrontan los científicos de nuestros días. ...

Martin Bojowald

Una revolucionaria teoría sobre el origen del universo y qué pasó antes del Big Bang. En su conocida obra Historia del tiempo, Stephen Hawking afirmaba que preguntar qué había antes del origen del universo es tan absurdo como preguntar qué hay al norte del polo Norte. Desde Einstein, el Big Bang era la última frontera que ningún físico se atrevía a cruzar. Incluso para la t...

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 ...

Kaku, Michio

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Steven Tadelis

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...

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 ...

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...

Hawking, Stephen

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...