Libros de Ciencia - STEM 2505 resultados

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 ...

Charles Darwin

The father of evolution imbibed history with his controversial book On the Origin of Species. As a young scientist studying natural history, Charles Darwin set out on the HMS Beagle for a five-year voyage that would bring him in contact with animal species, plant species, and rock formations all over the world. This voyage established him as an eminent geologist, and his public...

Ian Stewart

Las ecuaciones, esos conjuntos de números y símbolos separados por el signo igual, son el alma de las matemáticas, la ciencia y la tecnología. Sin ellas, nuestro mundo no existiría en su forma actual: escondidas para muchos, han constituido una fuerza motriz en la civilización humana durante miles de años, abriendo nuevas perspectivas en campos tan variados como las comunicacio...

Gregory Chaitin

El revolucionario hallazgo de Chaitin, el número Omega, es una representación exquisitamente lograda de aquello que las matemáticas deben a la intuición y la experiencia. Sus investigaciones arrojan luz sobre lo que podemos llegar a saber acerca del universo y la propia naturaleza de la vida. Chaitin esboza los pasos intelectuales e intuitivos específicos que lo llevaron hasta ...

Ian Stewart

Las ecuaciones, esos conjuntos de números y símbolos separados por el signo igual, son el alma de las matemáticas, la ciencia y la tecnología. Sin ellas, nuestro mundo no existiría en su forma actual: escondidas para muchos, han constituido una fuerza motriz en la civilización humana durante miles de aÑos, abriendo nuevas perspectivas en campos tan variados como las comunicacio...

Eduardo Punset

Alicia ?«verdad», en griego? es el personaje inseparable de Eduardo Punset en esta historia apasionante sobre la vida y la ciencia que reúne el legado científico y humanístico de personas sabias con la osadía de romper barreras y desvelar conocimientos que creíamos imposibles. Conocimientos que logran sumergirnos en la arqu eología de las emociones e iluminar habitaciones secre...

Nicholas James Lane

Los diez grandes inventos de la evolución es un nuevo y esclarecedor estudio sobre los diez avances principales de la biología, brillantemente explicados por uno de los jóvenes bioquímicos británicos más destacados. Partiendo de los últimos hallazgos científicos en disciplinas como la biología, la química, la geología y la física, Lane reconstruye la maravillosa e increíble his...

Jorge Wagensberg

Siguiendo lo que bien podría llamarse una teoría de la interdisciplinariedad, el físico Jorge Wagensberg desarrolla en este libro un meticuloso y fecundo análisis de los valores del pensamiento fronterizo y elabora un soberbio elogio del talante y el talento del pensador intruso, capaz de merodear por las disciplinas del sa ber en busca de similitudes y comparaciones insólitas....

Douglas Hofstadter

¿Puede un sistema comprenderse a si mismo? Si esta pregunta se refiere a la mente humana, entonces nos encontramosante una cuestion clave del pensamiento cientifico. Y de la filosofia. Y del arte. Investigar este misterio es una aventura que recorre la matematica, la fisica, la biologia, la psicologia y muy especialmente, e l lenguaje. Douglas R. Hofstadter, joven y ya celebre ...

Elizabeth Kolbert

ONE OF THE "NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S" 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARA major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyesOver the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramaticall...

Simon Guerrier / Marek Kukula

Doctor Who stories are many things: thrilling adventures, historical dramas, tales of love and war and jelly babies. They're also science fiction - but how much of the science is actually real, and how much is really fiction?The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who is a mind-bending blend of story and science that will help you see Doctor Who in a whole new light, weaving together ...