Libros de Ciencia - STEM 2517 resultados

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...

Holt , Jim

From Jim Holt, the New York Times bestselling author of Why Does the World Exist?, comes an entertaining and accessible guide to the most profound scientific and mathematical ideas of recent centuries in When Einstein Walked with Gödel Excursions to the Edge of Thought.Does time exist? What is infinity? Why do mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down? In this scintill...

Adam Frank

Light of the Stars tells the story of humanity's coming of age as we awaken to the possibilities of life on other worlds and their sudden relevance to our fate on Earth. Astrophysicist Adam Frank traces the question of alien life and intelligence from the ancient Greeks to the leading thinkers of our own time, and shows how we as a civilization can only hope to survive climate ...

Carey, Nessa

Stephen Jay Gould

En La montaña de almejas de Leonardo, el profesor Gould defiende apasionadamente, y de forma nada convencional, una reflexión sobre el modo en que los seres humanos han aprendido a estudiar y comprender la naturaleza. Gould aborda en estos ensayos algunas de las paradojas que nos plantean la naturaleza y el género humano, desde la curiosidad de Leonardo por los fósiles hasta el...

Mickaël Launay

A la mayoría nos gustan las matemáticas, el problema es que no lo sabemos. La historia de las matemáticas fue escrita por hombres y mujeres con un intelecto sorprendente, pero no se equivoquen: los verdaderos héroes de esta gran novela son las ideas. Esas pequeñas ideas que germinan un día y se propagan de un siglo a otro, las que nos dicen que hay un mundo de impresionante riq...

J.m. Mulet

En esta última década la ficción policíaca y criminal se ha instalado en nuestras vidas,poniendo el foco de atención en algo que hasta ahora había quedado oculto y restringidoa un gremio muy especializado: el de los científicos forenses. La historia de cómo laciencia se aplica a la investigación criminal, la realidad actual de la ciencia forense y cómoconsigue descifrar crímene...

Dk Publishing

Un viaje alrededor de la Tierra a través de cada continente por los lugares y paisajes más espectaculares y cautivadores.Descubre cuáles son las maravillas del planeta que, definitivamente, deberían estar en tu lista de «sitios que visitar» gracias a este inigualable estudio de los tesoros naturales del mundo. ...

Steve Parker

Desde las primeras sangrías y los robos de cadáveres, hasta los últimos descubrimientos o terapia celular, Medicina muestra los sangrientos escollos y espectaculares hitos de la historia de la medicina. Mediante evocadoras ilustraciones, diagramas esclarecedores y sugerentes textos, presenta los fascinantes avances en el diagnóstico, la cirugía, el tratamiento y la farmacología...

Roberts, Dr. Alice

Conoce a fondo el cuerpo humano, desde los componentes de una célula hasta los complejos sistemas corporales.EXPLORA la anatomía humana con gran detalle mediante ilustraciones en 3D de tamaño natural e imaginología médica. Ahora con nuevas imágenes de las principales articulaciones, las manos y los pies.DESCUBRE cómo funciona el cuerpo, cómo cambia desde la infancia hasta la ve...

Dk Publishing

Cómo funciona el cuerpo humano explora los maravillosos procesos que ocurren dentro nuestro propio cuerpo, normalmente, sin que nos demos cuenta de ello. ¿Por qué nos mareamos o sentimos mariposas en el estómago? ¿Qué ocurre cuando sentimos jetlag? Estas son solo algunas de las intrigantes preguntas a las que conseguirás dar respuesta con este libro.Aprender sobre el cuerpo hum...

Schiller, Christoph

Maryanne Wolf

From the author of Proust and the Squid, a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative epistolary book that considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection as we become increasingly dependent on digital technologies.A decade ago, Maryanne Wolf's Proust and the Squid revealed what we know about how the brain learns to read ...

Degrasse Tyson, Neil

In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war. "The overlap is strong, and the knowledge flows in both directions," say the authors, because astrophysicists and...

Panek , Richard

"Fascinating . . . One of the most important stories in the history of science."-- Washington PostIn recent years, a handful of scientists has been racing to explain a disturbing aspect of our universe: only 4 percent of it consists of the matter that makes up you, me, and every star and planet. The rest is completely unknown. Richard Panek tells the dramatic story of how scien...

John Wehr

Julieta Fierro Manuel Peimbert

Fronteras del universo está conformada por nueve ensayos que constituyen una introducción general al estudio del universo y los fenómenos que en él ocurren. Entre los temas que trata la obra están el estudio de exoplanetas y la posibilidad de vida extraterrestre; los meteoritos y los impactos que se han registrado en la Tierra; las estrellas, las nebulosas y otros cuerpos celes...

Hawking, Stephen

The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the biggest questions facing humankind.Stephen Hawking was the most renowned scientist since Einstein, known both for his groundbreaking work in physics and cosmology and for his mischievous sense of humor. He educated millions of readers about the origins of t...

Grant Morrison Howard Porter & John Dell

Jack Klaff

Trinh Xuan Thuan

Una noche en el océano Pacífico, el infinito al alcance de la mano. Del crepúsculo al alba, el astrofísicoTrinh Xuan Thuan explora el cosmos y lo interroga.Desde el observatorio de Mauna Kea, a 4 000 metros de altura, explora lo lejano, analiza las galaxias, viaja miles de millones de años atrás para encontrar el origen del universo y sondear el enigma de la materia negra.El le...

Wohlleben, Peter

A visually stunning journey into the diversity and wonders of forests.In his international bestseller The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben opened readers' eyes to the amazing processes at work in forests every day. Now this new, breathtakingly illustrated edition brings those wonders to life like never before.With compelling selections from the original book and stunning, ...

Max Born

Marc Notes:This new Dover edition, first published in 1962, is a revised and enlarged version of the work published by Methuen Company in 1924..Table of Contents:INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I. GEOMETRY AND COSMOLOGY 1. The Origin of the Art of Measuring Space and Time 2. Units of Length and Time 3. Origin and Coordinate System 4. The Axioms of Geometry 5. The Ptolemaic System 6. The C...