Libros de Ciencia - STEM 2474 resultados

Derek Onley / Paul Scofield

This is the first comprehensive field guide to the world's 136 species of albatrosses, petrels, shearwaters, storm petrels, and diving petrels. This field guide includes information on breeding, feeding, distribution, migration, and conservation. And it illustrates for the first time several extremely rare species, such as Beck's and MacGillivray's Petrels, and the New Zealand ...

J.p. Croxall

Cambridge Univ Pr: Originally published in 1986, this book is concerned with the ways in which seabirds function as predators in the marine environment; in particular about how they find and catch food and how much of it they consume. It reviews both the feeding ecology of seabirds (including adaptations for flight and diving) and also most of the leading field studies (in pol...

Richard Chandler

Baker & Taylor: An illustrated guide to all 134 shorebird species found in the Northern Hemisphere includes key identification features, age and sex differences, variations in plumage, similar species, status, habitat, and distribution.Princeton University Press: Shorebirds are prized among birders for their stunning plumages, evocative calls and songs, extensive migration pa...

Maria Chivers

British founder of the Swindon Dyslexia Centre, Chivers surveys some of the alternative therapies that are being used for dyslexia in particular but also attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, hearing difficulty, and other conditions that can interfere with learning. Some chapters focus on groups of conditions and others on groups of therapies. Among the information she prov...

Mario Livio

El autor de La proporción aurea se cuestiona en este libro si las matemáticas están en la Naturaleza o en el cerebro: ¿existen leyes matemáticas en la Naturaleza o, por el contrario, es nuestro cerebro el que las crea? Desde la antigüedad y hasta hoy, los científicos y los filósofos se han maravillado de cómo una disciplina tan aparentemente abstracta es capaz de explicar de un...

Richards Dawkins

Richard Dawkins transformed our view of God in his blockbuster, The God Delusion, which sold more than 2 million copies in English alone. He revolutionized the way we see natural selection in the seminal bestseller The Selfish Gene. Now, he launches a fierce counterattack against proponents of "Intelligent Design" in his latest New York Times bestseller, The Greatest Show on Ea...

Downtown Bookworks

Pocket Posh First Aid is an emergency resource outlining instructions for resuscitation and treating injuries ranging from choking, bleeding, and accidental poisoning to seizures, fractures, and spinal injuries. ...

Walter Lewin

"YOU HAVE CHANGED MY LIFE" is a common refrain in the emails Walter Lewin receives daily from fans who have been enthralled by his world-famous video lectures about the wonders of physics. "I walk with a new spring in my step and I look at life through physics-colored eyes," wrote one such fan. When Lewin's lectures were made available online, he became an instant YouTube celeb...

Martin Nowak

EVOLUTION IS OFTEN PRESENTED AS A STRICTLY COMPETITIVE ENDEAVOR. This point of view has had serious implications for the way we see the mechanics of both science and culture. But scientists have long wondered how societies could have evolved without some measure of cooperation. And if there was cooperation involved, how could it have arisen from nature "red in tooth and claw"?M...

Eugene Isaacson

Hawking, Stephen

Bestselling author and physicist Stephen Hawking guides the nonscientific reader through the fascinating and befuddling of quantum physics, gathering together the most important papers on the subject and contributing his own highly valuable perspective. ...

Bruce M. Carlson

This thoroughly revised 4th edition offers both clear descriptions and explanations of human embryonic development based on all the most up-to-date scientific discoveries and understanding. Particular attention is paid to the fundamental aspects of molecular mechanisms in development, introducing you to major families of important developmental molecules. Clinical aspects of de...

Miguel Delibes

¿Qué futuro le espera a nuestro planeta? ¿Qué mundo herederán nuestros hijos? ¿Hasta qué punto es el ser humano el responsable de todos estos inquietantes cambios? Y sobre todo, ¿hasta qué punto estamo s a tiempo de evitarlos o de paliar sus efectos? A estas y otras muchas preguntas responden en su iluminador diálogo Miguel Delibes y Miguel Delibes de Castro, un padres escritor...

Franz Broswimmer

Desde los hombres de Cro-Magnon a los de Wall Street, Ecocidio. Historia de las extinciones en masa de las especies narra la historia de la guerra perpetua y autodestructiva llevada a cabo por la humanidad contra la naturaleza, desde el impacto de las sociedades prehistóricas sobre el medio ambiente a la explotación comercial de las especies y la destrucción de su hábitat actua...

Joanna Yarrow

Cientos de consejos prácticos para combatir el cambio climático, organizados por temas: aislamiento, irrigación, desplazamientos, reciclaje, y muchos más. Con un gran número de cifras y estadísticas que te proporcionarán una idea de la cantidad de energía que puedes ahorrar. Preguntas y respuestas sobre los beneficios medioambientales que se obtienen de cada consejo de ahorro d...

Steven Holzner

Ken Getz

Ian Stewart

In In Pursuit of the Unknown, celebrated mathematician Ian Stewart uses a handful of mathematical equations to explore the vitally important connections between math and human progress. We often overlook the historical link between mathematics and technological advances, says Stewart—but this connection is integral to any complete understanding of human history.Equations are mo...

Georges Amar

La movilidad se ha transformado en un cuasiderecho social, como la salud o la educación, o un bien público, como el agua o la electricidad, del que nadie debería ser privado. Sin embargo, la multiplicación de los desplazamientos se vuelve insostenible (el CO2, la polución, la congestión del tráfico, etc.) y, a veces, más sufrida que deseada. De hecho, al mismo tiempo que se gen...

Colin Banfield / John Walkenbach

Si preparar "excels" te hace perder un montón de tiempo, con esta guía aprenderás las instrucciones básicas para crear tus documentos de la forma más rápida y útil, alejada de tecnicismos y del argot informático. Incluye desde el uso básico de Excel (cómo crear tablas y presentaciones, cómo editar las celdas, las fórmulas más útiles, opciones de seguridad, etc.), hasta las nove...

Hawking, Stephen

Aprovechando el tiempo libre que ofrecen las vacaciones veraniegas, y acabado el libro de Kuhn, he leído La teoría del todo*, del de sobra conocido Stephen W Hawking. No es el primer libro que leo de este autor; hace años que corre por mi casa El universo en una cáscara de nuez, el cual he ido leyendo a trozos a lo largo del tiempo. He de decir que ambos son muy parecidos, si b...

Miguel Ángel Monge Sánchez

La Medicina pastoral pretende ofrecer unos conocimientos antropológicos, médicos, biológicos y psiquiátricos elementales, que hoy se consideran de obligada necesidad para cualquier persona que pretenda desempeñar tareas educativas o formativas, ya sean sacerdotes, catequistas, maestros, profesores de enseñanza media, padres o madres de familia, etc.Sin necesidad de convertirse ...

Reuben Hersh / Vera John-Steiner

Alicia Rivera

Clayton W. Barrows / Tom Powers / Dennis Reynolds

Readers seeking management careers in hospitality will enter a dynamic industry filled with opportunities. The rewards are many, but so are the challenges. Today's hospitality managers must deal with such complex factors as globalization, terrorism threats, ecotourism, internet commerce, new business and financial models, and rapidly changing consumer demands. Introduction to M...

Charles Darwin

The classic that exploded into public controversy, revolutionized the course of science, and continues to transform our views of the world. ...

Kaku,Michio

¿HASTA QUÉ PUNTO LOS INGENIOS DE LA CIENCIA FCCIÓN QUE HOY CONSIDERAMOS IMPOSIBLES PUEDEN SER HABITUALES EN EL FUTURO? DESDE EL TELE TRANSPORTE HASTA LA TELEQUINESIA, MICHIO KAKU ACUDE AL MUNDO DE LA CIENCIA FCCIÓN PARA EXPLORAR LAS PREMISAS Y LOS LÍMITES DE LAS LEYES DE LA FÍSICA QUE ACEPTAMOS HOY DÍA. EN UNA OBRA ATRACTIVA Y PROVOCADORA, KAKU EXPLICA, POR EJEMPLO, CÓMO LA CIE...

Jimmy Nilsson

Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns is the first complete, practical guide to leveraging patterns, domain-driven design, and test-driven development in .NET environments. Drawing on seminal work by Martin Fowler and Eric Evans, Jimmy Nilsson shows how to customize real-world architectures for any .NET application. You'll learn how to prepare domain models for application...

Eric Evans

The software development community widely acknowledges that domain modeling is central to software design. Through domain models, software developers are able to express rich functionality and translate it into a software implementation that truly serves the needs of its users. But despite its obvious importance, there are few practical resources that explain how to incorporate...

Ray Rankins

Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed Ray RankinsPaul BertucciChris GallelliAlex T. Silverstein Includes full coverage of SQL Server 2008 in addition to R2 coverage This is the industry's most comprehensive and useful guide to SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2. It presents start-to-finish coverage of SQL Server's core database server and management capabilities, plus complete intro...