Catálogo de libros: Historia de la ciencia

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  • ALZHEIMER DISEASE DECOD (2ND ED)
    Jefferson Chen / Nolan Brown / NOLAN BROWN JEFFERSON RONALD SAHYOUNI / Ronald Sahyouni
    This book aims to present, educate and inform individuals about Alzheimer’s disease in a comprehensive manner. Its scope ranges from the discovery of the disease, epidemiology and basic biological principles underlying it, to advanced stem cell therapies used in the treatment of Alzheimer’s. It adopts a 'global' perspective on Alzheimer’s disease, and include epidemiological da...
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    120,63 €

  • REASON, FAITH, AND PURPOSE
    JOHN R FANCHI
    Reason, Faith, and Purpose: The Ultimate Gamble is a guide for believers and inquiring skeptics. This book summarizes the scientific view of the origins of the universe and life and analyzes the question of the existence of god from philosophical, religious, and scientific perspectives.The material is presented in two parts. Part I presents the secular, scientific view of the o...
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    71,21 €

  • The Government of Emergency
    Andrew Lakoff / Stephen J. Collier
    The origins and development of the modern American emergency stateFrom pandemic disease, to the disasters associated with global warming, to cyberattacks, today we face an increasing array of catastrophic threats. It is striking that, despite the diversity of these threats, experts and officials approach them in common terms: as future events that threaten to disrupt the vital,...
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    42,36 €

  • A Theory of Wonder
    Gonzalo Munévar
    ’A Theory of Wonder’ aims to determine the best way science can satisfy our sense of wonder by exploring the world. Empiricism tells us that science succeeds because it follows the scientific method: Observation passes judgment on Theory - supporting or rejecting it. Much credit is given to the inventor of the method, Galileo, but when historically-minded philosophers of scienc...
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    77,03 €

  • The Jewish Nobel Prize in Chemistry
    Isaac Benguigui
    One of the outstanding and remarkable traits of Jews throughout their history, several thousand years old, has been their creativity in all fields, especially in science.They have participated in an impressive way in the questioning of values, the dismantling of dogmas, and the irruption of hidden forces.It can be stressed from the outset that the contributions of the Jews to s...
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    14,22 €

  • Asian Scientists on the Move
    Anju Mary Paul
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    119,91 €

  • SPACESHIP ORION AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATIONS, THE
    JEREMY BERNSTEIN
    A curation of essays penned by Jeremy Bernstein, this book is a treasure trove of personal stories ranging from Bernstein’s expedition to Mount Everest, cherished encounters with the fathers of Quantum Mechanics (Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac and Erwin Schrodinger), to a jovial collaboration with Freeman Dyson on the Orion spaceship project.This essay collection is a door into ...
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    30,08 €

  • SPACESHIP ORION AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATIONS, THE
    JEREMY BERNSTEIN
    A curation of essays penned by Jeremy Bernstein, this book is a treasure trove of personal stories ranging from Bernstein’s expedition to Mount Everest, cherished encounters with the fathers of Quantum Mechanics (Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac and Erwin Schrodinger), to a jovial collaboration with Freeman Dyson on the Orion spaceship project.This essay collection is a door into ...
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    54,54 €

  • QUANTUM PARTICLE ILLUSION, THE
    GERALD E MARSH
    Problems with the conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics date back to attempts by Max Born, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, as well as many others in the 1920s to continue to employ the classical concept of a particle in the context of the quantum world. The experimental observations at the time and the assumption that the classical concept of a particle was to be preserved...
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    82,76 €

  • American Bloodline
    Bob Nienaber
    Charlie seems like a normal, modern guy, and up to now he didn’t even know about his amazing bloodline,which reaches back to the lost tribe of Benjamin. After the Benjamins defeated the Romans, they left Israeland wandered through northern Germany. Charlie is astonished to learn that his ancestors played a role inCharlemagne’s ascension, William the Conqueror’s rule over Norman...
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    10,80 €

  • The Jews and Science
    Isaac Benguigui
    One of the most remarkable things about the Jewish people over the last several thousand years has been their creativity in many fields, especially in science. They have also been impressive in their participation in questioning values, dismantling dogmas, and the disruption of hidden forces. We must underscore the fact that the contribution of Jews to science was out of propor...
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    16,18 €

  • Foundations of General Relativity
    Klaas Landsman
    This book, dedicated to Roger Penrose, is a second, mathematically oriented course in general relativity. It contains extensive references and occasional excursions in the history and philosophy of gravity, including a relatively lengthy historical introduction. The book is intended for all students of general relativity of any age and orientation who have a background includin...
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    82,17 €

  • Science in the Ancient World
    Russell Lawson
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    158,87 €

  • Answers to Questions People Are Actually Asking
    Andy Fletcher
    More questions about science, God, science and God, God and science, and any other odd bits that might have snuck in. Answers, too. Disclaimer - we’re not guaranteeing that the answers are right. But they’re pretty danged good. We’re also aware that not everyone is going to agree with any or all of the answers. Plus, life goes on and we discover new stuff and the answers change...
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    14,83 €

  • Ground-Work
    Hillary Eklund
    How does soil, as an ecological element, shape culture? With the sixteenth-century shift in England from an agrarian economy to a trade economy, what changes do we see in representations of soil as reflected in the language and stories during that time? This collection brings focused scholarly attention to conceptions of soil in the early modern period, both as a symbol and as ...
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    49,84 €

  • The environmental turn in postwar Sweden
    David Larsson Heidenblad
    This book tells the story of how modern environmentalism emerged at a remarkably early stage in postwar Sweden. It sheds new light on why Sweden took an early lead in global environmental politics and how the country came to host the first UN Conference on the Human Environment in 1972. ...
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    42,93 €

  • OUR CELESTIAL CLOCKWORK
    RICHARD KERNER
    This book is a superposition of two distinct narratives: the first is historical, discussing the evolution of astronomical knowledge since the dawn of civilizations; the second is scientific, conveying mathematical and physical content of each advancement. Great scientists of antiquity, Middle Ages and modern times until the 18th century, are presented along with their discover...
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    60,76 €

  • OUR CELESTIAL CLOCKWORK
    RICHARD KERNER
    This book is a superposition of two distinct narratives: the first is historical, discussing the evolution of astronomical knowledge since the dawn of civilizations; the second is scientific, conveying mathematical and physical content of each advancement. Great scientists of antiquity, Middle Ages and modern times until the 18th century, are presented along with their discover...
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    120,89 €

  • The Graft
    Edmund O. Lawler / Edmund OLawler
    The Graft provides insight into a long-forgotten kidney transplant that helped spark the modern age of organ transplantation. ...
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    41,93 €

  • Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture
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    50,61 €

  • Biographies Of Distinguished Scientific Men
    François Arago / Baden Powell / William Henry Smyth
    Biographies Of Distinguished Scientific Men: Translated By Admiral W.H. Smyth, The Rev. Baden Powell, And Robert Grant (First Series)This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting ...
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    15,03 €

  • NEWTON . FARADAY . EINSTEIN
    TADAYOSHI SHIOYAMA
    Our lives have benefited immensely from the scientific evolution over the years. This book provides an overview of the lives of three great scientists, Newton, Faraday and Einstein, who made the most significant contributions to physics.Newton and Faraday laid the foundation of Newtonian mechanics and electro-magnetic theory, respectively, that constituted the two greatest cont...
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    35,12 €

  • Calculus Reordered
    David M. Bressoud
    A look at how calculus has evolved over hundreds of years and why calculus pedagogy needs to changeCalculus Reordered tells the remarkable story of how calculus grew over centuries into the subject we know today. David Bressoud explains why calculus is credited to seventeenth-century figures Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz, how it was shaped by Italian philosophers such as G...
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    28,04 €

  • WHAT IS SCIENCE?
    ELOF AXEL CARLSON
    What is Science? A Guide for Those Who Love It, Hate It, or Fear It, provides the reader with ways science has been done through discovery, exploration, experimentation and other reason-based approaches. It discusses the basic and applied sciences, the reasons why some people hate science, especially its rejection of the supernatural, and others who fear it for human applicatio...
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    33,24 €

  • WHAT IS SCIENCE?
    ELOF AXEL CARLSON
    What is Science? A Guide for Those Who Love It, Hate It, or Fear It, provides the reader with ways science has been done through discovery, exploration, experimentation and other reason-based approaches. It discusses the basic and applied sciences, the reasons why some people hate science, especially its rejection of the supernatural, and others who fear it for human applicatio...
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    68,78 €

  • BETWEEN THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS
    HELGE KRAGH
    Consisting of separate cases organized by chapter and divided into independent sections, this is no ordinary history of science book. Between the Earth and the Heavens is an episodic history of modern physical sciences covering the chronological development of physics, chemistry and astronomy since about 1860. Integrating historical authenticity and modern scientific knowledge,...
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    117,25 €

  • Scouting and Scoring
    Christopher J. Phillips
    An in-depth look at the intersection of judgment and statistics in baseballScouting and scoring are considered fundamentally different ways of ascertaining value in baseball. Scouting seems to rely on experience and intuition, scoring on performance metrics and statistics. In Scouting and Scoring, Christopher Phillips rejects these simplistic divisions. He shows how both scouts...
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    26,38 €

  • HERMES EXPERIMENT, THE
    Erhard Steffens / Richard Milner / RICHARD MILNER & ERHARD STEFFENS
    This book describes the story of how a collaboration of several hundred physicists from Europe and North America formed in 1988 to design, construct, install, commission and operate, for the years 1995-2007 the technically innovative HERMES experiment at the DESY laboratory in Hamburg, Germany to study the spin structure of the fundamental structure of matter. The authors begin...
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    58,55 €

  • Reginald Sutcliffe and the Invention of Modern Weather Systems Science
    Jonathan E. Martin / Jonathan EMartin
    Despite being perhaps the foremost British meteorologist of the twentieth century, Reginald Sutcliffe has been understudied and underappreciated. His impact continues to this day every time you check the weather forecast. Reginald Sutcliffe and the Invention of Modern Weather Systems Science not only details Sutcliffe’s life and ideas, but it also illuminates the impact of soci...
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    56,15 €

  • Pioneer Science and the Great Plagues
    Norman F. Cheville / Norman FCheville
    Pioneer Science and the Great Plagues covers the century when infectious plagues-anthrax, tuberculosis, tetanus, plague, smallpox, and polio-were conquered, and details the important role that veterinary scientists played. The narrative is driven by astonishing events that centered on animal disease: the influenza pandemic of 1872, discovery of the causes of anthrax and tubercu...
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    46,47 €


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