Catálogo de libros: Historia de la ciencia

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  • 500 YEARS AFTER LEONARDO DA VINCI MACHINES
    Arturo Buscarino / Carlo Famoso / LUIGI FORTUNA & ARTURO BUSCARINO / Maide Bucolo
    The book focuses on the role of the Leonardo da Vinci projects and inventions, specifically the interdisciplinarity of his studies that represents perhaps the first example of the paradigm of complex systems engineering. The projects are characterized within a modern conception of his thinking, looking at the main motivations behind his machines. The book also proposes a set of...
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    34,85 €

  • Supplying the Nuclear Arsenal
    Rodney P Carlisle
    Originally published in 1996. Although the history of commercial-power nuclear reactors is well known, the story of the government reactors that produce weapons-grade plutonium and tritium has been shrouded in secrecy. In the first detailed look at the origin and development of these production reactors, Rodney Carlisle and Joan Zenzen describe a fifty-year government effort no...
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    60,23 €

  • Periodic Tales
    Hugh Aldersey-Williams
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    13,88 €

  • The Map That Changed the World
    Simon Winchester
    From the author of the bestselling The Professor and the Madman comes the fascinating story of William Smith, the orphaned son of an English country blacksmith, who became obsessed with creating the world’s first geological map and ultimately became the father of modern geology.In 1793 William Smith, a canal digger, made a startling discovery that was to turn the fledgling scie...
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    12,37 €

  • Blood
    Douglas Starr
    Powerfully involving narrative and incisive detail, clarity and inherent drama: Blood offers in abundance the qualities that define the best popular science writing. Here is the sweeping story of a substance that has been feared, revered, mythologized, and used in magic and medicine from earliest times--a substance that has become the center of a huge, secretive, and often dang...
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    15,53 €

  • PIONEERING BRITISH WOMEN CHEMISTS
    GEOFF RAYNER-CANHAM / Marelene Rayner-Canham / MARELENE RAYNER-CANHAM & GEOFF RAYNER-CA
    Historically, British chemistry has been perceived as a solely male endeavour. However, this perception is untrue: the allure of chemistry has attracted British women for centuries past. Since the 1880s, women chemists have studied academic chemistry and made interesting and significant contributions to their fields, yet they have been absent from the historical record. This bo...
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    262,67 €

  • Communities and knowledge production in archaeology
    This volume investigates the collaborative effort in the creation of knowledge in antiquarianism and archaeology. In eleven case studies ranging from early modern antiquarianism to modern archaeology, various aspects of interaction and dialogue within scholarly communities in Europe and North America are critically examined. ...
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    157,26 €

  • MAJORANA CASE, THE
    ERASMO RECAMI
    Ettore Majorana was born in the Sicilian city of Catania. He joined Enrico Fermi's "Via Panisperna boys" at an early age and was part of the team who first discovered the slow neutrons (the research that would lead to the nuclear reactor and eventually, the atomic bomb). Enrico Fermi considered him one of brightest scientists, comparable to Galileo and Newton.On March 25, 1...
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    117,31 €

  • MAJORANA CASE, THE
    ERASMO RECAMI
    Ettore Majorana was born in the Sicilian city of Catania. He joined Enrico Fermi's "Via Panisperna boys" at an early age and was part of the team who first discovered the slow neutrons (the research that would lead to the nuclear reactor and eventually, the atomic bomb). Enrico Fermi considered him one of brightest scientists, comparable to Galileo and Newton.On March 25, 1...
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    57,19 €

  • The Fickle Finger
    Martin Fone
    uccess is a slippery, fickle thing. How much is down to luck, being in the right place at the right time or knowing the right people, and how much to innate talent? Why are some people less successful than others? Taking as its frame of reference the stories of fifty inventors who lost out on the fame that their genius might otherwise have merited, The Fickle Finger examines so...
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    15,36 €

  • Adultery in the Novel
    Tony Tanner
    Originally published in 1979. Adultery is a dominant feature in chivalric literature; it becomes a major concern in Shakespeare's last plays; and it forms the central plot of novels from Anna Karenina to Couples. Tony Tanner proposes that transgressions of the marriage contract take on a special significance in the "bourgeois novels" of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuri...
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    66,36 €

  • Dante’s Epic Journeys
    David Thompson
    This essay in comparative literature represents the first extended attempt to relate Dante's major allegorical mode to classical and medieval interpretations of epic poetry rather than to patristic biblical exegesis. It also is the first comprehensive explanation of Dante's enigmatic Ulysses. Thompson strives to shed new light not only on Dante's allegory--and thus ...
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    60,89 €

  • The Correspondence of Charles Darwin
    Charles Darwin
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    155,40 €

  • An Elegant Defense
    Matt Richtel
    National Bestseller'Gives you all the context you need to understand the science of immunity. ... An Elegant Defense left me with [a] sense of awe.' --Bill Gates, Gates Notes Summer Reading ListThe Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist 'explicates for the lay reader the intricate biology of our immune system' (Jerome Groopman, MD, New York Review of Books)From New Yo...
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    27,19 €

  • Short’s Stories
    Ronan Short
    Short’s Stories is the first in a series recounting the author’s life and travels. Ronan Short was born in London, England in 1940 and raised at the British National Institute for Medical Research, where his father was in charge of the research animals.His early life was full of adventures and encounters. This first volume—Bomb Dropping, Hampstead, North London 1940 –1949—is a ...
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    13,01 €

  • RETHINKING BIOLOGY
    FRASER WATTS & HARRIS W MICHAEL J REISS
    Biologists always need to grapple with integrating two explanatory approaches. On the one hand, there is necessarily an effort to drill down to the lowest possible level to explain what is happening in whatever is being studied. That involves looking at how higher-level processes arise from lower level ones. On the other hand, there is a need to consider how the broader context...
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    108,13 €

  • RETHINKING BIOLOGY
    FRASER WATTS & HARRIS W MICHAEL J REISS
    Biologists always need to grapple with integrating two explanatory approaches. On the one hand, there is necessarily an effort to drill down to the lowest possible level to explain what is happening in whatever is being studied. That involves looking at how higher-level processes arise from lower level ones. On the other hand, there is a need to consider how the broader context...
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    44,31 €

  • The Science of Roman History
    Walter Scheidel
    How the latest cutting-edge science offers a fuller picture of life in Rome and antiquityThis groundbreaking book provides the first comprehensive look at how the latest advances in the sciences are transforming our understanding of ancient Roman history. Walter Scheidel brings together leading historians, anthropologists, and geneticists at the cutting edge of their fields, wh...
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    36,21 €

  • Chapters on Chaucer
    Kemp Malone
    Kemp Malone provides a guide to reading Chaucer's work that is intended for readers who are familiar with Chaucer's work but who are not Chaucerians. The first chapter places Chaucer in the historical and literary context of the fourteenth century. The other essays focus on Chaucer's poetry by providing historicized interpretations of Chaucer's work and methods ...
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    60,40 €

  • Age of Analogy
    Devin Griffiths
    Erasmus Darwin and his grandson, Charles, were the two most important evolutionary theorists of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. Although their ideas and methods differed, both Darwins were prolific and inventive writers: Erasmus composed several epic poems and scientific treatises, while Charles is renowned both for his collected journals (now titled The Voyage of t...
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    46,96 €

  • Coal and Empire
    Peter A Shulman
    Since the early twentieth century, Americans have associated oil with national security. From World War I to American involvement in the Middle East, this connection has seemed a self-evident truth. But, as Peter A. Shulman argues, Americans had to learn to think about the geopolitics of energy in terms of security, and they did so beginning in the nineteenth century: the age o...
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    47,02 €

  • Before Einstein
    Elizabeth L Throesch / Elizabeth L. Throesch
    Before Albert Einstein proposed the concept of four-dimensional spacetime, late Victorian scientists, radical philosophers and writers were discussing the possibility of a different kind of fourth dimension. ’Before Einstein’ offers the first book-length examination of the impact of pre-Relativity four-dimensional theory on literature and culture at the turn of the twentieth ce...
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    57,54 €

  • SCIENCE IN MOSCOW
    István Hargittai / ISTVAN HARGITTAI & MAGDOLNA HARGITTAI
    Moscow is the center of science and higher education of Russia and is also an international hub of science. There have been milestone achievements of science in Russia (and the Soviet Union), especially in the areas of physics, chemistry, mathematics, the conquest of space, various technologies and medicine. However, the scientists and inventors often created in isolation and h...
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    105,00 €

  • Hazardous Chemicals
    Although poisonous substances have been a hazard for the whole of human history, it is only with the development and large-scale production of new chemical substances over the last two centuries that toxic, manmade pollutants have become such a varied and widespread danger. Covering a host of both notorious and little-known chemicals, the chapters in this collection investiga...
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    190,36 €

  • A short history of science
    H. W. Tyler / W. T. Sedgwick
    This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature. 3 ...
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    17,85 €

  • The Handy Science Answer Book
    Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
    Informative, easy-to-use guide to everyday science questions, concepts and fundamentals celebrates its twenty-fifth year and over one million copies sold!Science is everywhere, and it affects everything! DNA and CRISPR. Artificial sweeteners. Sea level changes caused by melting glaciers. Gravitational waves. Bees in a colony. The human body. Microplastics. The largest active vo...
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    57,57 €

  • Kali Linux
    Berg Craig
    You are about to discover how to start hacking with the #1 hacking tool, Kali Linux, in no time, even if you’ve never hacked before!Kali Linux is the king of all penetration testing tools out there. But while its 600+ pre-installed tools and utilities are meant to make penetration testing and forensics easy, at first, it can be overwhelming for experienced and aspiring security...
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    15,48 €

  • LOOSE ENDS ... FALSE STARTS
    SYDNEY BRENNER
    Sydney Brenner was born in South Africa and educated at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Medicine and Science). He then moved to Oxford and received a D.Phil in 1952, before joining the MRC Unit in the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge in 1956. His various accomplishments include serving as the Director of MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, founding...
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    70,98 €

  • LOOSE ENDS ... FALSE STARTS
    SYDNEY BRENNER
    Sydney Brenner was born in South Africa and educated at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Medicine and Science). He then moved to Oxford and received a D.Phil in 1952, before joining the MRC Unit in the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge in 1956. His various accomplishments include serving as the Director of MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, founding...
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    35,44 €

  • Apollo Confidential
    Lukas Viglietti
    An extraordinary insight into the journey from the Earth to the Moon inspired by the extraordinary personal stories of the astronauts. ...
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    15,62 €


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