With a foreword by Richard Dawkins, and based on the BAFTA award-winning Channel 4 TV series, Inside Nature's Giants gets under the skin of the largest animals on the planet.
WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2011WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2011'Profound, eloquent and searching' SUNDAY TIMES'Essential reading' INDEPENDENT'Masterly' GUARDIAN'Extraordinary' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWAN OBSERVER BEST BOOK OF THE CENTURY SO FARRiveting, audacious and now more urgent than ever in this vast update, The Emperor of All Maladies is a masterpiece.
TEXT ONLY EBThe Sunday Times BestsellerA glorious insight into Britain over the last 150 years - its history, landscape and people - from the window of Britain's many and magnificent railway journeys.
A lucid and stimulating explanation of how the body's natural healing mechanisms work - and how they can be triggered in non-chemical ways via the 'placebo effect'.
From the author of The Music of the Primes and Finding Moonshine comes a short, lively book on five mathematical problems that just refuse be solved - and on how many everyday problems can be solved by maths.
From the author of You Are Awesome: Find Your Confidence and Dare to be Brilliant at (Almost) AnythingEssential reading for an astounding summer of sport; If you've ever wondered what makes a champion, Bounce has the answer.
Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books, Richard Holmes's dazzling portrait of the age of great scientific discovery is a groundbreaking achievement.
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude and the unlikely triumph of an English genius.
The ideas behind Ethereum in the words of its founder, describing a radical vision for more than a digital currency-reinventing organisations, economics, and democracy itself in the age of the internet.
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Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time-war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, race, and tribalism-in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of unity for us all.
Desde que, transportada por el tornado de la inter-, multi- y transdisciplinariedad, la psicologia politica del desarrollo aterrizo en el quizas-no-tan maravilloso Pais de Oz, los cuentos de hadas ya no son lo que eran.
Que esta pasando en las sociedades actuales para que ser ancianos, como los de antano, sea algo incorrecto, para que los jovenes ya no tengan tiempo de ser jovenes y para que la fragilidad y los defectos sean identificados como disfunciones?
Es recurrente la presencia de la Proporcion Aurea en elementos tan diversos como el sistema solar, el desarrollo embrionario, la evolucion del craneo humano o la trayectoria de caza de los halcones.
El cerebro: descifrando el enigma de nuestra humanidadEl cerebro es el organo mas enigmatico del ser humano, un bosque de neuronas que da lugar a la cognicion y al comportamiento.
Te invito a sumergirte en un viaje por la historia de la diversidad de nuestro planeta, a conocer aquello que existe, pero nunca has visto, a lo que ya has observado y a lo que, por desgracia, nunca podras conocer fuera de este y otros titulos.
Realmente, este es uno de los mejores capitulos que he visto de todo el ciclo de BBVA , comenta un lector a la charla de Jose Edelstein en Aprendemos Juntos de BBVA, quienes junto a mas de 1,3 M de lectores lo avalan.
Dirigido a los lectores avidos por desmenuzar un libro de la coleccion La Ciencia para Todos o a quienes desean participar exitosamente en el concurso Leamos La Ciencia para Todos, este texto es una herramienta indispensable para desarrollar habilidades de lectura y escritura, a traves de ejercicios para explorar, comprender, analizar y comentar cualquier pasaje, elegir el genero discursivo - resumen, resena o ensayo - con el que participar en el concurso y corregir los escritos propios.
La menopausia y la perimenopausia siguen siendo un misterio para la mayoría de los médicos, dejando a las pacientes frustradas al enfrentarse a síntomas que van desde los sofocos y el insomnio hasta la confusión mental.
ONE OF NEW SCIENTIST'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR SO FAR : 'Serious and impressive Critchlow deserves praise for her rigour and optimism'THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERDiscover the powerful, practical and optimistic guide to strengthening your mind for the modern world and thriving in the age of AI, from acclaimed neuroscientist and Sunday Times bestselling author Dr Hannah Critchlow.
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'An entertaining tour that will change how you see the world' Sean Carroll, author of Something Deeply HiddenIs there a secret formula for improving your life?
