From the international best-selling author of Longitude, Galileo's Daughter is the fascinating story of the relationship between the great Italian scientist Galileo and his daughter, Virginia.
How War, Pornography, and Fast Food Have Shaped Modern TechnologyGuns, Germs, and Steel meets the age of technology in this rollicking history of how our pursuit of lust, gluttony, and rage has led to our greatest technological advancements.
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.
The 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.
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.
Ingeniería para Chile, historia de la Escuela de Ingeniería de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile es un libro que conserva para la posteridad el recorrido de una institución que se forjó, desde sus inicios, con el esfuerzo de unos pocos, y que hoy se sostiene y construye con una comunidad de más de 22 mil ingenieros e ingenieras UC.
La conquista de la actualidad no se expresa a través de grandes titulares sino en el desarrollo paciente y hasta azaroso de algunas ideas, que, lejos de toda celebridad, suelen reconocer como artífices a modestos y abnegados desconocidos.
Anfang der 90er Jahre arbeiteten Forscher am Fraunhofer-Institut in Erlangen an einem Problem, das als unlosbar galt: Musik so stark zu komprimieren, dass sie uber Telefonleitungen gesendet werden kann, ohne dass das menschliche Ohr einen Unterschied hort.
Die Kosmologie des Geistes des sowjetischen Philosophen Ewald Iljenkow untersucht die Rolle des Denkens im Universum und geht davon aus, dass Denken und Materie, Geist und Natur in einer universellen, notwendigen Wechselwirkung stehen - das Denken als notwendige Eigenschaft der Materie und die Menschheit als Agentin des Denkens, in der Lage, den entropischen Kollaps des Universums durch Selbstausloschung zu verhindern.
The world's tech giants are at the centre of controversies over fake news, free speech and hate speech on platforms where influence is bought and sold.
The world's tech giants are at the centre of controversies over fake news, free speech and hate speech on platforms where influence is bought and sold.
';Entertaining and engrossing' Sean Carroll Press the snooze button on your alarm once too often and you soon remember the importance of good timekeeping.
