Mathematical Illiteracy and Its ConsequencesWhy do even well-educated people often understand so little about maths - or take a perverse pride in not being a 'numbers person'? In his now-classic book Innumeracy, John Allen P...9999903138716John Allen Paulos
Penguin Books Ltd
martes, 4 de junio de 2024
This study of the solar system takes into account all the latest findings of radio astronomy, the space programmes of Russia and America and the work that is still being done with ...9999903137962Patrick Moore
Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd
sábado, 1 de junio de 2024
"The Home Planet conveys the grandeur of Earth and the mystery of space through 150 stunning photographs -- many never before published -- selected from the entire Soviet and Ameri...9999903135319Kevin Kelley
Addison-Wesley
jueves, 30 de mayo de 2024
Explores the mystery of the body, the fantastic way in which it works and its amazing ability to repair itself. The book relates dramatic tales offuturistic medicine taking place t...9999903131328Robert M. L. Winston Lori...
BBC Books
jueves, 23 de mayo de 2024
Fascinomas -fascinating medical mysteries. A paralyzed teen recovers overnight. A woman complains her breast implants speak. A man and his dog become gravely ill at the exact same ...9999903126751Clifton K., Clifton Meado...
Editors Varis
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
Finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction: ???Nicholas Carr has written a Silent Spring for the literary mind.??????Michael Agger, Slate ???Is Google making us stu...9999903125631Nicholas Carr
W. W. Norton & Company
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
The Classic Collection of Award-Winning Medical Investigative ReportingThe classic collection of award-winning medical investigative reporting. What do Lyme ??s disease in Long Island, a pig from New Jersey, and am amateur pianist have in common? All ...9999903125624Roueche, Berton
Editors Varis
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
A Journey Through the Science of SleepWhy do we sleep? Are we sleeping enough? Do we suffer stress from "sleep debt"? Why do some of us struggle with sleep disorders? And how can we tackle sleep problems? These are the...9999903125525Jim Horne
Editors Varis
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
The Curious Lives of Human CadaversWhat happens to your body after you have died? Fertilizer? Crash Test Dummy? Human Dumpling? Ballistics Practise? Life after death is not as simple as it looks. Mary Roach's Stiff...9999903125501Mary Roach,
Gardners Books
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
"From one of the world's foremost physicians and researchers, a monumental work that radically redefines our conventional conceptions of health and illness to offer new methods for...9999903125655David B. Agus Kristin Lob...
Pocket Books
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
Adventures in Bringing Back the Recently DeadNot too long ago, there was no coming back from death. But now, with revolutionary medical advances, death has become just another serious complication. As a young medical student...9999903125556David J. Casarett
Portfolio Hardcover
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
Adventures on the Alimentary CanalIn this international bestseller, Mary Roach breaks bread with spit connoisseurs, beer and pet-food tasters, stomach slugs, potato crisp engineers, enema exorcists, rectum-examinin...9999903125488Mary Roach
Oneworld Publications
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
Dispatches from the Frontlines of Medical MysteriesYou're a doctor, faced with a 22-year-old woman who is dying before your eyes. Previously fit, happy, and rarely ill now she's wasting away, confined to a hospital bed. Test result...9999903125372Lisa Sanders
Icon Books Ltd
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the PlanetOn March 27, 1964, at 5-36 p.m., the biggest earthquake ever recorded in North America--and the second biggest ever in the world, measuring 9.2 on the Richter scale--struck Alaska,...9999903125297Henry Fountain
Anchor Books
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
Written by a leading dermatologist, The Blue Man and Other Stories of the Skin provides a compelling and accessible introduction to the life of our largest organ, while also recoun...9999903125273Robert A. Norman
University of California Press
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
Letters on the Evolution of Life and Human Nature"Stimulated by Darwin's relatively uninformed but obviously intelligent questions, Dover takes the father of evolution on an exhilarating roller-coaster ride through recent genetic...9999903112679Gabriel A. Dover
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
lunes, 22 de abril de 2024
Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum ResurrectionA Beginner's Guide to Immortality is a celebration of unusual lives and creative thinkers who punched through ordinary cultural norms while becoming successful in their own niches....9999903112617Clifford A. Pickover
Thunder?s Mouth Press
lunes, 22 de abril de 2024
The Accelerating Pace of Human EvolutionAre we still evolving? Or has our mastery of the environment stopped evolution in its tracks? Spurred by a rapidly changing environment, and acting on our ever-expanding gene pool,...9999903112525Christopher Wills
Allen Lane
lunes, 22 de abril de 2024
Selfish Altruists, Honest Liars, and Other Realities of Evolution"Barash . . . brilliantly integrat es] science, literature, and pop culture into elegant and insightful commentaries on the most interesting and important questions of our time. A ...9999903112013David P. Barash
Bellevue Literary Press
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the EnvironmentPublished more than three decades after Rachel Carson's Silent Spring warned of the impact of chemicals on the environment, this book offers a critique of current thinking on cance...9999903105688Sandra Steingraber
Virago Press Ltd
miércoles, 10 de abril de 2024
In this book the author sets out to describe and discuss the philosophical foundations and conceptual problems encountered in the theory of quantum physics. The book describes the ...9999903102656Alastair I. M. Rae
Cambridge University Press
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation are Changing Life on Earth"We are the primary drivers of change. We will directly and indirectly determine what lives, what dies, where, and when. We are in a different phase of evolution; the future of lif...9999903102632Juan Enriquez Steve Gulla...
Editors Varis
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
Where Science Meets PseudoscienceEveryone has heard of the term "pseudoscience", typically used to describe something that looks like science, but is somehow false, misleading, or unproven. Many would be able to a...9999903102595Michael D. Gordin
Oxford University Press
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
How We Came to beOur world is nested, both physically and socially, and at each level we find innovations that are necessary for the next. Consider: atoms combine to form molecules, molecules combi...9999903102557Tyler Volk
Columbia University Press
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
What Science Shows We Gain from Letting Go of Our Soul BeliefsMost Americans believe they possess an immaterial soul that will survive the death of the body. In sharp contrast, the current scientific consensus rejects the traditional soul, al...9999903102540Julien Musolino
Pyr
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
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