Resultados para "Marina, Marina" en Historia y filosofía

Una mirada crítica a los discursos reaccionarios surgidos al calor de la crisis; una invitación abierta a actualizar la herencia ilustrada. Autoritarismo, fanatismo, catastrofismo, terrorismo… son algunas de las caras de una poderosa reacción antiilustrada que domina los relatos de nuestro presente. Ante la actual crisis de civilización, solo parece haber dos salidas: o condena o salvación. Lo que esconde esta disyuntiva es una rendición.

How well do you know the ground beneath your feet? A primer for every Earth resident, by Harvard’s acclaimed geologist. “A sublime chronicle of our planet." –Booklist, STARRED review Odds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet...

On August 27th, 1962, Mariner II launched into space and started its journey to Venus. For 109 days, it dropped away from Earth's orbit falling in toward Venus until on December 14, 1962, it finally made its sweep passed the hot planet. This book, written the next year by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, covers the mission's progress from inception through to its pass across the face of Venus, detailing all the fascinating technical issues and the lessons learned from the data returned by Mariner.

A masterful, genre-defying narrative of the most ambitious science project ever conceived: NASA’s deep-space mission to Europa—the Jovian moon where might swim the first known alien life in our solar system—powered by a motley team of obsessives and eccentrics. When scientists discovered...

The history of science as it has never been told before: a tale of outsiders and unsung heroes from far beyond the Western canon that most of us are taught. When we think about the origins of modern science we usually begin in Europe. We remember the great minds of Nicolaus Copernicus, Isaac...

From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Matt Richtel, a brilliant, narrative-driven exploration of technology’s vast influence on the human mind and society, dramatically-told through the lens of a tragic “texting-while-driving” car crash that claimed the lives of two rocket scientists in...

A magnificently reported and soulfully crafted exploration of the human immune system–the key to health and wellness, life and death. An epic, first-of-its-kind book, entwining leading-edge scientific discovery with the intimate stories of four individual lives, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning...

This "valuable and entertaining" (New York Times Book Review) book explores how scientists are adapting nature's best ideas to solve tough 21st century problems. Biomimicry is rapidly transforming life on earth. Biomimics study nature's most successful ideas over the past 3.5 million years, and...