Títulos en Ciencia e ingeniería

A beautifully written insight into the stresses, strains and successes of working for the London Ambulance service. Is there anyone who hasn't wondered about the state of the occupant of an ambulance, screaming along with its sirens on and blue lights flashing? Have you? And have you wondered about the other people inside the ambulance, maybe fighting to save the patient's life?

A brilliant mathematician examines the complexity of gender and society and forges a path out of inequality.Why are men in charge? After years in the male-dominated field of mathematics and in the female-dominated field of art, Eugenia Cheng has heard the question many times. In x + y, Cheng...

Mary Roach meets Bill Bryson in this uproarious tour of the basest instincts and biggest mysteries of the animal world. "Lucy Cooke unravels myths that will make you laugh out loud. Her knowledge of all things, furry, slimy and scaly is jaw-dropping." —The Sun (UK) Humans have gone to the Moon...

In this "compelling scientific detective story," a leading neuroscientist looks for the nature of human kindness in the brains of heroes and psychopaths (Wall Street Journal). At fourteen, Amber could boast of killing her guinea pig, threatening to burn down her home, and seducing men in...

A landmark book by marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols on the remarkable effects of water on our health and well-being. Why are we drawn to the ocean each summer? Why does being near water set our minds and bodies at ease? In Blue Mind, Wallace J. Nichols revolutionizes how we think about these...

Beau Lotto, the world-renowned neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and two-time TED speaker, takes us on a tour of how we perceive the world, and how disrupting it leads us to create and innovate. Perception is the foundation of human experience, but few of us understand why we see what we do, much...

In this "immersive, densely reported, and altogether remarkable first book [with] the texture and color of a first-rate novel" (New York Times), journalist Doug Bock Clark tells the epic story of the world's last subsistence whalers and the threats posed to a tribe on the brink. A New York Times...

A writer's search for inspiration, beauty and solace leads her to birds in this intimate and exuberant meditation on creativity and life—a field guide to things small and significant. For Vladimir Nabokov, it was butterflies. For John Cage, it was mushrooms. For Sylvia Plath, it was bees. Each...

Neste livro, Noam Chomsky, um dos mais importantes intelectuais públicos do mundo, e Robert Pollin, um economista progressista de renome, mapeiam as consequências catastróficas das crescentes e descontroladas mudanças climáticas – e apresentam um plano realista de superação: o Green New...

The natural history of humankind told through our long relationship with birds. “Moss is a captivating storyteller.” —Wall Street Journal For the whole of human history, we have lived alongside birds. We have hunted and domesticated them for food; venerated them in our mythologies...

A biologist argues that simplicity is the guiding principle of the universe Centuries ago, the principle of Ockham’s razor changed our world by showing simpler answers to be preferable and more often true. In Life Is Simple, scientist Johnjoe McFadden traces centuries of discoveries, taking us...

The instant New York Times bestseller “Excellent…Outstanding for its breadth of research, the liveliness of the writing, and the depth of humanity it conveys.” – Wall Street Journal One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the science...

Curie y la radiactividad presenta una brillante instantánea de la vida y la obra de Marie Curie y ofrece una explicación clara y accesible del significado e importancia del descubrimiento de la radioactividad y de las implicaciones que ello tendría para la vida en el siglo XX y el futuro...

What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson. But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, with sparkling wit, in digestible chapters consumable anytime and anywhere in your busy day.

Es posible que Pitágoras fuese el primer matemático y filósofo del mundo occidental. Su obra cambió la visión contemporánea del mundo, pues estableció conceptos tales como el razonamiento abstracto o la prueba deductiva. Pitágoras y su teorema resume brillantemente la vida y la obra de...

En Kant en 90 minutos, Paul Strathern expone de manera clara y concisa la vida e ideas del autor de la Crítica de la razón pura. El libro incluye una selección de sus escritos, una breve lista de lecturas sugeridas y cronologías que sitúan a Kant en su época y en una sinopsis más amplia...

Join Stephen Fry for the greatest story on Earth: the story of life itself. A twelve-part exploration of the incredible diversity of living beings on our planet. Our journey starts four billion years ago with the earliest signs of life deep in the ocean. Along the way it will take in Earth’s extraordinary range of life forms, from microbes to invertebrates, birds, amphibians, mammals and humanity itself.

Oppenheimer y la bomba atómica presenta una instantánea brillante de un científico y su controvertido trabajo. Ofrece una explicación clara y accesible de cómo se desarrolló la bomba atómica, de su importancia y de las implicaciones que ha tenido durante el siglo XX y el presente...

Un relato asombroso de un incendio forestal colosal y una exploración panorámica de la relación rápidamente cambiante entre el fuego y la humanidad. En mayo de 2016, Fort McMurray, el centro neurálgico de la industria petrolera canadiense y el mayor proveedor extranjero de Estados Unidos, fue arrasado por un incendio forestal. La catástrofe, valorada en miles de millones de dólares, derritió vehículos, convirtió barrios enteros en bombas incendiarias y expulsó a 88.000 personas de sus hogares en una sola tarde.

En este audiolibro de cálculo mental, el matemático Arthur Benjamin enseñará a los oyentes, ya sean estudiantes que preparan algún examen o clientes que quieren comprobar el total de su compra, los principios básicos de operaciones mentales como la suma, la resta, la multiplicación y la división. Además, los oyentes explorarán el arte del cálculo aproximado para resolver operaciones que no requieren resultados exactos.