Resultados Editorial "Audible Studios" en Ciencia e ingeniería

Draghi, ciclopi, giganti, unicorni, fenici. Quando gli antichi si imbattevano in resti di animali sconosciuti, subito li attribuivano a creature fantastiche. Poi gli scienziati hanno dimostrato che si trattava solo di fantasie ancestrali: i mostri non esistono, oggi lo sappiamo tutti; eppure la spiegazione che gli studiosi hanno dato di quei reperti è stata addirittura più terrificante: prima di noi, una miriade di altri viventi abitava il nostro pianeta, ma ora non ci sono più. Sulla Terra, infatti, nulla è per sempre.

"Cos'è il numero, che l'uomo lo può capire? E cos'è l'uomo, che può capire il numero?" A porsi queste domande fu nel 1960 il neurofisiologo Warren McCulloch, evidentemente insoddisfatto delle molte rigide e vuote definizioni che erano state sciorinate fino ad allora dai filosofi. In questo libro Piergiorgio Odifreddi affronta le due domande con un approccio più fluido e pratico: invece di provare inutilmente a dirci cos'è il numero in astratto, ci mostra utilmente una serie di numeri in concreto.

¿Qué son las matemáticas? ¿Para qué sirven? ¿Por qué es importante conocer su historia? Estas son algunas de las preguntas a las que da respuesta esta obra que nos narra de forma concisa la historia de esta ciencia desde la Prehistoria hasta nuestros días. Pero esta narración no es solamente una superposición de personajes históricos y de sus felices descubrimientos, sino que es una reivindicación de los componentes emocionales, incluso irracionales, que muchas veces han acompañado las actitudes apasionadas de estos célebres personajes, empeñados en buscar soluciones...

By identifying the structure of DNA, the molecule of life, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutionized biochemistry and won themselves a Nobel Prize. At the time, Watson was only 24, a young scientist hungry to make his mark. His uncompromisingly honest account of the heady days of their thrilling sprint against other world-class researchers to solve one of science's greatest mysteries gives a dazzlingly clear picture of a world of brilliant scientists with great gifts, very human ambitions, and bitter rivalries.

From batting averages and political polls to game shows and medical research, the real-world application of statistics continues to grow by leaps and bounds. How can we catch schools that cheat on standardized tests? How does Netflix know which movies you'll like? What is causing the rising incidence of autism? As best-selling author Charles Wheelan shows us in Naked Statistics, the right data and a few well-chosen statistical tools can help us answer these questions and more.

¿Qué manifestaciones afectivas acompañan al cansancio? ¿Cuáles son las características del cansancio psíquico? ¿Cuáles actividades nos ayudan a descansar? ¿Cómo mejorar la calidad del sueño? ¿Por qué descansan la risa y el buen humor? ¿Cómo lograr un equilibrio psicológico que prevenga el agotamiento? ¿Qué relación tiene el descanso con la felicidad? ¿Cómo evitar las preocupaciones?

Miguel Pajares se adentra en el dilema sobre la consideración de refugiadas de las personas expulsadas de sus países por el cambio climático. Inicia el audiolibro con dos capítulos sobre la crisis climática que responden incluso a las más fieras teorías negacionistas. Su análisis también indigna por la inacción de nuestros gobiernos que desde hace décadas conocen la situación y han actuado de forma irresponsable.

In the 1970s, the behavioral psychologist Herbert S. Terrace led a remarkable experiment to see if a chimpanzee could be taught to use language. A young ape, named “Nim Chimpsky” in a nod to the linguist whose theories Terrace challenged, was raised by a family in New York and instructed in American Sign Language. Initially, Terrace thought that Nim could create sentences but later discovered that Nim’s teachers inadvertently cued his signing. Terrace concluded that Project Nim failed - not because Nim couldn’t create sentences but because he couldn’t even learn words.

In Trade-Off, Kevin Maney shows how these conflicting forces determine the success, or failure, of new products and services in the marketplace. He shows that almost every decision we make as consumers involves a trade-off between fidelity and convenience between the products we love and the products we need.

Alva Noë is one of a new breed - part philosopher, part cognitive scientist, part neuroscientist - who are radically altering the study of consciousness by asking difficult questions and pointing out obvious flaws in the current science. In Out of Our Heads, he restates and reexamines the problem of consciousness, and then proposes a startling solution: Do away with the 200-year-old paradigm that places consciousness within the confines of the brain.

In The Brain in Context, the bioethicist Jonathan D. Moreno and the neuroscientist Jay Schulkin provide an accessible and thought-provoking account of the evolution of neuroscience and the neuroscience of evolution. They emphasize that the brain is not an isolated organ - it extends into every part of the body and every aspect of human life. Understanding the brain requires studying the environmental, biological, chemical, genetic, and social factors that continue to shape it.

Rosemary and Peter Grant and those assisting them have spend 20 years on Daphne Major, an island in the Galapagos, studying natural selection. They recognize each individual bird on the island, when there are 400 at the time of the author's visit or when there are over a thousand. They have observed about 20 generations of finches - continuously.Jonathan Weiner follows these scientists as they watch Darwin's finches and come up with a new understanding of life itself.

Questo volume rappresenta una delle pietre miliari del percorso filosofico di Umberto Eco e una delle pietre miliari della riflessione semiotica internazionale tout court. Eco torna alla filosofia (ammesso che mai se ne sia distaccato), per confrontarsi soprattutto con l'ontologia e le scienze cognitive in materia di percezione, realismo, iconismo. Confrontandosi con i nodi fondamentali della filosofia di ogni tempo, da Aristotele a Heidegger, Eco discute i problemi dell'essere, della verità, del falso, della realtà, dell'oggettività della conoscenza e della congettura.

In Beyond Biocentrism, acclaimed biologist Robert Lanza and astronomer Bob Berman take the listener on an intellectual thrill ride as they reexamine everything we thought we knew about life, death, the universe, and the nature of reality itself. The first step is acknowledging that our existing model of reality is looking increasingly creaky in the face of recent scientific discoveries.

Gilles Fonteneau, a longtime colleague of the legendary Jacques Cousteau's Calypso team, fulfilled a lifelong dream when in 2001 he launched his own exploration, aboard the 45-foot catamaran Prince de Vendee, into the silent world of the sea. Little did he know when he set out that his efforts to better understand the dynamics of the tectonic plates of the region would have such worldwide significance, as shown by the tsunami disaster of southeast Asia in December 2004.

A solução para os seus problemas pode estar no improvável e no não convencional. Via de regra, são as grandes corporações que inspiram pequenas empresas e entidades sem fins lucrativos. Neste audiolivro revolucionário, o premiado pesquisador Paulo Savaget argumenta que deveria ser o contrário. Muitas vezes, é das pequenas (e ousadas) organizações que extraímos as mais valiosas e inovadoras lições para enfrentar os grandes obstáculos.

Un chimico e un astrofisico (no, non è l’inizio di una barzelletta) navigano sulla zattera del pensiero scientifico attraverso l’insidioso mare dei media e della comunicazione. Sommerso ogni giorno da una quantità tale di dati, numeri, immagini e opinioni il nostro cervello – già di suo pigro e lontano dall’essere perfetto – rischia costantemente di perdere la rotta. Ma come si fa a impedire questa deriva cerebrale? Come aiutare la nostra mente a trovare punti di riferimento sicuri per attraversare indenne la tempesta del sovraccarico di notizie?

メディアが騒ぐ「乱獲」「資源減少」は本当か？ 衰退の真相を暴く！ 日本漁業が危うい。担い手は減り続け、生産量は40年前から7割減、30年後には漁業者がいなくなり、日本人の食卓から国産魚が消えるという声もある。中国との漁獲競争、温暖化による環境変化、エネルギーコスト上昇など、かつて世界一の漁獲量を誇った漁業を取りまく状況は極めて深刻だ。

स्टीफ़न हॉकिंग की वैश्विक स्तर की बेस्टसेलर पुस्तक अ ब्रीफ़ हिस्ट्री ऑफ़ टाइम वैज्ञानिक लेखन के सन्दर्भ में एक ऐतिहासिक महत्त्व की पुस्तक थी। इसकी एक वजह इसके लेखक की प्रभावी अभिव्यक्ति थी, और दूसरी वजह वे सम्मोहक विषय हैं जिनके बारे में वह बात करते हैं : देश और काल की प्रकृति, सृष्टि की प्रक्रिया में ईश्वर की भूमिका, ब्रह्माण्ड का इतिहास और भविष्य। लेकिन यह भी सही है कि उस पुस्तक के प्रकाशन के बाद पाठक लगातार प्रोफ़ेसर हॉकिंग से पुस्तक की कुछ अत्यन्त महत्त्वपूर्ण अवधारणाओं को समझने में पेश आने वाली मुश्किलों की बात करते रहे थे।

ప్రపంచవ్యాప్త బెస్ట్‌ సెల్లర్‌ “ఎ బ్రీఫ్‌ హిస్టరీ ఆఫ్‌ టైమ్‌“ స్టీఫెన్‌ హాకింగ్‌ రచన, సైంటిఫిక్‌ రచనలలో ఒక మైలురాయి. అందుకు కారణం రచయిత మాట తీరు, ఎంచుకున్న అంశాలు పట్టి చదివించే రకం అన్నది మరొకటి.