Cosmos by Carl Sagan; Neil DeGrasse Tyson (Foreword by); Ann Druyan (Introduction by)
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Category: Physical Sciences
Narrado con la proverbial habilidad que tenía Sagan para conseguir que las ideas científicas fuesen comprensibles y apasionantes, Cosmos trata de la ciencia en su contexto humano más amplio y explica cómo la ciencia y la civilización se desarrollan conjuntamente. La obra aborda también el tema de las mi ...Show more
Inferior: - How Science Got Women Wrong - and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story by Angela Saini
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Category: Physical Sciences | Reading Level: good
From intelligence to emotion, for centuries science has told us that men and women are fundamentally different. But this is not the whole story. Shedding light on controversial research and investigating the ferocious gender wars in biology, psychology and anthropology, Angela Saini takes readers on an ...Show more
The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table by Sam Kean
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Category: Physical Sciences | Reading Level: very good
Fascinating and hilarious true stories from the Periodic Table - Longlisted for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2011 Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputatio ...Show more
Nature's Nether Regions: What the Sex Lives of Bugs, Birds and Beasts Tell Us About Evolution, Biodioversity and Ourselves by Menno Schilthuizen
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Category: Physical Sciences
What's the easiest way to tell species apart? Check their genitals. Researching private parts was long considered taboo, but scientists are now beginning to understand that the wild diversity of sex organs across species can tell us a lot about evolution. Nature's Nether Regions joyfully demonstrates th ...Show more
New Scientist: The Origin of (Almost) Everything: From the Big Bang to Belly-Button Fluff (HB) by New Scientist Magazine Staff; Stephen Hawking; Jennifer Daniel (Illustrator); Graham Lawton
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Category: Physical Sciences
From what actually happened in the Big Bang to the accidental discovery of post-it notes, the history of science is packed with surprising discoveries. Did you know, for instance, that if you were to get too close to a black hole it would suck you up like a noodle (it's called spaghettification), why yo ...Show more
Question Everything: 132 Science Questions - and Their Unexpected Answers by Mick O'Hare
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Category: Physical Sciences
The latest in the bestselling New Scientist Last Word series All science begins with questions...- Why is the night sky black, even though it's full of stars? - How do pebbles skim on water? - Why doesn't your own snoring wake you up? - And why is the Large Hadron Collider so ...er ...large? And as thes ...Show more
Science Delusion by Rupert Sheldrake
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Category: Physical Sciences
Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry The Science Delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book (published in the US as Science Set Free), Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most ...Show more
The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar by Matt Simon
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Category: Physical Sciences
For fans of WHAT IF? and NEW SCIENTIST comes Matt Simon's THE WASP THAT BRAINWASHED THE CATERPILLAR, a brilliantly funny and informative look at the stranger side of evolution. Featuring: The Zombie ants mind-controlled by a fungus Beautiful salamanders that can regenerate any part of their bodies, incl ...Show more
Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh
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Category: Physical Sciences
'I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.' It was with these words, written in the 1630s, that Pierre de Fermat intrigued and infuriated the mathematics community. For over 350 years, proving Fermat's Last Theorem was the most notorious unso ...Show more
Adam Spencer's Time Machine by Adam Spencer
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Category: Physical Sciences
Following the runaway success of his Big Book of Numbers and World of Numbers (2015), Adam Spencer is back with a fascinating - and fun! - romp through history. Starting with the big bang and ending in the present day (with a few glimpses of the future for good measure) Time Machine is a history book un ...Show more
Significant Figures: Lives and Works of Trailblazing Mathematicians by Ian Stewart
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Category: Physical Sciences
Which mathematician elaborated a crucial concept the night before he died in a duel? Who funded his maths and medical career through gambling and chess? Who learned maths from her wallpaper? Ian Stewart presents the extraordinary lives and amazing discoveries of twenty-five of history's greatest mathema ...Show more
The Beauty of Numbers in Nature - Mathematical Patterns and Principles from the Natural World by Ian Stewart
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Category: Physical Sciences | Reading Level: very good
From a zebra's stripes to a spider's web: an engaging examination of patterns in nature and the mathematics that underlie them. From a zebra's stripes to a spider's web, from sand dunes to snowflakes, nature is full of patterns underlaid by mathematical principles. In The Beauty of Numbers in Nature, Ia ...Show more