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  • The Story of Flowers
    Kingsbury, Noel / Day, Charlotte (Ilus.)
    Throughout history flowers have been an integral part of human survival and culture -- as food, for medicine, to express feelings, as symbols, to commemorate and celebrate, and to decorate. Their shapes, colors, scents and textures have always attracted us, as they do animals and insects. Flowers are used as luxury spices (saffron), and as coloring and flavoring agents -- marig...

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  • Edad de la empatía, La
    Waal, Frans de
    ¿Es instintiva la compasión que nos mueve a preocuparnos por los demás? O, como se afirma a menudo, ¿hemos venido al mundo sólo para luchar por nuestros propios intereses y nuestra supervivencia individual?A partir del análisis de la conducta de chimpancés, bonobos y capuchinos, así como de delfines y elefantes, De Waal nos muestra que muchos animales se preocupan por sus congé...

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  • Quantum Supremacy
    Kaku, Michio
    The runaway success of the microchip processor may be reaching its end. Running up against the physical constraints of smaller and smaller sizes, traditional silicon chips are not likely to prove useful in solving humanity’s greatest challenges, from climate change, to global starvation, to incurable diseases. But the quantum computer, which harnesses the power and complexity o...

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  • Nation of Plants, The
    Mancuso, Stefano
    In this playful yet informative manifesto, a leading plant neurobiologist presents the eight fundamental pillars on which the life of plants-and by extension, humans-rests.Even if they behave as though they were, humans are not the masters of the Earth, but only one of its most irksome residents. From the moment of their arrival, about three hundred thousand years ago-nothing w...

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  • Planting Our World
    Mancuso, Stefano
    With fun, fascinating vignettes, a renowned neurobiologist illuminates the interconnectedness of plant life and how we can learn from it to better plan our communities.We animals account for a paltry 0.3% of the planet’s biomass while plants add up to 85%. And when, with just a little training, we are able to look at the world without seeing it solely as humanity’s playground, ...

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  • Futuro de la humanidad, El
    Kaku, Michio
    Nuestra existencia está amenazada: las glaciaciones, los impactos de asteroides, la capacidad finita de la Tierra e incluso la lejana pero inevitable muerte del Sol son riesgos de tal magnitud que si no abandonamos la Tierra, deberemos asumir la idea de nuestra extinción. Poreso, para Michio Kaku nuestro destino se encuentra en las estrellas, no por la curiosidad o la pasión av...

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  • Mundo sin nosotros, El
    Weisman, Alan
    Este libro contesta con rigor esta fascinante pregunta y explica cómo nuestras enormes infraestructuras se hundirían; cuánto tardarían las principales ciudades en reforestarse y las llanuras africanas en recuperar el esplendor de su fauna; por qué algunas de las construcciones más antiguas podrían ser las últimas en desaparecer y cuáles de nuestros objetos quedarían inmortaliza...

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  • Design for a Better World
    Norman, Don
    How human behavior brought our world to the brink, and how human behavior can save us.The world is a mess. Our dire predicament, from collapsing social structures to the climate crisis, has been millennia in the making and can be traced back to the erroneous belief that the earth's resources are infinite. The key to change, says Don Norman, is human behavior, covered in the boo...

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  • Simply Artificial Intelligence
    DK
    Understanding AI has never been easier with Simply Artificial Intelligence.Combining bold graphics with easy-to-understand text, Simply Artificial Intelligence is the perfect introduction to the world of AI for those who are short of time but hungry for knowledge.Covering a broad range of fields within AI - from computing and mathematics to politics and philosophy - entries dem...

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  • Lapidarium
    Judah, Hettie
    Inspired by the lapidaries of the ancient world, this book is a beautifully designed collection of true stories about sixty different stones that have influenced our shared historyThe earliest scientists ground and processed minerals in a centuries-long quest for a mythic stone that would prolong human life. Michelangelo climbed mountains in Tuscany searching for the sugar-whit...

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  • Math Book, The
    DK
    Learn about the most important mathematical ideas, theorems, and movements in The Math Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Math in this overview guide to the subject, brilliant for novices looking to find out more and experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The Mat...

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  • Case Against Reality, The
    Hoffman, Donald
    Challenging leading scientific theories that claim that our senses report back objective reality, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that while we should take our perceptions seriously, we should not take them literally. From examining why fashion designers create clothes that give the illusion of a more "attractive" body shape to studying how companies use color to elic...

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  • Flights of Fancy
    Dawkings, Richard
    Do you sometimes dream you can fly like a bird? Gliding effortlessly above the treetops, soaring and swooping, playing and dodging through the third dimension. Computer games, virtual reality headsets, and some drugs can lift our imagination and fly us through fabled, magical spaces. But it's not the real thing. No wonder some of the past's greatest minds, including Leonardo da...

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  • Age of AI, The
    Kissinger, Henry / Schmidt, Eric / Huttenlocher, Daniel
    An AI learned to win chess by making moves human grand masters had never conceived. Another AI discovered a new antibiotic by analyzing molecular properties human scientists did not understand. Now, AI-powered jets are defeating experienced human pilots in simulated dogfights. AI is coming online in searching, streaming, medicine, education, and many other fields and, in so doi...

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  • Frederik Ruysch and His Thesaurus Anatomicus
    Ruysch, Frederik / Ebenstein, Joanna (ed.)
    A lavishly illustrated guide to the magnum opus of the great seventeenth-century anatomist, master embalmer, artist, and collector of specimens.Frederik Ruysch (1638-1731) was a celebrated Dutch anatomist, master embalmer, and museologist. He is best remembered today for strange tableaux, crafted from fetal skeletons and other human remains, that flicker provocatively at the ed...

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  • Earth, The
    Panciroli, Elsa
    It is difficult to conceive of the vast scale of the history of life on Earth, from the very first living organisms sparking into life in hydrothermal deep-sea vents to the dizzying diversity of life today. The evolution of life is a sweeping epic of a tale, with twists and turns, surprising heroes and unlikely survivors.The Earth beautifully distils this complex story into a m...

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  • How the Mind Changed
    Jebelli, Joseph
    We’ve come a long way. The earliest human had a brain as small as a child’s fist; ours are four times bigger, with spectacular abilities and potential we are only just beginning to understand. This is How the Mind Changed, a seven-million-year journey through our own heads, packed with vivid stories, groundbreaking science, and thrilling surprises. Discover how memory has almos...

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  • Martius. Book of Palms, The: 40th Edition
    Lack, H. Walter
    n December 15, 1868, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794-1868), Professor of Botany at the University of Munich and director of the Royal Botanic Garden, was carried to his grave in a coffin covered with fresh palm leaves. The fronds were a reference to his groundbreaking Natural History of Palms: a work in three volumes, published between 1823 and 1853.This encyclopedic t...

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  • Rise and Reign of the Mammals
    Brusatte, Steve
    We humans are the inheritors of a dynasty that has reigned over the planet for nearly 66 million years, through fiery cataclysm and ice ages: the mammals. Our lineage includes saber-toothed tigers, woolly mammoths, armadillos the size of a car, cave bears three times the weight of a grizzly, clever scurriers that outlasted Tyrannosaurus rex, and even other types of humans, like...

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  • Disordered Cosmos, The
    Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda
    In The Disordered Cosmos, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein shares her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and what lies beyond it, to the physics of melanin in skin, to the latest theories of dark matter—along with a perspective informed by history, politics, and the wisdom of Star Trek. One of the leading physicists of her generation, Dr. Chanda Prescod-W...

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  • Muerte contada por un sapiens a un...
    Millás, Juan José / Arsuaga, Juan Luis
    Vuelven el sapiens y el neandertal. Vuelve u00abla fiesta de la inteligenciau00bb. ...

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  • Being You
    Seth, Anil
    Anil Seth’s quest to understand the biological basis of conscious experience is one of the most exciting contributions to twenty-first-century science.What does it mean to "be you"--that is, to have a specific, conscious experience of the world around you and yourself within it? There may be no more elusive or fascinating question. Historically, humanity has considered the natu...

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  • Manual crítico de cultura ambiental
    Costa, Pedro
    Este Manual crítico de cultura ambiental está concebido como un texto que estimule el entendimiento de los problemas ambientales en general, que perciba la gravedad de las amenazas más acuciantes que de ellos vienen derivándose y que invite a adoptar una postura socialmente activa, fundada y crítica. El autor, que pertenece a la primera generación de «ecologistas políticos», ha...

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  • Cambio climático en la historia de la...
    Lieberman, Benjamin y Gordon, Elizabeth
    Lejos de ser una circunstancia que afecte únicamente al mundo actual, los seres humanos de las sociedades pasadas han sufrido, o se han beneficiado, de los numerosos cambios climáticos que han acaecido en el pasado. El clima y sus variaciones son un factor fundamental que ha condicionado el devenir del mundo, la conformación de su pasado y su futuro. La estrecha relación entre...

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  • Átomos y moléculas
    Díaz Marcos, Jordi / García Guerrero, Miguel
    Nos encontramos en los albores de la más grande revolución de la historia, vivimos el inicio de la era de las nanotecnologías. El poder humano para modificar nuestro entorno llega a su punto más alto con la capacidad de acomodar átomos a voluntad para lograr avances extraordinarios. El detalle es que, como veremos en el libro, esta manipulación ocurre en una dimensión tan peque...

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  • Romper la tierra
    Dunyó i Ruhí, Pol
    Romper la tierra expone las mentiras del mundo rural y reflexiona sobre la percepción engañosa que tenemos de nuestro entorno. A través de varios capítulos, y en un formato inspirado en el manifiesto, Dunyó estimula al lector a repensar cómo nos relacionamos con el tiempo, la tierra y lo que producimos. El autor analiza también nuestras formas de consumo y el vínculo con nuestr...

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  • Terraformación, La
    Bratton, Benjamin
    En los últimos años, la crisis ecológica y la fascinación por el apocalipsis se convirtieron en figuras recurrentes de nuestro imaginario cultural. Como testimonio de la catástrofe en curso, proliferan discursos ecocríticos que invitan a repensar nuestra relación con el planeta y a generar nuevos horizontes más allá del excepcionalismo humano. Porque hemos alterado los proce...

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  • Sherlock Holmes. El Palacio de la Memoria....
    Watson, John
    En este libro el Dr. John Watson comparte algunas de las lecciones del gran detective y sus técnicas apara estimular la memoria. Dominarlas es aprende a pensar a la manera de Sherlock Holmes. Mientras, disfrutaremos de las reminiscencias de Watson en el tiempo que pasó con su estimado colega. Ahora tendrá que resolver más de 100 desconcertantes acertijos y pruebas de memoria. ...

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  • Cerebro, El
    Magrini, Marco
    Tu cerebro te ofrece un servicio extraordinario e irrepetible. La disponibilidad simultánea de un sistema sensorial para la percepción del entorno, de un sistema nervioso para el control del aparato motor, así como de una conciencia integrada para discernir y decidir, te otorgarán años de existencia continua. Este manual, como el de cualquier otro producto, no mira ni al pasad...

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  • Enigma cuántico, El
    Smith, Wolfgang
    Tras derrumbarse la imagen clásica del mundo debido a los hallazgos de la mecánica cuántica, los físicos han propuesto una amplia gama de visiones del universo... Pero en la práctica ninguna es consistente, pese a la mayor o menor exactitud de las predicciones basadas en sus teorías y modelos. La situación ha deparado todo un ?mercado de realidades?. Wolfgang Smith, reputado ci...

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