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  • Beyond Weird

    Why Everything You Thought You Knew about Quantum Physics Is Different

    de Philip Ball ...
    A journey into the mysteries and meaning of quantum theory: "Gorgeously lucid text . . . easily the best book I've read on the subject." — The Washington Post"Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it." Since Niels Bohr said this many years ago, quantum mechanics has only been getting more shocking. We now realize that it's not really telling us that "weird" things happen ... Leer más

    $193 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Cómo crear un ser humano

    de Philip Ball ...
    A todos nos han contado esa historia de que "papá pone una semillita en mamá…" y todos sabemos cómo termina: con un bebé. Sin embargo, ¿sabríamos decir realmente cómo un óvulo fecundado se convierte en un ser humano? La respuesta de la ciencia resulta incluso más asombrosa que el famoso relato. Philip Ball explica de una manera fascinante cómo se crea, efectivamente, la vida. Y, además, cómo la ... Leer más

    $429 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • La invención del color

    de Philip Ball ...
    Traducido por José Adrián Vitier ...
    Series series Noema
    ¿De dónde viene el color? ¿Cómo encuentran los pintores nuevas tonalidades y de qué manera influyen éstas en su obra? Desde la austera paleta de los griegos y la costosa pasión por el púrpura de los romanos hasta la gloriosa profusión del arte renacentista y la sobriedad cromática de Velázquez y Rembrandt; desde las tempranas incursiones de los pintores románticos en el laboratorio del químico al ... Leer más

    $299 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Man Who Broke Reality

    Niels Bohr and the Making of Modern Physics

    de Philip Ball ...
    'A true tour de force. A fresh, authoritative, meticulously researched and utterly engaging examination of arguably the deepest thinker of the twentieth century' Jim Al Khalili'Philip Ball is a terrific writer' Adam Rutherford, GuardianDanish physicist Niels Bohr was one of the greatest scientists of the twentieth century.He won the Nobel Prize in 1922 for his revolutionary... ... Leer más

    $539 MXN

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  • Cuántica

    Qué significa la teoría de la ciencia más extraña

    de Philip Ball ...
    Todos hemos oído hablar de la física cuántica, aunque realmente no sepamos ni qué es ni para qué sirve. Hasta hace poco, ni siquiera los físicos parecían tenerlo demasiado claro. En las últimas décadas se ha aprendido algo más, y ahora sabemos que la física cuántica no va de partícula y ondas, ni de "cosas que hacen cosas raras", sino que es una teoría sobre la propia información, sobre el espacio ... Leer más

    $249 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Beyond Weird

    de Philip Ball ...
    PHYSICS WORLD 2018 BOOK OF THE YEAR‘A clear and deeply researched account of what’s known about the quantum laws of nature, and how to think about what they might really mean’ Nature‘I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.’ Richard Feynman wrote this in 1965 – the year he was awarded the Nobel prize in physics for his work on quantum mechanics. Over the past decade, the ... Leer más

    $247 MXN

  • The Water Kingdom

    A Secret History of China

    de Philip Ball ...
    "A rewarding read" this political, social and cultural history of water management in China "puts water beautifully back at the heart of China's story" ( Economist).From the Yangtze to the Yellow River, China is traversed by great waterways, which have defined its politics and ways of life for centuries. In The Water Kingdom, renowned writer Philip Ball opens that window to offer an epic and ... Leer más

    $226 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • How Life Works

    A User’s Guide to the New Biology

    de Philip Ball ...
    “Bold and intriguing.”—Wall Street Journal • “Penetrating. . . . Provocative and profound.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) • “Offers plenty of food for thought.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)**“Ball’s marvelous book is both wide-ranging and deep. . . . I could not put it down.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Song of the Cell and the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Emperor of All MaladiesA ... Leer más

    $274 MXN

  • A Waste of Blood & Treasure

    The 1799 Anglo-Russian Invasion of the Netherlands

    de Philip Ball ...
    With the Netherlands overrun by French Republican forces, the British and Russian governments sent an allied army of 48,000 men under the Duke of York to liberate the country and restore the House of Orange.The largest operation mounted by Pitt's ministry during the French Revolutionary Wars, the amphibious expedition involved the first ever direct cooperation between British and Russian forces, ... Leer más

    $174 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Book of Minds

    How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens

    de Philip Ball ...
    This "fascinating and illuminating account" explores how we might perceive the mind if we didn't put humans at the center of our understanding ( The Guardian Observer).Popular science writer Philip Ball explores a range of sciences to map our answers to a huge, philosophically rich question: How do we even begin to think about minds that are not human?Taking a uniquely broad view of minds and ... Leer más

    $243 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Patterns in Nature

    Why the Natural World Looks the Way It Does

    de Philip Ball ...
    The acclaimed science writer "curates a visually striking, riotously colorful photographic display…of physical patterns in the natural world" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).Though at first glance the natural world may appear overwhelming in its diversity and complexity, there are regularities running through it, from the hexagons of a honeycomb to the spirals of a seashell and the branching ... Leer más

    $211 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Universe of Stone

    Chartres Cathedral and the Invention of the Gothic

    de Philip Ball ...
    "[A] lively biography of Chartres Cathedral . . . Ball's account of its construction reveals fascinating details." — The New YorkerChartres Cathedral, south of Paris, is revered as one of the most beautiful and profound works of art in the Western canon. But what did it mean to those who constructed it in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries—and why was it built at such immense height and with ... Leer más

    $192 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus