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    Toward Social-Scientific Literacy and Engineering Resilience

    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book focuses on nuclear engineering education in the post-Fukushima era. It was edited by the organizers of the summer school held in August 2011 in University of California, Berkeley, as part of a collaborative program between the University of Tokyo and UC Berkeley. Motivated by the particular relevance and importance of social-scientific approaches to various crucial aspects of nuclear ... Leer más

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    How a Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilization

    K. Eric Drexler is the founding father of nanotechnology -- the science of engineering on a molecular level. In Radical Abundance, he shows how rapid scientific progress is about to change our world. Thanks to atomically precise manufacturing, we will soon have the power to produce radically more of what people want, and at a lower cost. The result will shake the very foundations of our economy ... Leer más

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  • Megatech

    Technology in 2050

    Edición de Daniel Franklin ...
    Technology moves fast - so where will it have taken us by 2050? How will it affect the way we live? And how far are we willing to let it go? In Megatech, distinguished scientists, industry leaders, star academics and acclaimed science-fiction writers join journalists from The Economist to explore answers to these questions and more.Twenty experts in the field, including Nobel prize-winner Frank ... Leer más

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  • Global Catastrophic Risks

    Edición de Nick Bostrom, Milan M. Cirkovic ...
    A global catastrophic risk is one with the potential to wreak death and destruction on a global scale. In human history, wars and plagues have done so on more than one occasion, and misguided ideologies and totalitarian regimes have darkened an entire era or a region. Advances in technology are adding dangers of a new kind. It could happen again. In Global Catastrophic Risks 25 leading experts ... Leer más

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  • Nuclear 2.0

    Why a green future needs nuclear power

    de Mark Lynas ...
    Everything you thought you knew about nuclear power is wrong. This is just as well, because nuclear energy is essential to avoid catastrophic global warming.While renewables will surely play an important part in our future energy strategy, expecting them to deliver all the world's power is dangerously delusional. In 2014, statistics showed that wind and solar power contributed only 1 per cent of ... Leer más

    $177 MXN

  • A Vast Machine

    Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming

    Series series Infrastructures
    The science behind global warming, and its history: how scientists learned to understand the atmosphere, to measure it, to trace its past, and to model its future.Global warming skeptics often fall back on the argument that the scientific case for global warming is all model predictions, nothing but simulation; they warn us that we need to wait for real data, “sound science.” In A Vast Machine ... Leer más

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  • 2030

    Technology That Will Change the World

    Imagine living in 1958, and knowing that the integrated circuit--the microchip--was about to be invented, and would revolutionize the world. Or imagine 1992, when the Internet was about to transform virtually every aspect of our lives. Incredibly, this book argues that we stand at such a moment right now--and not just in one field, but in many. In 2030, authors Rutger van Santen, Djan Khoe, and ... Leer más

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  • The Hydrogen Economy

    Opportunities and Challenges

    Edición de Michael Ball, Martin Wietschel ...
    Responding to the sustained interest in and controversial discussion of the prospects of hydrogen, this book strives to reflect on the perspectives of a hydrogen economy in light of the global energy challenge, in particular the question of how to meet the growing demand for transport energy in the long term and how to secure sustainable energy for transportation. This book stands out from other ... Leer más

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  • The Nuclear Enterprise

    High-Consequence Accidents: How to Enhance Safety and Minimize Risks in Nuclear Weapons and Reactors

    A panel of expert contributors offers its views on the risks and rewards of the nuclear enterprise, focusing on issues of safety, regulation, and public perception. Contributors discuss specific experience and issues regarding the technical safety of weapons and power plants, management operations, regulatory measures, and the importance of accurate communication by the media. ... Leer más

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  • Find Your Path

    Unconventional Lessons from 36 Leading Scientists and Engineers

    Scientists offer personal accounts of the challenges, struggles, successes, U-turns, and satisfactions encountered in their careers in industry, academia, and government.This insightful book offers essential life and career lessons for newly minted STEM graduates and those seeking a career change. Thirty-six leading scientists and engineers (including two Nobel Prize winners) describe the ... Leer más

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  • An Achievable Solution Of Our Energy Problems

    de Joseph Fray ...
    Erroneous information is widespread regarding the meeting of national energy requirements. This book examines the various proposed energy sources in a factual manner and outlines a totally viable solution. ... Leer más

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  • Encyclopedia of 20th-Century Technology

    Comprised of 395 essays arranged alphabetically, most on individual objects, artifacts, techniques, and products, this is an up-to-date reference work for all those involved in teaching or researching the history of twentieth-century technology, as well as the serious general reader.The core of each of the main entries is a technical description, within a historical narrative, of about 1,000 words ... Leer más

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