Conoce al buho (An Owl, That's Who!)

Millones de personas saben que la ecuación E=mc2 revolucionó la Física y cambió la forma de entender el mundo, pero casi nadie comprende su significado ni por qué exactamente es tan importante. En esta obra David Bodanis convierte una ecuación aparentemente impenetrable en algo comprensible para el lector medio.

Humanity's understanding of the physical world is full of gaps. Not tiny little gaps you can safely ignore -- there are huge yawning voids in our basic notions of how the world works. Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson team up to explore everything we don't know about the universe, and while introducing the biggest mysteries in physics, they also helpfully demystify many complicated things we do know. And although the universe is full of weird things that don't make any sense, Cham and Whiteson make a case that the questions we can't answer are as interesting as the ones we can, and they invite...

La fascinante historia del Dr. Gordon Sato, quien ayudó a una pequeña aldea africana a ser autosuficiente plantando un bosque de manglares para remodelar el ecosistema de la comunidad.

Written by one of the leading authorities in the field, this is one of the first book's to describe one of today's most important problems in cosmology - the formation of galaxies. The book tackles this great puzzle by discusses the beginnings of the process from cosmological observations and calculations, considers the broad features of galaxies that we need to explain and what we know of their later history. The author compares the competing theories for galaxy formation and considers the progress expected from new generations of powerful telescopes both on earth and in space. An intriguing ...