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The emergence of strange new diseases is a frightening problem that seems to be getting worse. In this age of speedy travel, it threatens a worldwide pandemic. We hear news reports of Ebola, SARS, AIDS, and something called Hendra killing horses and people in Australia - but those reports miss the big truth that such phenomena are part of a single pattern. The bugs that transmit these diseases share one thing: they originate in wild animals and pass to humans by a process called spillover. David Quammen tracks this subject around the world.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to find yourself strapped to a giant rocket that's about to go from zero to 17,500 miles per hour? Or to look back on Earth from outer space and see the surprisingly precise line between day and night? Or to stand in front of the Hubble Space Telescope, wondering if the emergency repair you're about to make will inadvertently ruin humankind's chance to unlock the universe's secrets? Mike Massimino has been there, and in Spaceman he puts you inside the suit.

The science is overwhelming; the facts are in. The planet is heating up at an alarming rate and the results are everywhere to be seen. Yet, as time runs out, climate progress is blocked by the men who are profiting from the burning of the planet: energy moguls like the Koch brothers and Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson. Powerful politicians like Senators Mitch McConnell and Jim Inhofe, who receive massive contributions from the oil and coal industries. Most of these men are too intelligent to truly believe that climate change is not a growing crisis.

In this book, Prusiner tells the remarkable story of his discovery of prions - infectious proteins that replicate and cause disease but surprisingly contain no genetic material - and reveals how superb and meticulous science is actually practiced with talented teams of researchers who persevere. He recounts the frustrations and rewards of years of research and offers fascinating portraits of his peers as they raced to discover the causes of fatal brain diseases.

A preeminent geneticist hunts the Neanderthal genome to answer the biggest question of them all: what does it mean to be human? What can we learn from the genes of our closest evolutionary relatives? Neanderthal Man tells the story of geneticist Svante Pbo’s mission to answer that question, beginning with the study of DNA in Egyptian mummies in the early 1980s and culminating in his sequencing of the Neanderthal genome in 2009.

"A maioria das pessoas parece ter, pelo menos, uma pseudociência de estimação. Ficaremos satisfeitos, nestes casos, em plantar no mínimo uma semente de ceticismo que leve o leitor a considerar: será?” “Energias curativas, bolinhas de açúcar mágicas, terapias que invocam os antepassados e maluquices inventadas sobre o poder avassalador dos desejos inconscientes operam, todas, sob ‘leis de tapete voador’.

When leading Princeton physicist Paul Steinhardt began working in the 1980s, scientists thought they knew all the conceivable forms of matter. The Second Kind of Impossible is the story of Steinhardt’s 35-year-long quest to challenge conventional wisdom. It begins with a curious geometric pattern that inspires two theoretical physicists to propose a radically new type of matter - one that raises the possibility of new materials with never-before-seen properties but that violates laws set in stone for centuries.

As president of Shell Oil, John Hofmeister was known for being a straight shooter, willing to challenge his peers throughout the industry. Now, he's a man on a mission, the founder of Citizens for Affordable Energy, crisscrossing the country in a grassroots campaign to change the way we look at energy in this country.

Ranging from prehistory to the 21st century, The Great Sea is above all the history of human interaction across a region that has brought together many of the great civilizations of antiquity as well as the rival empires of medieval and modern times.

A solução para os seus problemas pode estar no improvável e no não convencional. Via de regra, são as grandes corporações que inspiram pequenas empresas e entidades sem fins lucrativos. Neste audiolivro revolucionário, o premiado pesquisador Paulo Savaget argumenta que deveria ser o contrário. Muitas vezes, é das pequenas (e ousadas) organizações que extraímos as mais valiosas e inovadoras lições para enfrentar os grandes obstáculos.

Experience the world's most promising technological innovations and the science behind them in this entertaining photo-rich book. For futurists and sci-tech enthusiasts, every moment reveals advances powering our future, with on-site interviews, deep explainers, and helpful visuals.

For fans of The Lost City of Z, Walking the Amazon, and Turn Right at Machu Picchu comes naturalist and explorer Paul Rosolie’s extraordinary adventure in the uncharted tributaries of the Western Amazon—a tale of discovery that vividly captures the awe, beauty, and isolation of this endangered land and presents an impassioned call to save it.

«Realmente, este es uno de los mejores capítulos que he visto de todo el ciclo de BBVA», comenta un lector a la charla de José Edelstein en Aprendemos Juntos de BBVA, quienes junto a más de 1,3 M de lectores lo avalan. ¡No os la perdáis! ¿Qué tienen en común un físico griego del siglo III a. C., Beethoven, Stephen Hawking y Gabriel García Márquez? Todos forman parte de este viaje literario y científico por los cielos y sus secretos. En Trece maneras de mirar el cielo, José Edelstein entrelaza astronomía, historia y arte con una elegancia poco habitual en los libros de divulgación.

El célebre naturalista francés Buffon señaló en su día que «el discurso de la naturaleza no es más que la naturaleza transformada en discurso». María Negroni se propone rastrear las representaciones de la naturaleza—o sumergirse en la naturaleza escrita—en las que la unión de lo visible con lo enunciable produce un conjunto dotado de sentido.

स्टीफ़न हॉकिंग की वैश्विक स्तर की बेस्टसेलर पुस्तक अ ब्रीफ़ हिस्ट्री ऑफ़ टाइम वैज्ञानिक लेखन के सन्दर्भ में एक ऐतिहासिक महत्त्व की पुस्तक थी। इसकी एक वजह इसके लेखक की प्रभावी अभिव्यक्ति थी, और दूसरी वजह वे सम्मोहक विषय हैं जिनके बारे में वह बात करते हैं : देश और काल की प्रकृति, सृष्टि की प्रक्रिया में ईश्वर की भूमिका, ब्रह्माण्ड का इतिहास और भविष्य। लेकिन यह भी सही है कि उस पुस्तक के प्रकाशन के बाद पाठक लगातार प्रोफ़ेसर हॉकिंग से पुस्तक की कुछ अत्यन्त महत्त्वपूर्ण अवधारणाओं को समझने में पेश आने वाली मुश्किलों की बात करते रहे थे।

ప్రపంచవ్యాప్త బెస్ట్‌ సెల్లర్‌ “ఎ బ్రీఫ్‌ హిస్టరీ ఆఫ్‌ టైమ్‌“ స్టీఫెన్‌ హాకింగ్‌ రచన, సైంటిఫిక్‌ రచనలలో ఒక మైలురాయి. అందుకు కారణం రచయిత మాట తీరు, ఎంచుకున్న అంశాలు పట్టి చదివించే రకం అన్నది మరొకటి.

Richard Dawkins considère Le phénotype étendu comme sa contribution la plus importante à la théorie de l'évolution. Dans Le gène égoïste, il avait placé le gène au centre de la sélection naturelle. Les gènes ne se contentent pas de façonner le corps qu'ils habitent. Leur influence s'étend au monde extérieur: dans le barrage du castor, dans la toile de l'araignée, dans le comportement d'un oiseau manipulé par un coucou parasite. Le comportement d'un animal tend à maximiser la survie des gènes responsables de ce comportement, que ces gènes se trouvent ou non dans son propre corps.

»Niemand wird dieses Fahrzeug jemals brauchen« Fortschritt, Furcht und frühes Scheitern: die Geschichte zweier Erfinder und Rivalen Im Juli 1886 unternahm Herr Benz in Mannheim die erste Autofahrt der Geschichte. Cannstatt war weit genug entfernt, dass dort zur selben Zeit Herr Daimler stolz erzählen konnte, er habe gerade das Automobil erfunden. Schwierig wurde es, als die beiden von der Existenz des anderen erfuhren. Ein Wettlauf beginnt, und die lebensfrohen Frauen der Erfinder mischen mit.

In this powerful essay, Joëlle Gergis, a leading climate scientist, depicts the likely future in vivid and credible detail. Working from the science, she discusses the world’s and Australia’s efforts to combat climate change. She outlines how far Australia is from keeping its promises to cut emissions. She takes aim at false solutions and the folly of “adaptation” rather than curbing fossil fuel use.

Los filósofos griegos construyeron grandes discusiones sobre la realidad que continúan vigentes y siguen inspirando a los pensadores de hoy. Desde las enseñanzas matemáticas de Pitágoras, pasando por las ideas de Platón y Aristóteles, han sido fundamentales para el desarrollo intelectual hasta nuestros días. Hoy, sin embargo, ese papel lo ha adoptado una nueva clase de visionarios.