"If one book was all that could be passed on to the next generation of scientists it would undoubtedly have to be Six Easy Pieces."- John Gribbin, New Scientist It was Richard Feynman's outrageous and scintillating method of teaching that earned him legendary status among students and professors of physics. From 1961 to 1963, Feynman delivered a series of lectures at the California Institute of Technology that revolutionized the teaching of physics around the world. Six Easy Pieces, taken from these famous Lectures on Physics, represent the most accessible material from the series. In these classic lessons, Feynman introduces the general reader to the following topics: atoms, basic physics, energy, gravitation, quantum mechanics, and the relationship of physics to other topics. With his dazzling and inimitable wit, Feynman presents each discussion with a minimum of jargon. Filled with wonderful examples and clever illustrations, Six Easy Pieces is the ideal introduction to the fundamentals of physics by one of the most admired and accessible physicists of modern times.

Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher

Science & Math

Feynman, Richard P.

Mathematics

Basic Books

Biology

The basic principles you need to know for introductory courses. Crisp, easy-to-understand language sets forth the concepts that will take you from Evolution to Cytology through Energy &amp; Life to Cell Transport and Reproduction to a detailed introduction to the "science of tomorrow", Genetics. Everything for the beginning Biology student, condensed, clarified, and crystallized into a chart that will be in every student's backpack from freshman year to medical school to a budding career in science. Now, in an expanded version, the best is even better with our new Double-Panel Biology chart. This remarkable Quick Study guide is chock-full of color illustrations and even more of the information every science student needs!

BarCharts, Inc.

Biological Sciences

QuickStudy

How do we understand the world? While some look to the heavens for intelligent design, others argue that it is determined by information encoded in DNA. Science serves as an important activity for uncovering the processes and operations of nature, but it is also immersed in a social context where ideology influences the questions we ask and how we approach the material world. Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on the Coevolution of Nature and Society breaks from the confirms of determinism, offering a dialectical analysis for comprehending a dynamic social and natural world.
In Biology Under the Influence, Richard Lewontin and Richard Levins provide a devastating critique of genetic determinism and reductionism within science while exploring a broad range of issues including the nature of science, biology, evolution, the environment, pubic health, and dialectics, They dismantle the ideology that attempts to naturalize social inequalities, unveil the alienation of science and nature, and illustrate how a dialectical position serves as a basis for grappling with historical developments and a world characterized by change. Biology Under the Influence brings together the illuminating essays of two prominent scientists who work to demystify and empower the public's understanding of science and nature.

Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on Ecology, agriculture, and health

Lewontin, Richard

Levins, Richard

Monthly Review Press

Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on the Coevolution of Nature and Society

EL LIBRO INTERNACIONAL DE REFERENCIA DURANTE LA CUARENTENA.\nDesde hace años, para los expertos y cualquier persona informada, el estallido de la siguiente pandemia era una cuestión de tiempo, y su origen, evidente: un virus latente en animales que diera el salto al ser humano como el HIV que provocó el SIDA o el H1N1 que causó la gripe de 1918, el ébola, el SARS, el virus de Marburgo o el que produjo la gripe aviar.\nEn esta obra de referencia internacional, David Quammen se sumerge en la historia reciente de esas enfermedades zoonóticas, y persigue su rastro en compañía de los mejores científicos del mundo en la selva centroafricana, las cuevas de China meridional o las azoteas de Bangladés, pero también en los sofisticados laboratorios cuyo personal investiga virus letales bajo las más altas medidas de seguridad. Aunque Contagio se lee como un thriller, repleto de incidentes, pistas e interrogantes, a la vista de la crisis desatada por la aparición del SARS-CoV-2, su lectura no solo resulta apasionante; es imprescindible.\nENGLISH DESCRIPTION\n"[Mr. Quammen] is not just among our best science writers but among our best writers, period." ―Dwight Garner, New York Times\nThe next big human pandemic―the next disease cataclysm, perhaps on the scale of AIDS or the 1918 influenza―is likely to be caused by a new virus coming to humans from wildlife. Experts call such an event “spillover” and they warn us to brace ourselves. David Quammen has tracked this subject from the jungles of Central Africa, the rooftops of Bangladesh, and the caves of southern China to the laboratories where researchers work in space suits to study lethal viruses. He illuminates the dynamics of Ebola, SARS, bird flu, Lyme disease, and other emerging threats and tells the story of AIDS and its origins as it has never before been told. Spillover reads like a mystery tale, full of mayhem and clues and questions. When the Next Big One arrives, what will it look like? From which innocent host animal will it emerge? Will we be ready?

Contagio: La evolución de las pandemias / Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

Medical Books

Quammen, David

Medicine

Debate

Las drogas han acompañado al ser humano desde sus orÃgenes como parte de rituales, tratamientos medicinales o con fines recreativos, y a pesar de ello, la discusión actual en torno a estas sustancias se encuentra simplificada y polarizada entre grupos que pretenden su prohibición frente a aquellos defienden el consumo libre

Colocados: Lo que hay que saber sobre las drogas más consumidas, desde el alcohol hasta el éxtasis (Spanish Edition)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Swartzwelder, Scott

Wilson, Wilkie

Kuhn, Cinthia

Psychology & Counseling

Histoire des nombres

COLLECTIF

Essays & Commentary

TALLANDIER

Paroles de soldats: Les Français en guerre, 1983-2015

SABBAGH/LE ROUX

Quand La Science Eclaire L'histoire

Philippe Charlier

David Alliot

L'UNIVERS EN 100 QUESTIONS

Luminet, Jean-Pierre

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