¿Por qué? ¿Pero por qué? ¿Y por qué? La historia humana como nunca antes te la habían contado. Cuando se habla de algo tan inabarcable como la historia de la humanidad solemos poner el foco en cosas muy concretas. Nos gusta enumerar los líderes que marcaron la diferencia, señalar ciertos fenómenos como la migración o describir las consecuencias de las guerras más decisivas. Pero, ¿qué pasaría si cambiáramos el enfoque y pusiéramos a la Tierra en el centro de nuestras averiguacio...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2019-05-16 5,49 €
Jerry Brotton is the presenter of the acclaimed BBC4 series 'Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession'. Here he tells the story of our world through maps. Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific objects, world maps are unavoidably ideological and subjective, intimately bound up with the systems of power and authority of particular times and places. Mapmakers do not simply represent the world, they const...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-09-06 9,49 €
Harvard’s acclaimed geologist “charts Earth’s history in accessible style” (AP) “A sublime chronicle of our planet." –Booklist, STARRED review How well do you know the ground beneath your feet? Odds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike, or perhaps choked by poison gases, drowned beneath ocean, perched atop a mountain range, or roamed by fearsome monsters. Pr...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2021-04-27 15,99 €
El tiempo es uno para los seres humanos y otro radicalmente distinto para el planeta en que vivimos. Agobiados por el fugaz presente, por la inmediatez de nuestros problemas y anhelos, solemos perder de vista el pausado ritmo que ha dado forma a este esferoide que gira en torno al Sol. Las transformaciones de la Tierra no sólo son apasionantes —tanto como los esfuerzos científicos por desentrañarlas observando la corteza terrestre, extrayendo registros del hielo formado hace millones de añ...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2019-11-06 6,99 €
This edition does not include illustrations. The story of a man’s obsession with whales, which takes him on a personal, historical and biographical journey – from his childhood to his fascination with Moby-Dick and his excursions whale-watching. All his life, Philip Hoare has been obsessed by whales, from the gigantic skeletons in London’s Natural History Museum to adult encounters with the wild animals themselves. Whales have a mythical quality – they seem to elide with dark fantasies o...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2009-08-06 Género:Ciencia y naturaleza 8,99 €
Hailed by The New York Times for writing “with wonderful clarity about science . . . that effortlessly teaches as it zips along,” nationally bestselling author Robert M. Hazen offers a radical new approach to Earth history in this intertwined tale of the planet’s living and nonliving spheres. With an astrobiologist’s imagination, a historian’s perspective, and a naturalist’s eye, Hazen calls upon twenty-first-century discoveries that have revolutionized geology and enabled scientists...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-04-26 10,99 €
La geotermia es una de las fuentes de energía renovable y sustentable más antigua que ha usado el hombre, desde los baños termales en la antigua Roma hasta la actualidad con las grandes plantas usadas para la generación de electricidad. En este libro te explicamos de manera sencilla qué es la geotermia, de dónde proviene, cómo se explora y explota, y lo más importante, cuáles son las expectativas futuras de crecimiento y de un mejor desarrollo ante los problemas del agotamiento de las r...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2021-03-29 6,49 €
Hem d'entendre el planeta per sumar-nos a la revolució de l'Ara o mai. La Terra té una història, que hauríem de conèixer, d'uns 4.500 milions d'anys. Els humans només fa uns 200.000 anys que vam aparèixer, però hi tenim una relació apassionant i transformadora. Tot això és el que s'explica de manera senzilla alhora que revolucionària en aquest llibre. Expert en geologia i medi ambient, Xavier Soler resumeix els milions d'anys d'evolució del nostre planeta...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2021-03-15 Género:Ciencia y naturaleza 9,99 €
«FOR THE LOVE OF THE TRILOBITES» Where does our insatiable appetite for trilobite specimens and information on them arise from? We can point to several possible answers and then to all of them combined to explain the tremendous interest there is among scientists, professionals, and collectors in what is generally, but affectionately, often referred to as «bugs». Perhaps we are intrigued by the idea of highly successful creatures that once ruled the planet and despite their superior qualities...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2016-05-19 29,99 €
The Geology of the Canary Islands provides a concise overview of the geology and volcanology of the Canary Islands, along with 27 carefully planned day excursions comprising trips on all of the islands. Each stop includes a description on how to approach a site and where to park with GPS locations provided. The book covers all the spectacular features of the islands, including active ocean island volcanoes whose origins are linked to a hot spot or plume causing anomalously hot mantle material to...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2016-05-26 67,99 €
Plate tectonics caused a revolution in our understanding of the Earth. It has aided our understanding of why earthquakes and volcanoes are found in distinct locations, how oceans form and disappear, and how mountain ranges were built. In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Molnar explores the history and significance of plate tectonics.
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2015-03-26 11,99 €
The Alps, with their outstanding outcrop conditions, represent a superb natural laboratory for many geological processes, and have played a crucial role in the history of geology. This book gives an up-to-date and holistic overview of the key aspects of Alpine geology. After a brief presentation of the plate tectonic framework, the rock suites are discussed, starting with the pre-Triassic crystalline basement, followed by Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic sedimentary sequences. The lithological d...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2014-04-21 49,99 €
What processes and physical materials have shaped the planet we live on? Why do earthquakes happen? And what can geology teach us about contemporary issues such as climate change? From volcanoes and glaciers to fossils and rock formations, this user-friendly book gives a structured and thorough overview of the geology of planet Earth and beyond. Geology: A Complete Introduction outlines the basics in clear English, and provides added-value features like a glossary of the essential jargon terms, ...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2015-10-08 3,99 €
Mankind is using a greater variety of metals in greater quantities than ever before. As a result there is increasing global concern over the long-term availability of secure and adequate supplies of the metals needed by society. Critical metals, which are those of growing economic importance that might be susceptible to future scarcity, are a particular worry. For many of these we have little information on how they are concentrated in the Earth’s crust, how to extract them from their or...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2014-01-06 119,99 €
The purpose of this book is to get a practical understanding of the most common processing techniques in earthquake seismology. The book deals with manual methods and computer assisted methods. Each topic will be introduced with the basic theory followed by practical examples and exercises. There are manual exercises entirely based on the printed material of the book, as well as computer exercises based on public domain software. Most exercises are computer based. The software used, as...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2010-06-16 89,99 €
The shifting continents of the Earth are heading for inevitable collision: 250 million years from now, all the land masses on this planet will come together in a single, gigantic supercontinent which no human is ever likely to see. That future supercontinent will not be the first to form on Earth, nor will it be the last. Each cycle lasts half a billion years, making it the grandest of all the patterns in nature. It is scarcely a century since science first understood how Pangaea, the superconti...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-02-09 7,99 €
The Pulitzer Prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4.6 billion years Twenty years ago, when John McPhee began his journeys back and forth across the United States, he planned to describe a cross section of North America at about the fortieth parallel and, in the process, come to an understanding not only of the science but of the style of the geologists he traveled with. The structure of the book never changed, but its breadth caused him to complete i...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2000-06-15 11,99 €
This ebook edition does not include illustrations. A magisterial exploration of the natural history of the first four thousand million years of life on and in the earth, by one of Britain’s most dazzling science writers. What do any of us know about the history of our planet before the arrival of man? Most of us have a dim impression of a swirling mass of dust solidifying to form a volcanic globe, briefly populated by dinosaurs, then by woolly mammoths and finally by our own hairy ancestors. T...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2010-10-07 Género:Ciencia y naturaleza 7,99 €
One of the key works in the nineteenth-century battle between science and Scripture, Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology (1830-33) sought to explain the geological state of the modern Earth by considering the long-term effects of observable natural phenomena. Written with clarity and a dazzling intellectual passion, it is both a seminal work of modern geology and a compelling precursor to Darwinism, exploring the evidence for radical changes in climate and geography across the ages and specula...
Fecha de lanzamiento: 2005-10-27 11,99 €