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El Gran Secreto siempre ha estado presente de forma fragmentada en las tradiciones orales, en la literatura, en las religiones y en las distintas filosofías de todos los tiempos. Por primera vez, todos esos componentes se ha reunido en una increíble revelación que transformará la vida de todo aquel que la experimente.En este libro aprenderás a utilizar El Secreto en todos los aspectos de tu vida: dinero, salud, relaciones, felicidad y en todas tus interacciones con el mundo. Empezarás a entender el poder oculto y sin explotar que hay en tu interior. Esta revelación te aportará felicidad en todas las áreas de tu vida.El Secreto encierra la sabiduría de los grandes maestros actuales, hombres y mujeres que lo han utilizado para conseguir salud, fortuna y felicidad. Han aplicado el conocimiento de El Secreto y nos revelan increíbles historias de curaciones, de generación de grandes riquezas, de superación de obstáculos y de conseguir lo que muchos calificarían de imposible.

When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? What is the nature of reality? Is the apparent grand design of our universe evidence for a benevolent creator who set things in motion? Or does science offer another explanation? In The Grand Design, the most recent scientific thinking about the mysteries of the universe is presented in language marked by both brilliance and simplicity. The Grand Design explains the latest thoughts about model-dependent realism (the idea that there is no one version of reality), and about the multiverse concept of reality in which there are many universes. There are new ideas about the top-down theory of cosmology (the idea that there is no one history of the universe, but that every possible history exists). It concludes with a riveting assessment of m-theory, and discusses whether it is the unified theory Einstein spent a lifetime searching for. This is the first major work in nearly a decade by one of the worlds greatest thinkers. A succinct, startling and lavishly illustrated guide to discoveries that are altering our understanding and threatening some of our most cherished belief systems, The Grand Design is a book that will inform - and provoke - like no other.

Vivimos en un mundo poblado de objetos artificiales, productos del ingenio humano, concebidos buscando alguna utilidad: es el mundo artificial, derivado de la técnica, cuya forma más elaborada es la ingenieria. Ese mundo, radicalmente humano (hecho por y para los hombres), es fruto, en gran medida, de la actividad de los ingenieros, de modo que la historia de la ingenieria es indisociable de la de la civilizacion. En este libro se hace especial enfasis en la evolucion de la ingenieria desde la remota Antiguedad hasta que se consolida en el Ochocientos, y en el se presta particular atencion a la ingenieria española. Tiene caracter de divulgacion e interesara tanto a un publico general como a los jovenes estudiantes, que podran encontrar en sus paginas una introduccion historicamente trabada a una profesion que forma parte de la espina dorsal de la humanidad.

James Gleick, the author of the bestsellers Chaos and Genius, brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become the modern era's defining quality--the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. James Gleick, the author of the bestsellers Chaos and Genius, brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become the modern era's defining quality--the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. We live in the information age. But every era of history has had its own information revolution: the invention of writing, the composition of dictionaries, the creation of the charts that made navigation possible, the discovery of the electronic signal, the cracking of the genetic code. In The Information James Gleick tells the story of how human beings use, transmit and keep what they know. From African talking drums to Wikipedia, from Morse code to the 'bit', it is a fascinating account of the modern age's defining idea and a brilliant exploration of how information has revolutionised our lives.

The solar system most of us grew up with included nine planets, with Mercury closest to the sun and Pluto at the outer edge. Then, in 2005, astronomer Mike Brown made the discovery of a lifetime: a tenth planet, Eris, slightly bigger than Pluto. But instead of adding one more planet to our solar system, Brown's find ignited a firestorm of controversy that culminated in the demotion of Pluto from real planet to the newly coined category of "dwarf" planet. Suddenly Brown was receiving hate mail from schoolchildren and being bombarded by TV reporters--all because of the discovery he had spent years searching for and a lifetime dreaming about. A heartfelt and personal journey filled with both humor and drama, "How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming" is the book for anyone, young or old, who has ever imagined exploring the universe--and who among us hasn't?

Erwin Schrödinger was an Austrian physicist famous for his contribution to quantum physics. He won the Nobel Prize in 1933 and is best known for his thought experiment of a cat in a box, both alive and dead at the same time, which revealed the seemingly paradoxical nature of quantum mechanics. Schrödinger was working at one of the most fertile and creative moments in the whole history of science. By the time he was starting university in 1906, Einstein had already published his revolutionary papers on relativity. Now the baton of scientific progress was being passed to a new generation: Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac, Niels Bohr, and of course, Schrödinger himself. In this riveting biography John Gribbin takes us into the heart of the quantum revolution. He tells the story of Schrödinger's surprisingly colourful life (he arrived for a position at Oxford University with both his wife and mistress). And with his trade mark accessible style and popular touch explains the fascinating world of quantum mechanics, which underpins all of modern science.

Es quizá ésta la más polémica obra del autor, vinculada a la aparición de la Modernidad, y constituye la tercera entrega de la serie de estudios que la Real Sociedad Menéndez Pelayo viene publicando sobre sus producciones mas destacadas en los años previos al primer centenario de su fallecimiento.

The Search for Aliens: A Rough Guide to Life on Other Worlds provides the first vivid and completely accessible guide to the most exciting field of modern science: the search for extraterrestrial life. All the latest research projects are identified, located and described; everything from radio dishes searching for intelligent alien signals to deep oceanic research, seeking links between terrestrial organisms and the broader cosmos. It also explores the idea of Panspermia, the notion that asteroids and comets brought biological building blocks to the early earth, plus exactly which factors must align for life to arise across our galaxy and the universe.

Este libro explora con humor, precisión e inspiradas analogías divulgativas dos de los descubrimientos que han revolucionado la cosmología: la materia oscura y la energía oscura. El universo que creíamos que era constituye tan solo una pequeñisima parte del que realmente es. Einstein ya observo que un objeto con masa suficiente, al curvar el espacio-tiempo que lo rodea, sirve de lente que amplifica, multiplica o distorsiona la imagen de los objetos que estan detras de el. Aunque no le presto mucha atencion, hoy este fenomeno optico es un instrumento esencial que ha permitido descubrir no solo agujeros negros o planetas extrasolares, sino la huella que la materia y la energia oscuras van dejando en el universo.