Stefan Klein Libros

&¿Qu&é es el tiempo? &¿C&ómo lo vivimos? &¿C&ómo lo administramos? Einstein demostr&ó que el tiempo es relativo. Ahora los investigadores del cerebro completan su revoluci&ón: descubren el tiempo interior. Stefan Klein nos conduce a un viaje ins&ólito a trav&és de nuestra conciencia, puesto que la sensaci&ón de tiempo es una de las capacidades m&ás sorprendentes de nuestra mente. Casi todas las funciones del cerebro est&án implicadas en ella: sensaci&ón corporal y percepci&ón sensorial; emociones y conciencia de uno mismo; los recuerdos y la capacidad de forjar planes de futuro. La cultura tambi&én influye en c&ómo vivimos el paso de las horas y los minutos. Klein nos muestra c&ómo podemos aprovechar mejor nuestro tiempo. Las circunstancias externas no determinan nuestra sensaci&ón de tiempo tanto como creemos y podemos modificar el sentido del tiempo m&ás f&ácilmente que casi todos los dem&ás procesos que tienen lugar en nuestro cerebro: la pel&ícula de nuestra vida se rueda en la cabeza y nosotros somos sus directores.

¿Qué puede enseñarnos la forma en que una rosa florece o el movimiento de una tormenta sobre cómo funciona el mundo en que vivimos? ¿Y qué lecciones podemos extraer de la poesía o de Sherlock Holmes sobre la condición del tiempo y el espacio? Este libro transforma experiencias diarias en hechos claves para entender algunas de las ideas y teorías más complejas de la física del siglo xxi. Por un lado, arroja luz en los rincones más oscuros de nuestra realidad, mostrando todo lo que hay detrás del mundo visible, y por otro, en el proceso, nos revela la belleza del nuestro universo

World-leading natural and social scientists shed light on their discoveries and lives in conversation with an award-winning science writer. When acclaimed science writer Stefan Klein asks Nobel Prize-winning chemist Roald Hoffmann what sets scientists apart, Hoffmann says, 'First and foremost, curiosity.' In this collection of intimate conversations with 19 of the world's best-known scientists, Klein lets us listen in as today's leading minds reveal what they still hope to discover -- and how their paradigm-changing work entwines with their lives outside the lab. From the sports car that physicist Steven Weinberg says helped him on his quest for 'the theory of everything' to the jazz musicians who gave psychologist Alison Gopnik new insight into raising children, scientists explain how they find inspiration everywhere. Hear from evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins on selfishness; anthropologist Sarah Hrdy on motherhood; primatologist Jane Goodall on animal behaviour; neuroscientist V. S. Ramachandran on consciousness; geographer Jared Diamond on chance in history; and other luminaries!

By the international bestselling author of The Science of Happiness and The Secret Pulse of Time, a fresh exploration of Da Vinci's real code--science!

The phrase 'survival of the fittest' conjures an image of the most cutthroat individuals rising to the top. But Stefan Klein, author of the international bestseller The Science of Happiness, makes the startling assertion that the key to achieving lasting personal and societal success lies in helping others. Klein argues that altruism is in fact our defining characteristic: natural selection favoured those early humans who cooperated in groups. With their survival more assured, our altruistic ancestors were free to devote brainpower to developing intelligence, language, a

Popular science at its very best, The Secret Pulse of Time awakens us to and empowers us with the idea that time is far more at our disposal than we have previously realized. Award-winning journalist Stefan Klein— whose previous book, The Science of Happiness, is a longtime international bestseller—here provides what are essentially “operating instructions” for time. Through a combination of original investigation and reportage, personal revelation, and a commanding presentation of scientific research (among disciplines including brain physiology, social psychology, philosophy, and Einsteinian physics), The Secret Pulse of Time teaches readers not only to better master time but also to understand why they so often fail to do so.

This revelatory tour de force by an acclaimed and internationally bestselling science writer upends our understanding of "survival of the fittest" and invites us all to think and act more altruistically. The phrase "survival of the fittest" conjures an image of the most cutthroat individuals rising to the top. But Stefan Klein, author of the #1 international bestseller The Science of Happiness and winner of the Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Scientific Journalism, makes the startling assertion that the key to achieving lasting personal and societal success lies in helping others. In fact, Klein argues, altruism is our defining characteristic: Natural selection favored those early humans who cooperated in groups, and with survival more assured, our altruistic ancestors were free to devote brainpower to developing intelligence, language, and culture--our very humanity. As Klein puts it, "We humans became first the friendliest and then the most intelligent apes."

Collaboration of organizations reshapes traditional managerial practices and creates new inter-organizational contexts for strategy, coordination and control, information and knowledge management. Heralded as organizational forms of the future, networks are at the same time fragile and precarious organizational arrangements, which regularly fail. In order to investigate the new realities created by technology-enabled forms of network organizations and to address the emerging managerial challenges, this book introduces an integrative view on inter-firm network management. Centred on a network life cycle perspective, strategic, economic and relational facets of business networking are explored. The network management framework is illustrated onto a broad range of European inter-firm network examples in various industries rendering insights for new management practices.

From the award-winning, bestselling German science author Stefan Klein An original way into the most thought-provoking scientific theories and ideas, On The Edge of Infinity is the perfect read for those curious about the workings of the universe. * How can a hurricane can reveal the world's unpredictability? How can a greying beard might demonstrate the irreversibility of time? How do the exploits of burglars in New York and London demonstrate how everything can be in two places at once? Employing stories about simple everyday items or occurrences as analogies to illuminate counterintuitive realities behind the visible world, On The Edge of Infinity reveals the astonishing beauty of the universe. This book transforms a simple everyday thing such as a rose blossom, or a day of stormy weather, into a key to understanding the most complex ideas and theories in 21st century physics. Stefan Klein unpicks the complexities and intricacies of physics, from the answered questions to the dark corners of what we have yet to discover, making this an accessible read to those with no previous knowledge of the subject.