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  • Ignorance and Surprise
    Matthias Gross
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    27,07 €

  • Naturalizing God?
    Mikael Leidenhag
    Evaluates religious naturalists’ attempts to find a middle path between supernaturalism and atheistic secularism, and explores naturalistic, theistic, and panpsychist solutions. ...
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    121,64 €

  • Science and Beyond
    Rolf Sattler
    Science, coupled with technology, has become the dominant force in most parts of the world. Thus, it affects our lives and society in many ways. Yet, misconceptions about science are widespread in governments, the general public, and even among many scientists. Science and Beyond explores these misconceptions that may have grave and even disastrous consequences for individuals ...
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    20,61 €

  • Brain Fever
    Richard Moxon
    In Brain Fever, the internationally renowned medical scientist, Richard Moxon FRS, shares his experiences of bacterial meningitis, a fearful and devastating infection of the brain. In a clear, non-technical style, he explains what meningitis is, what causes it, who gets it and how research has come up with vaccines that can prevent it.A paediatrician, Moxon engages the reader i...
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    33,39 €

  • Brain Fever
    Richard Moxon
    In Brain Fever, the internationally renowned medical scientist, Richard Moxon FRS, shares his experiences of bacterial meningitis, a fearful and devastating infection of the brain. In a clear, non-technical style, he explains what meningitis is, what causes it, who gets it and how research has come up with vaccines that can prevent it.A paediatrician, Moxon engages the reader i...
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    68,93 €

  • Genes, Polymorphisms, and the Making of Societies
    Hippokratis Kiaris
    Our genes determine to a large extent who we are and why we are different from others. In this book, Hippokratis Kiaris explores how various genetic polymorphisms in different ethnic populations may affect the development of distinct cultures and eventually historical decisions. It should be read by anybody interested in history, anthropology, behavior, psychology or genetics. ...
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    38,17 €

  • The Lost Worlds of Earth and Mars
    William R Saunders
    The original book, written long ago, existed, but its sight is hidden from the searcher and the thinker. - The Maya Popol VuhOver the last half century, an abundance of evidence has been put forward to indicate a highly advanced civilization once existed on planet Earth. The Lost Worlds of Earth and Mars presents the ultimate proof. But, did this civilization evolve on Earth, ...
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    27,87 €

  • Visibilities and Invisibilities in Smart Cities
    H. Patricia McKenna / HPatricia McKenna
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    216,06 €

  • Perspectives on Sensory History
    Ryan McCormack
    Examines the relationship between sound and statuary in Western aesthetic thought in light of discourses on aurality emerging within the field of sound studies. Considers the sounding statue as an event and as conceptualized through acts of writing and performance.   ...
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    47,25 €

  • Divine Action and Emergence
    Mariusz Tabaczek
    Divine Action and Emergence puts the classical Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition in conversation with current philosophy and theology.As a middle path between classical theism and pantheism, the panentheistic turn in the twentieth century has been described as a 'quiet revolution.' Today, in fact, many theologians hold that the world is 'in' God (who, at the same time, is more t...
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    106,48 €

  • Yellowstone’s Survival
    Susan G Clark / Susan G. Clark
    This book focuses on Yellowstone: the park, the larger ecosystem, and even more so, the 'idea' of Yellowstone. In presenting a case for a new conservation paradigm for the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE), including Yellowstone National Park, the book, at its heart, is about people and nature relationships. This new paradigm will be truly committed to a healthy, sustainable ...
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    179,50 €

  • Yellowstone’s Survival
    Susan G Clark / Susan G. Clark
    This book focuses on Yellowstone: the park, the larger ecosystem, and even more so, the 'idea' of Yellowstone. In presenting a case for a new conservation paradigm for the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE), including Yellowstone National Park, the book, at its heart, is about people and nature relationships. This new paradigm will be truly committed to a healthy, sustainable ...
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    35,00 €

  • Common Sense and Science from Aristotle to Reid
    Benjamin W Redekop / Benjamin W. Redekop
    Common Sense and Science from Aristotle to Reid brings to light the dynamic and evolving relationship between common sense and scientific thinking that stretches from Aristotle to the present day. ...
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    57,52 €

  • Physics and Philosophy
    James Jeans
    'There is no more eloquent, interesting or persuasive exposition of what may be called science of philosophy than Sir James Jeans’s.' - The New York TimesCan we have any knowledge of the world outside us other than we gain by the methods of science? Are we humans endowed with free will, or are we mere cogs in a vast machine that must follow its predestined course until it final...
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    10,60 €

  • Posting Peace
    Douglas S. Bursch / Douglas SBursch
    Why is everyone so angry online? The internet seems to have brought the world together only so we can tear each other apart. Social media platforms have become toxic and polarizing environments. Many of us are overwhelmed and disillusioned by endless online conflict and negativity. How did we get here, and what can we do about it? The internet changes not only how we communicat...
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    18,80 €

  • A Letter to Dabjebrosato
    J A Moore
    Join a grandfather with his grandchildren as they research an extremely important question that applies to everyone in the world. Are you an ’intelligent animal’ or a ’created human being’?First they look at the Theory of Evolution, the Big Bang Theory and the Primordial Soup Theory, asking the questions: Is it mathematically possible? Does it pass the irreducible complexity te...
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    19,31 €

  • A Letter to Dabjebrosato
    J A Moore
    Join a grandfather with his grandchildren as they research an extremely important question that applies to everyone in the world. Are you an ’intelligent animal’ or a ’created human being’?First they look at the Theory of Evolution, the Big Bang Theory and the Primordial Soup Theory, asking the questions: Is it mathematically possible? Does it pass the irreducible complexity te...
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    12,59 €

  • The World Crisis - And What to Do About It
    Nicholas Maxwell
    Science and technology have made the modern world possible, but also created all the global problems that threaten our future: the climate crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, mass extinction of species, environmental degradation, overpopulation, lethal modern war, and the menace of nuclear weapons. Nicholas Maxwell, world-renowned philosopher of science and author of 14 books, argue...
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    33,51 €

  • The World Crisis - And What to Do About It
    Nicholas Maxwell
    Science and technology have made the modern world possible, but also created all the global problems that threaten our future: the climate crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, mass extinction of species, environmental degradation, overpopulation, lethal modern war, and the menace of nuclear weapons. Nicholas Maxwell, world-renowned philosopher of science and author of 14 books, argue...
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    69,05 €

  • The Politics of Dating Apps
    Lik Sam Chan
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    29,07 €

  • George Spencer Brown’s 'Design with the NOR'
    A polymath and author of Laws of Form, George Spencer Brown, brought together mathematics, electronics, engineering and philosophy to form an unlikely bond. This book investigates Design with NOR, the title of the yet unpublished 1961 typescript by Spencer Brown. ...
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    143,19 €

  • Science Advice and Global Environmental Governance
    Pia M Kohler / Pia M. Kohler
    'Science Advice and Global Environmental Governance' examines expert committees advising multilateral environmental agreements on ozone layer depletion, persistent organic pollutants and land degradation. This work argues the co-production arising in these committees warrants recognizing their contribution to an emerging global environmental constitutionalism. ...
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    57,53 €

  • Science and the Modern World
    Alfred North Whitehead
    Originally published in 1925, Alfred North Whitehead’s Science and the Modern World was a groundbreaking work that redefined the concept of modern science. It is a work not only of the first importance but also of great beauty in which the author dramatically describes what had long engaged his meditations; namely, the rise, triumph, and impact of 'scientific materialism,' acco...
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    22,20 €

  • In Their Own Words
    Fred Erisman
    Amelia Earhart’s prominence in American aviation during the 1930s obscures a crucial point: she was but one of a closely knit community of women pilots. Although the women were well known in the profession and widely publicized in the press at the time, they are largely overlooked today. Like Earhart, they wrote extensively about aviation and women’s causes, producing an absorb...
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    57,72 €

  • Information Technology Trends for a Global and Interdisciplinary Research Community
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    216,39 €

  • El Funcionamiento del Universo
    Marcelo Capamadjian Martin
    La obra es un ensayo cuyo objetivo es reensamblar la ancestral división entre ciencia y humanidades. El autor se propone un trabajo sin duda arduo en su vertiente teórica, en el cual el centro focal es el conocimiento del universo, abordado con una visión crítica a la vez que iluminadora. Todos los temas, algunos especialmente complejos, se hacen llevaderos gracias a una facil...
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    24,35 €

  • Human-Computer Interaction and Technology Integration in Modern Society
    Hakikur Rahman
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    229,14 €

  • Simulation Theory
    Manav Sharma
    This book emphasizes the fact that our very lives could just be a simulated environment created by an advanced race. The book is based on a published hypothesis from MIT, and the concept has been recognized by many. It is a short book, which lays emphasis on 4 main chapters that involve many concepts related to the subject. These subjects discuss Simulation Theory, God, Our pla...
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    10,97 €

  • Responsible AI and Ethical Issues for Businesses and Governments
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    248,63 €

  • Big Research Questions about the Human Condition
    Arne Jarrick
    Ask bigger, fewer, and clearer questions! This is the major message of this book, comprising a set of issues to focus on, hereby suggesting a way to overcome the fragmentation characterising the humanities today. It also urges humanists to regard humanities research as an integral part of science, although uniquely dealing with humans as decision making, meaning seeking and sel...
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    181,77 €