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  • Living With Arabs

    Nine Years with the Petra Bedouin

    de Joan Ward ...
    Horrendous news from the Middle East fills our newspapers and screens every day. How can we begin to understand what drives people to treat each other as they do? “Medieval” is a word often used. Well-informed commentators analyse political and military issues but give little insight into the cultural and domestic backgrounds of the protagonists.Living With Arabs is an account of nine years spent ... Leer más

    $6.50 USD

  • Enigmas

    Edición de Emily Joan Ward, Robin Reuvers ...
    Series series Darwin College Lectures
    Arising from the 2020 Darwin College Lectures, this book presents eight essays from prominent public intellectuals on the theme of Enigmas. Each author examines this theme through the lens of their own particular area of expertise, together constituting an illuminating and diverse interdisciplinary volume. Enigmas features contributions by professor of physics Sean M. Carroll, author Jo Marchant, ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Royal Childhood and Child Kingship

    Boy Kings in England, Scotland, France and Germany, c. 1050–1262

    de Emily Joan Ward ...
    Series Libro 120 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
    Refining adult-focused perspectives on medieval rulership, Emily Joan Ward exposes the problematic nature of working from the assumption that kingship equated to adult power. Children's participation and political assent could be important facets of the day-to-day activities of rule, as this study shows through an examination of royal charters, oaths to young boys, cross-kingdom diplomacy and ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

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  • This Explains Everything

    150 Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works

    de John Brockman ...
    Series Libro 12 - Edge Question Series
    Drawn from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, This Explains Everything will revolutionize your understanding of the world.What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"—The Guardian), posed to the world's most influential minds. Flowing from the horizons of physics, economics, psychology, ... Leer más

    $13.49 USD

  • Seeing Further

    The Story of Science and the Royal Society

    de Bill Bryson ...
    “Bryson is as amusing as ever….As a celebration of 350 years of modern science, [Seeing Further]it is a worthy tribute.”—The EconomistIn Seeing Further, New York Times bestseller Bill Bryson takes readers on a guided tour through the great discoveries, feuds, and personalities of modern science. Already a major bestseller in the UK, Seeing Further tells the fascinating story of science and the ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Weird Earth

    Debunking Strange Ideas About Our Planet

    de Donald R. Prothero ...
    "A breath of intellectual fresh air . . . [an] amusing look at how to dispel endemic pseudoscience and conspiracy theories through rational thinking." — Publishers WeeklyAliens. Ley lines. Water dowsing. Conspiracies and myths captivate imaginations and promise mystery and magic. Whether it's arguing about the moon landing hoax or a Frisbee-like Earth drifting through space, when held up to ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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  • The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged)

    Adventures in Math and Science

    de Hannah Fry, Adam Rutherford ...
    **"Multifaceted, surprising, and full of wonders…You really owe it to yourself to read it." —Tim Harford, author of How to Make the World Add UpThe complete story of the universe and absolutely everything in it (minus the boring parts).**Despite our clever linguistic abilities, humans are spectacularly ill-equipped to comprehend what’s happening in the universe. Our senses and intuition routinely ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Ways of Being

    Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

    de James Bridle ...
    Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle’s Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence—plant, animal, human, artificial—and how they transform our understanding of humans’ place in the cosmos.What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something unique to humans or shared with other beings— beings of flesh, wood, stone, and silicon? The last few ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • Journey of the Universe

    de Brian Thomas Swimme, Mary Evelyn Tucker ...
    The basis for the Emmy-winning film. "A wonderful, highly readable account of the history of the universe from the Big Bang through the present moment."—Thomas Lovejoy, University Professor in Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason UniversityThrough the astonishing combined achievements of natural scientists worldwide, we now have a detailed account of how galaxies and stars, planets and ... Leer más

    $11.59 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Human Cosmos

    Civilization and the Stars

    de Jo Marchant ...
    A Best Book of 2020 NPRA Best Book of 2020 The EconomistA Top Ten Best Science Book of 2020 SmithsonianA Best Science & Technology Book of 2020 Library JournalA Must-Read Book to Escape the Chaos of 2020 NewsweekStarred review BooklistStarred review Publishers WeeklyAn historically unprecedented disconnect between humanity and the heavens has opened. Jo Marchant... ... Leer más

    Antes $7.99 USD Ahora $4.99 USD

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  • The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy

    What Animals on Earth Reveal About Aliens--and Ourselves

    de Arik Kershenbaum ...
    From a noted Cambridge zoologist, a wildly fun and scientifically sound exploration of what alien life must be like, using universal laws that govern life on Earth and in space.Scientists are confident that life exists elsewhere in the universe. Yet rather than taking a realistic approach to what aliens might be like, we imagine that life on other planets is the stuff of science fiction. The time ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • What We Believe but Cannot Prove

    Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty

    de John Brockman ...
    Series Libro 3 - Edge Question Series

    $14.99 USD