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The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America, Paperback - Allan Brandt

222,99 RON 238,99 RON

Reducere. From agriculture to big business, from medicine to politics, The Cigarette Century is the definitive account of how smoking came to be so deeply im...

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Meathooked: The History and Science of Our 2.5-Million-Year Obsession with Meat, Hardcover - Marta Zaraska

113,99 RON

One of the great science and health revelations of our time is the danger posed by meat-eating. Every day, it seems, we are warned about the harm p...

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Descartes' Baby: How the Science of Child Development Explains What Makes Us Human, Paperback - Paul Bloom

168,99 RON 180,99 RON

Reducere. All humans see the world in two fundamentally different ways: even babies have a rich understanding of both the physical and social worlds. They ex...

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Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about Women and Men, Revised Edition, Paperback - Anne Fausto-Sterling

199,99 RON 213,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionBy carefully examining the biological, genetic, evolutionary, and psychological evidence, a noted biologist finds a shocking lack of sub...

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Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law, Paperback - Peter Woit

194,99 RON 208,99 RON

Reducere. When does physics depart the realm of testable hypothesis and come to resemble theology? Peter Woit argues that string theory isn't just going in t...

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Men and Women of the Corporation: New Edition, Paperback - Rosabeth Moss Kanter

215,99 RON 231,99 RON

Reducere. In this landmark work on corporate power, especially as it relates to women, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the distinguished Harvard management thinker and...

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Is Data Human?: Or, the Metaphysics of Star Trek, Paperback - Richard Hanley

99,99 RON 106,99 RON

Reducere. Professor Richard Hanley faced the dilemma plaguing so many philosophy professors today--how to entice students into the classroom. Based upon his ...

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A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down - Robert B. Laughlin

170,99 RON 182,99 RON

Reducere. In this age of superstring theories and Big Bang cosmology, we're used to thinking of the unknown as impossibly distant from our everyday lives. Bu...

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Memoirs: A Twentieth Century Journey in Science and Politics, Paperback - Edward Teller

176,99 RON 189,99 RON

Reducere. Edward Teller is perhaps best known for his belief in freedom through strong defense. But this extraordinary memoir at last reveals the man behind ...

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Distracted: Why Students Can't Focus and What You Can Do about It, Hardcover - James M. Lang

205,99 RON

Keeping students focused can be difficult in a world filled with distractions -- which is why a renowned educator created a scientific solution to ...

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Assimilation Blues: Black Families in White Communities, Who Succeeds and Why, Paperback - Beverly Daniel Tatum

87,99 RON 94,99 RON

Reducere. What does it mean to be Black in a white, middle-class community? Is it the ultimate symbol of success? Or will one pay in isolation, alienation, r...

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The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect, Paperback - Judea Pearl

101,99 RON 109,99 RON

Reducere. How the study of causality revolutionized science and the worldCause and effect: it's at the center of scientific inquiry, and yet for decades scie...

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Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland, Paperback - Jonathan M. Metzl

94,99 RON

A physician's "remarkable" account of how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences (Minneapolis Star Tribune) -- even for the white vo...

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The Dawn of Universal History: Selected Essays from a Witness to the Twentieth Century, Paperback - Raymond Aron

142,99 RON 152,99 RON

Reducere. In this collection of newly translated essays, philosopher and sociologist Raymond Aron chronicles the twentieth century with the authority of an a...

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Venus Revealed: A New Look Below the Clouds of Our Mysterious Twin Planet, Paperback - David Grinspoon

133,99 RON 143,99 RON

Reducere. Until very recently, all we really knew about Venus, our nearest planetary neighbor, was that it was roughly the same size and mass as the earth an...

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Photographic Memory: Basic and Advanced Memory Techniques to Improve Your Memory - Mnemonic Techniques and Strategies to Enhance Memorizati - Edoardo

99,99 RON 106,99 RON

Reducere. You grab a basket and walk through the sliding glass doors of the grocery store. As you enter, you realize that you can't remember what you came to...

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The Four Books. The Basic Teachings of the Later Confucian Tradition, Paperback - Daniel K. Gardner

101,99 RON

Shows how the Four Books - "The Greater Learning", "The Analects", "The Mencius", and "The Doctrine of the Mean" - have been read and understood by...

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Life as We Made It: How 50, 000 Years of Human Innovation Refined--And Redefined--Nature, Hardcover - Beth Shapiro

161,99 RON 173,99 RON

Reducere. From the first dog to the first beefalo, from farming to CRISPR, the human history of remaking nature When the 2020 Nobel Prize was awarded to the ...

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Blood Diamonds, Revised Edition: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious Stones, Paperback - Greg Campbell

108,99 RON 116,99 RON

Reducere. First discovered in 1930, the diamonds of Sierra Leone have funded one of the most savage rebel campaigns in modern history. These "blood diamonds"...

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The Third Reconstruction. America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century, Hardback - Peniel E Joseph

119,99 RON

One of our preeminent historians of race and democracy argues that the period since 2008 has marked nothing less than America's Third Reconstructio...

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A Brave and Cunning Prince. The Great Chief Opechancanough and the War for America, Hardback - James Horn

154,99 RON

The extraordinary story of a young Indian boy who was kidnapped from coastal Virginia and assimilated into to European culture-before returning to ...

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Easy & Engaging ESL Activities and Mini-Books for Every Classroom: Teaching Tips, Games, and Mini-Books for Building Basic English Vocabulary!, Paperb

62,99 RON 67,99 RON

Reducere. Not sure how to teach a student who speaks only a little English or none at all? This quick and easy guide can help with tips for preparing for you...

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Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to the Present, Paperback - Brendan Simms

149,99 RON 160,99 RON

Reducere. If there is a fundamental truth of geopolitics, it is this: whoever controls the core of Europe controls the entire continent, and whoever controls...

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The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe, Paperback - Russell Jacoby

114,99 RON 123,99 RON

Reducere. This provocative book chronicles the disappearance of the public intellectual in America. For over thirty years, the cultural landscape has been do...

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More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave, Paperback - Ruth Schwartz Cowan

189,99 RON 203,99 RON

Reducere. In this classic work of women's history (winner of the 1984 Dexter Prize from the Society for the History of Technology), Ruth Schwartz Cowan shows...

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The League: How Five Rivals Created the NFL and Launched a Sports Empire, Paperback - John Eisenberg

102,99 RON 110,99 RON

Reducere. The epic tale of the five owners who shepherded the NFL through its tumultuous early decades and built the most popular sport in AmericaThe Nationa...

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Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet, Paperback - John Bradshaw

97,99 RON 104,99 RON

Reducere. Cats have been popular household pets for thousands of years, and their numbers only continue to rise. Today there are three cats for every dog on ...

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The Truth about Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife, Hardcover - Lucy Cooke

151,99 RON 162,99 RON

Reducere. Mary Roach meets Bill Bryson in this "surefire summer winner" (Janet Maslin, New York Times), an uproarious tour of the basest instincts and bigges...

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The Nature of Prejudice: 25th Anniversary Edition, Paperback - Gordon W. Allport

143,99 RON 154,99 RON

Reducere. With profound insight into the complexities of the human experience, Harvard psychologist Gordon Allport organized a mass of research to produce a ...

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The Essential Difference: Male and Female Brains and the Truth about Autism, Paperback - Simon Baron-Cohen

139,99 RON 149,99 RON

Reducere. We all know the opposite sex can be a baffling, even infuriating, species. Why do most men use the phone to exchange information rather than have a...

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$The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved and Why Numbers Are Like Gossip, Paperback - Keith Devlin imagine$

The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved and Why Numbers Are Like Gossip, Paperback - Keith Devlin

197,99 RON 211,99 RON

Reducere. Why is math so hard? And why, despite this difficulty, are some people so good at it? If there's some inborn capacity for mathematical thinking--wh...

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The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry, Paperback - Henri F. Ellenberger

533,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Henri F. EllenbergerThis classic work is a monumental, integrated view of man's search for an understanding of the inner re...

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The Calculus Wars: Newton, Leibniz, and the Greatest Mathematical Clash of All Time, Paperback - Jason Socrates Bardi

147,99 RON 158,99 RON

Reducere. Now regarded as the bane of many college students' existence, calculus was one of the most important mathematical innovations of the seventeenth ce...

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The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War, Paperback - Don H. Doyle

185,99 RON 199,99 RON

Reducere. When Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863, he had broader aims than simply rallying a war-weary nation. Lincoln realized that t...

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Islam and Democracy: Fear of the Modern World with New Introduction, Paperback - Fatima Mernissi

172,99 RON 185,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIs Islam compatible with democracy? Must fundamentalism win out in the Middle East, or will democracy ever be possible? In this now-clas...

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The Anatomy of Courage: The Classic WWI Account of the Psychological Effects of War, Paperback - Lord Moran

144,99 RON 155,99 RON

Reducere. Fear, and man's attempt to master it, is of eternal interest and just as significant today as when Moran, as a young medical officer, went to the t...

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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism, Paperback - Edward E. Baptist

107,99 RON

Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution--the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's la...

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The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States, Paperback - Alexander Keyssar

204,99 RON 219,99 RON

Reducere. Originally published in 2000, The Right to Vote was widely hailed as a magisterial account of the evolution of suffrage from the American Revolutio...

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Adam Spencer's Book of Numbers: A Bizarre and Hilarious Journey from 1 to 100, Paperback - Adam Spencer

88,99 RON 95,99 RON

Reducere. How many people do you need in a room before there'll be a birthday in common? Why is 70 weird, and what can we do about it? How can 56 people eat ...

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The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives, Paperback (2nd Ed.) - Zbigniew Brzezinski

125,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Zbigniew BrzezinskiBestselling author and eminent foreign policy scholar Zbigniew Brzezinski's classic book on American's s...

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Women Who Hurt Themselves: A Book of Hope and Understanding, Paperback - Dusty Miller

147,99 RON 158,99 RON

Reducere. Many books have described victims of rape and battering, but scant attention has been paid to another form of harm increasingly common among women....

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Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine, Paperback - Don Norman

106,99 RON 115,99 RON

Reducere. In Things That Make Us Smart, Donald A. Norman explores the complex interaction between human thought and the technology it creates, arguing for th...

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Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World, Paperback - Annie Lowrey

81,99 RON

DescriptionA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceShortlisted for the 2018 FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award A brilliantly reporte...

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The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of the Earth's Antiquity, Paperback - Jack Repcheck

145,99 RON 156,99 RON

Reducere. There are three men whose life's work helped free science from the strait-jacket of religion. Two of the three--Nicolaus Copernicus and Charles Dar...

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Freedom: Volume I: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture, Paperback - Orlando Patterson

213,99 RON 228,99 RON

Reducere. National Book AwardsThis magisterial work traces the history of our most cherished value. Patterson links the birth of freedom in primitive societi...

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The Last Giant of Beringia: The Mystery of the Bering Land Bridge, Paperback - Dan O'Neill

137,99 RON 147,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe intriguing theory of a land bridge linking Siberia and Alaska during the coldest pulsations of the Ice Ages had been much debated si...

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Oil Pastel for the Serious Beginner: Basic Lessons in Becoming a Good Painter, Hardcover - John Elliot

300,99 RON 322,99 RON

Reducere. If you are aspiring to the rank of professional oil pastel artist, look no further. Long neglected in the professional art world, oil pastels offer...

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Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect That Shaped the American Frontier, Paperback - Jeffrey A. Lockwood

136,99 RON

In 1876, the U.S. Congress declared the locust "the single greatest impediment to the settlement of the country between Mississippi and the Rocky M...

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Cain's Legacy: Liberating Siblings from a Lifetime of Rage, Shame, Secrecy, and Regret, Hardcover - Jeanne Safer

295,99 RON 316,99 RON

Reducere. Bonds between brothers and sisters are among the longest lasting and most emotionally significant of human relationships. But while 45 percent of a...

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Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts, Paperback - Terry Burnham

193,99 RON

Why do we want--and why do we do--so many things that are bad for us? And how can we stop? In Mean Genes economist Terry Burnham and biologist Jay ...

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Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses, Paperback - Sarah Gristwood

102,99 RON

" A] gem of a book... enlivened by incisive analysis, exquisite detail and an elegant and witty style." --Alison WeirThe Wars of the Roses, which t...

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South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War, Hardcover - Alice L. Baumgartner

172,99 RON 185,99 RON

Reducere. A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico. The Undergrou...

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The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code, Hardcover - Michael E. McCullough

161,99 RON 173,99 RON

Reducere. "A fine achievement."--Peter Singer, author of The Life You Can Save and The Most Good You Can DoA sweeping psychological history of human goodness...

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A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement, Hardcover - Ernest Freeberg

157,99 RON

From an award-winning historian, the outlandish story of the man who gave rights to animals.In Gilded Age America, people and animals lived cheek-b...

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Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the English Country House After World War II, Hardcover - Adrian Tinniswood

175,99 RON 188,99 RON

Reducere. A rollicking tour of the English country home after World War II, when swinging London collided with aristocratic valuesAs the sun set slowly on th...

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Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions, Paperback - Susan R. Barry

135,99 RON

A revelatory account of the brain's capacity for change When neuroscientist Susan Barry was fifty years old, she experienced the sense of immersion...

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Journey of the Adopted Self: A Quest for Wholeness, Paperback - Betty Jean Lifton

103,99 RON 111,99 RON

Reducere. Betty Jean Lifton, whose Lost and Found has become a bible to adoptees and to those who would understand the adoption experience, explores further ...

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The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality, Paperback - Bhaskar Sunkara

93,99 RON 100,99 RON

Reducere. A "razor-sharp" introduction to this political and economic ideology makes a galvanizing argument for modern socialism (Naomi Klein) -- and explain...

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The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States, Paperback - Walter Johnson

110,99 RON 118,99 RON

Reducere. A searing and "magisterial" (Cornel West) history of American racial exploitation and resistance, told through the turbulent past of the city of St...

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The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., Paperback - Peniel E. Joseph

101,99 RON 109,99 RON

Reducere. This "landmark" (Ibram X. Kendi) dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King transforms our understanding of the twentieth century's most ic...

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Your Life Depends on It: What You Can Do to Make Better Choices about Your Health, Hardcover - Talya Miron-Shatz

125,99 RON

"With a fine combination of humor, compassion and vast knowledge, Talya Miron-Shatz offers clear and useful guidance for the hardest decisions of l...

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No Man's Land: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain's Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I - Wendy Moore

101,99 RON 109,99 RON

Reducere. The "absorbing and powerful" (Wall Street Journal) story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who shattered social expectations and transformed mo...

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Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD, Paperback - Lou Cannon

196,99 RON 210,99 RON

Reducere. In the Spring of 1992 five days of rioting laid waste to South Central Los Angeles, took scores of lives, cost the city more than 900 million in pr...

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Army of Empire: The Untold Story of the Indian Army in World War I, Hardcover - George Morton-Jack

219,99 RON 235,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionDrawing on untapped new sources, the first global history of the Indian Expeditionary Forces in World War IWhile their story is almost a...

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The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self, Paperback - Thomas Metzinger

135,99 RON

We're used to thinking about the self as an independent entity, something that we either have or are. In The Ego Tunnel, philosopher Thomas Metzing...

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The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe, Paperback - Stephon Alexander

87,99 RON 94,99 RON

Reducere. More than fifty years ago, John Coltrane drew the twelve musical notes in a circle and connected them by straight lines, forming a five-pointed sta...

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Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre: Basic Writings of Existentialism by Kaufmann, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Jaspers, Heidegger, and Others, Paperb

125,99 RON

This volume provides basic writings of Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Rilke, Kafka, Ortega, Jaspers, Heidegger, Sartre, and Camus, including s...

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The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work, Paperback - W. Daniel Hillis

140,99 RON 150,99 RON

Reducere. Most people are baffled by how computers work and assume that they will never understand them. What they don't realize--and what Daniel Hillis's sh...

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Basic and Applied Research: The Language of Science Policy in the Twentieth Century, Hardcover - David Kaldewey

655,99 RON

Contributor(s): Editor: David KaldeweyEditor: D. Schauz The distinction between basic and applied research was central to twentieth-century science...

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A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke, Paperback - James Horn

96,99 RON 103,99 RON

Reducere. In 1587, John White led 117 English men, women, and children to Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina. They hoped to establish a British ...

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