Dominant Character. The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J.B.S. Haldane, Hardback - Samanth Subramanian

The bold and brilliant biography of maverick British scientist J.B.S. Haldane, one of the twentieth-century's greatest thinkers, by an award-wining...

The bold and brilliant biography of maverick British scientist J.B.S. Haldane, one of the twentieth-century's greatest thinkers, by an award-winnin...

Reducere. J. B. S. Haldane's life was rich and strange, never short on genius or drama--from his boyhood apprenticeship to his scientist father, who first in...

How to Feel explores the scientific, physical, emotional, and cultural aspects of touch, reconnecting us to what is arguably our most important sen...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2015SHORTLISTED FOR RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2016The vivid and haunting story of Sri Lanka and its brutal thirty...

A billion-year history of movement, from bacteria to Olympic athletes.

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This book challenges the conceptual and practical effectiveness of resistance to achieve social and political change, and considers an alternative ...

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Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor S. Pearl BrilmyerIllustration(s): 5 halftonesNumber of pages: 296Collection: Thinkin...

By shedding light on the ideas and practices of the Chinese Youth Party, Nagatomi Hirayama offers an indispensable lens through which to view the f...

From one of the most prominent voices on the American left, a galvanizing argument for why we need socialism today.

Qutb's active opposition to the secular policies of Egyptian President Nasser led to his imprisonment from 1954 to 1964, during which his writings ...

Kevin Munger marshals novel data and survey evidence to argue that generational conflict will define the politics of the next decade. He shows that...

The book critically questions the assumption that making science more open and public could solve various issues around scientific credibility, tru...

A revolutionary new understanding of identity, showing how our group affiliations have a powerful influence on our feelings, beliefs, and behaviour...

Radical. Crazy. Transformative and restless. Every word we read these days seems to suggest there's a "next-best-thing, " if only we would change o...

Reducere. Carry this book in your back pocket. Let it become your faithful friend that nudges you, at every point in your journey, to unlock your potential.N...

Publisher: Rutgers University PressAuthor(s): Prisca S. NgondoNumber of pages: 260Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 240 x 25Cover type: Hardb...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Dominic D. P. JohnsonIllustration(s): 13 b/w illus. 8 tables.Number of pages: 392Publication date: ...

Publisher: PM PressNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 16Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Kirk HellikerRede...

An exploration of how an official French visual culture normalized France's colonial project and exposed citizens and subjects to racialized ideas ...

We are told that we live in a post ideological era; that we have moved 'beyond Left and Right'; and that we are 'all in it together'. Democracy has...

Reducere. DescriptionOne of the major accomplishments of the Occupy movement has been to draw global attention to the massive disparity of income, wealth, an...

Publisher: Spokesman BooksAuthor(s): Ruth DerhamNumber of pages: 210Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 232 x 17Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

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This book reads Oscar Wilde's literary texts in relation to his open support for revolutionaries, along with his expressions of solidarity with Iri...

Reducere. Long out of print and impossible to find, The Science of Character was for many years Ludwig Klages' only book translated into English. A tour de f...

Provides guidance to the practical aspects of free radical chain reactions. This book presents synthetic schemes as well as a selection of develope...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Sigrid SchmalzerEditor: Daniel S. ChardEditor: Alyssa BotelhoFor the first time, this book compiles original documents from...

Reducere. In the late 1960s, the American city found itself in steep decline. An urban crisis fueled by federal policy wreaked destruction and displacement o...

Reducere. NATIONAL BESTSELLERONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARWho are the immensely wealthy right-wing ideologues shaping the fate of Ameri...

This volume shows not only how authenticity came to define a variety of social contexts, but also how it helped to lay the groundwork for the neoli...

Women and ETA is the first book-length study of women in radical Basque nationalism. It uses a unique body of oral history interviews to examine th...

The book redefines the Smart Grid and elaborates on technologies that can transform the utility transformation, such as distribution automation, en...

Publisher: SkiraIllustration(s): 360 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 274Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 222 x 284 x 41Cover type: HardbackEd...

Reducere. Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz exposes and challenges the common assumptions about whom and what Jews are, by presenting in their own voices, Jews of colo...

Reducere. This is a demanding book-but our times are demanding. It is an honest book-and our times demand truth. -Matthew Fox, American priest, theologian, a...

Publisher: Haldane Mason LtdAuthor(s): Richard PlattIllustration(s): 53 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 32Collection: Discovering HistoryPubli...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor S. Pearl BrilmyerIllustration(s): 5 halftonesNumber of pages: 304Collection: Thinkin...

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An examination of the part played by violent non-state actors in Middle Eastern and North African current affairs. Individual chapters on the Islam...