Evolution: The History of an Idea, Paperback

Reza Aslan explores the developing idea of an active, engaged, divine presence across human evolution in this wide-ranging and provocative assumpti...

Reducere. The idea of evolution is the most life-changing concept to have emerged in modern times, but most people know of it only in fragments. The evolutio...

This book presents the history of the automobile and its evolution. The 19th century is marked by unparalleled advances in science and its applicat...

Description"Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" was Haeckel's answer--the wrong one--to the most vexing question of nineteenth-century biology: what ...

Reducere. The Road from Orion is a story of magical realism, fictional characters and historical facts, based on an authentic study of signs in ancient Egypt...

Reducere. World History of Warfare is designed as a textbook for introductory college courses in military history. The text covers worldwide military history...

Reducere. Say's Law--the idea that supply creates its own demand--has been a basic concept in economics for almost two centuries. Thomas Sowell traces its ev...

Reducere. You are holding the only comprehensive history of the early days of the sport of skydiving yet published. It is the story of not just one skydiver ...

Reducere. Transhumanism is a recent movement that extols man's right to shape his own evolution, by maximizing the use of scientific technologies, to enhance...

Descriptionpraise for FISCHER BLACK AND THE REVOLUTIONARY IDEA OF FINANCE "The story of Fischer Black. . . . is remarkable both because of the crea...

Reducere. Twenty-five hundred years ago, Pythagoras taught that the simple counting numbers are the basic building blocks of reality. A century and a half la...

After half a century exploring dialectical thought, renowned cultural critic Fredric Jameson presents a comprehensive study of a misunderstood yet ...

Reducere. New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus's divinity became dogma in the first few centuries of the early ch...

Reducere. Why do men's testicles hang outside the body? Why does our appendix sometimes explode and kill us? And who does the Designer like better, anyway--u...

Why did Donald Trump follow Barack Obama into the White House? Why is America so polarized? And how does American exceptionalism explain these soci...