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It's Not Free Speech. Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom, Hardback - Jennifer Ruth

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Publisher: Johns Hopkins University PressAuthor(s): Jennifer RuthNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 161 x 239 x 32Cover type: Ha...

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The Black President. Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama, Hardback - Claude A., III Clegg

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Combining lively prose with a balanced, nonpartisan portrait of Obama's successes and failures, The Black President will be required reading not on...

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The Year of Julius and Caesar: 59 BC and the Transformation of the Roman Republic, Paperback - Stefan G. Chrissanthos

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DescriptionThe year 59 BC--when Gaius Julius Caesar and Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus served as joint consuls--marked a major turning point in the hist...

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722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York, Paperback - Clifton Hood

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Reducere. When it first opened on October 27, 1904, the New York City subway ran twenty-two miles from City Hall to 145th Street and Lenox Avenue--the longes...

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Time Travel. A Writer's Guide to the Real Science of Plausible Time Travel, Paperback - Paul J. Nahin

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If you ever wanted to set up the latest and greatest grandfather paradox-or just wanted to know if the time-bending events in the latest pulp you r...

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The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century Ce to the Third, Paperback - Edward N. Luttwak

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At the height of its power, the Roman Empire encompassed the entire Mediterranean basin, extending much beyond it from Britain to Mesopotamia, from...

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Runaway College Costs. How College Governing Boards Fail to Protect Their Students, Hardback - Richard J. Cebula

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Frederick Law Olmsted: Plans and Views of Communities and Private Estates, Hardcover - Frederick Law Olmsted

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Master landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is renowned for his public parks, but few know the extent of his accomplishment in mee...

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A Gift of Time: Continuing Your Pregnancy When Your Baby's Life Is Expected to Be Brief, Paperback - Amy Kuebelbeck

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Reducere. A Gift of Time is a gentle and practical guide for parents who decide to continue their pregnancy knowing that their baby's life will be brief. Whe...

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Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: America's First Women in Space Program, Paperback - Margaret A. Weitekamp

233,99 RON 250,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionOn June 17, 1963, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space. Curiously, unlike every previous milestone in t...

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Big Data on Campus: Data Analytics and Decision Making in Higher Education, Hardcover - Karen L. Webber

242,99 RON

The continuing importance of data analytics is not lost on higher education leaders, who face a multitude of challenges, including increasing opera...

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Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation, Paperback - Moon-Ho Jung

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Reducere. How did thousands of Chinese migrants end up working alongside African Americans in Louisiana after the Civil War? With the stories of these worker...

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Neo-Nationalism and Universities: Populists, Autocrats, and the Future of Higher Education, Paperback - John Aubrey Douglass

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Universities have long been at the forefront of both national development and global integration. But the political and policy world in which they ...

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How NATO Adapts. Strategy and Organization in the Atlantic Alliance since 1950, Paperback - Seth A. Johnston

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Students, scholars, and policy practitioners will find this a useful resource for understanding NATO, transatlantic relations, and security in Euro...

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Great Mistake. How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them, Paperback - Christopher Newfield

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Reducere. A powerful, hopeful critique of the unnecessary death spiral of higher education, The Great Mistake is essential reading for those who wonder why s...

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Is It Alzheimer's?: 101 Answers to Your Most Pressing Questions about Memory Loss and Dementia, Hardcover - Peter V. Rabins

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Reducere. Perhaps someone in your family has been diagnosed with Alzheimer disease--or maybe you worry about developing memory loss yourself. In Is It Alzhei...

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Is It Alzheimer's?: 101 Answers to Your Most Pressing Questions about Memory Loss and Dementia, Paperback - Peter V. Rabins

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Reducere. Perhaps someone in your family has been diagnosed with Alzheimer disease--or maybe you worry about developing memory loss yourself. In Is It Alzhei...

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From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932. The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States, Paperback - ***

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Hounshell chronicles how painfully Ford learned this lesson and recounts how the successful mass production of automobiles led to the establishment...

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Competing with the Soviets: Science, Technology, and the State in Cold War America, Paperback - Audra J. Wolfe

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Reducere. For most of the second half of the twentieth century, the United States and its allies competed with a hostile Soviet Union in almost every way ima...

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Taking Nazi Technology: Allied Exploitation of German Science After the Second World War, Paperback - Douglas M. O'Reagan

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During the Second World War, German science and technology posed a terrifying threat to the Allied nations. These advanced weapons, which included ...

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The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America, Hardcover - Lawrence T. Brown

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Reducere. The world gasped in April 2015 as Baltimore erupted and Black Lives Matter activists, incensed by Freddie Gray's brutal death in police custody, sh...

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Teaching Change. How to Develop Independent Thinkers Using Relationships, Resilience, and Reflection, Hardback - Jose Antonio Bowen

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With an expansive and powerful argument, Teaching Change combines elegant and gripping explanations of recent and wide-ranging research from biolog...

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Apocalypse and Golden Age: The End of the World in Greek and Roman Thought, Hardcover - Christopher Star

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Reducere. How did the ancient Greeks and Romans envision the end of the world? What is the long-term future of the human race? Will the world always remain a...

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What Engineers Know and How They Know It: Analytical Studies from Aeronautical History, Paperback - Walter G. Vincenti

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Reducere. To solve their design problems, engineers draw on a vast body of knowledge about how things work. Examining previously unstudied historical cases, ...

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In Search of Sexual Health. Diagnosing and Treating Syphilis in Hot Springs, Arkansas, 1890-1940, Hardback - Elliott Bowen

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Providing a richer, more complex understanding of a critical chapter in the history of sexually transmitted diseases, In Search of Sexual Health wi...

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Women's Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation, Paperback (4th Ed.) - Mary R. Lefkowitz

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mary R. LefkowitzAuthor: Maureen B. FantNow in its fourth edition, this highly acclaimed sourcebook examines the public and...

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The New Nature of Maps: Essays in the History of Cartography, Paperback - J. B. Harley

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Reducere. In this collection of essays J. B. Harley (1932-1991) draws on ideas in art history, literature, philosophy, and the study of visual culture to sub...

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Preparing for a Better End: Expert Lessons on Death and Dying for You and Your Loved Ones, Hardcover - Dan Morhaim

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Reducere. While modern Americans strive to control nearly every aspect of their lives, many of us abandon control of life's final passage. But the realities ...

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Leonardo to the Internet: Technology & Culture from the Renaissance to the Present, Paperback - Thomas J. Misa

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Historian Thomas J. Misa's sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological in...

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Systematic Psychiatric Evaluation. A Step-by-Step Guide to Applying The Perspectives of Psychiatry, Paperback - Constantine G. Lyketsos

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Slavney, the originators of the Perspectives approach, this innovative book will be used in psychiatric training programs as well as by practicing ...

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Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation. Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe, Paperback - Alfred Stepan

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Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation contains the first systematic comparative analysis of the process of democratic consolidation i...

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All the Horrors of War: A Jewish Girl, a British Doctor, and the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen, Hardcover - Bernice Lerner

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Reducere. On April 15, 1945, Brigadier H. L. Glyn Hughes entered Bergen-Belsen for the first time. Waiting for him were 10, 000 unburied, putrefying corpses ...

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The Market in Birds. Commercial Hunting, Conservation, and the Origins of Wildlife Consumerism, 1850-1920, Hardback - ***

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Publisher: Johns Hopkins University PressAuthor(s): Andrea L. (Assistant Professor, Northern Illinois University) SmalleyIllustration(s): 19 Illust...

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Introduction to Abstract Algebra: From Rings, Numbers, Groups, and Fields to Polynomials and Galois Theory, Hardcover - Benjamin Fine

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DescriptionIntroduction to Abstract Algebra presents a breakthrough approach to teaching one of math's most intimidating concepts. Avoiding the pit...

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The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions Into Treatable Disorders, Paperback - Peter Conrad

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Contributor(s): Author: Peter ConradOver the past half-century, the social terrain of health and illness has been transformed. What were once consi...

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To Her Credit. Women, Finance, and the Law in Eighteenth-Century New England Cities, Hardback - Sara T. Damiano

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The first book to systematically reconstruct the centrality of women's labor to eighteenth-century personal credit relationships, To Her Credit wil...

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The Best War Ever: America and World War II, Paperback - Michael C. C. Adams

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Was World War II really such a "good war"? Popular memory insists that it was, in fact, "the best war ever." After all, we knew who the enemy was, ...

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Narrative as Virtual Reality 2. Revisiting Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media, Paperback - Marie-Laure Ryan

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Following the cognitive approaches that have rehabilitated immersion as the product of fundamental processes of world-construction and mental simul...

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Making Sense of Ibs: A Physician Answers Your Questions about Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Paperback - Brian E. Lacy

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IBS, which affects almost one in six Americans, is characterized by abdominal pain, bloating, gas, and diarrhea or constipation. Today more than ev...

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The Secret History of the Jersey Devil: How Quakers, Hucksters, and Benjamin Franklin Created a Monster, Paperback - Brian Regal

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DescriptionLegend has it that in 1735, a witch named Mother Leeds gave birth to a horrifying monster--a deformed flying horse with glowing red eyes...

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Before and After Loss: A Neurologist's Perspective on Loss, Grief, and Our Brain, Paperback - Lisa M. Shulman

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Reducere. DescriptionIn Before and After Loss, neurologist Dr. Lisa M. Shulman describes a personal story of loss and her journey to understand the science b...

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Behind the Mirror. The Story of a Pioneer in Autism Treatment and Her Work with Children on the Spectrum, Paperback - Sabine Oishi

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Demystifying the experience of autism, Behind the Mirror is a groundbreaking account of possibilities and hope.Illustrations: 10 Illustrations, bla...

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Global Struggles and Social Change: From Prehistory to World Revolution in the Twenty-First Century, Paperback - Christopher Chase-Dunn

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In the early decades of the twenty-first century, an international movement to slow the pace of climate change mushroomed across the globe. The sel...

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Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel's Autism: My Journey as a Vaccine Scientist, Pediatrician, and Autism Dad, Paperback - Peter J. Hotez

102,99 RON

In 1994, Peter J. Hotez's nineteen-month-old daughter, Rachel, was diagnosed with autism. Dr. Hotez, a pediatrician-scientist who develops vaccines...

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Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar. Chinese and Indian Migrants to the British West Indies, 1838-1918, Paperback - Walton Look Lai

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Exploring living and working conditions as well as the makeup of immigrant communities and their cultures, Look Lai offers a "dialectical pluralist...

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The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People Who Have Alzheimer Disease and Other Dementias, Paperback - Nancy L. Mace

151,99 RON

For 40 years, The 36-Hour Day has been the leading work in the field for caregivers of those with dementia. Written by experts with decades of expe...

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Crossing the American Health Care Chasm: Finding the Path to Bipartisan Collaboration in National Health Care Policy - Donald A. Barr

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For decades, Democratic and Republican political leaders have disagreed about the fundamental goals of American health policy. The modern-day conse...

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Caring for Children Who Have Severe Neurological Impairment: A Life with Grace, Paperback - Julie M. Hauer

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Global impairment of the central nervous system, whether stable or progressive, is often called severe neurological impairment (SNI). A child who h...

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Right Place, Right Time. The Ultimate Guide to Choosing a Home for the Second Half of Life, Paperback - Ryan (SmartLiving 360) Frederick

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Combining real-life stories about people selecting places to live with design thinking principles and interactive tools, Right Place, Right Time wi...

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The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People Who Have Alzheimer Disease and Other Dementias, Paperback - Nancy L. Mace

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Reducere. For 40 years, The 36-Hour Day has been the leading work in the field for caregivers of those with dementia. Written by experts with decades of expe...

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The Silent Shore. The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State, Hardback - Charles L., Jr. Chavis

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Complicating historical narratives associated with the history of lynching in the city of Salisbury, The Silent Shore explores the immediate and li...

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Thriving with Kidney Disease. A Practical Guide to Taking Care of Your Kidneys and Yourself, second edition, Paperback - Walter A. (PKD Foundation) Hu

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Publisher: Johns Hopkins University PressAuthor(s): Walter A. (PKD Foundation) HuntIllustration(s): 41 FiguresNumber of pages: 272Collection: A Joh...

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Tobacco Coast: A Maritime History of Chesapeake Bay in the Colonial Era, Paperback - Arthur Pierce Middleton

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Reducere. It is not surprising to anyone who knows the Bay country that the Chesapeake captured the imagination of Europeans in the 17th and 18th centuries, ...

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Streamliner: Raymond Loewy and Image-Making in the Age of American Industrial Design, Hardcover - John Wall

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Born in Paris in 1893 and trained as an engineer, Raymond Loewy revolutionized twentieth-century American industrial design. Combining salesmanship...

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Large Hadron Collider. The Extraordinary Story of the Higgs Boson and Other Stuff That Will Blow Your Mind, Hardback - Donald Lincoln

180,99 RON

As accessible as it is fascinating, The Large Hadron Collider reveals the inner workings of this masterful achievement of technology, along with th...

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Take Control of Your Drinking: A Practical Guide to Alcohol Moderation, Sobriety, and When to Get Professional Help - Michael S. Levy

104,99 RON 112,99 RON

Reducere. For decades, the standard treatment for people struggling with alcohol consumption has focused on convincing them to admit that they are an alcohol...

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What's Public about Public Higher Ed?: Halting Higher Education's Decline in the Court of Public Opinion, Hardcover - Stephen M. Gavazzi

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Reducere. Exploring the current state of relationships between public universities, government leaders, and the citizens who elect them, this book offers ins...

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The Large Hadron Collider: The Extraordinary Story of the Higgs Boson and Other Stuff That Will Blow Your Mind, Paperback - Don Lincoln

181,99 RON 194,99 RON

Reducere. Since 2008 scientists have conducted experiments in a hyperenergized, 17-mile supercollider beneath the border of France and Switzerland. The Large...

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The Rebel Caf : Sex, Race, and Politics in Cold War America's Nightclub Underground, Hardcover - Stephen R. Duncan

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DescriptionThe art and antics of rebellious figures in 1950s American nightlife--from the Beat Generation to eccentric jazz musicians and comedians...

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From Enforcers to Guardians: A Public Health Primer on Ending Police Violence, Hardcover - Hannah L. F. Cooper

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Excessive police violence and its disproportionate targeting of minority communities has existed in the United States since police forces first for...

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Searching for Health: The Smart Way to Find Information Online and Put It to Use, Paperback - Kapil Parakh

123,99 RON

We've all been there. Late at night, staring into the glow of a phone trying to make sense of some health-related issue that we know nothing about....

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Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation: Granville T. Woods, Lewis H. Latimer, and Shelby J. Davidson, Paperback - Rayvon Fouche

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Reducere. According to the stereotype, late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century inventors, quintessential loners and supposed geniuses, worked in splendid...

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Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as If It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Socie, Paperback - Steven

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Steven Shapin argues that science, for all its immense authority and power, is and always has been a human endeavor, subject to human capacities an...

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Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Collection of Ancient Texts, Paperback - Georg Luck

166,99 RON

Magic, miracles, daemonology, divination, astrology, and alchemy were the arcana mundi, the "secrets of the universe, " of the ancient Greeks and R...

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