On Human Nature, Hardcover

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Anecdotes of Enlightenment is the first literary history of the anecdote in English. In this wide-ranging account, James Robert Wood explores the a...

What do you think of when you think of Nature? Prolific author and National Geographic writer Doug Chadwick's fresh look at human's place in the na...

The Man Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln In The Bardo returns with a darkly comic fable novella on greed and human nature, as a fox begins in...

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A groundbreaking examination of the implications of synthetic biology for biodiversity conservation Nature almost everywhere survives on human term...

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A provocative and probing argument showing how human beings can for the first time in history take charge of their moral fate.Is tribalism--the pol...

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming how we work right now. Are you ready?In the past, robots were typically large pieces of machinery, sec...

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A leading neuroscientist offers a history of the evolution of the brain from unicellular organisms to the complexity of animals and human beings to...

Reducere. "ALL LIFE IS YOGA." Sri Aurobindo was an Indian philosopher, yogi, guru, poet. He developed a spiritual practice he called Integral Yoga. In this m...

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A tour of clocks throughout the centuries--from the sandglass to the telomere--to reveal the physical, biological, and social nature of time What i...

"The contents of this volume have arisen from my own spiritual experience, and do not represent any kind of hypothesis or speculation, except where...

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A charming picture book with gifted illustrations and profound thoughts depicting the relationship among nature, human and animals. It is a story a...

Reason and Politics explores the central phenomena of political life and, therefore, of human affairs in general.Amidst the seemingly endless books...

The book begins with familiar designs found all around and inside us (such as the 'trees' of river basins, human lungs, blood and city traffic). It...

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Many consider the nature of human consciousness to be one of the last great unsolved mysteries. Why should the light turn on, so to speak, in human...

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Here at last is a coherent, unintimidating introduction to the challenging and fascinating landscape of Western philosophy. Written expressly for "...

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This book brings together the latest research in education in relation to science and religion. Leading international scholars and practitioners pr...

DescriptionA world without plants is a world without life, both literally and figuratively. Besides forming the very basis of human survival on Ear...

Who am I? What's my purpose in life? How should I live? This book invites you to explore your identity through your callings, to imagine living vir...

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Matter and Memory: An Essay on the Relation of Body and Spirit, is a complex exploration of human nature and the spirituality of memory. In this wo...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now...

A wonderful and inspiring collection of eloquent prose, beautiful poetry and ancestral wisdom from Chiefs, Medicine Men and ordinary members of man...

"ALL LIFE IS YOGA." Sri Aurobindo was an Indian philosopher, yogi, guru, poet. He developed a spiritual practice he called Integral Yoga. In this m...

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Reducere. The follow-up to Pinker's groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: people are living longer, heal...

DescriptionThe author of A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived investigates what it means to be human--and the ways we are (and aren't) unique...

A profound meditation on the human need for connection with nature, as one man seeks solace beneath the bows of an ancient oak tree.--Peter Wohlleb...

This book exposes Unit 731 as being the largest bacterial warfare force in the history of the Second World War. Manufacture and the use of biologic...

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From the lifelong devotion of the American crow to the dalliances of the eastern bluebird, from the bald eagle's dazzling aerial display to the mal...

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Reducere. Beyond the Halls is a book that speaks to museum lovers (and haters) who are looking to discover, for the first time, the history of museums and th...

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An informative and compelling book for ages 12 to 15 about both the science and human sides of natural disasters, full of hands-on investigative ac...

DescriptionReligion and the Philosophy of Life considers how religion as the source of civilization transforms the fundamental bio-sociology of hum...

DescriptionThe Fate of Empires asks why many civilizations throughout human history have risen to greatness but later collapse into ruin. Can there...

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A breakthrough in human cloning becomes one woman's waking nightmare in a mind-bending thriller by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of th...

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