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Synthesizes a wealth of new archaeological data to illuminate the origins of Maya civilization and the rise of Classic Maya culture. Prominent Maya...

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This enthralling book alerts us to nothing less than the existence of new varieties of life. Some of these species can move and eat, see, reproduce...

Aimed at graduate students, this textbook examines the importance of data analysis to understanding biological, physical, and chemical systems, and...

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How forty years of research on thirty neurons in the stomach of a lobster has yielded valuable insights for the study of the human brain.Neuroscien...

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The Little Book of Fishing brings quotes, thoughts and theories on this captivating pastime together in an collection of witticisms and observation...

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A groundbreaking exploration of the parental brain that untangles insidious myths from complicated realities, MOTHER BRAIN explodes the concept of ...

In For the Love of Physics, beloved MIT professor Walter Lewin, whose riveting physics lectures made him a YouTube super-star, takes readers on a r...

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Reducere. For millennia, philosophers have spun tales about goodness and badness, yet in matters of ethics, agreement is curiously hard to find. Finding Our ...

Reducere. This book provides a vivid account of the early history of molecular simulation, a new frontier for our understanding of matter that was opened whe...

A distillation of the life lessons learned by one woman through the ancient art of the Japanese tea ceremony.

Animal behavior expert Daniel T. Blumstein delves into the evolutionary origins and diverse ecological contexts of fear. Fear protects organisms fr...

The perfect guide to mastering your motivations.Publisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s): Ayelet FishbachNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensi...

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The art of composing spontaneous songs that express spiritual understanding has existed in Tibet for centuries. Over a hundred of these profound so...

Publisher: New Island BooksNumber of pages: 344Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 224 x 277 x 35Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): James Conor Patterson...

An enlightening, entertaining and bitesize book about how Ancient Athenian democracy relates to the most urgent political issues of our day, for fa...

Japan, which is among the most earthquake-prone regions in the world, has a long history of responding to seismic disasters. However, despite advan...

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Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Nicoleta (Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology) SerbanIllustration(s): 47 b&w illus., 15 tables;...

The first comprehensive philosophical and historical account of the experimental foundations of Niels Bohr's practice of physics.Publisher: The Uni...