Switched on Pop: How Popular Music Works, and Why It Matters, Hardcover - Nate Sloan

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Despite its reputation as a language only of spies and hackers, cryptography plays a critical role in our everyday lives. Though often invisible, i...

Reducere. When was the last time you listened to someone, or someone really listened to you?"If you're like most people, you don't listen as often or as well...

Donald R. Prothero's Evolution is an entertaining and rigorous history of the transitional forms and series found in the fossil record. Its engagin...

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Reducere. Leading neuroscientist Gordon M. Shepherd embarks on a paradigm-shifting trip through the "human brain flavor system, " laying the foundations for ...

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In July 2011, Rebecca Prince-Ruiz challenged herself to go plastic free for the whole month. Starting with a small group of people in the city of P...

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Reducere. After two decades of reinvention, Japanese companies are re-emerging as major players in the new digital economy. They have responded to the rise o...

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Despite its reputation as a language only of spies and hackers, cryptography plays a critical role in our everyday lives. Though often invisible, i...

Reducere. Free speech is the bedrock of all our liberties, and yet in recent years it has come to be mistrusted. A new form of social justice activism, which...

Paperback edition of the thought-provoking meditation on the nature of work and craftmanship, and why it matters that we value the process of makin...

Reducere. This ground-breaking resource challenges and equips Christians to think and act biblically and compassionately in matters of sexuality. Sexual abus...

Based on Stanford University psychologist Kelly McGonigal's wildly popular course "The Science of Willpower, " The Willpower Instinct is the first ...

Discover the landmark new big idea that is revolutionising our understanding of human interaction

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The life, thought and enduring importance of economist Adam Smith is taken stock of in this biography from the MP and author of biography }Edmund B...

"We conceive of the individual animal as a small world, existing for its own sake, by its own means. Every creature is its own reason to be. All it...

Song of the Earth is a gripping and lovingly poetic biography of Earth. The book includes narrative sections about the lives of pioneering geologis...

You're Not Listening is New York Times contributor Kate Murphy's eye-opening wake-up call about the worldwide epidemic of not listening. If you're ...

You can shop anywhere you like - as long as it's Tesco. The inexorable rise of supermarkets is big news, but have we really taken on board what thi...

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Contributor(s): Author: Susan WolfCommentaries by: John KoetheCommentaries by: Robert M. AdamsMost people, including philosophers, tend to classify...

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In this incisive and fascinating book, Andrew Doyle addresses head-on the most common concerns of free speech sceptics, and offers a timely and rob...

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A powerful and profound study of the news - how we read it, who controls it and why it matters - from former Guardian Editor-in-Chief Alan Rusbridger

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Publisher: John Wiley & Sons IncAuthor(s): H WolkNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 160 x 235 x 23Cover type: HardbackRedescoper...

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