The Age of Uncertainty. how the greatest minds in physics changed the way we see the world, Hardback - Tobias Hurter

Publisher: Scribe PublicationsAuthor(s): Tobias HurterTranslator: David ShawNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 243 x 33Cov...

A fascinating investigation into what defines 'heavy' in music and how heaviness transfuses culture.Illustrations: 16pp. plate section

Explores the interaction between perception and experience by studying perceptual experts, people who specialize in recognizing objects such as bir...

"Sherlock Holmes could glance at a bowler hat and tell that its owner's wife had ceased to love him. In this brilliant book about metaphor James Ge...

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Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Linda Trinkaus ZagzebskiIllustration(s): 11 b/w illus.Number of pages: 280Collection: Soochow Unive...

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Sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch-as they were celebrated during the Enlightenment and as they are perceived today.Publisher: WW Norton & CoAu...

Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Gideon RachmanNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 167 x 241 x 32Cover type: HardbackRedes...

How have our emotions shaped the course of human history? And how have our experience and understanding of emotions evolved with us?Publisher: Harp...

Reducere. In Saving Sight, Dr. Andrew Lam explains the intricacies of human sight and shines a light on the heroes who fought to save it, while also revealin...

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A popular history of the Arab invasions that carved out an empire from Spain to China

Discover how we can all work to end one of the most corrosive issues of our time: unconscious bias.Publisher: Granta BooksAuthor(s): Jessica Nordel...

DescriptionUnveils the spiritual meaning that fueled the artistic, political, and social revolutions of the 1960s - Investigates the spiritual prin...

The first comprehensive guide to Elizabethan ideas about the mindPublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Helen HackettIllustration(s): 23 b-w il...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Way We Work is full of practical advice and information for understanding how our natural, inborn learning strengths can make a worl...

Reducere. Newly discovered scientific proof validating the legends and myths of ancient floods, fires, and weather extremes - Presents new scientific evidenc...

Each of the women in this series stepped out of the bounds of physical and social expectations to pursue her personal vision through photography. S...

Publisher: Prometheus BooksAuthor(s): Jeff PearceIllustration(s): 24 Illustrations including: - 21 Black and White Illustrations; - 3 Maps.Number o...

Reducere. A sweeping exploration of the ways in which emotions shaped the course of human history, and how our experience and understanding of emotions have ...

Reducere. After her beloved dad got addicted to right-wing talk radio and Fox News, Jen Senko feared he would never be the same again...Frank Senko had alway...

A timely exploration of the twelve best qualities of the wartime generation - and how we can use these to improve our individual character and coll...

Terry Eagleton looks back across sixty years to an extraordinary critical milieu that transformed the study of literaturePublisher: Yale University...

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In a time when companies are outsourcing abroad, Habitat International, a Tennessee-based carpet manufacturer, has managed to achieve superior leve...

In this fascinating book, Chris Abbott, a leading political analyst, takes a close look at 21 key speeches which have shaped the world today.

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Anne BodenNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 133 x 256 x 21Cover type: Paperback / softba...

No previous book has explored deeper or broader into Napoleon's seething labyrinth of a mind and revealed more of its complex, fascinating, provoca...

Marisa Meltzer was put on her first diet aged five: it was the beginning of a fraught relationship with food. Jean Nidetch was a housewife from Que...

Reducere. DescriptionOur relationship to content, and the real world itself, is changing. As we enter this next phase of ubiquitous, invisible, wearable comp...

Reducere. It's no secret that the center of Christianity has shifted from the West to the global South and East. While the truths of the Christian faith are ...

A sumptuous beginner's guide to astronomy and the night sky

DescriptionIn our Western, post-Christendom society, much of Christianity's cultural power, privilege, and influence has eroded. But all is not los...

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Definitive pop science from a world expert.

A little book of travel inspirations, pairing stunning photographs with life lessons on why travel matters and what we learn when we pack our bags ...

Reducere. As the public increasingly questioned the war in Vietnam, a group of American scientists deeply concerned about the use of Agent Orange and other h...

The general reading public is likely to think of architecture as buildings. But, with this book, Robert Steinberg would like to help readers unders...