The Spirit of Inquiry: How One Extraordinary Society Shaped Modern Science, Hardcover - Susannah Gibson

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The epic story of the origin of calculus

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The moving true story of Dr Amit Patel, who lost his sight in just thirty-six hours, and Kika, the guide dog who changed his world.

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Reducere. Science and Spirituality: Contradiction or Union? In the first paperback edition of this ground-breaking book, Charles T. Tart, Ph.D. reconciles th...

To the medieval thinker, man was the center of creation, and all of nature existed purely for his benefit. The shift from the philosophy of the Mid...

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Roland Ennos' The Wood Age is a love-letter to the world's most vital and yet most threatened material. It is the story of how wood has shaped our ...

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Patent documents describe inventions and offer accurate information about the history of technology. This book shows how patents and the inventions...

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Publisher: AbramsAuthor(s): Amy HatkoffIllustration(s): 125 photographsNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 185 x 237 x 19Cover ty...

In recent decades, Tokyo, London, and New York have been the sites of credit bubbles of historically unprecedented magnitude. Central bankers have ...

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Reducere. A sweeping cultural history of one of the most influential mathematical books ever written Euclid's Elements of Geometry is one of the fountainhead...

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It may be surprising to us now, but the taxidermists who filled the museums, zoos, and aquaria of the twentieth century were also among the first t...

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From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for...

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Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Simon WinchesterNumber of pages: 464Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 135 x 202 x 31Cover type: PaperbackRedesco...

From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for...

Branded The Master - and a Gentleman Thief - Brian is a true character from the old school of British crime. At the age of 71, Reader masterminded ...

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Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Anna Malaika TubbsNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 20Cover type: Pap...

Reducere. Plant biotechnology refers to the application of various principles and methods of life sciences to create improved varieties of plants. Cross bree...

Reducere. The story of the vibrant and revolutionary soccer culture in Hungary that, on the eve of World War II, redefined the modern game and launched a new...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Grace LindsayIllustration(s): black and white illustrations throughoutNumber of pages: 400Publicatio...

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The Spirit of Japan (1916) is a speech by Rabindranath Tagore. Published after he received the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, The Spirit of Japan ...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): HubermanNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 18Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedes...

Three great cosmological worldviews--of the Latin West, ancient Greece, and the Hebrew/Syriac world--arose from a union of ancient and medieval tho...

You can probably recognize some of the world's most famous landmarks. Go behind the scenes to investigate how and why these famous landmarks were b...

Skyscrapers are more than just tall buildings. Put on your hard hat and go behind the scenes to investigate the world's most amazing skyscrapers. E...

Most of us go over bridges without giving them a second thought. But some bridges are engineering wonders and are extraordinary to behold. Extraord...

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How Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter, became the world's first computer programmer in 1842 and would have started the digital age.

Most leaders think they're effective at motivating their employees, but study after study shows that employees are more disengaged and uninspired t...