The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us about the Future of Urban Life, Hardcover

An internationally renowned architect, urban planner, and scholar describes the major technological forces driving the future of cities Since citie...

Reducere. What is it that dogs have done to earn the title of "man's best friend"? And more broadly, how have all of our furry, feathered, and four-legged br...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Julian BagginiIllustration(s): 25 b/w illus.Number of pages: 328Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 2...

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Reducere. A New Statesman best book of the year New York Times Editors' Choice pickA Financial Times best economics book of 2019An accessible, story-driven l...

Reducere. DescriptionAlan Krueger, a former chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, uses the music industry, from superstar artists to musi...

Avram Alpert combines personal experience and readings of modern novels to offer another way to understand modern Buddhism. He argues that it repre...

What Socrates's greatest failure says about a 2, 000-year-old question: is it possible to teach ourselves and others to become better people?Publis...

DescriptionA highly engaging tour through progressive history in the service of emancipating our digital tomorrow. When we talk about technology we...

Reducere. In a world where science faces challenges from creationists and climate change deniers, and where social media is awash with wild conspiracy theori...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Steven N. AustadIllustration(s): 22 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2022Dimen...

A leading ecologist argues that if humankind is to survive on a fragile planet, we must understand and obey its iron laws.Publisher: John Murray Pr...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Allison DuBoisKnown as the inspiration for the hit television show Medium, Allison DuBois regularly encounters spirits who ...

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Reducere. A New Scientist Best Book of 2020 Our evolutionary ancestors once possessed the ability to intuit what food their bodies needed, in what proportion...

Reducere. For the first time, an award-winning Harvard professor shares his wildly popular course on classical Chinese philosophy, showing you how ancient id...

Reducere. What do leaders need to know in order to be effective? Carnes Lord--a political scientist with extensive experience at high levels of American gove...

DescriptionInspired by the bizarre and uncanny, this book attempts to use science and rationality to lift the veil off the irrational, confronting ...

In this ground-breaking book, Dr. Michaeleen Doucleff looks back to our ancestors for solutions to our failing modern-day parenting theories.

Reducere. DescriptionAfter two decades of research on founders, a best-selling book on the subject, and experience teaching and mentoring thousands of studen...

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Reducere. "I have seen yesterday. I know tomorrow." This inscription in Tutankhamun's tomb summarizes The Fifth Beginning. Here, archaeologist Robert L. Kell...

Reducere. A groundbreaking, authoritative exploration--rich with powerful personal stories and convincing research--of the many ways the living can and do ac...

Reducere. DescriptionThe purpose of this book is to capture a fan's perspective of the greatest era in men's professional tennis. I want this book to serve t...

Reducere. DescriptionBoard games are among our most ancient and beloved art forms. During the rise of digital media, they fell from prominence for a decade o...

Reducere. Lessons Dogs Teach Us discusses the lessons we learn from the carefree love and devotional behavior of dogs, and how this knowledge can illustrate ...

Reducere. An engaging journey into the biological principles underpinning a beloved science-fiction franchiseIn Star Trek, crew members travel to unusual pla...

Reducere. More than 200 million years ago, a cataclysmic event known as the Permian extinction destroyed more than 90% of all species and nearly 97% of all l...

DescriptionIn this thoroughly revised and updated classic, a renowned psychologist shows that mourning is far from predictable, and all of us share...

Reducere. This book surveys the cities of the Ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek and Roman worlds, with a focus on their physical appearance, on urban f...

Reducere. NATIONAL BESTSELLER What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human Superman, Batman, Wond...

The videographer behind the Journey to the Microcosmos YouTube channel (386K subscribers) James Weiss presents a beginner's guide to the extremely ...