Transhumanism: The History of a Dangerous Idea, Paperback - David Livingstone

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The conventional history of nations, even continents, is a history of warfare.

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A worldwide survey on the idea of utopia, from classical mythology to contemporary science fiction.

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Shiraz MaherNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 201 x 139 x 20Cover type: Paperback / soft...

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A major new history of the century-long debate over what a Jewish state should beMany Zionists who advocated for the creation of a Jewish state env...

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Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Called a first-rate spy story (Entertainment Weekly), The Bureau and the Mole is the sensational New York Times best-seller that tells the inside s...

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From later antiquity to the close of the 18th century, most educated men accepted without question a traditional view of the plan and structure of ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Sandra EderIllustration(s): 5 halftonesNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 2...

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A biography of Katherine SwynfordPublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Jeannette LucraftNumber of pages: 252Publication date: 2010Dimensions: ...

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As the Vietnam War divided the nation, a network of antiwar coffeehouses appeared in the towns and cities outside American military bases. Owned an...

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Reducere. This book is designed to offer a comprehensive high-level introduction to transhumanism, an international political and cultural movement that aims...

Master horseback riders who lived in teepees and hunted bison, the Comanches were stunning orators, disciplined warriors, and the finest makers of ...

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A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from the brain of Charle...

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Reducere. Author of an acclaimed history of the Battle of the Atlantic during World War Two (OUP 2016), Jonathan Dimbleby now offers a compelling account of ...