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How History Gets Things Wrong: The Neuroscience of our Addiction to Stories
Alex Rosenberg · The MIT Press Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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Why we learn the wrong things from narrative history, and how our love for stories is hard-wired.To understand something, you need to know its history. Right? Wrong, says Alex Rosenberg in How History Gets Things Wrong. Feeling especially well-informed after reading a book of popular history... |
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Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up
Tom Phillips · Hanover Square Press Pages: 320 Format: Paperback
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Modern humans have come a long way in the seventy thousand years they've walked the earth. Art, science, culture, trade - on the evolutionary food chain, we're true winners. But it hasn't always been smooth sailing, and sometimes - just occasionally - we've managed to truly f*ck things... |
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Shattered Dreams: The Lost and Canceled Space Missions
Colin Burgess · University of Nebraska Press Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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Shattered Dreams delves into the personal stories and recollections of several men and women who were in line to fly a specific or future space mission but lost that opportunity due to personal reasons, mission cancellations, or even tragedies. While some of the subjects are familiar names... |
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Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory: The Theoretical Minimum
Leonard Susskind · Basic Books Pages: 448 Format: Paperback
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A funny, insightful, and self-contained guide to Einstein's relativity theory and classical field theories--including electromagnetismPhysicist Leonard Susskind and data engineer Art Friedman are back. This time, they introduce readers to Einstein's special relativity and Maxwell's... |
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