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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
STEVEN PINKER · Viking
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover
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The follow-up to Pinker's groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science.Is... |
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The Origins of Creativity
EDWARD O WILSON · Liveright
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Following the extraordinary success of The Meaning of Human Existence, Edward O. Wilson offers a philosophically probing work on the origins of human creativity. "Creativity is the unique and defining trait of our species; and its ultimate goal, self-understanding," begins Edward... |
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Rust: The Longest War
Jonathan Waldman · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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Rust has been called "the great destroyer," the "pervasive menace," and "the evil." "This look at corrosion - its causes, its consequences, and especially the people devoted to combating it - is wide-ranging and consistently engrossing" (The New York... |
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The Call of Everest: The History, Science, and Future of the World's Tallest Peak
Conrad Anker · National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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Gripping and sumptuous, this is the definitive book on the history, mystique, and science of Mount Everest, including how climate change is impacting the world's tallest mountain. In 1963, the American Mount Everest Expedition made mountaineering history. It was the first... |
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Barron's GRE Math Workbook, 3rd Edition
Blair Madore · Barron's Educational Series; 3 edition
Format: Print book
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Reflective of the current GRE, this third edition gives test takers that extra math help they need. The book's features include:A description of the GRE's General Math Exam explaining structure, questions types, and scoringStrategies for problem solvingHundreds of problems and solutions... |
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How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
Lisa Feldman Barrett · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 448
Format: Print book
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A new theory of how the brain constructs emotions that could revolutionize psychology, health care, law enforcement, and our understanding of the human mindEmotions feel automatic to us; that's why scientists have long assumed that emotions are hardwired in the body or the brain. Today,... |
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Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures
Virginia Morell · Crown Publishers; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Noted science writer Virginia Morell explores the frontiers of research on animal cognition and emotion, offering a surprising and moving exploration into the hearts and minds of wild and domesticated animals. Have you ever wondered what it is like to be a fish? Or a parrot, dolphin,... |
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When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
DANIEL H PINK · Riverhead Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Daniel H. Pink, the #1 bestselling author of Drive and To Sell Is Human, unlocks the scientific secrets to good timing to help you flourish at work, at school, and at home.Everyone knows that timing is everything. But we don't know much about timing itself. Our lives are a never-ending... |
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Water, Peace, and War: Confronting the Global Water Crisis
Brahma Chellaney · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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This pioneering and authoritative study considers the profound impact of the growing worldwide water stress on international peace and security, as well as possible ways to mitigate the crisis. Although water is essential to sustaining life and livelihoods, geostrategist Brahma Chellaney... |
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The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary
Caspar Henderson · University Of Chicago Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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From medieval bestiaries to Borgesrsquos Book of Imaginary Beings wersquove long been enchanted by extraordinary animals be they terrifying three-headed dogs or asps impervious to a snake charmerrsquos song But bestiaries are more than just zany zoologymdashthey are artful attempts to convey... |
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Human Anatomy
DK · DK
Format: Hardcover
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For students of anatomy, biology, and the biomedical sciences; medical professionals; and curious families, DK's Human Anatomy will be a definitive resource. Written by acclaimed anatomist, Dr. Alice Roberts, Human Anatomy is an up-to-the-minute study of the body. Spectacular digital... |
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