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Evolutionary Parasitology - Buch Concepts from evolution, ecology, parasitology, and immunology have informed a new synthesis of host-parasite interactions. The book builds on these established approaches whilst including some of the most successful... Mehr

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The Enlightenment that Failed - Buch Radical and conservative Enlightenment ideologies began to break apart as the desire for a fair society clashed with questions of religion and secularization. The Enlightenment that Failed shows how ideas... Mehr

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Discarded - Buch Discarded tells the story of the fossils we will leave as relics into the far future. It explores how the things we now so abundantly produce and discard â plastic bottles, mobile phones, concrete flyways, chicken bones, aluminium... Mehr

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Spinoza, Life and Legacy - Buch A biography of the boldest and most unsettling of the early modern philosophers, Spinoza, examining the man's life, relationships, career, and writings, while forcing us to rethink how we previously understood his... Mehr

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Reproduction Biology - Buch This primer introduces the key elements of reproduction in humans and a wide range of animals and plants. It explains why different species have evolved completely different strategies to ensure their reproductive success... Mehr

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Why Women Read Fiction - Buch Written by a leading academic and broadcaster and drawing on interviews with readers, writers, reading groups, bookshop owners, librarians, and figures from literary publishing, reviewing, and festivals, this accessible... Mehr

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Origins of Language - Buch This book offers an accessible overview of what is known about the evolution of the human capacity for language and what sets human language apart from the simple communication systems used by non-human animals. It draws... Mehr

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Sentience - Buch Conscious sensations ground our sense of self, but is it only humans who feel this way? Do other animals? Will future machines? Nicholas Humphrey tells the story of his quest to understand the evolutionary history of consciousness... Mehr

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The Fall of Robespierre - Buch The day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. Maximilien Robespierre, the most prominent member of the Committee of Public Safety,... Mehr

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Analytic Philosophy and Human Life - Buch This book collects Thomas Nagel's recent philosophical reflections on topics of fundamental interest: ethics, moral psychology, science and religion, death, the holocaust, and the metaphysics of mind. Among... Mehr

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Why We Vote - Buch In Why We Vote, renowned legal scholar Owen Fiss offers a bold and daring reconstruction of judicial doctrine that gives expression to the democratic aspirations of the US Constitution. Fiss argues that embedded within the... Mehr

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Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress - Buch This volume presents two closely related essays by Thomas Nagel: University Professor E Nagel, Thomas (University Professor Emeritus ISBN: 9780197690888 - Egal, ob Sie Bücher kaufen oder... Mehr

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Quantum Drama - Buch Quantum mechanics is an extraordinarily successful scientific theory. It is also completely baffling. From the moment of its inception, its founders struggled to understand its meaning. This struggle was most famously... Mehr

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Turtles of the World - Buch "Characterized by the bony shell that acts as a shield to protect the softer body within, turtles are survivors from the time of the dinosaurs and are even more ancient in evolutionary terms than snakes and crocodiles. Of... Mehr

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The Donkey and the Boat - Buch A new account of the Mediterranean economy in the 10th to 12th centuries, forcing readers to entirely rethink the underlying logic to medieval economic systems. Chris Wickham re-examines documentary and archaeological... Mehr