Sentience - Emeritus Profe Humphrey, Nicholas (Emeritus Professor of Psychology

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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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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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Simply Psychology - Buch Simply Psychology, fifth edition, is an engaging and reader-friendly introduction to the key principles of psychology. Organised around the major approaches to the subject, it covers biological, developmental, social, and... 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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The Globalization of Addiction - Buch Addiction is increasing all around the world, and the conventional remedies don't work. The Globalization of Addiction argues that the cause of this failure to control addiction is that past treatments have... 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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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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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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The Names of Science - Buch The history of science is echoed in the development of its language and the names chosen for its technical terms. This book examines in detail how new words entered the scientific vocabulary and how some, but not all,... 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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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