In the fascist regimes of Mussolini’s Italy, Salazar’s Portugal, and Hitler’s Germany, the first mass mobilizations involved wheat engineered to take advantage of chemical fertilizers, potatoes resistant to late blight, and pigs that thrived...
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Математика, Образовательная, прикладная, научно-популярная литература
Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe
What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, theoretical physicists are immune to mere trends, dogmatic beliefs, or flights of fancy? In fact, acclaimed...
Политика, Философия
Fašizující „antifašizmus“ liberálů („O aktuální situaci“ č. 2 (113), květen 2014)
Taková pozice liberál-“antifašistů“ podrozumívá, že právě „Rusko je hrozbou světlé budoucnosti lidstva“ a to nebezpečí „civilizovaný svět“ je prostě zavázán likvidovat dříve, než se realizuje v agresi Ruska proti...
Eric Schlosser has visited the state of the art labs where scientists recreate the flavours and smells of everything from cooked chicken to fresh strawberries in the test tube and he has spoken to workers at meatpacking plants with some of the...
“Assume the cow is a sphere.” So begins this lively, irreverent, and informative look at everything from the physics of boiling water to cutting-edge research at the observable limits of the universe. Rich with anecdotes and accessible examples,...
Yglesias’s New York Times — bestselling novel of trauma, loss, and the bonds formed between victims of catastrophe
Max Klein suffers from many anxieties — including a terrible fear of flying — but after surviving a plane crash his...
Валерия Соболь исследует топос любви как болезни в русской литературе конца XVIII–XIX века с акцентом на эпистемологическом потенциале...
Feel the Fear... and Do It...
In Feline Philosophy, the philosopher John Gray discovers in cats a way of living that is unburdened by anxiety and self-consciousness, showing how they embody answers to the big questions of love and attachment, mortality, morality, and the Self:...
This is a historical account of feminism that looks at the roots of feminism, voting rights, and the liberation of the sixties, and analyzes the current situation of women across Europe, in the United States, and elsewhere in the world, particularly...