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Awe [The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life]
Зарубежная образовательная литература, зарубежная прикладная, Психология

Awe [The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life]

Автор: Келтнер Дачер
Язык: английский
Год: 2023
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**"Read this book to connect with your highest self. " **-- Susan Cain, #1 *New York Times* bestselling author of *Bittersweet* and *Quiet * "We need more awe in our lives, and Dacher Keltner has written the definitive book on where to find...
Building the H Bomb: A Personal History
Биографии и мемуары, Зарубежная образовательная литература, зарубежная прикладная

Building the H Bomb: A Personal History

Автор: Ford Kenneth William
Язык: английский
Год: 2015
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In this engaging scientific memoir, Kenneth Ford recounts the time when, in his mid-twenties, he was a member of the team that designed and built the first hydrogen bomb. He worked with—and relaxed with—scientific giants of that time such as...
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
Военная документалистика и аналитика, Зарубежная образовательная литература, зарубежная прикладная

Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War

Автор: Роуч Мэри
Язык: английский
Год: 2016
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Best-selling author Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war. Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier’s most challenging...
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Зарубежная образовательная литература, зарубежная прикладная

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

Автор: Роуч Мэри
Язык: английский
Год: 2013
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The irresistible, ever-curious, and always best-selling Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside. “America’s funniest science writer” (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an...
Northmen, The Viking Saga 793-1241 AD
Зарубежная образовательная литература, зарубежная прикладная, История

Northmen, The Viking Saga 793-1241 AD

Автор: Хейвуд Джон
Язык: английский
Год: 2016
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The violent and predatory society of Dark Age Scandinavia left a unique impact on the history of medieval Europe. From their chill northern fastness, Norse warriors, explorers and merchants raided, traded, and settled across wide areas of Europe,...
Phosphorescence [On awe, wonder & things that sustain you when the world goes dark]
Зарубежная образовательная литература, зарубежная прикладная

Phosphorescence [On awe, wonder & things that sustain you when the world goes dark]

Автор: Baird Julia
Язык: английский
Год: 2020
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**** **A beautiful, intimate and inspiring investigation into how we can find and nurture within ourselves that essential quality of internal happiness - the 'light within' that Julia Baird calls 'phosphorescence' - which will sustain us even...
Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife
Зарубежная образовательная литература, зарубежная прикладная

Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife

Автор: Роуч Мэри
Язык: английский
Год: 2009
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Does the light just go out and that’s that — the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness, persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my laptop?” Mary Roach trains her...
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Зарубежная образовательная литература, зарубежная прикладная

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Автор: Роуч Мэри
Язык: английский
Год: 2003
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“One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year…. Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting.” —Entertainment Weekly Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our...