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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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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...
Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife
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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...
That Sense of Wonder [How to Capture the Miracles of Everyday Life]
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That Sense of Wonder [How to Capture the Miracles of Everyday Life]

Автор: Dimitri Francesco
Язык: английский
Год: 2018
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'Philosophy begins in wonder,' said Plato. Descartes agreed that 'wonder is the first of all emotions'. Wonder is the impulse behind all scientific and philosophical endeavour, art and spirituality. It is the most fruitful human sense: fuelling our...
Phosphorescence [On awe, wonder & things that sustain you when the world goes dark]
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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...
The Mammoth Book of Space Exploration and Disasters
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The Mammoth Book of Space Exploration and Disasters

Автор: Lawrence Richard Russell
Серия: The Mammoth Book
Язык: английский
Год: 2005
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In the words of those who trod the void and those at mission control, here are over 50 of the greatest true stories of suborbital, orbital and deep-space exploration. From Apollo 8’s first view of a fractured, tortured landscape of craters on the...
The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Physics
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The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Physics

Автор: Barbour Julian
Язык: английский
Год: 2001
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Two views of the world clashed at the dawn of thought. In the great debate between the earliest Greek philosophers, Heraclitus argued for perpetual change, but Parmenides maintained there was neither time nor motion. Over the ages, few thinkers have...
The Science of Interstellar
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The Science of Interstellar

Автор: Торн Кип Стивен , Nolan Christopher
Язык: английский
Год: 2014
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A journey through the otherworldly science behind Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated film, Interstellar, from executive producer and theoretical physicist Kip Thorne. Interstellar, from acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan, takes us on a...