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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...
The Compassionate Instinct
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The Compassionate Instinct

Автор: Келтнер Дачер , Marsh Jason
Язык: английский
Год: 2010
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Leading scientists and science writers reflect on the life-changing, perspective-changing, new science of human goodness.In these pages you will hear from Steven Pinker, who asks, "Why is there peace?"; Robert Sapolsky, who examines violence among...
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 Mammoth Book of Space Exploration and Disasters
Астрономия, Зарубежная образовательная литература, зарубежная прикладная

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 Power Paradox
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The Power Paradox

Автор: Келтнер Дачер
Язык: английский
Год: 2016
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**A revolutionary rethinking of everything we know about power** It shapes every interaction we have, whether we're trying to get a two-year-old to eat green vegetables or ask for a promotion at work. But how do we really gain power? And what does...
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...