Télécharger le livre :  Advice To A Young Scientist
To those interested in a life in science, Sir Peter Medawar, Nobel laureate, deflates the myths of invincibility, superiority, and genius; instead, he demonstrates it is common sense and an inquiring mind that are essential to the scientist's calling. He deflates the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Acquiring Genomes
In this groundbreaking book, Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan present an answer to one of the enduring mysteries of evolution -- the source of inherited variation that gives rise to new species. Random genetic mutation, long believed to be the main source of variation, is...

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Télécharger le livre :  Captains Of Consciousness Advertising And The Social Roots Of The Consumer Culture
Captains of Consciousness offers a historical look at the origins of the advertising industry and consumer society at the turn of the twentieth century. For this new edition Stuart Ewen, one of our foremost interpreters of popular culture, has written a new preface that...

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Télécharger le livre :  A Geography Of Time
In this engaging and spirited book, eminent social psychologist Robert Levine asks us to explore a dimension of our experience that we take for granted—our perception of time. When we travel to a different country, or even a different city in the United States, we...

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Télécharger le livre :  Introducing Bert Williams
It is not hard to argue that every black performer in show business owes something to Bert Williams. Discovered in California in 1890 by a minstrel troupe manager, Williams swiftly became a regular player in the troupe. Traveling on from the rough-and-ready "medicine...

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Télécharger le livre :  A Universe Of Consciousness
What goes on in our head when we have a thought? Why do the physical events that occur inside a fistful of gelatinous tissue give rise to the world of conscious experience? In The Universe of Consciousness , Gerald Edelman and Giulio Tononi present for the first time a...

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Télécharger le livre :  Extraordinary Minds
Fifteen years ago, psychologist and educator Howard Gardner introduced the idea of multiple intelligences, challenging the presumption that intelligence consists of verbal or analytic abilities only -- those intelligences that schools tend to measure. He argued for a...

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Télécharger le livre :  Hard Green
This book sets out the case for Hard Green, a conservative environmental agenda. Modern environmentalism, Peter Huber argues, destroys the environment. Captured as it has been by the Soft Green oligarchy of scientists, regulators, and lawyers, modern environmentalism...

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Télécharger le livre :  Gay New York
The “monumental” (The Washington Post), field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century  Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed in the closet, where all gay men were...

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Télécharger le livre :  Hacking Matter
Programmable matter is probably not the next technological revolution, nor even perhaps the one after that. But it's coming, and when it does, it will change our lives as much as any invention ever has. Imagine being able to program matter itself-to change it, with the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Fab
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What if you could someday put the manufacturing power of an automobile plant on your desktop? It may sound far-fetched-but then, thirty years ago, the notion of "personal computers" in every home sounded like science fiction. According to Neil Gershenfeld, the renowned...

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Télécharger le livre :  Multiple Intelligences
From the author of Frames of Mind, the definitive account of Multiple Intelligences theory and its applications “For those of us who suspect that intelligence is too complex a phenomenon to be measured by the single number of I.Q. derived from an...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Mature Mind
The Golden Years are being redefined.The fastest-growing segment of the population, those beyond the age of fifty, are no longer content to simply cope with the losses of age. Mental acuity and vitality are becoming a life-long pursuit. Now, the science of the mind is...

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Télécharger le livre :  Letters To A Young Evangelical
Named by Christianity Today as one of the twenty-five most influential preachers of the last fifty years, best-selling author Tony Campolo has spent decades calling on readers and audiences around the world to live their faith through committed activism. A tireless...

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Télécharger le livre :  A Land Gone Lonesome
In his square-sterned canoe, Alaskan author Dan O'Neill set off down the majestic Yukon River, beginning at Dawson, Yukon Territory, site of the Klondike gold rush. The journey he makes to Circle City, Alaska, is more than a voyage into northern wilderness, it is an...

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Télécharger le livre :  What We Knew
An American historian and a German sociologist seek answers from those who lived through Nazi Germany: how did the country stand by while one of the biggest genocides in history took place?   The horrors of the Nazi regime and the Holocaust still present some of...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Cube and the Cathedral
Why do Europeans and Americans see the world so differently?Why do Europeans and Americans have such different understandings of democracy and its discontents in the twenty-first century? Contrasting the civilization that produced the starkly modernist "cube" of the...

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Télécharger le livre :  To Follow the Water
In To Follow the Water, critically acclaimed author Dallas Murphy artfully recasts the story of human expansion and cultural development with the ocean playing the central role. Applying a novelist's eye for detail and a historian's drive for perspective, he connects...

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Télécharger le livre :  Letters to a Young Lawyer
As defender of both the righteous and the questionable, Alan Dershowitz has become perhaps the most famous and outspoken attorney in the land. Whether or not they agree with his legal tactics, most people would agree that he possesses a powerful and profound sense of...

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Télécharger le livre :  How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America
A pithy polemic bolstered by solid research, intellectual heft, and firsthand reporting, this is a book poised to change the debate over reproductive rights in this country wholesale. As activist and writer Cristina Page shows, the gains made by birth-control advocates...

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