(Izdošanas datums: 05-Apr-2019, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226639109)
In the years after the Revolutionary War, the fledgling republic of America was viewed by many Europeans as a degenerate backwater, populated by subspecies weak and feeble. Chief among these naysayers was the French Count and world-renowned nat...Lasīt vairāk
This fascinating memoir charts Dame Stephanies life from her time as a child in Germany and arrival in England as an unaccompanied Kindertransport refugee through to her retirement and dedication to charity....Lasīt vairāk
Every year, air pollution prematurely kills seven million people around the world, in rich countries and poor ones. It is strongly linked to strokes, heart attacks, many kinds of cancer, premature birth and dementia, among other ailments. In...Lasīt vairāk
From the Wellcome Prize-winning author of Its All in Your Head Brainstorm examines the stories of people whose symptoms are so strange even their doctor struggles to know how to solve them. A man who sees cartoon characte...Lasīt vairāk
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Modern physics has found its poet. A captivating, fascinating, profoundly beautiful book - John Banville The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics takes us on an enchanting, consoling journey to di...Lasīt vairāk
In his research into these questions - and many more besides - Burnett unravels our complex internal lives to reveal the often surprising truth behind what makes us tick....Lasīt vairāk
The fascinating history of electromagnetism and how, in the not-so-distant future, the Earths poles will switch places - with potentially catastrophic results...Lasīt vairāk
Applied Photometry, Radiometry, and Measurements of Optical Losses reviews and analyzes physical concepts of radiation transfer, providing a quantitative foundation for the means of measurements of optical losses, which affect propagation and dist...Lasīt vairāk
This book presents 57 peer-reviewed papers from the 12th Conference on Traffic and Granular Flow (TGF) held in Washington, DC, in July 2017....Lasīt vairāk
The work also offers new and original philosophical perspectives on the validation of simulations.Topics and features: introduces the fundamental concepts and principles related to the validation of computer simulations, and examines philosophi...Lasīt vairāk
This book is a result from a collective study on philosophy of scientific practice (PSP), which began around 2002 and still in an ongoing process. There is an apparently increasing interest upon scientific practice, influence by the historicistic phi...Lasīt vairāk
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: Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology
(Izdošanas datums: 02-Apr-2019, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Fordham University Press, ISBN-13: 9780823283545)
Habit rules our lives. While many of our individual habits seem perfectly reasonable, when aggregated together they spell ecological disaster. Beyond consumerism, other ways of living are clearly possible. Reoccupy Earth shows how an approach t...Lasīt vairāk
Habit rules our lives. While many of our individual habits seem perfectly reasonable, when aggregated together they spell ecological disaster. Beyond consumerism, other ways of living are clearly possible. Reoccupy Earth shows how an approach t...Lasīt vairāk