Toward a biosocial science

Environmental Science: Toward a Sustainable Future

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Toward a Hayekian Theory of Social Change

Bringing together several scholars from different social science disciplines who relate HayekÂ’s theory of social change to empirical phenomena and me

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Cryocoolers 11

Over the last two years we have witnessed a continuation in the breakthrough shift toward pulse tube cryocoolers for long-life, high-reliability cryoc

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Social Intelligence : The New Science of Human Relationships - Goleman Daniel

Anotace: Emotional Intelligence was an international phenomenon, appearing on the New York Times bestseller list for over a year and selling more than 5 million copies worldwide. Now, once again, Daniel Goleman has written a groundbreaking synthesis of the latest findings in biology and brain science, revealing that we are `wired to connect` and the surprisingly deep imp...

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Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier - Winfrey Oprah

Anotace: In Build the Life You Want, Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey invite you to begin a journey toward greater happiness, no matter how challenging your circumstances. Combining their decades of experience studying happiness from every angle, they show you how to improve your life right now - instead of waiting for the outside world to change.You will learn how to:...

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Seven Letters to Melin Essays on the Soul, Science, Art and Mortality - Šafařík Josef

Anotace: Josef Šafařík's Seven Letters to Melin is a critique of a reductionist technological approach to life and of man's alienation from nature and from himself in the modern era. The book is conceived as a series of letters to a certain Melin, in fact Šafařík's alternative or former self as a working engineer who believed in the value of science and te...

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Undoing Monogamy

In Undoing Monogamy Angela Willey analyzes the contemporary science of monogamy, demanding a critical reorientation toward the understanding of monoga

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How to Solve A Problem Taylor & Francis Ltd

This concise and accessible resource offers new college students, especially those in science degree programs, guidance on engaging successfully with the classroom experience and skillfully tackling technical or scientific questions. The author provides insights on identifying, from the outset, individual markers for what success in college will look like for students, ho...

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How to Solve A Problem Taylor & Francis Ltd

This concise and accessible resource offers new college students, especially those in science degree programs, guidance on engaging successfully with the classroom experience and skillfully tackling technical or scientific questions. The author provides insights on identifying, from the outset, individual markers for what success in college will look like for students, ho...

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A Career in Aviation: from the DC-3 to the Concorde

The science of flight has held a lifelong fascination for James McLachlan Jr. Working toward his dream job as an engineering student first at San Francisco Junior College and then at UC Berkeley, he even gained invaluable aviation maintenance and engine

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Tripping on Utopia

Convinced the world was headed toward certain disaster, Mead and Bateson made it their life's mission to reshape humanity through a new science of con

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How to Avoid a Climate Disaste - neuveden

Anotace: In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical - and accessible - plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. <br>Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, b...

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How to Avoid a Climate Disaste - Bill Gates

<p style="color:#FF0000;"> </p> <p>In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out awide-ranging, practical - and accessible - plan for how theworld can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in timeto avoid a climate catastrophe.</p> <p>Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climatechange. With ...

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Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One - Joe Dispenza

<p>Discover how to reprogram your biology and thinking, and break the habit of being yourself so you can truly change your mind and life. Bestselling author, international speaker, chiropractor, and renowned researcher of epigenetics, quantum physics, &amp; neuroscience, Dr. Joe Dispenza shares that you are not doomed by your genes and hardwired to be a certain ...

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Topics in Graph Theory Taylor & Francis Ltd

The interplay between graph theory and a wide variety of models and applications in mathematics, computer science, operations research, and the natural and social sciences continues to grow. This book is geared toward the more mathematically mature student. The first two chapters provide the basic definitions and theorems of graph theory and the remaining chapters introd...

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Nightflyers and Other Stories - George R.R. Martin

Anotace: An epic collection of science fiction tales around space exploration and cosmic horror by the #1 bestselling author of A Game of Thrones - with the titular story, Nightflyers, coming to Netflix in 2018 On a voyage toward the boundaries of the known universe, nine misfit academics seek out first contact with a shadowy alien race. But another enigma is the Nightfl...

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The Stars, Like Dust - Isaac Asimov

<p>Mankind has conquered space and moved toward the starry heart of the galaxy. Earth is a planet of no importance, riddled with radioactivity by long-forgotten wars. When assassins target his rooms and news arrives that, many light-years away, his father has been murdered, student Biron Farrill flees for his life. Stunned, grief-stric...

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Seven Letters to Melin Essays on the So - Josef Šafařík

<p>Josef Šafařík's Seven Letters to Melin is a critique of a reductionist technological approach to life and of man's alienation from nature and from himself in the modern era. The book is conceived as a series of letters to a certain Melin, in fact Šafařík's alternative or former self as a working engineer who believed in the value of science and technical progress...

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Dune - Frank Herbert

Anotace: SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE directed by Denis Villeneuve, starring Timothée Chalamet, Josh Brolin, Jason Momoa, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Javier Bardem, Dave Bautista, Stellan Skarsgard, and Charlotte Rampling! A deluxe hardcover edition of Frank Herbert's epic masterpiece-a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science ...

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Dune : Deluxe Edition - Frank Herbert

<p>SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE directed by Denis Villeneuve, starring Timothée Chalamet, Josh Brolin, Jason Momoa, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Javier Bardem, Dave Bautista, Stellan Skarsgard, and Charlotte Rampling! A deluxe hardcover edition of Frank Herbert's epic masterpiece--a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fictio...

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Frank Herbert - Dune

A deluxe hardcover edition of Frank Herbert's epic masterpiece--a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time.This deluxe hardcover edition of Dune includes:An iconic new coverStained edges and fully illustrated endpapersA beautifully designed poster on the interior of the jacketA redesigned world map of DuneAn updated Introduc...

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Dune, 1. vydání - Frank Herbert

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE directed by Denis Villeneuve, starring Timothée Chalamet, Josh Brolin, Jason Momoa, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Javier Bardem, Dave Bautista, Stellan Skarsgård, and Charlotte Rampling. Frank Herbert's classic masterpiece--a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time. Set on the d...

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Dune. 40th Anniversary Edition

Frank Herbert s classic masterpiece a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time.Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the spice melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consci...

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Dune - Frank Herbert

Anotace: Frank Herbert`s classic masterpiece-a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the "spice" melange, a drug capable of extending life and enh...

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Devil´s Candy 3 - Rem, Bikkuri

Anotace: Devil`s Candy, the popular webcomic by Rem and Bikkuri, is a hilarious action-adventure that follows Kazu Decker and his science experiment, Pandora, as they navigate high school with a ghoulish supernatural twist.At Hemlock Heart Academy, science wiz Kazu Decker shows off his skills by creating a humanoid girl named Pandora. But in a world of monsters and mayhe...

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Nightflyers and Other Stories - George Raymond Richard Martin

<p>An epic collection of science fiction tales around space exploration and cosmic horror by the #1 bestselling author of A Game of Thrones – with the titular story, Nightflyers, coming to Netflix in 2018.</p> <p>On a voyage toward the boundaries of the known universe, nine misfit academics seek out first contact with a shadowy alien race.</p> <...

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Foundation and Empire, 1. vydání - Isaac Asimov

<p>The Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are one of the great masterworks of science fiction. Unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women to preserve humanity's light against an inexorable tide of darkness and violence. Led by its founding father,...

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Braiding Sweetgrass : Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants - Robin Wall Kimmerer

<p>As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as ...

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Wired for Love : How Understanding Your Partner´s Brain Can Help You Defuse Conflicts and Spark Intimacy - Tatkin Stan

Anotace: "What the heck is my partner thinking?" is a common refrain in romantic relationships, and with good reason. Every person is wired for love differently, with different habits, needs, and reactions to conflict. The good news is that most people`s minds work in predictable ways and respond well to security, attachment, and rituals, making it possible to actually n...

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Braiding Sweetgrass : Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants - Kimmerer Robin Wall

Anotace: As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two ways of knowledge together.Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and ...

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Wired for Love : How Understanding Your Partner´s Brain Can Help You Defuse Conflicts and Spark Intimacy - Stan Tatkin

<p>"What the heck is my partner thinking?" is a common refrain in romantic relationships, and with good reason. Every person is wired for love differently, with different habits, needs, and reactions to conflict. The good news is that most people's minds work in predictable ways and respond well to security, attachment, and rituals, making it possible to a...

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Build the Life You Want - Oprah Winfrey

<p>You can get happier. And getting there will be the adventure of a lifetime.In Build the Life You Want, Harvard Professor Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey invite you to begin a journey toward greater happiness, no matter how challenging your circumstances. Combining their decades of experience studying happiness from every angle, they show you how to improve you...

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Love on the Brain - Ali Hazelwood

<p>From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a new STEMinist rom-com in which a scientist is forced to work on a project with her nemesis - with explosive results. </p> <p>Bee Königswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered her the lead on a neuroengineering project - a literal dream come true...

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Detective Fiction

"Detective Fiction" is a clear and compelling look at some of the best known, yet least-understood, characters and texts of the modern day. Charles J. Rzepka traces the history of the genre from its modern beginnings in the early eighteenth century, with the criminal broadsheets and 'true' crime stories of "The Newgate Calendar", to its present state of diversity, innovat...

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