What s the point of science

What´s the Point of Science? - kolektiv autorů

Anotace: Wonderful storytelling and hand-drawn illustrations reveal the wonder of scientific discovery through history, ages 9-12Bored of biology? Crushed by chemistry? Perplexed by physics? DOES SCIENCE REALLY MATTER ANYWAY? Oh, only for... JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING!From how to stop a virus to defy gravity, and from how to predict the future to how to see the past, this boo...

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What´s the Point of Science? - autorů kolektiv

<p>Wonderful storytelling and hand-drawn illustrations reveal the wonder of scientific discovery through history, ages 9-12 Bored of biology? Crushed by chemistry? Perplexed by physics? DOES SCIENCE REALLY MATTER ANYWAY? Oh, only for... JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING! From how to stop a virus to defy gravity, and from how to predict the future to how to see the past, this...

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What's the Point of Science?

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What's the Point of Science?

Nakladatelství: Dorling Kindersley Ltd Počet stran: 128 Vazba: Tvrdá Rozměry: 284 x 224 mm Datum vydání: 7. 10. 2021 ISBN: 9780241381847

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What's the Point of Theology?

WhatÂ’s the Point of Theology? is a wonderfully accessible exploration of why theology is so important by one of the most renowned Christian theologia

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Philosophy of Science

The world didn't end on 10 September 2008, but the possibility may have got you thinking: was it worth the risk? What is the point of science actually

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Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art - Nestor James

Anotace: THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERAS HEARD ON STEVEN BARTLETT`S `DIARY OF A CEO``Who would have thought something as simple as changing the way we breathe could be so revolutionary for our health, from snoring to allergies to immunity? A fascinating book, full of dazzling revelations` Dr Rangan ChatterjeeThere is nothing more essential to our health and wel...

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Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things - Adam Grant

Anotace: #1 New York Times bestseller "This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes to improve and succeed. I wish I could go back in time and gift it to my younger self. It would`ve helped me find a more joyful path to progress."-Serena Williams, 23-time Grand Slam singles tennis championThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again il...

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Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language - Albert Costa

Anotace: 'Fascinating. . . This engaging book explores just how multiple languages are acquired and sorted out by the brain. . . Costa's work derives from a great fund of knowledge, considerable curiosity and solidly scientific spirit' Philip Hensher Spectator The definitive study of bilingualism and the human brain from a leading neuropsychologist Over ...

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What an Owl Knows, The New Science of the WorldÂ’s Most Enigmatic Birds Oneworld Publications

Take flight with the secret life of owls....

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The Vanishing Point - McDermidová Val

Anotace: It`s every parent`s worst nightmare...tephanie Harker is travelling through the security gates at O`Hare airport, on her way to an idyllic holiday. Five-year-old Jimmy goes through the metal detector ahead of her. But then, in panic and disbelief, Stephanie watches as a uniformed agent leads her boy away - and she`s stuck the other side of Security, hysterical w...

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The Science of Fate : The New Science of Who We Are - And How to Shape our Best Future - Critchlow Hannah

Anotace: So many of us believe that we are free to shape our own destiny. But what if free will doesn`t exist? What if our lives are largely predetermined, hardwired in our brains - and our choices over what we eat, who we fall in love with, even what we believe are not real choices at all?Neuroscience is challenging everything we think we know about ourselves, revealing...

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What’s wrong? Hard science and humanities: tackling the question of the absolute chronology of the S (978-80-210-8472-8)

Kniha - autor Věra Klontza-Jaklová, 84 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá Kde je chyba? Hledání odpovědi na otázku absolutní chronologie santorinského vulkánu Jedním z nejprobádanějších a nejčastěji citovaných problémů egejské doby bronzové je otázka absolutní datace výbuchu santorinské sopky, potažmo celé pozdní doby bronzové ve velmi širokém regionu od Egyp...

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What’s wrong?. Hard science and humanities – tackling the question of the absolute chronology of the Santorini eruption - Věra Jaklová

Kde je chyba? Hledání odpovědi na otázku absolutní chronologie santorinského vulkánu.

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What’s wrong?: Hard science and humanities – tackling the question of the absolute chronology of the Santorini eruption - Věra Klontza-Jaklová

<p>Kde je chyba? Hledání odpovědi na otázku absolutní chronologie santorinského vulkánu Jedním z nejprobádanějších a nejčastěji citovaných problémů egejské doby bronzové je otázka absolutní datace výbuchu santorinské sopky, potažmo celé pozdní doby bronzové ve velmi širokém regionu od Egypta přes Přední východ po střední Evropu. Názory a výsledky přírodních věd a t...

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Fakty a triky zo sveta vedy

Nudí ťa biológia? Ničí ťa chémia? Pletieš si učivo z fyziky? V škole je toho veľa a ty sa pýtaš, či je VEDA NAOZAJ TAKÁ DÔLEŽITÁ... Či to množstvo poznatkov nie je celkom zbytočné. NIE! VEDU V PODSTATE POTREBUJEME VŠADE! Táto kniha ti rozpovie jej neobyčajný príbeh – dozvieš sa postupne všetko od objavenia dinosaurov a vynájdenia rakiet až po lieky, ktoré zachraňujú život...

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How to Change: The Science of Self-Improvement (0593332598)

Kniha - autor Katy Milkman, 272 stran, anglicky, pevná bez přebalu lesklá Set audacious goals. Foster good habits. Create social support. You’ve surely heard this advice before. If you’ve ever tried to change — to boost exercise or healthy eating, to prevent missed deadlines or kick-start savings — then you know there are thousands of apps, books, and YouTube videos pro...

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Life Lessons from a Brain Surgeon : The New Science and Stories of the Brain - Jandial Rahul

Anotace: World-leading neuroscientist and neurosurgeon Dr Rahul Jandial draws on his years of work with patients suffering from the most extreme cases of brain damage, disorders and illnesses to reveal what they can tell us about the science of the mind.From a languages teacher who has to choose whether to lose her ability to speak Spanish or English after brain surgery,...

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The Secret Body: How the New Science of the Human Body Is Changing the Way We Live - Davis Daniel M.

Anotace: Thrilling` BILL BRYSON `Brilliant` TIM SPECTOR `Extraordinary` ALICE ROBERTS Welcome to a revolution in the science of you - this is the landmark new book from award-winning scientist Daniel M. Davis. Imagine taking drugs to help you acquire new skills, or knowing years in advance the precise likelihood of developing specific cancers, or following a diet and hea...

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Why the West Rules for Now : The Patterns of History and What They Reveal About the Future - Morris Ian

Anotace: Why does the West rule? This title answers this provocative question, drawing on 15,000 years of history and archaeology, and the methods of social science.

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Food for Life: Your Guide to the New Science of Eating Well - Spector Tim

Anotace: `Life-changing` DAVINA McCALL`A must-read` DR RUPY AUJLA`Fascinating` NIGELLA LAWSON`Empowering` LIZ EARLE**AS HEARD ON THE DIARY OF A CEO PODCAST**Empowering and practical, Food for Life is nothing less than a new approach to how to eat - for our health and the health of the planet.Food is our greatest ally for good health, but the question of what to eat in th...

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Why We Sleep : The New Science of Sleep and Dreams - Walker Matthew

Anotace: The first sleep book by a leading scientific expert-Professor Matthew Walker, Director of UC Berkeley's Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab-reveals his groundbreaking exploration of sleep, explaining how we can harness its transformative power to change our lives for the better. <br> Sleep is one of the most important but least understood aspects of our life, ...

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What Einstein Told His Cook

Finalist for the James Beard Foundation Book Award and the IACP Cookbook Award "[A]s good a read on the science of cooking as there is." —Mark Bittm

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PractitionerÂ’s Guide to Data Science

This book aims to increase the visibility of data science in real-world, which differs from what you learn from a typical textbook. Many aspects of da

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PractitionerÂ’s Guide to Data Science

This book aims to increase the visibility of data science in real-world, which differs from what you learn from a typical textbook. Many aspects of da

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Hivemind: The New Science of Tribalism in Our Divided World (1409194329)

Kniha - 304 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná - autor Sarah Rose Cavanagh, 304 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Hivemind: A collective consciousness in which we share consensus thoughts, emotions, and opinions; a phenomenon whereby a group of people function as if with a single mind. Our views of the world are shaped by the stories told by our sel...

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The Power of Habit : Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change - Duhigg Charles

Anotace: In "The Power of Habit", award-winning "New York Times" business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. With penetrating intelligence and an ability to distill vast amounts of information into engrossing narratives, Duhigg brings to life a whole new understanding...

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Two Point Campus: Medical School

Choosing what to study can be a sickening task, but why choke down the wrong course when there are better pills to swallow at Medical School. They say laughter is the best medicine, but that isn’t true if you’re actually diseased or currently on fire. Each day, dozens of Two Point citizens trust the County’s medical campuses for their healthcare. Citing ...

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Science Meets Philosophy Taylor & Francis Ltd

The book is an attempt to bring together what are often seen as incommensurable scientific and philosophical positions. Taking a historical perspective, the book traces the divides in science back to three main philosophical traditions: realism, idealism, and scepticism. The book is intended for a general audience concerned with today’s debates on scientific knowledge an...

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What Should We be Worried About? - Brockman John

Anotace: Drawing from the horizons of science, today`s leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking about-and expose the false fears everyone else is distracted by. What should we be worried about? That is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world`s smartest website"-The Guardian), posed to the planet`s most influential minds. He asked...

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What We Cannot Know - Sautoy Marcus du

<p>‘Brilliant and fascinating. No one is better at making the recondite accessible and exciting’ Bill Bryson Britain’s most famous mathematician takes us to the edge of knowledge to show us what we cannot know. Is the universe infinite? Do we know what happened before the Big Bang? Where is human consciousness located in the brain? And are there more undiscovere...

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Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon - Lewis Michael

Anotace: From the #1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the high-octane story of the enigmatic figure at the heart of one of the 21st century`s most spectacular financial collapses `I asked him how much it would take for him to sell FTX and go do something other than make money. He thought the question over. "One hundred and fifty billion dollars," he f...

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Practitioner’s Guide to Data Science Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book aims to increase the visibility of data science in real-world, which differs from what you learn from a typical textbook. Many aspects of day-to-day data science work are almost absent from conventional statistics, machine learning, and data science curriculum. This book is for readers who want to explore possible career paths and eventually become data scientis...

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Practitioner’s Guide to Data Science Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book aims to increase the visibility of data science in real-world, which differs from what you learn from a typical textbook. Many aspects of day-to-day data science work are almost absent from conventional statistics, machine learning, and data science curriculum. This book is for readers who want to explore possible career paths and eventually become data scientis...

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The Future of Geography - Marshall Tim

Anotace: Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries` GDP. People on Mars within the next ten years.This isn`t science fiction. It`s astropolitics.Humans are heading up and out, and we`re taking our power struggles with us. Soon, what happens in space will shape human history as much the mountains, rivers and seas have on Earth. It`s no ...

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The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations from the author of the bestselling The 48 Laws of Power - Greene Robert

Anotace: THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE 48 LAWS OF POWER BRINGS YOU 365 MOREOver the last 25 years, Robert Greene has provided insights into every aspect of being human: whether that be getting what you want, understanding others` motivations, mastering your impulses, or recognising strengths and weaknesses. The Daily Laws distills that wisdom into easy-to...

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Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North - Joyceová Rachel

Anotace: The final novel in the Harold Fry trilogy, this is a heart-stopping story told from the view point of his wife Maureen as she takes her own journey and discovers how to reconnect with the world.Ten years ago, Harold Fry set off on his epic journey on foot to save a friend. But the story doesn`t end there.Now his wife, Maureen, has her own pilgrimage to make.Maur...

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Heartbreak - The School of Life Press

Anotace: Almost no one gets through life without, at some point, having their heart broken. Advice at such a dark moment tends to focus on letting time do the healing. But there is also a vital role for understanding and perspective. We sometimes make our situation far worse than it needs to be through certain ideas we develop about why we`ve been left. We start to tell ...

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Two Point Campus: Medical School (PC)

Choosing what to study can be a sickening task, but why choke down the wrong course when there are better pills to swallow at Medical School.They say laughter is the best medicine, but that isn&rsquo;t true if you&rsquo;re actually diseased or currently on fire.Each day, dozens of Two Point citizens trust the County&rsquo;s medical campuses for their healthcar...

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How to Not Die Alone: The Surprising Science That Will Help You Find Love - Ury Logan

Anotace: `A definitive guide for a generation navigating the murky waters of modern love` Esther PerelA funny and practical guide to help you find, build, and keep the relationship of your dreams.Have you ever looked around and wondered, "Why has everyone found love except me?" You`re not the only one. Great relationships don`t just appear in our lives - they`re the culm...

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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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Psychology of Job Interviews

Most people, at some point in their lives, experience the stress of being interviewed for a job. But what does the science tell us about this unique s

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The Tale of a Wall

A Palestinian prisoner’s memoir of thirty years’ captivity, and a love letter to the wall that encircles and comforts him This is the story of a wall that somehow chose me as the witness of what it said and didNasser Abu Srour grew up in a refugee camp in the West Bank, on the outskirts of Bethlehem. As a child, he played in its shadow and explored the little world within...

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How to Argue With a Racist : History, Science, Race and Reality - Rutherford Adam

Anotace: Racist pseudoscience may be on the rise, but science is no ally to racists. Instead science and history can be powerful allies against bigotry, granting us the clearest view of how people actually are, rather than how we judge them to be. HOW TO ARGUE WITH A RACIST dismantles outdated notions of race by illuminating what modern genetics can and can`t tell us abo...

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Attached : Are you Anxious, Avoidant or Secure? How the science of adult attachment can help you find - and keep - love - Rachel Heller

<p>'A groundbreaking book that redefines what it means to be in a relationship.' - John Gray, PhD., bestselling author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus Is there a science to love? In this groundbreaking book, psychiatrist and neuroscientist Amir Levine and psychologist Rachel S. F. Heller reveal how an understanding of attachment theory - the most advance...

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Tools and Weapons : The Promise and The Peril of the Digital Age - Smith Brad

Anotace: "A clear, compelling guide to some of the most pressing debates in technology today." - Bill Gates, from the foreword From Microsoft`s President and one of the tech industry`s wisest thinkers, a frank and thoughtful reckoning with how to balance enormous promise and existential risk as the digitization of everything accelerates. __________ Microsoft President Br...

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Nejlepší Science Fiction a fantasy 2011 - Jonathan Strahan

Druhý svazek ročenkové řady známého editora Jonathana Strahana nabízí čtenářům skvělou příležitost poznat kvalitu a rozmanitost současné angloamerické fantastiky ve velmi umně sestaveném výběru, v němž se bok po boku objevují nejen mistři žánrů science fiction a fantasy, ale i nadějní nováčci, jejichž práce u nás dosud neznáme. Těšit se můžete na česky dosud nepublikované...

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Against the Fall of Night - Clarke Arthur C.

Anotace: In the year ten billion A.D., Diaspar is the last city on Earth. Agelss and unchanging, the inhabitants see no reason to be curious about the outside world. But one child, Alvin - only seventeen and the last person to be born in Diaspar - finds that he is increasingly drawn to what lies outside the city walls. Even though he knows the Invaders, who devastated th...

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How To Prevent the Next Pandemic - Gates Bill

Anotace: The COVID-19 pandemic isn`t over, but even as governments around the world strive to put it behind us, they`re also starting to talk about what happens next. How can we prevent a new pandemic from killing millions of people and devastating the global economy? Can we even hope to accomplish this?Bill Gates believes the answer is yes, and in this book he lays out ...

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Agatha Christie: Radio 4 Book of the Week - Worsleyová Lucy

Anotace: ** Shortlisted for the @CrimeFest H.R.F. Keating Award **`A smart and highly entertaining portrait of a literary powerhouse`- THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR`A riveting portrait` - GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR***`Christie lovers should read this biography for the same reason they read her novels.` - The Times`A model of how to combine biographical information, analy...

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The Book of Life : (All Souls 3) - Harknessová Deborah

Anotace: Fall deeper under the spell of Diana and Matthew once more in the phenomenal climax to their epic tale, following A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES and SHADOW OF NIGHT. A world of witches, daemons and vampires. A manuscript which holds the secrets of their past and the key to their future. Diana and Matthew - the forbidden love at the heart of it. After travelling throu...

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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs : The Untold Story of a Lost World - Steve Brusatte

<p>The Times Science Book of the YearA Sunday Times Bestseller</p> <p>'Thrilling . . . the best book on the subject written for the general reader since the 1980s.' The Sunday Times</p> <p>66 million years ago the dinosaurs were wiped from the face of the earth. Today, Dr. Steve Brusatte, one of the leading scientists of a new generation of d...

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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need Paperback - 23 Aug. 2022 - Gates Bill

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.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, biology, eng...

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Monet. The Triumph of Impressionism - Daniel Wildenstein

<p>Claude Monet’s Impressionist technique still inspires to this day. Whether it’s his stunning Water Lilies series, or genre-defining Impression, Sunrise, discover what made Monet the master of French 19th-century artin this exuberant exploration of his life and work.</p> <p>The essential Impressionist No other artist, apart from J. M. W. Turner, tried ...

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To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods - Chang Molly X.

Anotace: Red Queen meets These Violent Delights and Iron Widow in an epic anti-colonial YA fantasy from debut author Molly X. Chang.`A thrilling tale of magic and murder, intrigue and betrayal.` Cassandra Clare`Hauntingly poetic prose` Xiran Jay Zhao`A tender and brutal fantasy that will leave readers breathless and eager for more` Rebecca RossKnown as The Girl Blessed B...

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Frostpunk Game of the Year Edition

Frostpunk: Game of the Year Edition consists of: Frostpunk – the full version of the highly acclaimed society survival game, which sold over 3 000 000 copies worldwide and won a number of critics awards. Frostpunk Season Pass - a set of three expansions of the Frostpunk universe: The Last Autumn is a turning point in the Frostpunk universe. Revealing the restless ev...

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The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing III

In Van Helsing III, the civil war is over in Borgovia, but the future looks grim. The city of weird science is in ruins, squabbling factions and criminals fight for power and a strange cult prophesizes the coming of “The end of times.” And they might be just right: A wave of uncanny events shakes the land, and it’s all connected to a mysterious creature,...

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Dalí: The Wines of Gala - Salvador Dalí

<p>Following up on the best-selling cookbook Les dîners de Gala, in this delightfully eccentric guide the surrealist master shares his passion for the gift of the gods. The book explores the many myths of the grape, in texts and sensuous and subversive works by the artist, always true to his maxim: “A real connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes of its secrets.” ...

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Frostpunk Game of the Year Edition (PC)

Frostpunk: Game of the Year Edition consists of:Frostpunk &ndash; the full version of the highly acclaimed society survival game, which sold over 3 000 000 copies worldwide and won a number of critics awards.Frostpunk Season Pass - a set of three expansions of the Frostpunk universe:The Last Autumn is a turning point in the Frostpunk universe. Revealing the restless e...

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The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness (1471146758)

Kniha - autor Sy Montgomery, 272 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction * New York Times Bestseller * Starred Booklist and Library Journal Editors’ Spring Pick * A Huffington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year * One of the Best Books of the Month on Goodreads * Library Journal Best Sci-Tech Book of the Year...

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