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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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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The Diet Myth: The Real Science Behind What We Eat - Spector Tim

Anotace: Fully updated throughout and with a new foreword for this edition.Why do most diets fail? Why does one person eat a certain meal and gain weight, while another eating the same meal loses pounds? Why, despite all the advice about what to eat, are we all still getting fatter?The answers are much more surprising - and fascinating - than we`ve been led to believe. T...

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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 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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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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What If? 2 - Munroe Randall

Anotace: WHAT IF... one man decided to answer all the unanswerable questions, using science.The Sunday Times-bestselling author and xkcd creator, Randall Munroe is here to provide the best answers yet to the important questions you probably never thought to askThe millions of people around the world who read and loved What If? still have questions, and those questions ar...

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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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Why We Dream : The Science, Creativity and Transformative Power of Dreams - Robbová Alice

Anotace: We all dream, and 98 per cent of us can recall our dreams the next morning. Even in today`s modern age, it is human nature to wonder what they mean. With incredible new discoveries and stunning science, Why We Dream will give you dramatic insight into yourself and your body. You`ll never think of dreams in the same way again . . .Groundbreaking science is puttin...

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I, Mammal : The Story of What Makes Us Mammals - Drew Liam

Anotace: Humans are mammals. Most of us appreciate that at some level. But what does it mean for us to have more in common with a horse and an elephant than we do with a parrot, snake or frog? After a misdirected football left new father Liam Drew clutching a uniquely mammalian part of his anatomy, he decided to find out more. Considering himself as a mammal first and a ...

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The Power of Hormones: The new science of how hormones shape every aspect of our lives - Nieuwdorp Max

Anotace: From a world-leading hormones specialist, the definitive book on the science of hormones and how understanding the secrets of our body`s messengers can revolutionise our health and wellbeing Hormones are the messengers that drive every process in our body. They are essential to how we grow, fight disease and digest food; why we struggle to sleep, lose weight ...

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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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Eyes of the Void

Anotace: From the author of the thrilling science-fiction epic Children of Time, which won the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award. Eyes of the Void is the second high-octane instalment in Adrian Tchaikovsky`s Final Architecture space opera trilogy.`One of the most interesting and accomplished writers in speculative fiction` - Christopher PaoliniWhat waits in the shadows ...

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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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Practitioner’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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Why We Eat (Too Much) : The New Science of Appetite - Andrew Jenkinson

<p>We've all heard the golden rule: eat less, exercise more and you'll lose weight. But what if it isn't that simple? For over two decades, weight loss surgeon Dr Andrew Jenkinson has treated thousands of people who have become trapped in the endless cycle of dieting. Why We Eat (Too Much), combines case studies from his practice and the new science of metabolism t...

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Dominion : The Making of the Western Mind - Holland Tom

Anotace: `If great books encourage you to look at the world in an entirely new way, then Dominion is a very great book indeed . . . Written with terrific learning, enthusiasm and good humour, Holland`s book is not just supremely provocative, but often very funny` Sunday Times History Book of the YearChristianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient ...

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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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Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You - Abdaal Ali

Anotace: `The master of productivity.` Steven Bartlett, creator of Diary of a CEO`The book we`ve all been waiting for.` Dr Julie Smith, author of Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?`This book will free you from the guilt and shame of feeling like you`re not doing enough and guide you to accomplish more than you ever dreamed of.` Jay Shetty, author of Think Like a Monk an...

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Birdsong in a Time of Silence - Lovatt Steven

Anotace: A lyrical celebration of birdsong, and the rekindling of a deep passion for nature.`At this time of year, blackbirds never simply fly: instead, like reluctantly retired officers, they`re always "on manoeuvres", and it`s easy to see from their constant agitation that for them every flower bed is a bunker, every shed a redoubt and every hedge-bottom a potential pl...

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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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Bitch: What does it mean to be female? - Cooke Lucy

Anotace: `A dazzling, funny and elegantly angry demolition of our preconceptions about female behaviour and sex in the animal kingdom ... Bitch is a blast. I read it, my jaw sagging in astonishment, jotting down favourite parts to send to friends and reading out snippets gleefully...` Observer`A book that is tearing down the stereotypes and the biases. Absolutely fascina...

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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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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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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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Call of the Night 12 - Kotoyama

Anotace: Antisocial, dorky boy seeks fun-loving, sexy vampire for blood-sucking and transforming into her minion.One sleepless night, Ko slips out to walk the streets. Life after dark is a revelation! Especially when he meets flirtatious Nazuna. Except that she`s a vampire. That`s okay. He wants to become a creature of the night too. But transformation doesn`t come that ...

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Neuromancer: The Best of the SF Masterworks - Gibson William

Anotace: Henry Dorsett Case is a low-level hustler, former hack and `console cowboy` who crashed and burned. His nerves were damaged and thus cut off from the digital matrix, he slouches through life.Until he meets Molly, an augmented `razorgirl`, who offers him a deal on behalf of a shadowy man called Armitage. His nerves repaired and matrix access restored, in ex...

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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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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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The Dream of Enlightenment : The Rise of Modern Philosophy - Gottlieb Anthony

Anotace: The author of the celebrated The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought from Descartes to RousseauIn a short period - from the early 1640s to the eve of the French Revolution - Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume all made their mark on Western thought. The Dream of Enlightenment tells their story and that of the birth of mod...

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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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Funny Story: A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author Emily Henry - Henryová Emily

Anotace: A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author Emily Henry-----Daphne always loved the way her fiance Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together...

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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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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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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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Emotional: The New Thinking About Feelings - Mlodinow Leonard

Anotace: `Both a brilliant scholar and a great writer, Leonard Mlodinow guides us through the fascinating science of what we feel, and why - and what we can do about it. I learned a lot from this wonderful book` Rick HansonWe`ve been told we need to master our emotions and think rationally to succeed. But cutting-edge science shows that feelings are every bit as importan...

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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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Dali The Wines of Gala - Hans Werner Holzwarth

Anotace: Hot on the heels (or lobster claws) of the best-selling Salvador Dali phenomenon, Les diners de Gala, TASCHEN presents the artist's equally surreal and sensual viticulture follow-up: The Wines of Gala. A Dalinian take on pleasures of the grape and a coveted collectible, the book sets out to organize wines "according to the sensations they create in our very dept...

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Dominion : The Making of the Western Mind - Tom Holland

<p>'If great books encourage you to look at the world in an entirely new way, then Dominion is a very great book indeed . . . Written with terrific learning, enthusiasm and good humour, Holland's book is not just supremely provocative, but often very funny' Sunday Times History Book of the Year Christianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient...

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