ilość książek w kategorii: 108841
On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long If You Know How to Use It
ISBN: 9780143036326 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves--and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives--and destroyed them.
Now, Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are. Penguin's Great Ideas series features twelve groundbreaking works by some of history's most prodigious thinkers, and each volume is beautifully... Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves--and each other. They have inspired debate, diss...
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64,89 zł |
Why I Am So Wise
ISBN: 9780143036340 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them.
Now, Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are. Penguin's Great Ideas series features twelve groundbreaking works by some of history's most prodigious thinkers, and each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique... Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, disse...
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51,91 zł |
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
ISBN: 9780143037248 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A stimulating exploration of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown from the author of Men Explain Things To Me Written as a series of autobiographical essays, A Field Guide to Getting Lost draws on emblematic moments and relationships in Rebecca Solnit's life to explore issues of uncertainty, trust, loss, memory, desire, and place. Solnit is interested in the stories we use to navigate our way through the world, and the places we traverse, from wilderness to cities, in finding ourselves, or losing ourselves. While deeply personal, her own stories link up...
A stimulating exploration of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown from the author of Men Explain Things To Me Written ...
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77,87 zł |
The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa
ISBN: 9780143037330 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A New York Times bestseller a dazzling and inspirational survey of how art can be found and appreciated in everyday life
Michael Kimmelman, the prominent New York Times writer and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, is known as a deep and graceful writer across the disciplines of art and music and also as a pianist who understands something about the artist's sensibility from the inside. Readers have come to expect him not only to fill in their knowledge about art but also to inspire them to think about connections between art and the larger... A New York Times bestseller a dazzling and inspirational survey of how art can be found and appreciated in everyday life
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103,82 zł |
The Symposium
ISBN: 9780143037538 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin's Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of history's most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-driven design that highlights the bookmaker's art. Offering great literature in great packages at great prices, this series is ideal for those readers who want to explore and savor the Great Ideas that have shaped our world.
Plato's retelling of the discourses between Socrates and his friends on such subjects as love and desire, truth and illusion, spiritual transcendence and... The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin's Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of history's most prodigious...
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103,82 zł |
Fear and Trembling
ISBN: 9780143037576 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin's Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of history's most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-driven design that highlights the bookmaker's art. Offering great literature in great packages at great prices, this series is ideal for those readers who want to explore and savor the Great Ideas that have shaped our world.
Regarded as the father of Existentialism, Kierkegaard transformed philosophy with his conviction that we must all create our own nature; in this great work... The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin's Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of history's most prodigious...
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73,54 zł |
The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
ISBN: 9780143037880 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Startling in scope and bravado. Janet Maslin, The New York Times
Artfully envisions a breathtakingly better world. Los Angeles Times Elaborate, smart and persuasive. The Boston Globe A pleasure to read. The Wall Street Journal One ofCBS News s Best Fall Books of 2005 AmongSt Louis Post-Dispatch s Best Nonfiction Books of 2005 One of Amazon.com s Best Science Books of 2005 A radical and optimistic view of the future course of human development from the bestselling... Startling in scope and bravado. Janet Maslin, The New York Times
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112,48 zł |
Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everythingin the Cosmos, Fromou R Brains to Black Holes
ISBN: 9780143038399 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The author of Zero explains the scientific revolution that is transforming the way we understand our world
Previously the domain of philosophers and linguists, information theory has now moved beyond the province of code breakers to become the crucial science of our time. In Decoding the Universe, Charles Seife draws on his gift for making cutting-edge science accessible to explain how this new tool is deciphering everything from the purpose of our DNA to the parallel universes of our Byzantine cosmos. The result is an exhilarating adventure that deftly combines... The author of Zero explains the scientific revolution that is transforming the way we understand our world
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103,82 zł |
The Portable Benjamin Franklin
ISBN: 9780143039549 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It takes a very inclusive anthology to encompass the protean personality and range of interests of Benjamin Franklin, but The Portable Benjamin Franklin succeeds as no collection has. In addition to the complete Autobiography, the volume contains about 100 of Franklin's major writings--essays, journalism, letters, political tracts, scientific observations, proposals for the improvement of civic and personal life, literary bagatelles, and private musings. The selections are reprinted in their entirety and organized chronologically within six sections that represent the full range of...
It takes a very inclusive anthology to encompass the protean personality and range of interests of Benjamin Franklin, but The Portable Benjamin Fra...
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108,15 zł |
Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography
ISBN: 9780156005517 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In his best achievement to date (Harold Bloom), National Book Award- winner Roger Shattuck gives us a deeply learned, highly intelligent, and beautifully written (New York Times) study of human curiosity versus the taboo, from Adam and Eve to the Marquis de Sade to biotechnology research. Index.
" In his best achievement to date (Harold Bloom), National Book Award- winner Roger Shattuck gives us a deeply learned, highly intelligent, and beautifu...
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82,15 zł |
In Search of the Miraculous: The Definitive Exploration of G. I. Gurdjieff's Mystical Thought and Universal View
ISBN: 9780156007467 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A new edition of the groundbreaking spiritual treasure, with a foreword by bestselling author Marianne Williamson .
Since its original publication in 1949, In Search of the Miraculous has been hailed as the most valuable and reliable documentation of G. I. Gurdjieff's thoughts and universal view. This historic and influential work is considered by many to be a primer of mystical thought as expressed through the Work, a combination of Eastern philosophies that had for centuries been passed on orally from teacher to student. Gurdjieff's goal, to introduce the Work to the West, attracted... A new edition of the groundbreaking spiritual treasure, with a foreword by bestselling author Marianne Williamson .
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86,48 zł |
Probability 1
ISBN: 9780156010801 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For thousands of years, it was the visionaries and writers who argued that we cannot be alone-that there is intellegent life in the universe. Now, with the discoveries of the Hubble Telescope, data emerging from Mars, and knowledge about life at the extremes, scientists are taking up where they left off. Amir Aczel, author of Fermat's Last Theorem, pulls together everyting science has discovered, and mixes in proabability theory, to argure the case for the existence of intelligent life beyond this planet. Probability 1 is an extraordinary tour de force in which the author draws on cosmology,...
For thousands of years, it was the visionaries and writers who argued that we cannot be alone-that there is intellegent life in the universe. Now, wit...
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82,15 zł |
Activation of Energy
ISBN: 9780156028172 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An important Christian philosopher contends that if human energy is channeled in the right direction, "upward and outward," spiritual energy as a motor force in the universe will outdistance technological advance. Index. Translated by Rene Hague. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
" An important Christian philosopher contends that if human energy is channeled in the right direction, "upward and outward," spiritual energy as a moto...
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129,56 zł |
Mind Over Matter: Conversations with the Cosmos
ISBN: 9780156029568 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 319 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The universe comes down to earth in K. C. Cole's Mind Over Matter, a fresh and witty exploration of physics, cosmology, mathematics, astronomy, and more. Like no other science writer, Cole demystifies scientific concepts and humanizes the people who study them. Beginning with a discussion of how "the mind creates reality as well as muddles it," she then peeks into the stories behind science's great minds and into their playful side, and concludes by illuminating the relationship between science and society. Cole's remarkable work brings science to the reader's doorstep, revealing the universe...
The universe comes down to earth in K. C. Cole's Mind Over Matter, a fresh and witty exploration of physics, cosmology, mathematics, astronomy, and mo...
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90,80 zł |
The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead
ISBN: 9780156030052 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. You're standing at an ATM. It can't access account information but allows unlimited withdrawals. Do you take more than your balance? David Callahan thinks most of us would. While there have always been those who cut corners, he shows that cheating on every level--from the highly publicized corporate scandals to Little League fraud--has risen dramatically in the last two decades. Why all the cheating? Why now?
Callahan pins the blame on the dog-eat-dog economic climate of the past two decades. An unfettered market and unprecedented economic inequality have corroded our values, he... You're standing at an ATM. It can't access account information but allows unlimited withdrawals. Do you take more than your balance? David Callahan th...
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82,15 zł |
Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages
ISBN: 9780156030090 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Europe was in the long slumber of the Middle Ages, the Roman Empire was in tatters, and the Greek language was all but forgotten, until a group of twelfth-century scholars rediscovered and translated the works of Aristotle. His ideas spread like wildfire across Europe, offering the scientific view that the natural world, including the soul of man, was a proper subject of study. The rediscovery of these ancient ideas sparked riots and heresy trials, caused major upheavals in the Catholic Church, and also set the stage for today's rift between reason and religion.
In Aristotle's Children,... Europe was in the long slumber of the Middle Ages, the Roman Empire was in tatters, and the Greek language was all but forgotten, until a group of twe...
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94,95 zł |
Anaximander, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Plotinus, Lao-Tzu, Nagarjuna
ISBN: 9780156075008 / Angielski / Miękka / 1974 / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Taken from the Great Philosphers, Volume II.
Taken from the Great Philosphers, Volume II.
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69,17 zł |
Anselm and Nicholas of Cusa
ISBN: 9780156076005 / Angielski / Miękka / 1974 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Taken from the Great Philosphers, Volume II.
Taken from the Great Philosphers, Volume II.
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69,17 zł |
Behind the Mirror
ISBN: 9780156117760 / Angielski / Miękka / 1978 / 261 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Nobel laureate Lorenz here investigates culture as a living system. From amoebas to humans, he traces the physiological mechanisms that direct behavior and thought. Translated by Ronald Taylor; Index. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.
Nobel laureate Lorenz here investigates culture as a living system. From amoebas to humans, he traces the physiological mechanisms that direct behavio...
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73,50 zł |
Black Mischief: Language, Life, Logic, Luck - Second Edition
ISBN: 9780156130639 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 363 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A protean look at the science establishment-as well as the personalities behind the scenes-in such fields as behavioral psychology, linguistics, and economics.
A protean look at the science establishment-as well as the personalities behind the scenes-in such fields as behavioral psychology, linguistics, and e...
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93,12 zł |