wyszukanych pozycji: 14
Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death
ISBN: 9780143038955 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A Pulitzer Prize?winning author tells the amazing story of William James's quest for empirical evidence of the spirit world
What if a world -renowned philosopher and professor of psychiatry at Harvard suddenly announced he believed in ghosts? At the close of the nineteenth century, the illustrious William James led a determined scientific investigation into ?unexplainable? incidences of clairvoyance and ghostly visitations. James and a small group of eminent scientists staked their reputations, their careers, even their sanity on one of the most extraordinary quests ever... A Pulitzer Prize?winning author tells the amazing story of William James's quest for empirical evidence of the spirit world
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105,08 zł |
The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780143111122 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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78,81 zł |
Ghost Hunters
ISBN: 9780099469346 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Blum tells the fascinating story of William James--philosopher and Harvard psychiatry professor--and his scientific investigation into unexplainable incidences of clairvoyance and ghostly visitations.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Blum tells the fascinating story of William James--philosopher and Harvard psychiatry professor--and his scientific inve...
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88,48 zł |
Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection
ISBN: 9780465026012 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In the early twentieth century, affection between parents and their children was discouraged--psychologists thought it would create needy kids, and doctors thought it would spread infectious disease. It took a revolution in psychology to overturn these beliefs and prove that touch ensures emotional and intellectual health.
In Love at Goon Park, Pulitzer Prize winner Deborah Blum charts this profound cultural shift by tracing the story of Harry Harlow--the man who studied neglect and its life-altering consequences on primates in his lab. The biography of both a man and an idea, Love at Goon... In the early twentieth century, affection between parents and their children was discouraged--psychologists thought it would create needy kids, and do...
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104,76 zł |
A Field Guide for Science Writers: The Official Guide of the National Association of Science Writers
ISBN: 9780195174991 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is the official text for the National Association of Science Writers. In the eight years since the publication of the first edition of A Field Guide for Science Writing, much about the world has changed. Some of the leading issues in today's political marketplace - embryonic stem cell research, global warming, health care reform, space exploration, genetic privacy, germ warfare - are informed by scientific ideas. Never has it been more crucial for the lay public to be scientifically literate. That's where science writers come in. And that's why it's time for an update to the...
This is the official text for the National Association of Science Writers. In the eight years since the publication of the first edition of A Fiel...
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110,84 zł |
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
ISBN: 9780143118824 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Equal parts true crime, twentieth-century history, and science thriller, The Poisoner's Handbook is "a vicious, page-turning story that reads more like Raymond Chandler than Madame Curie" (The New York Observer)
A fascinating Jazz Age tale of chemistry and detection, poison and murder, The Poisoner's Handbook is a page-turning account of a forgotten era. In early twentieth-century New York, poisons offered an easy path to the perfect crime. Science had no place in the Tammany Hall-controlled coroner's office, and corruption ran rampant. However, with the... Equal parts true crime, twentieth-century history, and science thriller, The Poisoner's Handbook is "a vicious, page-turning story that read...
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83,19 zł |
Sex on the Brain: The Biological Differences Between Men and Women
ISBN: 9780140263480 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Go beyond the headlines and the hype to get the newest findings in the burgeoning field of gender studies. Drawing on disciplines that include evolutionary science, anthropology, animal behavior, neuroscience, psychology, and endocrinology, Deborah Blum explores matters ranging from the link between immunology and sex to male/female gossip styles. The results are intriguing, startling, and often very amusing. For instance, did you know that. . .
? Male testosterone levels drop in happy marriages; scientists speculate that women may use monogamy to control male behavior ? Young female... Go beyond the headlines and the hype to get the newest findings in the burgeoning field of gender studies. Drawing on disciplines that include evoluti...
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105,08 zł |
Bad Karma
ISBN: 9781490479064 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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68,91 zł |
The Monkey Wars
ISBN: 9780195101096 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The controversy over the use of primates in research admits of no easy answers. We have all benefited from the medical discoveries of primate research--vaccines for polio, rubella, and hepatitis B are just a few. But we have also learned more in recent years about how intelligent apes and monkeys really are: they can speak to us with sign language, they can even play video games (and are as obsessed with the games as any human teenager). And activists have also uncovered widespread and unnecessarily callous treatment of animals by researchers (in 1982, a Silver Spring lab was charged with 17...
The controversy over the use of primates in research admits of no easy answers. We have all benefited from the medical discoveries of primate research...
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110,84 zł |
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014
ISBN: 9780544003422 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Undeniably exquisite . . .The essays in the collection are] meditations that reveal not only how science actually happens but also who or what propels its immutable humanity. Maria Popova, Brain Pickings A stimulating compendium. Kirkus Reviews Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author Deborah Blum selects the year stop science and nature writing from writers who balance research with humanity and in the process uncover riveting stories of discovery across the disciplines."
Undeniably exquisite . . .The essays in the collection are] meditations that reveal not only how science actually happens but also who or what... |
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96,29 zł |
The Rule in Bits and Pieces
ISBN: 9781599103761 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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122,60 zł |
A Tactical Guide to Science Journalism: Lessons from the Front Lines
ISBN: 9780197551509 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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145,70 zł |
Growing for Justice: A Developmental Continuum of Leadership Capacities and Practices
ISBN: 9781071818893 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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162,91 zł |
The Rule in Bits and Pieces
ISBN: 9781599103754 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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196,16 zł |