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Richard Carew, 'The Examination of Men's Wits'
ISBN: 9781781881613 / Angielski / Miękka / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Juan Huarte de San Juan (1529-1588) was a Spanish physician and natural philosopher who strove to answer why men possess specific natural abilities that prepare them to excel only in particular fields of knowledge. With his treatise Examen de ingenios para las ciencias (Baeza, 1575), dedicated to King Philip II, Huarte hoped to form a body of naturally accomplished professionals by providing readers with clues to identify their leading wit and the career path associated with it. The book experienced such overwhelming success in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries-it underwent fifty-five...
Juan Huarte de San Juan (1529-1588) was a Spanish physician and natural philosopher who strove to answer why men possess specific natural abilities th...
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Richard Carew, 'The Examination of Men's Wits'
ISBN: 9781907322815 / Angielski / Twarda / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Juan Huarte de San Juan (1529-1588) was a Spanish physician and natural philosopher who strove to answer why men possess specific natural abilities that prepare them to excel only in particular fields of knowledge. With his treatise Examen de ingenios para las ciencias (Baeza, 1575), dedicated to King Philip II, Huarte hoped to form a body of naturally accomplished professionals by providing readers with clues to identify their leading wit and the career path associated with it. The book experienced such overwhelming success in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries-it underwent fifty-five...
Juan Huarte de San Juan (1529-1588) was a Spanish physician and natural philosopher who strove to answer why men possess specific natural abilities th...
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y a-t-il une raison à l'homme: Une Histoire Subliminale de Dieu
ISBN: 9781500893118 / Francuski / Miękka / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Depuis la deuxieme moitie du XIXeme siecle, un phenomene massif de decouvertes scientifiques a bouleverse l'humanite... En quoi la theorie de l'evolution selon Darwin, la relativite selon Einstein, la mecanique quantique, la genetique, peuvent-elles revolutionner l'idee que nous nous faisons de nous-memes ? Mais aussi... Comment la mecanique quantique et l'espace-temps einsteinien instruisent-ils le proces de l'idee traditionnelle et jusque la indeboulonnable du hasard ? En quoi, la microbiologie, mais aussi les temps de la Vie et de la paleontologie peuvent-ils critiquer la theorie...
Depuis la deuxieme moitie du XIXeme siecle, un phenomene massif de decouvertes scientifiques a bouleverse l'humanite... En quoi la theorie de l'evolut...
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Eugenics and Other Evils
ISBN: 9781502722867 / Angielski / Miękka / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. It is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists. It is no answer to say, with a distant optimism, that the scheme is only in the air. A blow from a hatchet can only be parried while it is in the air. There exists to-day a scheme of action, a school of thought, as collective and unmistakable as...
The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. ...
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Imagination and Rigor: Essays on Eduardo R. Caianiello's Scientific Heritage
ISBN: 9788847056190 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The aim of this volume of scientific essays is twofold. On the one hand, by remembering the scientific figure of Eduardo R. Caianiello, it aims at focusing on his outstanding contributions from theoretical physics to cybernetics which after so many years still represent occasion of innovative paths to be fruitfully followed. It must be stressed the contribution that his interdisciplinary methodology can still be of great help in affording and solving present day complex problems. On the other hand, it aims at pinpointing with the help of the scientists contributing to the volume some... The aim of this volume of scientific essays is twofold. On the one hand, by remembering the scientific figure of Eduardo R. Caianiello, it aims at ... |
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Autobiography and Selected Essays
ISBN: 9781503034662 / Angielski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thomas Henry Huxley (4 May 1825 - 29 June 1895) was an English biologist (comparative anatomist), known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
Thomas Henry Huxley (4 May 1825 - 29 June 1895) was an English biologist (comparative anatomist), known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Char...
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The Economist
ISBN: 9781503049635 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing
ISBN: 9780544286740 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Best American Series The Best American Series |
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Ten Years To the Singularity If We Really Really Try: ... and other Essays on AGI and its Implications
ISBN: 9781505550825 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ray Kurzweil has projected the date for a Technological Singularity as 2045. AI researcher Ben Goertzel believes it could potentially happen much sooner, if appropriate attention and resources are focused on the right R&D projects. What current technologies are most likely to lead to the rapid advent of powerful Artificial General Intelligence systems? What impact will the advent of such technologies have upon human life? What philosophical, scientific and spiritual ideas should be deployed to explore such questions? How probable are Terminator type outcomes, versus friendlier scenarios where...
Ray Kurzweil has projected the date for a Technological Singularity as 2045. AI researcher Ben Goertzel believes it could potentially happen much soon...
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The origin of species 1859
ISBN: 9781505831276 / Angielski / Miękka / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Darwin's book introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. It presented a body of evidence that the diversity of life arose by common descent through a branching pattern of evolution. Darwin included evidence that he had gathered on the Beagle expedition in the 1830s and his subsequent findings from research, correspondence, and experimentation.
Darwin's book introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. It prese...
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About Orchids
ISBN: 9781507595510 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. About Orchids is a classic gardening guide by Frederick Boyle. "I thank you for reminding your readers, by reference to my humble work, that the delight of growing orchids and flower gardening can be enjoyed by persons of very modest fortune. To spread that knowledge is my contribution to philanthropy, and I make bold to say that it ranks as high as some which are commended from pulpits and platforms."
About Orchids is a classic gardening guide by Frederick Boyle. "I thank you for reminding your readers, by reference to my humble work, that the delig...
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Zoom: From Atoms and Galaxies to Blizzards and Bees: How Everything Moves
ISBN: 9780316217392 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the speed of light to moving mountains--and everything in between--ZOOM explores how the universe and its objects move.
If you sit as still as you can in a quiet room, you might be able to convince yourself that nothing is moving. But air currents are still wafting around you. Blood rushes through your veins. The atoms in your chair jiggle furiously. In fact, the planet you are sitting on is whizzing through space thirty-five times faster than the speed of sound. Natural motion dominates our lives and the intricate mechanics of the world around us. In ZOOM, Bob Berman explores... From the speed of light to moving mountains--and everything in between--ZOOM explores how the universe and its objects move.
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Why I Am An Agnostic
ISBN: 9781508444107 / Angielski / Miękka / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why I Am An Agnostic is a classic religious study by Robert Green Ingersoll. For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion of our garments, depend on where we were born. We are molded and fashioned by our surroundings.
Why I Am An Agnostic is a classic religious study by Robert Green Ingersoll. For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and...
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Geological Observations of Volcanic Islands
ISBN: 9781508896487 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The preparation of the series of works published under the general title "Geology of the Voyage of the 'Beagle'" occupied a great part of Darwin's time during the ten years that followed his return to England. The second volume of the series, entitled "Geological Observations on Volcanic Islands, with Brief Notices on the Geology of Australia and the Cape of Good Hope," made its appearance in 1844. The materials for this volume were collected in part during the outward voyage, when the "Beagle" called at St. Jago in the Cape de Verde Islands, and St. Paul's Rocks, and at Fernando Noronha, but...
The preparation of the series of works published under the general title "Geology of the Voyage of the 'Beagle'" occupied a great part of Darwin's tim...
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La Science et l'Hypothèse
ISBN: 9781511913133 / Francuski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Ce à quoi toute femme pense si elle ne pense pas à l'amour
ISBN: 9781512353693 / Francuski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ce vrai faux livre, ne contenant que des pages blanches, peut etre un parfait cadeau, une surprenante plaisanterie, a offrir avec ou sans arriere pensee. Attention, un cadeau qui n'est peut-etre pas tout a fait anodin et qui fait passer un certain message, tout de meme... Plus loin, puisque apparemment, selon le professeur Delasource, les femmes ne pensent a rien d'autre qu'a l'amour, on peut tout a fait le contredire en utilisant son livre comme support d'un journal intime ou d'un vrai livre, ou vous coucherez au stylo a bille, ou a plume, toutes vos autres pensees... Un livre pour...
Ce vrai faux livre, ne contenant que des pages blanches, peut etre un parfait cadeau, une surprenante plaisanterie, a offrir avec ou sans arri...
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Ce à quoi tout homme pense s'il ne pense pas au sexe
ISBN: 9781512355369 / Francuski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ce vrai faux livre, ne contenant que des pages blanches, peut etre un parfait cadeau, une surprenante plaisanterie, a offrir avec ou sans arriere pensee. Attention, un cadeau qui n'est peut-etre pas tout a fait anodin et qui fait passer un certain message, tout de meme... Plus loin, puisque apparemment, selon le professeur Delasource, les hommes ne pensent a rien d'autre qu'au sexe, on peut tout a fait le contredire en utilisant son livre comme support d'un journal intime ou d'un vrai livre, ou vous coucherez au stylo a bille, ou a plume, toutes vos autres pensees... Un livre pour...
Ce vrai faux livre, ne contenant que des pages blanches, peut etre un parfait cadeau, une surprenante plaisanterie, a offrir avec ou sans arri...
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Proyecto Smog: Santiago de la Nueva Extremadura (1541-2008)
ISBN: 9781517621315 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Proyecto Smog" es un document que denuncia con valor la tragedia de vivir bajo una atmosfera cargada de monoxidos, causa de irreparables danos en la gran urbe Capital de la Republica de Chile. Su contenido es lo que senala su titulo: "un Proyecto" mediante el cual su Autor expone el gravisimo problema que ataca a la biogenesis y al ecosistema global, porque la civilizacion y la tecnologia van conduciendo al mundo a la decapitacion social. Esta Obra es un real acierto del Profesor y Doctor Emilio Galan."
"Proyecto Smog" es un document que denuncia con valor la tragedia de vivir bajo una atmosfera cargada de monoxidos, causa de irreparables danos en la ...
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The Proper Pugilist: Essays on the Milling Art
ISBN: 9781514417072 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Best Australian Science Writing, 2015
ISBN: 9781742234410 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How does dust connect the cosmos with our bed sheets? Why do lobsters do the Mexican Wave backwards? And what makes us feel wetness when there s no such thing as wet nerve receptors? Now in its fifth year, "The Best Australian Science Writing 2015" draws on the knowledge and insight of Australia s brightest thinkers in examining the world around us. From our obsession with Mars to the mating habits of fish, this lively collection delights in challenging our perceptions of the planet we think we know."
How does dust connect the cosmos with our bed sheets? Why do lobsters do the Mexican Wave backwards? And what makes us feel wetness when there s no su...
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