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  • Reason, Faith, and Purpose
    John R Fanchi
    Reason, Faith, and Purpose: The Ultimate Gamble is a guide for believers and inquiring skeptics. This book summarizes the scientific view of the origins of the universe and life and analyzes the question of the existence of god from philosophical, religious, and scientific perspectives.The material is presented in two parts. Part I presents the secular, scientific view of the o...
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    71,21 €

  • A Theory of Wonder
    Gonzalo Munévar
    ’A Theory of Wonder’ aims to determine the best way science can satisfy our sense of wonder by exploring the world. Empiricism tells us that science succeeds because it follows the scientific method: Observation passes judgment on Theory - supporting or rejecting it. Much credit is given to the inventor of the method, Galileo, but when historically-minded philosophers of scienc...
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    77,03 €

  • Social Housing Homes in 25 Paintings
    Thurston Jones
    ’Social Housing Homes in 25 Paintings’ describes how these homes rose to prominence from the slums of the Industrial Revolution and the destruction of war-torn Britain.Following the wars, the Government passed various Acts aimed to improve or demolish existing homes that were unfit for habitation and build the homes that we may see today.This is an illustrated story of how thes...
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    10,73 €

  • The End of the World and the Last God
    Pierre-Henri d’Argenson / M. James Christie / MJames Christie
    The End of the World and the Last God is a philosophical work that poses a disturbing existential question: what if mankind is definitively bored with Earth? And if so, what will happen if we fail to find a way out of our planet? ...
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    34,77 €

  • Impact and Role of Digital Technologies in Adolescent Lives
    Digital technology covers digital information in every form. The world lives in an information age in which massive amounts of data are being produced to improve our daily lives. This intelligent digital network incorporates interconnected people, robots, gadgets, content, and services all determined by digital transformation. The role of digital technologies in children’s, ado...
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    216,17 €

  • Applied Ethics in a Digital World
    As advances in disruptive technologies transform politics and increase the velocity of information and policy flows worldwide, the public is being confronted with changes that move faster than they can comprehend. There is an urgent need to analyze and communicate the ethical issues of these advancements. In a perpetually updating digital world, data is becoming the dominant ba...
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    216,20 €

  • The Metaphysics and Mathematics of Arbitrary Objects
    Leon Horsten
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    41,96 €

  • Perfect Zero
    Jr. Rod Martin
    12 essays on the beauty and utility of zero. 'Similar to the slick vacuum of space, which has zero mass and zero density, zero remains deceptively simple. Behind the mask of nothingness there lurks a strange beast full of mystery and wonder.'-Perfect Zero, Introduction. Meditation, government, miracles, religion, mathematics, science, entropy, law of attraction and more.1. The ...
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    34,29 €

  • Evidential Decision Theory
    Arif Ahmed
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    25,66 €

  • Humanity Reimagined
    Martin Fiore
    For years, executive Martin Fiore has been advising leaders from a wide range of industries about technological trends that are reshaping the world of business, from artificial intelligence and the rise of autonomous systems to human/machine convergence. Now, in Humanity Reimagined, Fiore explores how these trends are disrupting industries, changing the world of work, transform...
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    20,54 €

  • Humanity Reimagined
    Martin Fiore
    For decades, executive Martin Fiore has been advising leaders from a wide range of industries about technological trends that are reshaping the world of business, from artificial intelligence and the rise of autonomous systems to human/machine convergence. Now, in Humanity Reimagined, Fiore explores how these trends are disrupting industries, changing the world of work, transfo...
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    15,83 €

  • The Causal Structure of Natural Selection
    Charles H. Pence / Charles HPence
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    63,63 €

  • The Causal Structure of Natural Selection
    Charles H. Pence
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    25,32 €

  • Science Is Culture
    Adam Bly / Magazine Seed
    Seed magazine brings together a unique gathering of prominent scientists, artists, novelists, philosophers and other thinkers who are tearing down the wall between science and culture.We are on the cusp of a twenty-first-century scientific renaissance. Science is driving our culture and conversation unlike ever before, transforming the social, political, economic, aesthetic, an...
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    15,13 €

  • Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Diversity and Equity in a Virtual World
    Almost every citizen of the world has been impacted as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In many cases, this included a shift from face-to-face interactions to a virtual platform. Understanding the impact of diversity and equity in the virtual world from a professional perspective is new and should be closely studied as professions continue to use virtual platforms in the upco...
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    216,17 €

  • Darwin’s Argument by Analogy
    Gregory Radick / M. J. S. Hodge / MJSHodge / Roger M. White / Roger MWhite
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    128,10 €

  • Kuhn’s Intellectual Path
    K. Brad Wray / KBrad Wray
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    128,17 €

  • Cantidades hechizadas y silogísticas del sobresalto
    Ómar Vargas
    Arguably the most important Cuban writer of the twentieth century, José Lezama Lima (1910-1976) is well-known as a poet, essayist, cultural promoter, and novelist, but not as a scientist. In fact, there is no evidence of any concrete relationship between him and any pure science discipline. How then it is possible to establish connections between Lezama’s literary works and the...
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    143,55 €

  • Cantidades hechizadas y silogísticas del sobresalto
    Ómar Vargas
    Arguably the most important Cuban writer of the twentieth century, José Lezama Lima (1910-1976) is well-known as a poet, essayist, cultural promoter, and novelist, but not as a scientist. In fact, there is no evidence of any concrete relationship between him and any pure science discipline. How then it is possible to establish connections between Lezama’s literary works and the...
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    64,59 €

  • Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Mathematics
    Juliet Floyd
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    25,50 €

  • Ignorance and Surprise
    Matthias Gross
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    27,07 €

  • Causation
    Luke Fenton-Glynn
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    25,56 €

  • Interpreting Kuhn
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    127,99 €

  • Naturalizing God?
    Mikael Leidenhag
    Evaluates religious naturalists’ attempts to find a middle path between supernaturalism and atheistic secularism, and explores naturalistic, theistic, and panpsychist solutions. ...
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    121,64 €

  • A Minimal Metaphysics for Scientific Practice
    Andreas Hüttemann
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    128,19 €

  • Philosophy of Psychiatry
    Jonathan Y. Tsou / Jonathan YTsou
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    25,36 €

  • Science and Beyond
    Rolf Sattler
    Science, coupled with technology, has become the dominant force in most parts of the world. Thus, it affects our lives and society in many ways. Yet, misconceptions about science are widespread in governments, the general public, and even among many scientists. Science and Beyond explores these misconceptions that may have grave and even disastrous consequences for individuals ...
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    20,61 €

  • Brain Fever
    Richard Moxon
    In Brain Fever, the internationally renowned medical scientist, Richard Moxon FRS, shares his experiences of bacterial meningitis, a fearful and devastating infection of the brain. In a clear, non-technical style, he explains what meningitis is, what causes it, who gets it and how research has come up with vaccines that can prevent it.A paediatrician, Moxon engages the reader i...
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    33,39 €

  • Brain Fever
    Richard Moxon
    In Brain Fever, the internationally renowned medical scientist, Richard Moxon FRS, shares his experiences of bacterial meningitis, a fearful and devastating infection of the brain. In a clear, non-technical style, he explains what meningitis is, what causes it, who gets it and how research has come up with vaccines that can prevent it.A paediatrician, Moxon engages the reader i...
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    68,93 €

  • Genes, Polymorphisms, and the Making of Societies
    Hippokratis Kiaris
    Our genes determine to a large extent who we are and why we are different from others. In this book, Hippokratis Kiaris explores how various genetic polymorphisms in different ethnic populations may affect the development of distinct cultures and eventually historical decisions. It should be read by anybody interested in history, anthropology, behavior, psychology or genetics. ...
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    38,17 €