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Stephen Greenblatt - SwerveThis title is winner of the pulitzer prize for nonfiction. Almost six hundred years ago, a short, genial man took a very old manuscript off a library shelf. With excitement, he saw what he had discovered and ordered it copied. The book was a miraculously surviving copy of an ancient Roman philosophi... |
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The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees - Robert PennAn exuberant tale of craftsmanship for nature lovers and rugged outdoor types everywhere Robert Penn cut down an ash tree to see how many things could be made from it. After all, ash is the tree we have made the greatest and most varied use of over the course of human history. Journeying from Wales ... |
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Who Killed the Great Auk?The Great Auk is one of the world's most famous extinct birds. It was undoubtedly a most curious creature: a flightless bird with tiny wings, it stood upright like a human, and sported an enormous beak. On land, the Great Auk was clumsy and awkward, but it was perfectly adapted for swift and efficie... |
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Thoreau and Me - Cedric Taling, SelfMadeHeroSome heavy reading on the ecological and climate emergency leads Cedric, a forty-something painter living in Paris, to question his life choices. In a state of vulnerability, racked with eco-anxiety, he is contacted by the spirit of Henry David Thoreau: writer, environmentalist and the author of Wal... |
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18 Tiny Deaths - Bruce GoldfarbFor most of human history, sudden and unexpected deaths of a suspicious nature, when they were investigated at all, were examined by lay persons without any formal training. People often got away with murder. Modern forensic investigation originates with Frances Glessner Lee - a pivotal figure in po... |
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Animals Among UsThe bestselling author of Dog Sense and Cat Sense explains why living with animals has always been a fundamental aspect of being humanIn this highly original and hugely enjoyable work, John Bradshaw examines modern humans' often contradictory relationship with the animal world. Why, despite the appa... |
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Mind of GodPaul Davies' "The Mind of God: Science and the Search for Ultimate Meaning" explores how modern science is beginning to shed light on the mysteries of our existence. Is the universe - and our place in it - the result of random chance, or is there an ultimate meaning to existence? Where did the laws ... |
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Anxious PeopleFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and "writer of astonishing depth" (The Washington Times) comes a poignant comedy about a crime that never took place, a would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air, and eight extremely anxious strangers who find they have more i... |
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Spiritualist PhilosophySpiritualist Philosophy - The spirits' book: containing the principles of spiritist doctrine on the immortality of the soul, the nature of spirits and their relations with men, the moral law, the present life, the future life, and the destiny of the human race is an unchanged, high-quality reprint o... |
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Seven Letters to Melin - Šafařík JosefJosef 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 engin... |
21,10 € |
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Gulliverovy cesty Gulliver´s Travels Zrcadlová četba A1 A2 - Swift JonathanSatira lidského charakteru a okouzlující fantastický příběh Gulliverovy cesty je nejslavnějším dílem Jonathana Swifta Vypráví příběh Angličana Lemuela Gullivera který cestuje po exotických zemích v nichž se setkává s nezapomenutelnými postavami od maličkých Liliputánů až po obří obyvatele Brobdingna... |
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High On… Light + Architecture - Manuela KerkhoffHigh On...Light + Architecture explores the role and use of light in and around modern buildings. This full colour book illustrates how a greater understanding of this intangible and free material leads to better architecture and improves our quality of life. It explains why light is so fundamental ... |
29,95 € |
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Lucifer Principle"The Lucifer Priciple" is a revolutionary work that explores the intricate relationships among genetics, human behavior, and culture to put forth the thesis that "evil" is a by-product of nature's strategies for creation and that it is woven into our most basic biological fabric. |
17,53 € |
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Modigliani: Volume, plasticity, form, drawing, style, structure, art.Ways of knowledge and development of human intelligence interact with philosophy, literature, art. The aspiration of spirit to be exempted from matters promotes internal self-improvement. Interaction of the first and second nature of the sculpture reflecte |
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Long and Short of ItBrevity may be the soul of wit, but it is also much more. In this exploration of the shortest literary works--wise sayings, proverbs, witticisms, sardonic observations about human nature, pithy evocations of mystery, terse statements regarding ultimate questions--Gary Saul Morson argues passionately... |
21,50 € |
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The Dancing PlagueIn the summer of 1518, possibly 100 people dance to their deaths in one of the most bizarre and terrifying plagues in history. Waller pens a gripping tale of one of history's oddest events, and examines what it reveals about the strange possibilities of human nature. |
15,69 € |
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Stations of WisdomSchuon goes to the root of the impasse reached by the modern mind, resulting from the difficulty so many people have in accepting the symbolic expressions of religion in the face of academic rationalism, relativism and the discoveries of science. These essays clear the ground, beginning with the cru... |
10,69 € |
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A Natural History of the Future - Rob DunnOver the past century, our species has made unprecedented technological innovations with which we have sought to control nature. In A Natural History of the Future, biologist Rob Dunn argues that such efforts are futile. We may see ourselves as life's overlords, but we are instead at its mercy.In th... |
16,50 € |
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Under a White SkyThe author of the international bestseller The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: after doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it?Elizabeth Kolbert has become one of the most important writers on the environment. Now sh... |
11,82 € |
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The Art of Losing Control - Jules Evans, Canongate BooksSince the Enlightenment, western culture has written off ecstatic experience as a form of mental illness. But why should rationality be considered the highest part of human nature when we are capable of so many more states of experience? Piecing together interviews, analysis of ancient and modern ph... |
13,25 € |
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