Have you ever seen something that wasn't really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing?Hallucinations...9999903085881Sacks, Oliver
Picador
viernes, 23 de febrero de 2024
From the Cosmos to the Kitchen Counter, the Big Consequences of Little ThingsHannah Holmes A mesmerizing expedition around our dusty worldSome see dust as dull and useless stuff. But in the hands of author Hannah Holmes, it becomes a dazzling and mysterious...9999903082507Hannah Holmes
Wiley
sábado, 10 de febrero de 2024
The Science That Is Rewriting the Boundaries Between Life and DeathErasing Death: The Science That Is Rewriting the Boundaries Between Life and Death reveals that death is not a moment in time. Death, rather, is a process ??a process that can be i...9999903077367Sam Parnia
HarperCollins
viernes, 2 de febrero de 2024
The irresistible, ever-curious, and always best-selling Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside. ??America ??s funniest science writer...9999903077343Mary Roach
W. W. Norton & Company
viernes, 2 de febrero de 2024
Using Science to See Our Species as We Really areHuman beings have long seen themselves as the center of the universe, the apple of God's eye, specially-created creatures who are somehow above and beyond the natural world. This v...9999903077329David P. Barash
Oxford University Press
viernes, 2 de febrero de 2024
Essays on Biology and SocietyAn authoritative exploration of why understanding evolution is crucial to human life todayIt is easy to think of evolution as something that happened long ago, or that occurs only ...9999903073932Jonathan B. Losos Richard...
Princeton University Press
jueves, 25 de enero de 2024
The History and Science of how We Talk to OurselvesWe all hear voices. Ordinary thinking is often a kind of conversation, filling our heads with speech: the voices of reason, of memory, of self-encouragement and rebuke, the inner d...9999903073567Charles Fernyhough
Profile
jueves, 25 de enero de 2024
One Woman's Yearlong Journey to Discover If Science Can Improve Her MindUsing herself as a guinea pig, a science journalist explores "neuroplasticity" to find out whether she can make meaningful, lasting changes to the way her brain works. In books li...9999903073475Caroline Williams
Editors Varis
jueves, 25 de enero de 2024
Our History of AddictionAs a psychiatrist-in-training fresh from medical school, Carl Erik Fisher came face to face with his own addiction crisis, one that nearly cost him everything. Here, he investigate...9999903073451Carl Erik Fisher
Editors Varis
jueves, 25 de enero de 2024
How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less Violent"Highly accessible, authoritative, and intellectually provocative, a startlingly original theory of how Homo sapiens came to be: Richard Wrangham forcefully argues that, a quarter ...9999903073345Richard W. Wrangham
Profile
jueves, 25 de enero de 2024
The Science Behind RevulsionThere is a powerful subconscious reaction that influences a disturbingly wide range of our daily behaviour - our eating habits, our relationships, our values. The very same reactio...9999903068440Valerie Curtis
Oxford University Press
jueves, 18 de enero de 2024
A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three DimensionsWhen neuroscientist Susan Barry was fifty years old, she took an unforgettable trip to Manhattan. As she emerged from the dim light of the subway into the sunshine, she saw a view ...9999903068372Susan R. Barry, Oliver Sa...
Basic Books
jueves, 18 de enero de 2024
Biological RelativityCover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 The Universe and the Principle of Relativity -- The Sky at Night -- Early Cosmologies -- T...9999903068365Denis Noble
Cambridge UP
jueves, 18 de enero de 2024
The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the WorldIn 2000, Keith Devlin set out to research the life and legacy of the medieval mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, popularly known as Fibonacci, whose book Liber abbaci has quite litera...9999903068327Keith Devlin
Princeton University Press
jueves, 18 de enero de 2024
The Life and Work of W.D.HamiltonHailed by Richard Dawkins as "the most distinguished Darwinian since Darwin," W. D. Hamilton was one of the truly innovative scientists of the 20th century, responsible for a sea c...9999903067955Ullica Christina Olofsdot...
Oxford University Press
miércoles, 17 de enero de 2024
The ManualIn How to be Human, Ruby Wax tries to come up with some answers to that niggling question about how we can learn to like and love ourselves. With the input of a Buddhist monk (an e...9999903066880Ruby Wax
Penguin
lunes, 15 de enero de 2024
The Surprising Science of how We are Connected and why that MattersWe like to believe that we exist as independent selves at the centre of a subjective universe; that we are discrete individuals acting autonomously in the world with an unchanging ...9999903064442Tom Oliver
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
jueves, 11 de enero de 2024
Completing the Darwinian RevolutionDarwin's theory of evolution provides a single theoretical framework for biology, and all life sciences, today. But among humanities scholars, it is widely assumed that our rich cu...9999903064138David Sloan Wilson
Anchor Books
jueves, 11 de enero de 2024
How It Really Works and Why It MattersA revealing and provocative look at the current state of global scienceWe take the advance of science as given. But how does science really work? Is it truly as healthy as we tend ...9999903064091Jeremy J. Baumberg
Princeton University Press
jueves, 11 de enero de 2024
The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia"In his most ambitious work yet, Shermer sets out to discover what drives humans' belief in life after death, focusing on recent scientific attempts to achieve immortality by radic...9999903064084Michael Shermer
Corsair
jueves, 11 de enero de 2024
Ten Keys to RealityOne of our great contemporary scientists reveals the ten profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical world In Fundamentals, Nobel laureate Frank...9999903064053Frank Wilczek
Penguin
jueves, 11 de enero de 2024
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