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  • Evolutions

    Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World

    de Oren Harman ...
    'Daring, learned and humane... A revelatory restoration of wonder' Stephen Greenblatt.We no longer think, like the ancient Chinese did, that the world was hatched from an egg, or, like the Maori, that it came from the tearing-apart of a love embrace. The Greeks told of a tempestuous Hera and a cunning Zeus, but we now use genes and natural selection to explain fear and desire, and physics to ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Price of Altruism

    George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness

    de Oren Harman ...
    "Enthralling." —Frans de Waal, New York Times Book ReviewSurvival of the fittest or survival of the nicest? Since the dawn of time man has contemplated the mystery of altruism, but it was Darwin who posed the question most starkly. From the selfless ant to the stinging bee to the man laying down his life for a stranger, evolution has yielded a goodness that in theory should never be.Set against ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Evolutions

    Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World

    de Oren Harman ...
    "An absolute joy to read . . . it is Harman's skill in blending contemporary science and traditional storytelling that makes this book truly brilliant." —Randy Rosenthal, New York Journal of BooksWe no longer think, like the ancient Chinese did, that the world was hatched from an egg, or, like the Maori, that it came from the tearing-apart of a love embrace. The Greeks told of a tempestuous Hera ... Leer más

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  • Metamorphosis

    A Natural and Human History

    de Oren Harman ...
    **A search for the meaning of one of nature's greatest riddles: why do so many creatures transform?“Beautiful... Entertaining... Inspiring.”—Nature“A meditation on transformation . . . Warm [and] empathetic . . . wonderful.”****—Science“Startling . . . astounding . . . Animated by wonder.”—MIT's Undark“Steeped in wonderment. . . hauntingly timely.”**—Washington Independent Review of Books“How many ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Evoluzioni

    Quindici miti che spiegano il nostro mondo

    de Oren Harman ...
    Traducido por Davide Fassio ...
    Per descrivere le inspiegabili forze degli elementi naturali, cercare un senso alla propria presenza nel mondo e interrogarsi sui misteri della vita e della morte, l'uomo ha sempre fatto ricorso ai miti: ingenui, suggestivi, terrificanti, meravigliosi. Poi è stato il momento della scienza, che ha imparato a leggere il libro della Natura, svelandone con disarmante razionalità i più oscuri recessi. ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Outsider Scientists

    Routes to Innovation in Biology

    Edición de Oren Harman, Michael R. Dietrich ...
    Outsider Scientists describes the transformative role played by “outsiders” in the growth of the modern life sciences. Biology, which occupies a special place between the exact and human sciences, has historically attracted many thinkers whose primary training was in other fields: mathematics, physics, chemistry, linguistics, philosophy, history, anthropology, engineering, and even literature. ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • Dreamers, Visionaries, and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences

    Edición de Oren Harman, Michael R. Dietrich ...
    What are the conditions that foster true novelty and allow visionaries to set their eyes on unknown horizons? What have been the challenges that have spawned new innovations, and how have they shaped modern biology? In Dreamers, Visionaries, and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences, editors Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich explore these questions through the lives of eighteen exemplary ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Evolutions

    Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World

    de Oren Harman ...
    Narrado por Oren Harman ...

    Completo

    5 hora 49 minutos

    We don't think anymore, like the ancient Chinese did, that the world was hatched from an egg, or, like the Maori, that it came from the tearing apart of a love embrace. The Greeks told of a tempestuous Hera and a cunning Zeus, but we now use genes and natural selection to explain fear and desire, and physics to demystify the workings of the universe.Evolutions brings to life the latest scientific ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Metamorphosis

    A Natural and Human History

    de Oren Harman ...
    Narrado por Jefferson Mays ...

    Completo

    10 hora 58 minutos

    A search for the meaning of one of nature's greatest riddles: why do so many creatures transform?“How many creatures walking on this earth / Have their first being in another form?” the Roman poet Ovid asked two thousand years ago. He could not have known the full extent of the truth: today, biologists estimate a stunning three-quarters of all animal species on Earth undergo some form of ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

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    Perception

    How Our Bodies Shape Our Minds

    Narrado por Angela Dawe ...

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    A groundbreaking popular psychology book that explores the deep connection between our body and our brain.Over decades of study, University of Virginia psychologist Dennis Proffitt has shown that we are each living our own personal version of Gulliver’s Travels, where the size and shape of the things we see are scaled to the size of our bodies, and our ability to interact with them. Stairs look ... Leer más

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    The Red Limit

    The Search for the Edge of the Universe

    Narrado por Timothy Ferris ...

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    5 hora 36 minutos

    For centuries, it was assumed that our universe was static. Then, in the late 1920s, astronomers made a startling new discovery—from Earth, the light of distant galaxies appeared to be red. This meant those galaxies were receding from us, and a revolutionary realization was born: the universe is expanding. In The Red Limit, Timothy Ferris recounts the fascinating tale of this discovery, its far ... Leer más

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    Cambrian Ocean World

    Ancient Sea Life of North America

    de John Foster ...
    Narrado por David Stifel ...
    Series series Life of the Past

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    16 hora 46 minutos

    This volume, aimed at the general audience, presents life and times of the amazing animals that inhabited Earth more than 500 million years ago. The Cambrian Period was a critical time in Earth's history. During this immense span of time nearly every modern group of animals appeared. Although life had been around for more than 2 million millennia, Cambrian rocks preserve the record of the first ... Leer más

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