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  • All the Colors of Quantum Entanglement
    Bruno Del Medico
    Pages 354. 58 illustrations. The book is divided into three parts. In the first part (The intuitions) the author deals with the most relevant hypotheses on the illusory reality of the perceptible world. The existence of a level of consciousness that transcends matter has been envisaged by the great thinkers. We find this idea in Plato’s Myth of the Cave, in Berkeley’s Immateria...
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    25,19 €

  • La reina en el tablero
    Daniel Carballo
    Un psicólogo es contratado por una Organización privada para evaluar a su personal de servicio, no sabía que algunos de ellos querían escapar, él mismo es puesto en la mira al ofrecerles su ayuda. Deberá hacer uso de toda su inteligencia e ingenio para burlar a los malvados, no está dispuesto a que hagan daño a sus protegidos, su única opción será el sacrificio personal.La rein...
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    13,28 €

  • Evolution, Morality and the Fabric of Society
    R. Paul Thompson
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    63,61 €

  • Evolution, Morality and the Fabric of Society
    R. Paul Thompson
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    25,38 €

  • The Face-to-Face Principle
    Harry Collins / Martin Innes / Robert Evans
    The internet is changing the way knowledge is made and understood. It is a change from making knowledge via face-to-face interaction to making knowledge via remote interaction. The authors of this book believe that this change, if left unchecked, could be disastrous for the long-term future of pluralist democracy and the very idea of truth itself. The book explains what the cha...
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    19,46 €

  • On Expertise
    Ashley Mehlenbacher / Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher
    A rhetorical account of expertise and expert status that is informed by research in allied fields, including Science, Technology, and Society studies, psychology, education, and philosophy. ...
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    180,34 €

  • A Short Primer on Why Cancer Still Sucks
    MD David Stewart MD J. Stewart
    Have you ever wondered why cancer remains such a dreadful illness? Why is it so common? How can you reduce your cancer risk? Why is screening not better at finding cancers early? How does cancer make people feel so sick?How do different types of treatment work, why might they fail, and how do they cause side effects? What role does our immune system play? Do alternative and com...
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    28,91 €

  • A Short Primer on Why Cancer Still Sucks
    MD David J. Stewart
    Have you ever wondered why cancer remains such a dreadful illness? Why is it so common? How can you reduce your cancer risk? Why is screening not better at finding cancers early? How does cancer make people feel so sick?How do different types of treatment work, why might they fail, and how do they cause side effects? What role does our immune system play? Do alternative and com...
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    36,34 €

  • Old Wine and New New Wine
    JBS Palmer
    Old Wine and New New Wine can kickstart your imagination into a profound new and true view of the intersection of science, philosophy, and supernatural religion.  At the end of the day—if you reach it—you will grasp the essential relation between our qualitative experience and science, see science in a new light, trade in your materialism for materiality, and have an uncanny kn...
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    20,78 €

  • Christian Field Guide to Technology for Engineers and Designers
    Derek C Schuurman / Ethan J Brue / Steven H Vanderleest
    Our technology shapes the way we live, interact, work, play, and even worship. Technology and its power are both old and new--as is the wisdom we need to envision, design, build, and use it well. For Christians passionate about developing technology, it’s not always clear how their faith and work intersect. How can designing and using technology actually be a way of loving God ...
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    31,36 €

  • Science, Truth, and Meaning
    Benjamin L J Webb
    Science, Truth, and Meaning presents a scientific and philosophical examination of our place in the world. It also celebrates how diverse, scientific knowledge is interconnected and reducible to common foundations.The book focuses on aspects of scientific truth that relate to our understanding of reality, and confronts whether truth is absolute or relative to what we are. Hence...
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    121,62 €

  • Big Research Questions about the Human Condition
    Arne Jarrick
    Ask bigger, fewer, and clearer questions! This is the major message of this book, comprising a set of issues to focus on, hereby suggesting a way to overcome the fragmentation characterising the humanities today. It also urges humanists to regard humanities research as an integral part of science, although uniquely dealing with humans as decision making, meaning seeking and sel...
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    59,00 €

  • Dream It to Do It
    Howard Eisenberg
    Do you want to discover who you really are and could be?Learn the mysterious truths underlying our challenging existence, and discover how reality really works.By integrating indigenous wisdom, spiritual experience, and leading-edge scientific discoveries, this book will reshape your understanding of reality by revealing the uncanny link between envisioning the impossible and m...
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    15,51 €

  • Philosophy of Neuroscience
    Linus Ta-Lun Huang / William Bechtel
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    26,52 €

  • Fundamentality and Grounding
    Kerry McKenzie
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    25,32 €

  • The Book of the Damned
    Charles Fort
    The Book of the Damned was the first published nonfiction work by American author Charles Fort (first edition 1919). Concerning various types of anomalous phenomena including UFOs, strange falls of both organic and inorganic materials from the sky, odd weather patterns, the possible existence of creatures generally believed to be mythological, disappearances of people, and many...
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    21,12 €

  • The Book of the Damned
    Charles Fort
    The Book of the Damned was the first published nonfiction work by American author Charles Fort (first edition 1919). Concerning various types of anomalous phenomena including UFOs, strange falls of both organic and inorganic materials from the sky, odd weather patterns, the possible existence of creatures generally believed to be mythological, disappearances of people, and many...
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    30,45 €

  • A Logical Foundation for Potentialist Set Theory
    Sharon Berry
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    128,16 €

  • The Biology of Wonder
    Andreas Weber
    A new way of understanding our place in the web of life from a scholar praised for his 'graceful prose' (Publishers Weekly).The disconnection between humans and nature is perhaps one of the most fundamental problems faced by our species today. This schism is arguably the root cause of most of the environmental catastrophes unraveling around us. Until we come to terms with the d...
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    33,04 €

  • Prometheus and Gaia
    Harrison Fluss / Landon Frim
    Prometheus and Gaia explores two currents in contemporary politics: a Futurism which sees boundless technology as a salvific force and an Eco-Pessimism which sees human innovation as inherently destructive. While apparent opposites, these two currents share in common a rejection of Enlightenment humanism, or the idea that politics should fit the human frame. ...
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    180,44 €

  • Einstein in the Attic
    Dana Dargos / Said Al Bizri
    Winner of the Literary Titan Award, Firebird Book Award, Maincrest Media Book Award, Best Book Award Finalist by The American Book Fest, and THREE honorable mentions at the prestigious New York, Hollywood, and San Francisco Book Festivals, 'Einstein in the Attic' is the sci-fi of the year!A search for truth by those that transcend time.Set against the backdrop of the war betwee...
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    12,67 €

  • The Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind
    Martina Zimmermann
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded byThe Wellcome Trust.The Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind charts changing cultural understandings of dementia and alzheimer’s disease in scientific and cultural texts across the 20th Century. Reading a range of texts from the US, UK, Eur...
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    50,91 €

  • Ontology and the Foundations of Mathematics
    Penelope Rush
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    24,87 €

  • Chaos Bewitched
    Laurence Campbell Cooper
    A short pithy saying that sums up a general truth, the aphorism is the oldest written art form. Following in such a long tradition from Ancient Greeks like Plato and Heraclitus to Romans like Seneca and Cicero all the way to moderns like Nietzsche, the aphorisms contained in this volume reflect both invention and discovery, and, like all aphorisms, preferring self-evidence to d...
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    38,58 €

  • Chaos Bewitched
    Laurence Campbell Cooper
    A short pithy saying that sums up a general truth, the aphorism is the oldest written art form. Following in such a long tradition from Ancient Greeks like Plato and Heraclitus to Romans like Seneca and Cicero all the way to moderns like Nietzsche, the aphorisms contained in this volume reflect both invention and discovery, and, like all aphorisms, preferring self-evidence to d...
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    26,41 €

  • 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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    41,94 €

  • Reverse Engineering God
    Michael Rothschild
    What is morality? Do we have free will? Are there any limits to what the human mind can understand? How is it that humans speak? Why do we die? What is it that transcendental meditation transcends?Reverse Engineering God proposes rational and science-based answers to these and many other related and similar questions. It does so in a series of short 'stories.' Each story presen...
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    45,99 €

  • Data Power
    Craig M. Dalton / Craig MDalton / Jim E. Thatcher / Jim EThatcher
    In recent years, popular media has inundated audiences with sensationalized headlines recounting data breaches, new forms of surveillance and other dangers of our digital age. Despite their regularity, such accounts treat each case as unprecedented and unique. This book proposes a radical rethinking of the history, present and future of our relations with the digital, spatial t...
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    127,33 €

  • An Unexpected Journal
    An Unexpected Journal / Holly Ordway / Michael Ward
    Planting the Seeds of Imagination Holly Ordway has established herself as one of the preeminent voices in the field of cultural apologetics. Her ability to engage with the imagination is clearly demonstrated through her own scholarly work, most recently the paradigm-shifting Tolkien’s Modern Reading, but her influence was critical in the founding of An Unexpected Journal as wel...
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    20,83 €

  • Restless Devices
    Felicia Wu Song
    We’re being formed by our devices. Today’s digital technologies are designed to captivate our attention and encroach on our boundaries, shaping how we relate to time and space, to ourselves and others, even to God. Our natural longing for relationship makes us vulnerable to the industrializing effects of social media. While we enjoy the benefits of digital tech, many of us feel...
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    26,77 €