Many scientists and scientifically-minded commentators are skeptical that free will exists. In clear, scientifically…

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Usually when we're bored, we try to distract ourselves. But soon enough, boredom returns. James Danckert and John Eastwood…

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Bruner argues that the cognitive revolution, with its fixation on a computational model of mind, has led psychology away…

\nWhen a young woman killed herself in the office she shared with her employer in 1920s Shanghai, the city reeled in shock.…

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In the spring of 1929, Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer met for a public conversation in Davos, Switzerland. They were…

Die erste umfassende Darstellung der Islampolitik des NS-Regimes. Zeigt die Instrumentalisierung des Islam durch die…

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By the late 19th century Odessa was the most polyglot and cosmopolitan city in the empire. In the first decades of the 20th…

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Philosopher Daniel Milo offers a vigorous critique of the quasi-monopoly that Darwin's natural selection has on our idea of…

From antiquity to the Middle Ages, the bear's centrality in cults and mythologies left traces in European languages,…

\nBefore the Communists came to power, China lay broken. Today it is a global force, but its leaders are haunted by the…

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Christina Cross decisively refutes culture-of-poverty narratives blaming family structure for persistent racial inequality.…

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Produkt Theory of the Lyric - Culler, Jonathan zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

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Joseph LeDoux argues that ideas like the self are increasingly barriers to discovery and understanding. He offers a new…

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Our notion of the self depends on it; cultural identities have frequent recourse to its boundary-policing powers; and love…

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Sarah Bilston unfolds the story of orchid mania, the nineteenth-century craze among European and North American collectors…

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Rather than placing emphasis on mechanics and fixed solutions, Keeney argues, we should focus on the bottom-line objectives…

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\nIn Lesia Ukrainka’s rendering, Cassandra’s prophecies are uttered in highly poetic language and are not believed for that…

Stigler shows how statistics arose from the interplay of mathematical concepts and the needs of several applied sciences.…

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One day they'll be like us. That was once the West's complacent assumption about countries emerging from poverty, imperial…

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The Making of Iranian Modernity brings together a diverse array of scholars from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds…

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David Rabban provides the first comprehensive synthesis of the case law on academic freedom and the First Amendment at…

\nSolutions to workplace burnout often involve victim-blaming: Stressed? Try therapy-or a new job. But burnout is a sign of…

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"These notes are about the process of design: the process of inventing things which display new physical order,…

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Produkt Under the Starry Flag - Salyer, Lucy E. zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

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Ngai mobilizes the aesthetics of unprestigious negative affects such as irritation, envy, and disgust to investigate not…

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The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost won his case when a man with a wooden leg swaggered into the French courtroom,…

The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 on Saint-Domingue, the most profitable colony…

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Produkt Land of the Elephant Kings - Kosmin, Paul J. zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

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In this book, Casanova shows us the state of world literature behind the stylistic refinements-a world of letters relatively…

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From later antiquity to the close of the 18th century, most educated men accepted without question a traditional view of the…

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"Know thyself," a precept as old as Socrates, is still good advice. But is introspection the best path to self-knowledge?…

Retells the standard history of the end of World War II in the Pacific. By integrating the three key actors in the story -…

Presents the grand strategy of the eastern Roman empire we know as Byzantine, which lasted more than twice as long as the…

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Tuck traces the black freedom struggle in all its diversity, from the first years of freedom during the Civil War to…

Koonz's latest work reveals how racial popularizers developed the infrastructure and rationale for genocide during the…

Daniel Immerwahr tells how the United States sought to rescue the world from poverty through small-scale, community-based…

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The authors explain why Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, and show his Machiavellian role in masterminding it (which…

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• Rok vydání 1986

Here is a rare opportunity to view painting through the discerning eyes of one of the world's foremost abstract painters.…

The sheer magnitude of the Holocaust has commanded our attention. The extent of atrocities, however, has overshadowed the…

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Biophilia is Edward O. Wilson's most personal book, an evocation of his own response to nature and an eloquent statement of…

• Rok vydání 1975

This, the most interesting and helpful edition of Charles Darwin's major work, is now available in an inexpensive paperback…

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Nearly twenty-five hundred years ago the Greek thinker Heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic words "Phusis kruptesthai…

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Hadot shows how the schools, trends, and ideas of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy strove to transform the individual's…

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On a June night in 1791, King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette fled Paris in disguise, hoping to escape the turmoil of the…

What happens when there is mourning with no closure, when a family member or a friend who may be still alive is lost to us…