3472 results for '"Mark Burry'

A leading German philosopher offers his most ambitious work yet on the nature of knowledge, arguing that being wrong about things defines the human condition.For millennia, philosophers have...

This book provides an important rereading of dramatic language in the comedies of Etherege, Wycherley, and Congreve. Demonstrating that comic wit of the late 1600s was a potent means by which to...

This book takes an innovative look at international relations. Focusing on the worldwide campaign against abuses by the right-wing authoritarian regime in Uruguay (1973-1984), it explores how norms...

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"Half of all Americans have money in the stock market, yet economists can't agree on whether investors and markets are ration and efficient, as modern financial theory assumes, or irrational and...

“Revelatory to young audiences in more ways than one.” —Kirkus“Many STEM-for-girls biographies fan excitement over women’s achievements, but this title actually brings the central scientific concept...

Many consider the nature of human consciousness to be one of the last great unsolved mysteries. Why should the light turn on, so to speak, in human beings at all? And how is the electrical storm of...

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"In 1892, a record-breaking year for immigration to the United States, New York City was struck by two devastating epidemics: typhus fever and cholera. The typhus epidemic was traced to one...

Markus Janka, Christian Schäfer (hrsg.). Papers From Tagung Platons Mythen, Held 30-31 July 2001 At Universität Regensburg; Expanded With A Few Additional Essays. Errata Leaf Inserted. Includes...

Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his...

By early morning of June 30, 1860, a large crowd began to congregate in front of Oxford University's brand-new Museum of Natural History. The occasion was the annual meeting of the British...

Miro Basinas is an experimental botanist who sells his rarefied product to a discerning clientele. Only Miro's not growing heirloom tomatoes or making organic wine--he's growing weed. And when Miro...

As a child, Inga Markovits dreamt of stealing and reading every letter contained in a mailbox at a busy intersection of her town in order to learn what life is all about. When, decades later, working...

Von Markus Müller. Originally Presented As The Author's Thesis (doctoral)--universität Münster, 1994. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [201]-219) And Index.

FINALIST FOR THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE “[The Rest of Our Lives] feels like one of those books that, as you read, makes you think, ‘Why aren’t all novels like this?’” —The Critic “Reading Ben Markovits’s...