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"A taste for winter, a love of winter--'a mind for winter'--is for many a part of the modern condition. International bestselling author Adam Gopnik takes us on an intimate tour of the artists, poets, composers, writers, explorers, scientists, and thinkers who helped shape a new…
"A taste for winter, a love of winter--'a mind for winter'--is for many a part of the modern condition. International bestselling author Adam Gopnik takes us on an intimate tour of the artists, poets, composers, writers, explorers, scientists, and thinkers who helped shape a new…
In order to examine the possible direction of capitalism the author first identifies the nature of his quarry, providing a succinct overview of what it is not. Once he has established how captialsm and the market work in contrast to other coordinative mechanisms in society, name…
The universe within: from quantum to cosmos
by Turok, Neil
fromCBC Massey lectures series
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Type: Book
Neil Turok explores the great discoveries of the past three centuries: from the classical mechanics of Newton; to the nature of light; to the bizarre world of the quantum; to the evolution of the cosmos and even the recent findings of Higgs bosons at the Large Hadron Collider.
Every technology we rely on today was created by the human mind, seeking to understand the universe around us. Scientific knowledge is our most precious possession, and our future will be shaped by the breakthroughs to come. In this personal, visionary, and fascinating work, Nei…
"Morality, love, ethics, civilization, divine presence, the human body, modernity, the natural world, and constructed spaces - The Sentinel observes all of these, and reports back to us in a voice that is timeless and worthy of trust."--Jacket.
"Morality, love, ethics, civilization, divine presence, the human body, modernity, the natural world, and constructed spaces - The Sentinel observes all of these, and reports back to us in a voice that is timeless andworthy of trust."--Jacket.
"Morality, love, ethics, civilization, divine presence, the human body, modernity, the natural world, and constructed spaces - The Sentinel observes all of these, and reports back to us in a voice that is timeless and worthy of trust."--Jacket.
"Morality, love, ethics, civilization, divine presence, the human body, modernity, the natural world, and constructed spaces - The Sentinel observes all of these, and reports back to us in a voice that is timeless and worthy of trust."--Jacket.
"More than two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, Welsh revisited the bold claims made by Francis Fukuyama and the prophets of progress, who declared the triumph of Western liberal democracy and the advent of a more peaceful world. Sh…