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Random House
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[2023]
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English
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"Far from being a lifeless ornament in the sky, the Moon holds the answers to some of science's central questions. Silent, dry, and barren, Earth's 4.34-billion-year-old companion is essential to life on earth. Its gravity stabilized the Earth's orbit, and, as it once guided evolution, its tide stirring up nutrients that fostered complex life, it now influences everything from animal migrations and reproduction to the movements of plants' leaves....
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"The Declaration of Independence identified "the pursuit of happiness" as one of our unalienable rights, along with life and liberty. Jeffrey Rosen, the president of the National Constitution Center, profiles six of the most influential founders--Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton--to show what pursuing happiness meant in their lives. By reading the classical Greek and Roman moral...
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Both thought-provoking and eye-opening, this radical new history of seven queer lives, including Josephine Baker in Paris and E.M. Forster in Cambridge, illuminates the connections to where they lived, who they loved and the art they created, and celebrates freedom, survival and the hidden places of the imagination.
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Get the Summary of Ryan Holiday's Discipline Is Destiny in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Discipline Is Destiny" by Ryan Holiday explores the pivotal role of discipline in achieving greatness and self-mastery. The book draws on historical figures like Lou Gehrig, whose consistent performance and modest lifestyle exemplified discipline, and Toni Morrison, who maintained a disciplined writing routine amidst challenges....
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By using principles from a variety of scientific disciplines, Yale Professor Samuel Wilkinson provides a framework for human evolution that reveals an overarching purpose to our existence. Generations have been taught that evolution implies there is no overarching purpose to our existence, that life has no fundamental meaning. We are merely the accumulation of tens of thousands of intricate molecular accidents. Some scientists take this logic one...
6) Mean girls
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Paramount
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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From the comedic mind of Tina Fey comes a new twist on the modern classic. New student Cady Heron is welcomed into the top of the social food chain by the elite group of popular girls called "The Plastics," ruled by the conniving queen bee Regina George and her minions Gretchen and Karen. However, when Cady makes the major misstep of falling for Regina's ex-boyfriend Aaron Samuels, she finds herself prey in Regina's crosshairs. As Cady sets out to...
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Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"This book is the product of four people with very different backgrounds, interests, and life experiences. What unites us is a curiosity about the world, a relentless drive to question, and a responsibility to the people, places, and waters we have met along the way"--
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Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"In this luminous narrative, the story of the Moon traverses time and space, rendering a range of human experiences--from the beliefs of ancient cultures to the science of Galileo's telescopic discoveries, from the obsessions of colorful 19th-century 'selenographers' to the astronauts of Apollo and now, Artemis. Still as Bright also traces Christopher Cokino's own lunar pilgrimage. With his backyard telescope, he explores the surface of the Moon,...
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Vision Films
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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Take a journey around the globe with director Peter Rodger, as he meets people from all walks of life - from celebrities to the religious, to atheists and the common Man – and asks them the question: "What is God?”, with profound results.
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A glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as mindfulness, decluttering, David Cronenberg, and consent. In her debut essay collection, "brilliant and stylish" (The Washington Post) critic Becca Rothfeld takes on one of the most sacred cows of our time: the demand that we apply the virtues of equality and democracy to culture and aesthetics. The result is a culture...
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An astonishing debut from the beloved NPR science correspondent: intimate essays about the intersection of science and everyday life. In her career as a science reporter, Nell Greenfieldboyce has reported from inside a space shuttle, the bottom of a coal mine, and the control room of a particle collider; she's presented news on the color of dinosaur eggs, ice worms that live on mountaintop glaciers, and signs of life on Venus. In this, her debut book,...
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Contemporary philosophy has adopted an increasingly tragic point of view. Tragedy, though, is only a partial truth of the human condition. Comedy is another partial truth. The nature of human existence is neither wholly the one nor the other, but tragi-comic. Philosophy must be attuned to both despair and laughter if it is to understand its own world.
In Making Philosophy Laugh, the philosopher Dustin Peone makes an apology for the comic side of...
15) Soy
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Español
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La totalidad existencial no tiene divisiones, como tu y yo, que fomenta la dicotomia o dualidad, porque hemos aceptado la multiplicidad de conciencias o seres. Cuando profundizamos en la conciencia, descubrimos que solo existe el "estado de ser", no el ser limitado o condicionado. Ese "estado de ser", contiene todo lo que es.
La mente es la funcion de la conciencia para pensar, sentir y actuar en la realidad, pero si no tenemos la comprension de...
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Jean-Paul Sartre's most influential existentialist work, Being and Nothingness, broken down into its most fertile ideas In To Freedom Condemned, Sartre's most influential work, Being and Nothingness, is laid bare, presenting the philosopher's key ideas regarding existentialism. Covering the philosophers Hegel, Heidegger, and Husserl, and mulling over such topics as love, God, death, and freedom, To Freedom Condemned goes on to consider Sartre's treatment...
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Este libro ha hecho atractiva la Filosofía a numerosas promociones de Bachillerato. De ahí su constante reedición. Y es que ha nacido después de mil intentos de explicar con amenidad las preguntas esenciales.
Se centra, sobre todo, en esas cualidades que hacen del hombre algo más que un mono con pantalones. De ese hombre que plantea la lucha por la vida con el esfuerzo y la belleza de un deporte. Por eso es, en gran medida, un texto de Antropología...
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La historia de la Unión Europea es nuestra responsabilidad. Tenemos que hacernos cargo de ella, volver sobre nuestros pasos, corregir los errores del pasado y mirar hacia adelante, estar a la altura de los eventos que las vicisitudes del destino, la inteligencia y la estupidez humana hacen y deshacen continuamente.
Hoy, como a finales del siglo XIX, la idea de los Estados Unidos de Europa se vuelve una exigencia política para preservar el precario...