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The Compassionate Instinct
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The Compassionate Instinct

Автор: Келтнер Дачер , Marsh Jason
Язык: английский
Год: 2010
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Leading scientists and science writers reflect on the life-changing, perspective-changing, new science of human goodness.In these pages you will hear from Steven Pinker, who asks, "Why is there peace?"; Robert Sapolsky, who examines violence among...
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Автор: Роуч Мэри
Язык: английский
Год: 2003
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“One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year…. Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting.” —Entertainment Weekly Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our...
Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife
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Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife

Автор: Роуч Мэри
Язык: английский
Год: 2009
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Does the light just go out and that’s that — the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness, persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my laptop?” Mary Roach trains her...
That Sense of Wonder [How to Capture the Miracles of Everyday Life]
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That Sense of Wonder [How to Capture the Miracles of Everyday Life]

Автор: Dimitri Francesco
Язык: английский
Год: 2018
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'Philosophy begins in wonder,' said Plato. Descartes agreed that 'wonder is the first of all emotions'. Wonder is the impulse behind all scientific and philosophical endeavour, art and spirituality. It is the most fruitful human sense: fuelling our...