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**Brought to you by Penguin.One of the world’s greatest scientists of human behaviour, the bestselling author of Behave, shows that free will does not exist - and sets out the disturbing yet liberating implications of accepting this fact.**What if free will is an illusion? As Robert Sapolsky shows in this masterful account of the science of human behaviour, everything we think and do is caused by ... Read more

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This textbook introduces students to contemporary moral issues through a casuistry-based approach. Unlike traditional anthologies, it emphasizes case based reasoning and empirical evidence to strengthen critical moral analysis. Students learn to distinguish legality from morality, formulate moral arguments, and apply normative theories such as utilitarianism, deontology, virtue ethics, and ... Read more

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by Rod Pyle ...

Narrated by John Pruden ...

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They Knew

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by James Gustave Speth ...

Narrated by Al Kessel ...

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In 2015, a group of twenty-one young people sued the federal government for violating their constitutional rights by promoting the climate catastrophe, depriving them of life, liberty, and property without due process of law. They Knew offers evidence for their claims, presenting a devastating, play-by-play account of the federal government's role in bringing about today's climate crisis. James ... Read more

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In 2015, a group of twenty-one young people sued the federal government for violating their constitutional rights by promoting the climate catastrophe, depriving them of life, liberty, and property without due process of law. They Knew offers evidence for their claims, presenting a devastating, play-by-play account of the federal government's role in bringing about today's climate crisis. James
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The New Climate War

The Fight to Take Back Our Planet

by Michael E. Mann ...

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Unabridged

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Fra gær til galakser. Fra Grønland til gener. Fra runer til ruiner. Fra Øresundstold til ni danske Nobelpriser. Et kalejdoskopisk blik ind i dansk forskning: Fra gær til galakser formidler 150 eksempler på dansk grundforskning, som Carlsbergfondet har støttet gennem halvandet århundrede – forskning, der har udvidet vores forståelse af naturen, mennesket og samfundet. Få indblik i, hvordan fri
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by Eulalia Pérez Sedeño, Eulalia Pérez Sedeño, Dau García Dauder ...

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Como en otros campos, la historia de la ciencia ha asignado a las mujeres el lugar que se presuponía que les correspondía desde una perspectiva exclusivamente masculina, a menudo incurriendo en afirmaciones y teorías destinadas a invisibilizar o directamente inventar temas relacionados con su cuerpo, salud o capacidades. Aunque la presencia cada vez mayor de mujeres en la ciencia no sea condición ... Read more

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Como en otros campos, la historia de la ciencia ha asignado a las mujeres el lugar que se presuponía que les correspondía desde una perspectiva exclusivamente masculina, a menudo incurriendo en afirmaciones y teorías destinadas a invisibilizar o directamente inventar temas relacionados con su cuerpo, salud o capacidades. Aunque la presencia cada vez mayor de mujeres en la ciencia no sea condición
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BBC science sleuths solve everyday mysteries

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6 hours 28 min

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by Robert N. Cahn, Chris Quigg ...

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Unabridged

14 hours

In Grace in All Simplicity, listeners will delight in Cahn and Quigg's engaging prose and see how the infinite and the infinitesimal are joined. Today, physicists and astronomers are exploring distances from a billionth of a billionth of the human scale to the entire cosmos, and contemplating time intervals that range from less than a trillionth of a trillionth of a second out to far longer than ... Read more

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