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  • Better Than Yesterday

    by Jay Matthew ...
    This is a must for all doctors new to emergency medicine in South Africa. Written by a seasoned emergency medicine doctor, that has worked both in emergency departments and in the prehospital environment, it goes into detail about problems that doctors may encounter during daily practice. It offers quirky commentary and useful insights to help junior doctors cope in the field. Experienced doctors ... Read more

    R109,41 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gene

    The story of the gene: our past, our future, ourselves.

    by Siddhartha Mukherjee ...
    An epic, dazzling history of the idea that defines us.From Gregor Mendel’s pea plants to the discovery of DNA and the CRISPR revolution in gene-editing, The Gene tells the story of how we came to understand heredity – to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans – land how that knowledge now allows us to rewrite life itself. Siddhartha Mukherjee combines scientific insight with ... Read more

    R276,22

  • The Dangerous Art of Alchemy

    A fascinating free e-short accompaniment to The Raven's Head

    by Karen Maitland ...
    A free e-short from 'Queen of the Dark Ages' Karen Maitland, author of Company of Liars, which explores medieval Dark Arts practices and the mysterious history of alchemy.**Includes real recipes devised by medieval alchemists and a free sample of Karen's gothic historical thriller, The Raven's Head**'An atmospheric and dark story' The Times on The Raven's Head</st... ... Read more

    Free

  • Why Do Golf Balls Have Dimples?

    A Book of Weird and Wonderful Science Facts

    by Wendy Sadler ...
    Have you ever wondered why golf balls have dimples or why your hair goes frizzy in the rain? Scientist Wendy Sadler has the answers in her book of Weird and Wonderful facts. Broken down into user-friendly chapters like sport, going out, the great outdoors, food and drink and the downright weird, Wendy gives the scientific answers to life's intriguing questions, likeWhy toast always lands butter ... Read more

    R54,61

  • Basics of … Beekeeping

    by Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth and Others ...
    This classic work has been greatly enhanced and extended with both photographs and images to illustrate the many facets of Beekeeping.A guide for the aspiring apiarist. All you need to know to get started in beekeeping. In this updated edition, a compilation of advice from Langstroth, Quinby, Huber, and a number of contemporary contributors, you will find everything you need to know about ... Read more

    R72,88

  • Reader, Come Home

    The Reading Brain in a Digital World

    by Maryanne Wolf ...
    The author of the acclaimed Proust and the Squid follows up with a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative book that considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection as we become increasingly dependent on digital technologies.A decade ago, Maryanne Wolf’s Proust and the Squid revealed what we know about how the brain learns to read and how ... Read more

    R221,48

  • What's Gotten Into You

    The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner

    by Dan Levitt ...
    For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Siddhartha Mukherjee, a wondrous, wildly ambitious, and vastly entertaining work of popular science that tells the awe-inspiring story of the elements that make up the human body, and how these building blocks of life travelled billions of miles and across billions of years to make us who we are.Every one of us contains a billion times more atoms ... Read more

    R338,09

  • Technologie und Race

    Essays der Migration

    by Louis Chude-Sokei ...
    Translated by Utku Mogultay ...
    Am Anfang der US-amerikanischen Unterhaltungskultur steht eine Schwarze Frau, von der das Publikum nicht weiß, ob es sich um einen 161 Jahre alten Menschen, einen Schwindel oder um einen Automaten handelt: Joice Heth, George Washingtons »Mammy«, mit der P. T. Barnum durch das Land tourt und schließlich die American Sideshow und den modernen Zirkus begründet. In Louis Chude-Sokeis eindringlichen ... Read more

    R419,00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Des Menschen Weg in die Naturwissenschaft

    Eine historische Szenenfolge, eingebettet in ein überzeitliches Rahmengespräch

    by Uwe Rosenfeld ...
    Eine auf originalen Äußerungen beruhende, fiktive Diskussionsrunde namhafter Naturwissenschaftler wird angesichts bestehender (atomarer) Bedrohungen nach ihrer vergangenen und zukünftigen Verantwortung für den Fortbestand menschenwürdigen Lebens auf der Erde befragt. In 10 Nebenszenen wird der Entwicklungsweg der modernen Naturwissenschaft skizzenhaft dargestellt und erkennbar. Die geäußerten ... Read more

    R89,00

  • HUSSERL - O PROBLEMA DA VERDADE & O MÉTODO FENOMENOLÓGICO

    by CLEBERSON EDUARDO DA COSTA ...
    Series Book 8 - Coleção Filósofos do Nosso Tempo
    (A5, 107 P.) - Na história da filosofia ocidental, Edmund Husserl (1859 - 1938) é um importante e filósofo alemão que fundamentou as bases epistemológicas da escola fenomenológica, rompendo com uma orientação positivista da ciência que, sob a estrutura bases utilitaristas e / ou tecnicistas, influenciava ou estruturava a filosofia de sua época. Husserl desenvolveu, sendo assim, importantes ... Read more

    R161,36

  • Grant Writer's Handbook, The: How To Write A Research Proposal And Succeed

    by Gerard M Crawley, Eoin O'sullivan ...
    The Grant Writer's Handbook: How to Write a Research Proposal and Succeed provides useful and practical advice on all aspects of proposal writing, including developing proposal ideas, drafting the proposal, dealing with referees, and budgeting. The authors base their advice on many years of experience writing and reviewing proposals in many different countries at various levels of scientific ... Read more

    R291,51

  • Le concept et la violence

    by Pierre FÉDIDA ...
    Series series psychopathologie fondamentale
    En évoquant lí’époque de la libération sexuelle et des soifs de libertés en tous genres, l’auteur a analysé, en 1977, les textes qui en faisaient le point. Cette réédition inspirera ceux qui ne l’ont pas vécu et rappelleront aux plus âgés l’importance de renouer avec ces débats passionnés et passionnels dont on a oublié la portée : « Il est une violence neutre, sans visage et sans mains. Neutre ... Read more

    R169,66

  • Abriss zur Hegelschen Philosophie

    mit zusammengefassten Beiträgen und dem Werk "Zur Kritik der Hegel'schen Rechts-Philosophie" von Karl Marx

    by Gunter Pirntke ...
    Das Buch beschreibt in zusammengefassten Beiträgen und einer Einleitung die Darstellung Hegels, die Grundzüge der hegelschen Philosophie und das hegelsche System, die Übersicht des philosophischen Systems, die Werke des Philosophen sowie das Verhältnis der Marxistische Philosophie zu Hegel. Es schließt mit dem Werk "Zur Kritik an der Hegel'schen Rechts-Philosophie" durch Karl Marx und einem ... Read more

    R63,00

  • Historical Dictionary of Science and Technology in Modern China

    by Dr Nancy Liu-Sullivan, Professor Lawrence R. Sullivan ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East
    The Historical Dictionary of Science and Technology in Modern China provides the most up-to-date information on science and technology in China from the late nineteenth century to the present. Special attention is given to the historical factors, scientists, and historical figures behind each scientific development. In particular, this book pays attention to the scientists who were persecuted to ... Read more

    R2 554,83

  • مقاربة في الرياضيات العصبية: الدماغ الرياضي

    Translated by Maysa Orabi ...
    by خوان خوسيه دي لا سيرنا، ...
    أصبح الحديث حول الرياضيات في السنوات الأخيرة مرتبطًا بشكل أساسيّ بعلاقتها بضرورة تعليم الأطفال منذ نعومة أظفارهم، كما هو الحال، مثلاً، في تعليمهم مبادئ اقتصادية تساعدهم في التحضير لمستقبلهم كأفراد في المجتمع، وينطبق ذلك أيضًا على على ما طرأ من تطورات في عمليات التعلم الحديثة بعد اللجوء لاستخدام وسائل تربوية حديثة مستوردة من بلاد أخرى. بيد أن الثورة الأهم في المجال هي ثورة العلوم العصبية، التي بلغت ... Read more

    R91,33 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wie man einen verdammt guten Roman schreibt 1

    by James N Frey ...
    Translated by Jochen Stremmel, Hejo Emons ...
    Wie schreibt man einen Roman? Diese Frage beschäftigt viele. Denn so manches lernt man auf Schule und Uni, aber das bestimmt nicht. James N. Frey, erfolgreicher Romanautor und Dozent für kreatives Schreiben in den USA, legt eine praktische, systematische und witzige Anleitung für das Schreiben eines Romans vor. Ihm geht es nicht um die Frage, was ist Literatur, sondern um das Handwerk des ... Read more

    Was R279,00 Now R119,00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Socrate (Platon), Diogène, Aristote, Zénon, Epicure, Pyrrhon

    les philosophes grecs

    by anonymes ...
    Vous trouverez dans cet ebook la biographie, au moins un livre ou un texte et leur philosophiede : Socrate (Platon), Diogène, Aristote, Zénon, Epicure, Pyrrhon (les philosophes grecs) et en bonus: Jean Paul Sartre.Un Livre idéal pour les futurs bacheliers. ... Read more

    R56,43

  • The Super Race: An American Problem

    by Scott Nearing ...
    The Super Race: An American Problem is a classic essay on the subject of eugenics in the United States. For ages men have sought to perpetuate their memories in enduring monuments of brass and of stone. Yet, in their efforts to build lasting memorials they have neglected the most enduring monument of all--the Monument of Posterity. These farseeing ones have overlooked their real opportunity; for ... Read more

    R36,35 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lapwings, Loons and Lousy Jacks

    The How and Why of Bird Names

    by Ray Reedman ...
    The Lapwing once had many regional names; the Loon has a British-American identity crisis and the respectable-sounding Apostlebird is often called a Lousy Jack. Why do bird names, both common and scientific, change over time and why do they vary so much between different parts of the English-speaking world? Wandering through the scientific and cultural history of ornithology takes us to the heart ... Read more

    R438,37

  • The Handbook of Nature

    by Frank R. Spellman ...
    This completely updated edition of The Handbook of Nature provides scientific answers to questions that arise when looking at the world around us. This book examines the relationship between humans and nature, specifically, it explains how natural phenomena/disasters influence the way we live and how human activity influences environmental changes and the frequency and intensity of natural ... Read more

    R1 399,31

  • Atlas of Crustacean Larvae

    Edited by Joel W. Martin, Jørgen Olesen, Jens T. Høeg ...
    An illustrated guide to the sweeping diversity of crustacean larval forms.Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRLCrustaceans—familiar to the average person as shrimp, lobsters, crabs, krill, barnacles, and their many relatives—are easily one of the most important and diverse groups of marine life. Poorly understood, they are among the most numerous invertebrates on earth ... Read more

    R1 986,50

  • Die Bestimmung des Menschen

    by Johann Gottlieb Fichte ...
    Die Bestimmung des Menschen (Erstausgabe 1800) ist eine populäre Schrift des Philosophen Johann Gottlieb Fichtes, durch die der Nicht-Fachgelehrte zur Selbsterkenntnis angeleitet werden soll, die diesen dann befähigen wird, mündig am öffentlichen Geschehen teilzunehmen. Im 18. Jahrhundert ist es geradezu eine Modeerscheinung gewesen, Bücher unter dem Titel Die Bestimmung des Menschen zu ... Read more

    R21,00

  • Astroglossary

    by G. Cyr ...
    Are you seeking a reference book which contains critical astronomy-related terms? The Astroglossary provides a great resource on the world of astronomy for both students and the general public alike.Mr Cyr had a great love for life, people and our planet. He touched the lives of everyone he met, and he had sought to inspire us, as humans, to re-connect with each other.The world of science, and ... Read more

    R82,10

  • A Stuck on Learning Math Sticker Book for Toddlers - Counting Book

    by Baby Professor ...
    Counting is made more playful with this sticker book for toddlers. Nobody is allowed to get stuck on Mathematics. You must keep your kids moving up the ladder of learning with this activity book. Let’s all get creative and never surrender. You can get a copy of this book today. ... Read more

    R65,65