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Now is Better - Stefan Sagmeister, Steven Pinker, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Steven Heller
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Goodness Paradox"A fascinating new analysis of human violence, filled with fresh ideas and gripping evidence from our primate cousins, historical forebears, and contemporary neighbors."--Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature |
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RationalityHumans today are often portrayed as cavemen out of time, poised to react to a lion in the grass with a suite of biases, blind spots, and illusions. But cognitive scientist and rational optimist Steven Pinker argues that this cannot be the whole picture. A list of the ways in which we are stupid cann... |
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Sense of StyleSteven Pinker, the best-selling author of The Language Instinct, deploys his gift for explaining big ideas in The Sense of Style - an entertaining writing guide for the 21st century. What is the secret of good prose? Does writing well even matter in an age of instant communication? Should we care? I... |
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Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World - Václav Smil'My favourite author has done it again. Numbers Don't Lie is by far his most accessible book to date, and I highly recommend it to anyone who is curious about the world. I unabashedly recommend this book to anyone who loves learning' Bill Gates Is flying dangerous? How much do the world's cows weigh... |
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"Guitar Zero: The Science of Becoming Musical at Any Age" ("Marcus Gary")"Just about every human being knows how to listen to music, but what does it take to make music? Is musicality something we are born with? Or a skill that anyone can develop at any time? If you don't start piano at the age of six, is there any hope? Is skill learning best left to children or can any... |
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How is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?The Internet, in the memorable words of EDGE founder John Brockman, is 'the infinite oscillation of our collective consciousness interacting with itself. It's not about computers. It's not about what it means to be human - in fact, it challenges, renders trite, our cherished assumptions on that scor... |
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Better Angels of Our NatureFaced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen. Yet as New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true. |
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Svoboda projevu Od Sokrata po sociální sítě - Mchangama JacobOd antického myslitele Sokrata přes osvícenského filozofa Spinozu bojovnici za lidská práva Eleanor Rooseveltovou či našeho Václava Havla až po moderní aktivisty Jacob Mchangama se ve své knize vydává na výpravu dějinami svobody projevu a na své cestě ilustruje neustálé pokušení flirtovat s cenzurou... |
24,40 € |
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Everybody LiesInsightful, surprising and with ground-breaking revelations about our society, Everybody Lies exposes the secrets embedded in our internet searches, with a foreword by bestselling author Steven Pinker |
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"This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress" ("Brockman John")" The bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together 175 of the world's most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.org's 2014 question: What scientific idea has become a relic blocking human progress? Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org--"The world's smartest website" (The Guar... |
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Stuff of ThoughtIn "The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature", Steven Pinker looks at how the relationship between words and thoughts can help us understand who we are. Why do so many swear words involve topics like sex, bodily functions or the divine? Why do some children's names thrive while o... |
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"Only the Dead: The Persistence of War in the Modern Age" ("Braumoeller Bear F.")"A unique assessment that challenges humanity's quest to abolish warfare. The idea that war is going out of style has become the conventional wisdom in recent years. But in Only the Dead, award-winning author Bear Braumoeller demonstrates that it shouldn't have. With a rare combination of historica... |
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Numbers Don't Lie'My favourite author has done it again. Numbers Don't Lie is by far his most accessible book to date, and I highly recommend it to anyone who is curious about the world. I unabashedly recommend this book to anyone who loves learning' Bill GatesIs flying dangerous? How much do the world's cows weigh?... |
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"On Time, Change, History, and Conversion" ("Hannan Sean")" Sean Hannan offers a new interpretation of Augustine of Hippo's approach to temporality by contrasting it with contemporary accounts of time drawn from philosophy, political theology, and popular science. Hannan argues that, rather than offering us a deceptively simple roadmap forward, Augustine a... |
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"The Glass Half-Empty: Debunking the Myth of Progress in the Twenty-First Century" ("Aguilera Rodrigo")"Is the world really getting so much better? Rodrigo Aguilera argues that, despite what some say about "progress" in the twenty-first century, we are still falling far short of where we could be. Despite the doom and gloom of financial crises, global terrorism, climate collapse, and the rise of the... |
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Einstein Syndrome"I have found The Einstein Syndrome filled with insight, acute observations, and fertile ideas...This is an invaluable contribution to human knowledge by one of the great minds of our time."--Steven Pinker, author of How the Mind Works |
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Books do Furnish a Life'Richard Dawkins is a thunderously gifted science writer.' Sunday Times'It may be a collection of shorter parts, but the book is in no sense Dawkins made simple. It amounts to a substantive whole which offers a unitary panoramic view across his entire intellectual life.' SpectatorIncluding conversat... |
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"Pride: The Secret of Success" ("Tracy Jessica")""A revelation." -- Angela Duckworth "Enlightening." -- Steven Pinker "Fascinating." -- Daniel H. Pink "Insightful and engaging." -- Daniel Gilbert "Stopped me in my tracks." -- Adam Grant "An intriguing new way to think about a complicated emotion." -- New York Why did Paul Gauguin aban... |
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How is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?The Internet, in the memorable words of EDGE founder John Brockman, is 'the infinite oscillation of our collective consciousness interacting with itself. It's not about computers. It's not about what it means to be human - in fact, it challenges, renders trite, our cherished assumptions on that scor... |
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"How Babies Think" ("Gopnik Alison")"A cutting-edge exploration of what evolutionary psychology is teaching us of the development and learning of children, in the tradition of Matt Ridley's The Red Queen and Steven Pinker's The Language |
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