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Este ensayo, compuesto de tres apartados de relatos de amena lectura, nos sitúa en su primer capítulo en una situación en la que una variación mínima en la vida rutinaria de un hombre, le llevan a un cambio total en su existencia, que va desde su muerte hasta la liberación de su alienante monotonía.
En el segundo capítulo, vemos en cuántas situaciones, a lo largo de tres generaciones, la vida del propio autor habría podido dejar de existir.
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Nineteen brilliantly led conversations with a sterling roster of natural and social scientists, shedding new light on their ideas, discoveries and lives. How does Jane Goodall s relationship with her dog Rusty inform her thinking about our relationship to other species? Which time and place would Jared Diamond most prefer to live in, in light of his work on the role of chance in history? What does driving a sports car have to do with Steven Weinberg...
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A collection of the best science and nature articles written in 2021, selected by guest editor renowned marine biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and series editor Jaime Green.
Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, renowned marine biologist and co-founder of the All We Can Save climate initiative, compiles the best science and nature writing of the year.
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This anthology collects some of the year's best science and nature writing-from climate change to killer beetles, an exposé of nail salons, and more.
As guest editor, Amy Stewart says in her introduction, "science writers get into the game with all kinds of noble, high-minded ambitions. We want to educate. To enlighten...But at the end of the day, we're all writers. We're just like novelists, memoirists, and poets. We're entertainers." The writers...
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The New York Times—bestselling author of Packing for Mars presents fascinating essays by Jonathan Lethem, Jaron Lanier, Malcom Gladwell and others.
Good science writing, as Mary Roach explains in her introduction, is a cure for ignorance and fallacy. But great science writing adds honey-in the form of engaging characters, stories, and wit-to make the medicine go down. This anthology reveals the essential humanity in our endless quest for knowledge...
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This anthology of essays and articles explores topics ranging from untouched wilderness to scientific ethics-and the nature of curiosity itself.
Scientists and writers are both driven by a dogged curiosity, immersing themselves in detailed observations that, over time, uncover larger stories. As Rebecca Skloot says in her introduction, all the stories in this collection are "written by and about people who take the time, and often a substantial amount...
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The questions that drive Priscilla Long's Fire and Stone are the questions asked by the painter Paul Gauguin in the title of his 1897 painting: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? These questions look beyond everyday trivialities to ponder the essence of our origins.
Using her own story as a touchstone, Long explores our human roots and how they shape who we are today. Her personal history encompasses childhood as an identical...
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Extrait : "Il a été d'un certain nombre de piles hydroélectriques affectées au service spécial de la télégraphie et de la téléphonie. Ces piles sont caractérisées par un débit faible et constant. Mais il a fallu, pour d'autres applications importantes de l'électricité, établir des générateurs d'énergie électrique pouvant fournir des courants intenses et constants."
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Twenty-seven of America's best science and nature essays of 2013, selected by the author of The Emperor of All Maladies and the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Gene.
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee, a leading cancer physician and researcher, selects the year's top science and nature writing from journalists who dive into their fields with curiosity and passion, delivering must-read articles from a wide array of fields.
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Extrait : "Une seule chose est nécessaire ! J'admets dans toute sa portée philosophique ce précepte du Grand Maître de la morale. Je le regarde comme le principe de toute noble vie, comme la formule expressive, quoique dangereuse en sa brièveté, de la nature humaine, au point de vue de la moralité et du devoir."
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Here is a volume that is true Maine-as eloquent of "downeast" as a bough of fir balsam, as the thunder of a wave of a rocky shore, as the lonely splendor of the northern lights in the sky behind Katahdin. In WHITE PINE AND BLUE WATER has been collected the best of three centuries of fact and fiction written about the wonderful country that is Maine.
The recorded history of this northern land starts in the troubled era when the French and English...
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From which side of the bed you sleep on to where to play a backyard game of hide-and-go-seek, Maximilian Werner examines elements of everyday behavior through the eye-opening lens of evolutionary theory in this memoir-infused nonfiction. Werner applies an intriguingly fresh take to seldom-explored habits of humans and animals alike, guiding readers backward in time to the Pleistocene.
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This work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1895 and it is now republished with a brand new introductory biography. 'Natural Selection and Tropical Nature Essays on Descriptive and Theoretical Biology' is a collection of essays that detail Wallace's observations of various bird species and outlines some of his ideas relating to evolutionary theory.
19) The Origin of Human Races and the Antiquity of Man Deduced From the Theory of "Natural Selection"
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This work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1864 and it is now republished with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Origin of Human Races and the Antiquity of Man Deduced From the Theory of "Natural Selection"' is an essay on the development of humans and the evolutionary evidence for natural selection.
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Extrait: "La décoration d'un arbre de Noël n'offre pas de bien grandes difficultés; un peu de goût suffit en général. Mais il n'en est pas de même en ce qui concerne le mode d'attache des bougies au bout des branches; fixées avec du fil de fer tordu, elles se penchent mélancoliquement, aspergeant de stéarine les personnes placées près de l'arbre, et souvent même mettant le feu à une branche voisine."
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