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What Apes Can Teach Us About Gender
2023 || Paperback || Frans de Waal || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A ground-breaking look at gender and sex from the world's leading primatologist and New York Times bestselling author of Are We Smart Enough To Know How Smart Animals Are?
'Brilliant and fascinating... brings a scientific, compassionate and balanced approach to some of the hottest controversies about sex and gender' Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens, Homo Deus and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
How different are the sexes? Is gender uniquely human? Where does gender identity originate?
Dr...
Wholeness and the Implicate Order
2023 || Paperback || David Bohm || Taylor & Francis
In this classic work David Bohm, writing clearly and without technical jargon, develops a theory of quantum physics which treats the totality of existence as an unbroken whole.
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The Song of the Cell
An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
2023 || Paperback || Siddhartha Mukherjee || Veltman Distributie Import Books
**A NEW YORK TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, ECONOMIST, MAIL ON SUNDAY and GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR**
'Will leave you in awe' Guardian
From the dawn of life itself, every being that has ever lived owes its existence to the cell.
The discovery of this vital form led to a transformation in medicine but also in our understanding of ourselves - not as bodies or machines but as ecosystems. It has also given us the power to treat a vast array of mortal maladies...and even to create new kinds of human alto...
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Entangled Life
How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures - The Illustrated Edition
2023 || Hardcover || Merlin Sheldrake || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller now illustrated with over 100 spectacular full-colour images, showcasing this wondrous and wildly various lifeform as never before
'Astonishing ... it seems somehow to tip the natural world upside down' Observer
'Completely mind-blowing ... reads like an adventure story' Sunday Times
*WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY BOOK PRIZE 2021*
*WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRTITING 2021*
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2021*
*SHORTLISTED FO...
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Fevered Planet
How Diseases Emerge When We Harm Nature
2023 || Paperback || John Vidal || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Covid-19, monkeypox, bird flu, SARS, HIV, AIDS, Ebola; we are living in the Age of Pandemics - one that we have created. As the climate crisis reaches a fever pitch and ecological destruction continues unabated, we are just beginning to reckon with the effects of environmental collapse on our global health.
Fevered Planet exposes how the way we farm, what we eat, the places we travel to and the scientific experiments we conduct create the perfect conditions for deadly new diseases to emerge a...
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A Brief History of Black Holes
And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong
2023 || Paperback || Becky Dr Smethurst || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Black holes are the universe's strangest and most fascinating objects. In A Brief History of Black Holes, Dr Becky explores the mysteries and realities of this misunderstood phenomenon - and that nearly everything you know about them is wrong.
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To Boldly Go Where No Book Has Gone Before
A Joyous Journey Through All of Science
2023 || Hardcover || Luke O'Neill || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Science is a serious business, right? Wrong.
Scientists have been participants in the best reality show of all time, with all the highs, lows, bust-ups, and strange personalities of any show on telly today. From Luke O'Neill - the science teacher you wish you'd had - this hugely accessible history of science reveals the human stories behind the biggest discoveries.
For example, we meet Charles Darwin as he weighs up the pros and cons of marrying his cousin: 'constant companion' vs 'less money...
Introduction to Probability Models / 13th edition
2023 || Paperback || Sheldon M. Ross || Elsevier
Introduction to Probability Models: Thirteenth Edition is available in two manageable volumes: an Elementary edition appropriate for undergraduate use and an Advanced edition for graduate use. Together, and through their hallmark exercises and real examples, both versions offer a comprehensive foundation of this key subject with applications across engineering, computer science, management science, the physical and social sciences and operations research. Users will find comprehensive infor...
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A Brief History of Intelligence
Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of AI
2023 || Paperback || Max Bennett || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A Brief History of Brains bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the evolutionary story of how the brain came to be.
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Brain Gym
40 workouts to boost your brain health
2023 || Cards || Dr Sabina Brennan || BIS Publishers
Train your brain for emotional wellbeing: feel happier and more productive with 40 science-based brain workouts