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Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
2022 || Paperback || Lisa Feldman Barrett || Macmillan
'Highly accessible, content-rich and eminently readable . . .
Fascinating and informative . . .
popular science at its best.' - The Observer'Subtly radical . . .
It presents a revelatory model of consciousness that will be completely new to most readers' - The Guardian 'Best Reads For Summer'Have you ever wondered why you have a brain? Let renowned neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett, bestselling author of How Emotions Are Made, demystify that big grey blob between your ears . . .
In seven sh...
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Ultra-Processed People
Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop?
2024 || Paperback || Chris van Tulleken || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Chosen by the SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, FT and DAILY MAIL as one of their BEST SUMMER BOOKS OF 2023
'If you only read one diet or nutrition book in your life, make it this one' Bee Wilson
'A devastating, witty and scholarly destruction of the shit food we eat and why' Adam Rutherford
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An eye-opening investigation into the science, economics, history and production of ultra-processed food.
It's not you, it's the food.
We have entered a new 'age of eating' where most of our calories come from ...
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Emotional Ignorance
Misadventures in the Science of Emotion
2024 || Paperback || Dean Burnett || Veltman Distributie Import Books
After losing his dad, a neuroscientist goes on a journey of discovery into where our emotions come from, what purpose they serve, and why they make us feel the way they do.
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Mountains of Fire
The Secret Lives of Volcanoes
2023 || Paperback || Clive Oppenheimer || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'What the French adventurer Jacques Cousteau was to the hidden world under our seas, Oppenheimer is to the hidden, molten world bubbling under our feet.'
SUNDAY TIMES
'A book that will make all readers want to become volcanologists.'
PETER FRANKOPAN
'Gripping ... like a thriller ... Oppenheimer is better than good. This is terrific.'
SPECTATOR
'Beautiful. Mountains of Fireis bursting with poetry, with storytelling. '
WERNER HERZOG
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Volcanoes mean so much more than threat and calamit...
Molecular Biology of the Cell / 7th Edition
International student edition
2022 || Paperback || Bruce Alberts e.a. || WW Norton & Co
For more than four decades, Molecular Biology of the Cell has distilled the vast amount of scientific knowledge to illuminate basic principles, enduring concepts and cutting-edge research. The Seventh Edition has been extensively revised and updated with the latest research, and has been thoroughly vetted by experts and instructors. The classic companion text, The Problems Book, has been reimagined as the Digital Problems Book in Smartwork, an interactive digital assessment course with a wide...
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Understanding culture in territorial management and its implications for spatial planning
the case of floodplain management in urbanised delta regions in the Netherlands and Thailand
2019 || Paperback || Suwanna Rongwiriyaphanich || TU Delft Open
Previous experiences have shown that the implementation of planning policy does not always lead to the originally intended territorial management outcomes. This issue is particularly crucial when policy ideas, institutions, models and programmes are transferred into places with different cultural settings without adaptations (Knieling and Othengrafen 2009b; Sanyal 2005). These unexpected consequences in planning practice and management outcomes have brought a significant amount of attention...
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Dwelling on courtyards
Exploring the energy efficiency and comfort potential of courtyards for dwellings in the Netherlands
2019 || Paperback || Mohammad Taleghani || TU Delft Open
The urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon and the dependency of buildings on fossil fuels were the two main issues that formed this dissertation. UHI results in higher air temperatures in dense urban areas compared with their suburbs and rural surroundings. This phenomenon affects human health through thermal discomfort. Furthermore, in the Netherlands, it is estimated that by 2050 the air temperature could be up to 2.3°C warmer as compared to the period of 1981-2010. Besides, the energy cons...
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Evaluation of plan implementation
peri-urban development and the Shanghai master plan 1999-2020
2019 || Paperback || Jinghuan He || TU Delft Open
Since the 1980s China has experienced unprecedented urbanisation as a result of a series of reforms promoting rapid economic development. Shanghai, like the other big cities along China’s coastline, has witnessed extraordinary growth in its economy and population with industrial development and rural-to-urban migration generating extensive urban expansion. Shanghai’s GDP growth rate has been over 10 per cent for more than 15 years. Its population in 2013 was estimated at 23.47 million, wh...
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Evolutionary design assistants for architecture
2019 || Paperback || N. Onur Sönmez || TU Delft Open
In its parallel pursuit of an increased competitivity for design offices and more pleasurable and easier workflows for designers, artificial design intelligence is a technical, intellectual, and political challenge. While human-machine cooperation has become commonplace through Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools, a more improved collaboration and better support appear possible only through an endeavor into a kind of artificial design intelligence, which is more sensitive to the human perceptio...
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How the World Really Works
A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
2022 || Paperback || Vaclav Smil || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If you want a brief but thorough education in numeric thinking about many of the fundamental forces that shape human life, this is the book to read. It's a tour de force' BILL GATES
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We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, ...