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  • Wild and Dangerous Performances

    Animals, Emotions, Circus

    by P. Tait ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Elephants, lions, tigers and leopards evoke fascination and awe, fear and excitement. This book analyzes trained acts in twentieth-century live circus and cinema, reveals how humans anthropomorphize animals with their emotions, and interrogates the notion that animals embody a phenomenology of emotions and feelings in culture. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Dark Secrets Of The Terascale, The (Tasi 2011) – Proceedings Of The 2011 Theoretical Advanced Study Institute In Elementary Particle Physics

    by Konstantin Matchev, Timothy M P Tait ...
    This volume is a compilation of the lectures at TASI 2011, held in Boulder, Colorado, June 2011. They cover topics in theoretical particle physics including the Standard Model and beyond, collider physics, dark matter, and cosmology, at a level intended to be accessible to students at the initial stages of their research careers. ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

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  • The New Biography of the Universe

    by Matthias Matting ...
    May I introduce: the universe. Born 13.75 billion years ago. Constantly growing. Nearly empty. Electrically neutral. Poor in antimatter. Populated by 100 billion galaxies, including 130 sextillion stars with approximately just as many planets.Consisting of only 4 percent known forms of matter. The other 96 percent is made up of 23 percent dark matter and 73 percent dark energy. The home of black ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

    Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions

    by Jaak Panksepp, Lucy Biven ...
    Series series Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology
    A look at the seven emotional systems of the brain by the researcher who discovered them.What makes us happy? What makes us sad? How do we come to feel a sense of enthusiasm? What fills us with lust, anger, fear, or tenderness? Traditional behavioral and cognitive neuroscience have yet to provide satisfactory answers. The Archaeology of Mind presents an affective neuroscience approach—which takes ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • What Is Relativity?

    An Intuitive Introduction to Einstein's Ideas, and Why They Matter

    by Jeffrey Bennett ...
    A renowned astrophysicist's approachable introduction to Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and its application in our daily lives.It is commonly assumed that if the Sun suddenly turned into a black hole, it would suck Earth and the rest of the planets into oblivion. Yet, as prominent author and astrophysicist Jeffrey Bennett points out, black holes don't suck. With that simple idea in mind, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Theories of the Universe

    by Gary Moring ...
    You’re no idiot, of course. You know Heisenburg’s uncertainty principle has nothing to do with where you put your car keys. But modern cosmology is relatively complicated. The mystery of the universe definitely isn’t one we can flip to the end to see whodunit.That hasn’t stopped physicists, astronomers, and philosophers from searching for clues! The topic is infinite (literally), but once you’ve ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Pig Who Sang to the Moon

    The Emotional World of Farm Animals

    by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson ...
    Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson’s groundbreaking bestseller, When Elephants Weep, was the first book since Darwin’s time to explore emotions in the animal kingdom, particularly from animals in the wild. Now, he focuses exclusively on the contained world of the farm animal, revealing startling, irrefutable evidence that barnyard creatures have feelings too, even consciousness.Weaving history, literature, ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Story of Collapsing Stars

    Black Holes, Naked Singularities, and the Cosmic Play of Quantum Gravity

    by Pankaj S. Joshi ...
    This book journeys into one of the most fascinating intellectual adventures of recent decades - understanding and exploring the final fate of massive collapsing stars in the universe. The issue is of great interest in fundamental physics and cosmology today, from both the perspective of gravitation theory and of modern astrophysical observations. This is a revolution in the making and may be ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Beyond The Galaxy: How Humanity Looked Beyond Our Milky Way And Discovered The Entire Universe

    by Ethan Siegel ...
    A look up at the night sky reveals a treasury of wonders. Even to the naked eye, the Moon, stars, planets, the Milky Way and even a few star clusters and nebulae illuminate the heavens. For millennia, humans struggled to make sense of what's out there in the Universe, from all we can see to that which lies beyond the limits of even our most powerful telescopes. Beyond the Galaxy traces our journey ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Emotional Intelligence

    Quick Guide To Develop Emotional Control, How To Control Your Emotions, Emotional Stress

    by Joan Pettway ...
    Strategies for improving your emotional intelligence, emotional control, how to control your emotions, emotional stress and much more. ... Read more

    $4.97 USD

  • The Turbulent Birth of the Lick Observatory

    by Rick Novy ...
    With drama equal to any fiction, this article explores the story of how a major research institution came into being at the top of a mountain at the end of the 19th Century. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Emotional Rollercoaster

    A Journey Through the Science of Feelings

    by Claudia Hammond ...
    We cannot help but be fascinated by the emotions that we see in ourselves and others: an absorbing book exploring the extraordinary feelings which make us human, from a rising media star.Claudia Hammond wrote and presented the acclaimed and very popular Radio 4 series 'Emotional Rollercoaster' which explored the science of emotions: what they are, why they happen and how they are created.Emotional ... Read more

    $0.99 USD