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20 produkter
Blind Spot
Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience
Av Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser
Häftad, 2025
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
249 kr
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A compelling argument for including the human perspective within science, and for how human experience makes science possible.“This is by far the best book I've read this year.”—Michael Pollan, Professor of the Practice of Non-fiction, Harvard University; #1 New York Times bestselling authorIt’s …
The Little Book of Aliens
Av Adam Frank
Inbunden, 2023
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
286 kr
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“With wit and brio, Frank separates current nonsense about aliens from the serious and fascinating search for extraterrestrial life.” —Carlo Rovelli, New York Times bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics From astrophysicist Adam Frank, a little book on the biggest questions in our …
Light of the Stars
Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
Av Adam Frank
Häftad, 2019
170 kr
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Light of the Stars tells a radically new story about what we are: one world in a universe awash in planets. Building on his widely discussed scientific papers and The New York Times op-eds, astrophysicist Adam Frank shows that not only is it likely that alien civilisations have existed many times …
Little Book of Aliens
Av Adam Frank
Ljudbok, 2023
404 kr
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“With wit and brio, Frank separates current nonsense about aliens from the serious and fascinating search for extraterrestrial life.†—Carlo Rovelli, New York Times bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics From astrophysicist Adam Frank, a little book on the biggest questions in …
Little Book of Aliens
Av Adam Frank
E-bok, 2023
237 kr
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From astrophysicist Adam Frank, a little book on the biggest questions in our search for extraterrestrial life, questions we stand ready to answer. Everyone is curious about life in the Universe, UFOs and whether ET is out there. Over the course of his thirty-year career as an astrophysicist, Adam …
Light of the Stars
Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
Av Adam Frank
Inbunden, 2018
259 kr
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Light of the Stars tells a radically new story about what we are: one world in a universe awash in planets. Building on his widely discussed scientific papers and The New York Times op-eds, astrophysicist Adam Frank shows that not only is it likely that alien civilisations have existed many times …
Constant Fire
Beyond the Science vs. Religion Debate
Av Adam Frank
Häftad, 2009
219 kr
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Eloquent, urgent, and inspiring, "The Constant Fire" tackles the acrimonious debate between science and religion, taking us beyond its stagnant parameters into the wider domain of human spiritual experience. From a Neolithic archaeological site in Ireland to modern theories of star formation, Adam …
Constant Fire
Beyond the Science vs. Religion Debate
Av Adam Frank
E-bok, 2009
364 kr
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Eloquent, urgent, and inspiring, The Constant Fire tackles the acrimonious debate between science and religion, taking us beyond its stagnant parameters into the wider domain of human spiritual experience. From a Neolithic archaeological site in Ireland to modern theories of star formation, Adam …
Shame and Its Sisters
A Silvan Tomkins Reader
Av Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Adam Frank
Häftad, 1995
277 kr
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The question of affect is central to critical theory, psychology, politics, and the entire range of the humanities; but no discipline, including psychoanalysis, has offered a theory of affect that would be rich enough to account for the delicacy and power, the evanescence and durability, the bodily …
Transferential Poetics, from Poe to Warhol
Av Adam Frank
Inbunden, 2014
1098 kr
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Transferential Poetics presents a method for bringing theories of affect to the study of poetics. Informed by the thinking of Silvan Tomkins, Melanie Klein, and Wilfred Bion, it offers new interpretations of the poetics of four major American artists: Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Gertrude Stein, …
Astronomy
At Play in the Cosmos
Av Adam Frank
2022
1815 kr
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The Second Edition of Adam Frank’s groundbreaking book supports the mission of helping students become scientifically educated citizens. He shows students that the process of science is a human endeavor by introducing them, via interviews, to scientists from across the field. New Anatomy of a …
About Time
Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang
Av Adam Frank
Häftad, 2012
345 kr
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Now in paperback, “a phenomenal blend of science and cultural history” ( Kirkus Reviews , starred review), About Time gives readers a peek into the cutting edge of cosmology, showing how it is intimately wedded to the texture of our daily lives. Our universe’s “beginning” is at an end. What does …
About Time
Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang
Av Adam Frank
E-bok, 2011
213 kr
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The Big Bang is all but dead, and we do not yet know what will replace it. Our universe’s “beginning” is at an end. What does this have to do with us here on Earth? Our lives are about to be dramatically shaken again—as altered as they were with the invention of the clock, the steam engine, the …
About Time
From Sun Dials to Quantum Clocks, How the Cosmos Shapes our Lives - And We Shape the Cosmos
Av Adam Frank
E-bok, 2012
103 kr
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From Stonehenge to beyond the Big Bang, an exhilarating scientific exploration of how we make time Time is the grandest conception of the universe that we humans have been able to imagine – and its most intimate, the very frame of human life. In About Time, astrophysicist and award-winning writer …
About Time
From Sun Dials to Quantum Clocks, How the Cosmos Shapes our Lives - And We Shape the Cosmos
Av Adam Frank
Häftad, 2013
113 kr
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From Stonehenge to beyond the Big Bang, an exhilarating scientific exploration of how we make time Time is the grandest conception of the universe that we humans have been able to imagine – and its most intimate, the very frame of human life. In About Time, astrophysicist and award-winning writer …
Brief Guide to Aliens
are we alone in the universe?
Av Adam Frank
Inbunden, 2024
219 kr
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*As featured on Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard and Science Friday* Astrophysicist Adam Frank guides us through the search for extraterrestrial life and the questions we stand ready to answer. ‘With wit and brio, Frank separates current nonsense about aliens from the serious and fascinating search …
El punto ciego
Por qué la ciencia no puede ignorar la experiencia humana
Av Evan Thompson, Marcelo Gleiser m. fl.
E-bok, 2024
136 kr
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En El punto ciego, el astrofísico Adam Frank, el físico teórico Marcelo Gleiser y el filósofo Evan Thompson abogan por una visión revolucionaria del mundo científico, una en la que la ciencia incluya la experiencia vivida por la humanidad como parte ineludible de nuestra búsqueda de la verdad …
Shame and Its Sisters
A Silvan Tomkins Reader
Av Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Adam Frank
Inbunden, 1995
1097 kr
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The question of affect is central to critical theory, psychology, politics, and the entire range of the humanities; but no discipline, including psychoanalysis, has offered a theory of affect that would be rich enough to account for the delicacy and power, the evanescence and durability, the bodily …
Transferential Poetics, from Poe to Warhol
Av Adam Frank
Häftad, 2014
379 kr
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Transferential Poetics presents a method for bringing theories of affect to the study of poetics. Informed by the thinking of Silvan Tomkins, Melanie Klein, and Wilfred Bion, it offers new interpretations of the poetics of four major American artists: Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Gertrude Stein, …
