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25 produkter
The Empire of Chance
How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life
Av Gerd Gigerenzer, Zeno Swijtink m. fl.
Häftad, 1990
455 kr
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The Empire of Chance tells how quantitative ideas of chance transformed the natural and social sciences, as well as daily life over the last three centuries. A continuous narrative connects the earliest application of probability and statistics in gambling and insurance to the most recent forays …
Contingency Across the Life Sciences
How Accidents Can Be Consequential
Av Alison K. McConwell, Roberta L. Millstein m. fl.
Inbunden, 2027
1675 kr
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With perspectives from biology, history, and philosophy, an investigation of the meaning and importance of contingency in the life sciences. Were the outcomes of evolution, humans included, inevitable? In his 1989 book Wonderful Life, Stephen Jay Gould invited his readers to replay “life’s …
Contingency Across the Life Sciences
How Accidents Can Be Consequential
Av Alison K. McConwell, Roberta L. Millstein m. fl.
Häftad, 2027
578 kr
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With perspectives from biology, history, and philosophy, an investigation of the meaning and importance of contingency in the life sciences. Were the outcomes of evolution, humans included, inevitable? In his 1989 book Wonderful Life, Stephen Jay Gould invited his readers to replay “life’s …
Thinking about Evolution
Historical, Philosophical, and Political Perspectives
Av Rama S. Singh, Costas B. Krimbas m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
924 kr
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Originally published in 2001, this is the second of two volumes published by Cambridge University Press in honour of Richard Lewontin. This second volume of essays honours the philosophical, historical and political dimensions of his work. It is fitting that the volume covers such a wide range of …
Liberty Bell Files
J. Edgar''s Demons
Av John Beatty
E-bok, 2021
94 kr
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The Liberty Bell Files: J Edgar''s Demons is a work of fiction...seriously. Neither the Liberty Bell Project nor "the Files," nor The Special Projects Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ever existed. Can you imagine the FBI investigating a guy who didn''t want to pay sales tax on a cup …
Past Not Taken
Three Novellas
Av John Beatty
E-bok, 2022
94 kr
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We make history every day. From one moment to the next, our decisions-small and large-shape our future and, as we travel along that path, shape our past. How do we want it to read? Should we care? Or should we just get on with our lives and hope for the best? The Past Not Taken is three novellas …
Citizen Soldier
An Account of the American Civil War by a Union Infantry Officer of Ohio Volunteers Who Became a Brigadier General
Av John Beatty
Inbunden, 2007
385 kr
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Citizen Soldier
An Account of the American Civil War by a Union Infantry Officer of Ohio Volunteers Who Became a Brigadier General
Av John Beatty
Häftad, 2007
228 kr
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Kinder Scout
The people's mountain
Häftad, 2018
261 kr
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'An exceptional book.' Robert Macfarlane, author of The Lost Words, Landmarks and Mountains of the Mind‘We made Kinder Scout, not just metaphorically, or metaphysically, not just with our stories and our battles, but literally changed its shape, from the peat washing off its summit, to the drystone …
Citizen-Soldier
Memoirs of a Volunteer
Av John Beatty, Harrison Carroll Hobart
Häftad, 2017
537 kr
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Citizen-Soldier
Av John Beatty
E-bok, 2016
28 kr
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John Beatty (December 16, 1828 – December 4, 1914) was an American banker and statesman from Sandusky, Ohio. He served as a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)
Vick Families of Gloucestershire and Herefordshire from the Sixteenth through the Eighteenth Centuries
Av John Beatty
Häftad, 2025
245 kr
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