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Häftad, Engelska, 1995
290 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 1995
390 kr
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Why do people behave in such unreasonable, ineffective ways? Why can't we get along? Renowned science writer L. Sprague de Camp explains that some of our counterproductive and self-destructive tendencies are the result of humans spending over a million years foraging through the African savannah for food, grubbing for edible roots, and chasing other scavengers away from the kills of abler predators. In these activities we see our highly competitive nature and our tendency to view others as adversaries. De Camp examines our global "wrong-headedness" by considering the qualities that served as survival traits in our primitive past. This book is social anthropology at its best!
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
279 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2013
245 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2013
245 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2013
247 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2014
245 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2014
192 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2014
157 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2014
247 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2017
247 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2013
251 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2014
247 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
559 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
558 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
558 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
558 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
481 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
559 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2023
119 kr
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Two of the most famous contributors to the Conan legend write the official novel of CONAN THE BARBARIAN, the seminal fantasy film by John Milius.The official adaptation of CONAN THE BARBARIAN, the seminal film written by John Milius and Oliver Stone, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Earl Jones. In the novel by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter, the Cimmerian youth Conan witnesses the death of his parents at the hands of Thulsa Doom, a priest of Set. Enslaved, he is trained as a gladiator. Gaining his freedom he allies with Subotai, a Hyrkanian archer, and a skilled swordswoman thief named Valeria. Together they raid the Tower of the Serpent, then Conan breaks away to seek the cult of Doom-and revenge on the sorcerer who leads it.
Häftad, Engelska, 1983
278 kr
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Here is a fascinating study by L. Sprague de Camp of controversial and often little-known happenings in science and technology, with an emphasis on the wayward activities of those who dabble in fringe science.The Fringe of the Unknown is in three parts. The first, "Our Ingenious Forebears," examines some of the mysteries and oddities surrounding ancient technologies. Occultists and pseudoscientists often attribute extraordinary knowledge and wisdom to "the ancients," crediting them with inventions and discoveries that have generally been accepted as accomplishments of recent centuries. De Camp refutes some of these claims, but goes on to show that the ancients, starting from a much lower base of general knowledge, nevertheless achieved some remarkably ingenious results.In Part 2, "Beasts of Now and Then," the author explores a number of oddities and controversies in biology, such as the curious adventures and ramifications of the elephant family, the never-ending efforts to prove that monsters from former eras still roam the earth, the celebrated sighting of a sea serpent by H.M.S. Daedalus in the South Atlantic in 1848, and the many speculations about the great waves of extinction that have, from era to era, impoverished the earth's faunas.In Part 3, "Scientists, Mad and Otherwise," de Camp tells of the behavior of some scientists, from the merely eccentric to the certifiably insane, and examines the differences between real science and pseudoscience.This wide-ranging work is a treasury of entertaining accounts of history and science.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
330 kr
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