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13 produkter
Alive
The Hidden Intelligence of the Living World
Häftad, 1900
249 kr
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A major work of interdisciplinary nonfiction that redefines how we understand life, agency, and intelligence What does it mean to be alive? The slow contortion of a plant toward light, the dive of hawks toward their prey—these are purposeful actions. But where does that purpose come from, and what …
Alive
The Hidden Intelligence of the Living World
Inbunden, 2026
214 kr
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What does it mean to be alive? The slow contortion of a plant towards light, the spear-flight of a hawk towards their quarry - these are purposeful actions. But where does that purpose come from, and what does it tell us about who we are?In Alive, researcher and natural philosopher Melanie …
Galatea
Häftad, 2006
197 kr
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Short-Listed For The Felix Dennis Best First Collection Prize (Forward Prizes For Poetry 2007) In Galatea, her first collection, Challenger casts a poet’s sensitive eye across the hours of a tumultuous century to create startling poems whose voice – resolute, compassionate, original – both …
Stolen Voices: Young People's War Diaries, from World War I to Iraq
Av Zlata Filipovic, Melanie Challenger
Häftad, 2006
367 kr
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Animal Dignity
Philosophical Reflections on Non-Human Existence
Inbunden, 2023
995 kr
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How do we understand the dignity and value of non-human animals? Leading philosophers, ethnologists and writers contribute to this interdisciplinary and wide-ranging account of animal dignity. With a foreword by world-leading primatologist, Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, essays collected here make the case …
Animal Dignity
Philosophical Reflections on Non-Human Existence
Häftad, 2023
301 kr
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How do we understand the dignity and value of non-human animals? Leading philosophers, ethnologists and writers contribute to this interdisciplinary and wide-ranging account of animal dignity. With a foreword by world-leading primatologist, Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, essays collected here make the case …
Animal Dignity
Philosophical Reflections on Non-Human Existence
E-bok, 2023
328 kr
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How do we understand the dignity and value of non-human animals? Leading philosophers, ethnologists and writers contribute to this interdisciplinary and wide-ranging account of animal dignity. With a foreword by world-leading primatologist, Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, essays collected here make the case …
Animal Dignity
Philosophical Reflections on Non-Human Existence
E-bok, 2023
328 kr
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How do we understand the dignity and value of non-human animals? Leading philosophers, ethnologists and writers contribute to this interdisciplinary and wide-ranging account of animal dignity. With a foreword by world-leading primatologist, Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, essays collected here make the case …
Stolen Voices
Young People''s War Diaries, from World War I to Iraq
Av Melanie Challenger, Zlata Filipovic
E-bok, 2006
83 kr
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From the author of the international bestseller Zlata’s Diary comes a haunting testament to how war’s brutality affects the lives of young people Zlata Filipovic’s diary of her harrowing war experiences in the Balkans, published in 1993, made her a globally recognized spokesperson for children …
On Extinction
How We Became Estranged from Nature
Häftad, 2021
215 kr
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Realizing the link between her own estrangement from nature and the cultural shifts that led to a dramatic rise in extinctions, award–winning writer Melanie Challenger travels in search of the stories behind these losses. From an exploration of an abandoned mine in England to an Antarctic sea …
How to Be Animal
What it Means to Be Human
Häftad, 2022
133 kr
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Humans are the most inquisitive, emotional, imaginative, aggressive and baffling animals on the planet. But how well do we really know ourselves?How to Be Animal offers a radical take on what it means to be human and argues that at the heart of our psychology is a profound struggle with being …
