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26 produkter
Origin of Politics
How Evolution and Ideology Shape the Fate of Nations
Inbunden, 2025
2,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
311 kr
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Societies that ignore social disintegration and collapsing birth rates are putting their future in peril. So why are we ignoring the signs??In The Origin Of Politics, Nicholas Wade explains how our political systems compete with a more ancient set of rules for organizing society—those developed by …
Troublesome Inheritance
Genes, Race and Human History
Häftad, 2015
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
184 kr
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Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story Fewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different races …
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
Häftad, 2007
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
345 kr
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World Beyond Healing
The Prologue and Aftermath of Nuclear War
Häftad, 1987
258 kr
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An eloquent and sobering book which draws a new and clearer picture of how nuclear war would perhaps alter human life on earth forever.
The Moving Tablet of the Eye
The origins of modern eye movement research
Av Nicholas Wade, Benjamin Tatler
Häftad, 2005
1246 kr
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Eye movements are a vital part of our interaction with the world. They play a pivotal role in perception, cognition, and education. Research in this field is now proceeding at a considerable pace and casting new light on how the eyes move and what information we can derive during the frequent and …
Troublesome Inheritance
Genes, Race and Human History
E-bok, 2014
213 kr
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Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story Fewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different races …
Life Script
How the Human Genome Discoveries Will Transform Medicine and Enhance Your Health
E-bok, 2002
146 kr
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With the decoding of the human genome, researchers can now read the script in which evolution has written the program for the design and operation of the human body. A new generation of medical treatments is at hand. Researchers are developing therapies so powerful that there is now no evident …
Before the Dawn
Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
E-bok, 2007
229 kr
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Nicholas Wade’s articles are a major reason why the science section has become the most popular, nationwide, in the New York Times . In his groundbreaking Before the Dawn , Wade reveals humanity’s origins as never before—a journey made possible only recently by genetic science, whose incredible …
Faith Instinct
How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures
E-bok, 2009
160 kr
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Noted science writer Nicholas Wade offers for the first time a convincing case based on a broad range of scientific evidence for the evolutionary basis of religion.
Visual Perception
An Introduction, 3rd Edition
Av Mike Swanston, Nicholas Wade
E-bok, 2013
901 kr
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Does the world appear the same to everyone? Does what we know determine what we see? Why do we see the world as we do? Vision is our most dominant sense. From the light that enters our eyes to the complex cognitive processes that follow, we derive most of our information about what things are, …
Visual Perception
An Introduction, 3rd Edition
Av Mike Swanston, Nicholas Wade
E-bok, 2013
881 kr
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Does the world appear the same to everyone? Does what we know determine what we see? Why do we see the world as we do? Vision is our most dominant sense. From the light that enters our eyes to the complex cognitive processes that follow, we derive most of our information about what things are, …
Visual Allusions
Pictures of Perception
Inbunden, 2017
2454 kr
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In this book a leading researcher and artist explores how we see pictures and how they can communicate messages to us, both directly and indirectly by making allusions to objects in space or to stored images in our minds. Originally published in 1990, Dr Wade provides fascinating examples of …
Visual Allusions
Pictures of Perception
Häftad, 2019
604 kr
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In this book a leading researcher and artist explores how we see pictures and how they can communicate messages to us, both directly and indirectly by making allusions to objects in space or to stored images in our minds. Originally published in 1990, Dr Wade provides fascinating examples of …
Visual Allusions
Pictures of Perception
E-bok, 2017
707 kr
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In this book a leading researcher and artist explores how we see pictures and how they can communicate messages to us, both directly and indirectly by making allusions to objects in space or to stored images in our minds. Originally published in 1990, Dr Wade provides fascinating examples of …
Visual Allusions
Pictures of Perception
E-bok, 2017
707 kr
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In this book a leading researcher and artist explores how we see pictures and how they can communicate messages to us, both directly and indirectly by making allusions to objects in space or to stored images in our minds. Originally published in 1990, Dr Wade provides fascinating examples of …
Where COVID Came From
Häftad, 2021
138 kr
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Did the Covid virus jump naturally from an animal species to humans, or did it escape from a laboratory experiment? In this essay, science writer Nicholas Wade explores the two scenarios and argues that, on present evidence, lab escape is the more likely explanation. His inference is based on …
Where COVID Came From
E-bok, 2021
208 kr
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Did the Covid virus jump naturally from an animal species to humans, or did it escape from a laboratory experiment? In this essay, science writer Nicholas Wade explores the two scenarios and argues that, on present evidence, lab escape is the more likely explanation. His inference is based on …
Visual Perception
An Introduction, 3rd Edition
Av Nicholas Wade, Mike Swanston
Inbunden, 2012
2682 kr
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Does the world appear the same to everyone? Does what we know determine what we see? Why do we see the world as we do?Vision is our most dominant sense. From the light that enters our eyes to the complex cognitive processes that follow, we derive most of our information about what things are, where …
Visual Perception
An Introduction, 3rd Edition
Av Nicholas Wade, Mike Swanston
Häftad, 2012
745 kr
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Does the world appear the same to everyone? Does what we know determine what we see? Why do we see the world as we do?Vision is our most dominant sense. From the light that enters our eyes to the complex cognitive processes that follow, we derive most of our information about what things are, where …
Vision and Art with Two Eyes
Inbunden, 2023
494 kr
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This book celebrates binocular vision by presenting illustrations that require two eyes to see the effects of cooperation and competition between them. Pictures are flat but by printing them in different colours and viewing them through similarly coloured filters (included with the hardcover book) …
Vision and Art with Two Eyes
E-bok, 2023
652 kr
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This book celebrates binocular vision by presenting illustrations that require two eyes to see the effects of cooperation and competition between them. Pictures are flat but by printing them in different colours and viewing them through similarly coloured filters (included with the hardcover book) …
Vision and Art with Two Eyes
Häftad, 2024
498 kr
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This book celebrates binocular vision by presenting illustrations that require two eyes to see the effects of cooperation and competition between them. Pictures are flat but by printing them in different colours and viewing them through similarly coloured filters (included with the hardcover book) …
Art and Illusionists
Inbunden, 2016
557 kr
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We delight in using our eyes, particularly when puzzling over pictures. Art and illusionists is a celebration of pictures and the multiple modes of manipulating them to produce illusory worlds on flat surfaces. This has proved fascinating to humankind since the dawning of depiction. Art and …
Art and Illusionists
E-bok, 2015
797 kr
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We delight in using our eyes, particularly when puzzling over pictures. Art and illusionists is a celebration of pictures and the multiple modes of manipulating them to produce illusory worlds on flat surfaces. This has proved fascinating to humankind since the dawning of depiction. Art and …
