Metazoa - Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness (Godfrey-Smith Peter)(Pevná vazba)

Metazoa - Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness (Godfrey-Smith Peter)(Paperback / softback)

The follow-up to the BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Other Minds A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The scuba-diving philosopher explores the origins of animal

Metazoa - Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness (Godfrey-Smith Peter)(Pevná vazba)

The follow-up to the BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Other Minds A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The scuba-diving philosopher explores the origins of animal

Human and Animal Minds: The Consciousness Questions Laid to Rest (Carruthers Peter)(Pevná vazba)

The continuities between human and animal minds are increasingly well understood. This has led many people to make claims about consciousness in animals, which has often been taken to be crucial for their moral standing. Peter Carruthers argues compellingly that there is no fact of the matter to be

Other Minds - The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life (Godfrey-Smith Peter)(Paperback / softback)

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE What if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. What can we learn from the encounter? In Other Minds, Peter Godfrey-Smith, a distinguished philosopher

Philosophy of Biology (Godfrey-Smith Peter)(Paperback)

An essential introduction to the philosophy of biologyThis is a concise, comprehensive, and accessible introduction to the philosophy of biology written by a leading authority on the subject. Geared to philosophers, biologists, and students of both, the book provides sophisticated and innovative

Divine Spark - Psychedelics, Consciousness and the Birth of Civilization(Paperback / softback)

Brings a collection of the thinking on consciousness and psychedelics. Combining the wisdom of leading minds, this book focuses on the use of psychedelics to open up the realm of the supernatural. It unveils theories on the relation of psychedelics to domains such as creativity, the survival of

The Brighton School and the Birth of British Film (Gray Frank)(Pevná vazba)

This study is devoted to the work of two early British filmmakers, George Albert Smith and James Williamson, and the films that they made around 1900. Internationally, they are known collectively as the 'Brighton School' and are positioned as being at the forefront of Britain's contribution to the

Conversations on Consciousness (Blackmore Susan (Freelance writer lecturer and broadcaster and Visiting Lecturer at the University of the West of England Bristol.))(Paperback / softback)

Blackmore explores the big questions on the nature of brains, minds, and consciousness, through twenty lively and engaging interviews with some of the best-known personalities from the worlds of science and

Why Animals Matter - Animal consciousness, animal welfare, and human well-being (Stamp Dawkins CBE Marian (Professor of Animal Behaviour University of Oxford Mary Snow Fellow in Biological Sciences Somerville College Oxford))(Pevná vazba)

In a world increasingly concerned with climate change, food security, and other human issues, the welfare of non-human animals is in danger of being overlooked and side-lined. Using the latest scientific research on animal consciousness and emotions, Marian Stamp Dawkins argues that if animal

Mushrooms and Mankind: The Impact of Mushrooms on Human Consciousness and Religion (James Arthur)(Pevná vazba)

Black & White: The Birth of Modern Boxing (Dobbs Brian)(Pevná vazba)

Black and White: The Birth of Modern Boxing is the definitive history of the early years of transatlantic pugilism. It reveals the poisonous racism disfiguring the sport and the black boxers fighting an uphill struggle for equality. It lays bare ugly attempts by authorities to stifle or ban a sport

Jigsaw Murders: The True Story of the Ruxton Killings and the Birth of Modern Forensics(Pevná vazba)

The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul: Learning and the Origins of Consciousness (Ginsburg Simona)(Pevná vazba)

A new theory about the origins of consciousness that finds learning to be the driving force in the evolutionary transition to basic consciousness.What marked the evolutionary transition from organisms that lacked consciousness to those with consciousness--to minimal subjective experiencing, or, as

Bitter Shade: The Ecological Challenge of Human Consciousness (Dove Michael R.)(Pevná vazba)

A seminal anthropological work on the paradoxical relationship between human consciousness and the environment 'Innovative, insightful, incandescent.'--Arun Agrawal, author of Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects This book asks age-old questions about the

Am I Dreaming?: The New Science of Consciousness and How Altered States Reboot the Brain (Kingsland James)(Pevná vazba)

A scientific travel guide to altered states of consciousness - and what we can learn from

The Divine Spark: A Graham Hancock Reader: Psychedelics, Consciousness, and the Birth of Civilization (Hancock Graham)(Paperback)

'I suspect the real breakthroughs in our understanding of consciousness are going to come from an entirely different direction. That direction, controversially, has to do with psychedelics--which, as many of the contributors to The Divine Spark argue, offer spectacular potential for the

River of Consciousness (Sacks Oliver)(Pevná vazba)

The River of Consciousness is a remarkable culmination of a lifetime's research into the way the brain works by the celebrated late neurologist Oliver

The Birth of Jesus: A Christmas Pop-Up Book (Traini Agostino)(Pevná vazba)

Winner of the 2017 Illumination Award and 2016 Moonbeam Award for Book Arts, The Birth of Jesus: A Christmas Pop-Up Book brings the Christmas story to life in a way like never before. This beautiful retelling of Jesus' birth in a stable captures the awe and wonder of the biblical Christmas story

Jung and Steiner: The Birth of a New Psychology (Wehr Gerhard)(Paperback)

What is the difference between soul and spiritual consciousness? Or the process of individuation and the development of individuality? What are Jung's and Steiner's views on the Grail, dreams, life after death, alchemy, and sexuality? The different approaches of C.G. Jung, the explorer of soul, and

The Petlyakov Pe-2: Stalin's Successful Red Air Force Light Bomber (Smith Peter C.)(Pevná vazba)

Full and comprehensive on the origins, design, construction and battle record of the Petlyakov Pe-2 dive-bomber, the Peshka A-10A.During the Second World War, the Soviet Union's Petlyakov Pe-2 Peshka dive-bomber was unique in that it was as fast as most fighter aircraft. This was in a period when

Animal Beauty: On the Evolution of Biological Aesthetics (Nusslein-Volhard Christiane)(Pevná vazba)

An illustrated exploration of colors and patterns in the animal kingdom, what they communicate, and how they function in the social life of animals.Are animals able to appreciate what humans refer to as 'beauty'? The term scarcely ever appears nowadays in a scientific description of living things,

American by Birth: Wong Kim Ark and the Battle for Citizenship (Nackenoff Carl)(Pevná vazba)

American by Birth explores the history and legacy of Wong Kim Ark and the 1898 Supreme Court case that bears his name, which established the automatic citizenship of individuals born within the geographic boundaries of the United States. In the late nineteenth century, much like the present, the

Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Second Edition (Godfrey-Smith Peter)(Paperback)

How does science work? Does it tell us what the world is 'really' like? What makes it different from other ways of understanding the universe? In Theory and Reality, Peter Godfrey-Smith addresses these questions by taking the reader on a grand tour of more than a hundred years of debate about

Animal Lore and Legend - The wisdom and wonder of animals revealed (Binney Ruth)(Pevná vazba)

Gathered together in this fascinating book are the lore and legends of the animal world, alongside the realities of nature. Yet whatever their natural attributes, in folklore animals can do almost