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Cosmos by Carl Sagan
This book is about science in its broadest human context, how science and civilization grew up together. It is the …
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This book is about science in its broadest human context, how science and civilization grew up together. It is the …

When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous.
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In De blinde horlogemaker spelen zowel Paley als Darwin een belangrijke rol. De eerstgenoemde als belichaming van het geloof in …

«Il n'y a qu'un problème philosophique vraiment sérieux : c'est le suicide.» Avec cette formule foudroyante, qui semble rayer d'un …

From the best-selling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos comes his most expansive and accessible …

David Lindley: Uncertainty (Paperback, 2008, Anchor)
The more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known in this instant, and vice versa.--Werner …

Jennifer A. Doudna, Samuel H. Sternberg: Crack in Creation (2018, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers)
A trailblazing biologist grapples with her role in the biggest scientific discovery of our era: a cheap, easy way of …

This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he thought worthy of publication. It …

Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap …