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Author: Tim Harford
Publisher: Random House Incorporated
ISBN: 0812977874
Size: 76.17 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 255
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Book Description: The author of The Underground Economist weaves together real-life scenarios, from a Las Vegas casino to a barroom speed date, to analyze the underlying economic logic behind seemingly irrational behavior, explaining how people respond to future costs and benefits and how socially tragic outcomes have their roots in individually rational decisions. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

Author: François Jacob
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691000425
Size: 21.60 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Book Description: In The Logic of Life François Jacob looks at the way our understanding of biology has changed since the sixteenth century. He describes four fundamental turning points in the perception of the structure of living things: the discoveries of the functions of organs, cells, chromosomes and genes, and DNA.

Author: Harper W Boyd, Jr.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Size: 25.35 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Book Description: A highly challenging collection of essays by eminent scientists on the theme of integrative approaches to physiological questions, this book discusses the changing boundaries between different disciplines in modern experimental biology. The contributors are experts in the fields of integrative physiology, cellular evolution, control mechanisms, endocrinology, and behavioral biology. Conceived as a tribute to the 1993 International Congress of Physiological Sciences, this important work matches the immense challenge of modern biological science at the end of the twentieth century.

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Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1434975347
Size: 52.10 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Roi Livne
Publisher:
ISBN: 0674545176
Size: 79.92 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Book Description: Once defiant of death--or even in denial--many American families and health care professionals are embracing the notion that a life consumed by suffering may not be worth living. Sociologist Roi Livne documents the rise and effectiveness of hospice and palliative care, and the growing acceptance that less treatment may be better near the end of life.

Author: Eve Tavor Bannet
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349197440
Size: 30.49 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 299
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Book Description: Structuralism and the Logic of Dissent is a fascinating and lucid exploration of the seminal writings of four eminent French structuralists that sheds new light on influential theoretical texts. Eve Tavor Bannet discusses the work of Barthes, Derrida, Foucault, and Lacan as coherent philosophical fictions, showing their contradictory political, social, and pedagogical implications and their complex historicity.

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Publisher: Central Chinmaya Mission Trust
ISBN: 8175974931
Size: 63.69 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 75
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Book Description: Shattering the general perception that spirituality is based on vague superstitions and blind faith, Pujya Gurudev guides us on a clearly thought-out inquiry into the essential Reality behind the universe. He answers questions such as ‘Why God? What is God? If He exists, where is He? What is my relationship with god and with the world?’ With irrefutable logic, careful reasoning and colorful examples, Gurudev proves the presence of a higher Truth, which resides in our own hearts. The DVD of The Logic of Spirituality, is an introduction to Swami Chinmayananda’s talks on the Bhagavad-gita, a professional video recording, produced by Chinmaya Mission West at Krishnalaya, Piercy, California, from May 29 to July 3, 1991. This video was directed by the internationally acclaimed, award winning producer and director Bradley Boatman. These 56 DVDs of total 106 hours of talks on Bhagavad-gita comes with the introduction, The Logic of Spirituality.

Author: Harald Schaub
Publisher: IOS Press
ISBN: 9783898380539
Size: 68.98 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Artificial life
Languages : en
Pages : 143
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Author: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262524407
Size: 33.74 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Book Description: An ambitious theoretical and empirical study of the effect of political institutions on leadership survival, the character of public policy, and economic development.

Author: Eugene V. Koonin
Publisher: FT Press
ISBN: 9780132623179
Size: 13.66 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Book Description: The Logic of Chance offers a reappraisal and a new synthesis of theories, concepts, and hypotheses on the key aspects of the evolution of life on earth in light of comparative genomics and systems biology. The author presents many specific examples from systems and comparative genomic analysis to begin to build a new, much more detailed, complex, and realistic picture of evolution. The book examines a broad range of topics in evolutionary biology including the inadequacy of natural selection and adaptation as the only or even the main mode of evolution; the key role of horizontal gene transfer in evolution and the consequent overhaul of the Tree of Life concept; the central, underappreciated evolutionary importance of viruses; the origin of eukaryotes as a result of endosymbiosis; the concomitant origin of cells and viruses on the primordial earth; universal dependences between genomic and molecular-phenomic variables; and the evolving landscape of constraints that shape the evolution of genomes and molecular phenomes. "Koonin's account of viral and pre-eukaryotic evolution is undoubtedly up-to-date. His "mega views" of evolution (given what was said above) and his cosmological musings, on the other hand, are interesting reading." Summing Up: Recommended Reprinted with permission from CHOICE, copyright by the American Library Association.