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My Reality - As It Appears at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover): Stan Green My Reality - As It Appears at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
Stan Green
R1,016 R883 Discovery Miles 8 830 Save R133 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going? In "My Reality," author Stan Green examines and attempts to answer these three basic questions confronting humanity. Writing from the perspective of a well-read and educated person who has lived through the last half of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century, Green presents his ideas based on the study of both history and science.

"My Reality" tracks the historical events that molded the scientific, political, and religious thinking that has shaped the world. Beginning with the Big Bang, Green traces the development of the universe, life, and history of humanity over thirteen billion, seven hundred million years to provide a snapshot of human existence today. He bases his thoughts on the understanding that reality changes as the knowledge base regarding the state of everything changes, with even the smallest modification resulting in our species or culture being significantly different.

As Green examines our understanding of the universe and our place in it, he offers several probable scenarios that could mark our future.

The High Frontier - An Easier Way (Hardcover): Al Globus, Tom Marotta The High Frontier - An Easier Way (Hardcover)
Al Globus, Tom Marotta
R1,206 Discovery Miles 12 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Travels Without Charlie-the Natives Ate Him - Exploits & Misadventures of an Exploration Geologist (Hardcover): Bob G Cuffney Travels Without Charlie-the Natives Ate Him - Exploits & Misadventures of an Exploration Geologist (Hardcover)
Bob G Cuffney
R1,298 Discovery Miles 12 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Secretive Life of the Amazing 'Living Fossil' Scorpion (Hardcover): M Habibulla The Secretive Life of the Amazing 'Living Fossil' Scorpion (Hardcover)
M Habibulla
R1,858 Discovery Miles 18 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Richard Carew, 'The Examination of Men's Wits' (Hardcover): Rocio G. Sumillera Richard Carew, 'The Examination of Men's Wits' (Hardcover)
Rocio G. Sumillera
R1,576 Discovery Miles 15 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Folly of Fools - The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition): Robert Trivers The Folly of Fools - The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)
Robert Trivers
R656 Discovery Miles 6 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A "New York Times "Notable Book of 2012
Whether it's in a cockpit at takeoff or the planning of an offensive war, a romantic relationship or a dispute at the office, there are many opportunities to lie and self-deceive--but deceit and self-deception carry the costs of being alienated from reality and can lead to disaster. So why does deception play such a prominent role in our everyday lives? In short, why do we deceive?
In his bold new work, prominent biological theorist Robert Trivers unflinchingly argues that self-deception evolved in the service of deceit--the better to fool others. We do it for biological reasons--in order to help us survive and procreate. From viruses mimicking host behavior to humans misremembering (sometimes intentionally) the details of a quarrel, science has proven that the deceptive one can always outwit the masses. But we undertake this deception at our own peril.

Trivers has written an ambitious investigation into the evolutionary logic of lying and the costs of leaving it unchecked.

A Treatise on the Diatomaceae - Containing Introductory Remarks on the Structure, Life History.... (Paperback): Henri Ferdinand... A Treatise on the Diatomaceae - Containing Introductory Remarks on the Structure, Life History.... (Paperback)
Henri Ferdinand van Heurck
R1,681 Discovery Miles 16 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Computer Simulation, Rhetoric, and the Scientific Imagination - How Virtual Evidence Shapes Science in the Making and in the... Computer Simulation, Rhetoric, and the Scientific Imagination - How Virtual Evidence Shapes Science in the Making and in the News (Hardcover, New)
Aimee Kendall Roundtree
R3,505 R2,467 Discovery Miles 24 670 Save R1,038 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Computer simulations help advance climatology, astrophysics, and other scientific disciplines. They are also at the crux of several high-profile cases of science in the news. How do simulation scientists, with little or no direct observations, make decisions about what to represent? What is the nature of simulated evidence, and how do we evaluate its strength? Aimee Kendall Roundtree suggests answers in Computer Simulation, Rhetoric, and the Scientific Imagination. She interprets simulations in the sciences by uncovering the argumentative strategies that underpin the production and dissemination of simulated findings. She also explains how subjective and social influences do not diminish simulations' virtue or power to represent the real thing. Along the way, Roundtree situates computer simulations within the scientific imagination alongside paradoxes, thought experiments, and metaphors. A cogent rhetorical analysis, Computer Simulation, Rhetoric, and the Scientific Imagination engages scholars of the rhetoric of science, technology, and new and digital media, but it is also accessible to the general public interested in debates over hurricane preparedness and climate change.

Tea Leaves (Hardcover): Francis Leggett Tea Leaves (Hardcover)
Francis Leggett
R782 Discovery Miles 7 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of international literature classics available in printed format again - worldwide.

Kinematics Of The Brain Activities - Volume III (Hardcover): Mostafa M. Dini Kinematics Of The Brain Activities - Volume III (Hardcover)
Mostafa M. Dini
R888 Discovery Miles 8 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Zoology of Egypt - Volume 1 (Paperback): John Anderson, George A. Boulenger, William E de Winton Zoology of Egypt - Volume 1 (Paperback)
John Anderson, George A. Boulenger, William E de Winton
R1,351 Discovery Miles 13 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
An Introduction to Practical Astronomy - With a collection of astronomical tables (Paperback): Elias Loomis An Introduction to Practical Astronomy - With a collection of astronomical tables (Paperback)
Elias Loomis
R1,280 Discovery Miles 12 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Whiteface - Improv Comedy and Anti-Blackness (Hardcover): Michel Buch Whiteface - Improv Comedy and Anti-Blackness (Hardcover)
Michel Buch
R3,227 Discovery Miles 32 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This study originates in the observation that improv comedy or improvised theater has such a vast majority of white people practicing it, while other improvisational or comedic art forms (jazz, freestyle rap, stand up) are historically grounded in and marked as Black cultural production. What it is about improv that makes it such a white space? Can an absence be an object of study? If so, what is there to study? Where should one look?

Cyber Crime - Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications (Volume 3) (Hardcover): Irma Cyber Crime - Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications (Volume 3) (Hardcover)
Irma
R20,509 Discovery Miles 205 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Recent Advances in Robotic Systems (Hardcover): Guanghui Wang Recent Advances in Robotic Systems (Hardcover)
Guanghui Wang
R3,387 Discovery Miles 33 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Topics in Optics and Laser Light in the Atmosphere (Hardcover): Francis Mensah Topics in Optics and Laser Light in the Atmosphere (Hardcover)
Francis Mensah
R698 Discovery Miles 6 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The book is a review of some basics notions in optics. The first chapter starts with a review of Newton's laws and planetary motion and some related equations. The second chapter deals with the planet earth's atmosphere; the third is an introduction to remote sensing. Chapter 4 and 5 introduce a background on Maxwell's laws in electromagnetism and light polarization. Some other topics of interest have been also developed. Among these topics are the light interaction with spherical surfaces and related equations, light Interference, linear polarization by anisotropy, Fourier transform spectroscopy, and an introduction to Lidar.

Biosensors for Diagnosis and Monitoring (Hardcover): Monica Mir Biosensors for Diagnosis and Monitoring (Hardcover)
Monica Mir
R2,296 R1,952 Discovery Miles 19 520 Save R344 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Economics of Information Biasing (Hardcover): Monowar Zaman Economics of Information Biasing (Hardcover)
Monowar Zaman
R1,418 R1,186 Discovery Miles 11 860 Save R232 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Perfume & Flavor Chemicals (Aroma Chemicals) Vol.II (Hardcover): Steffen Arctander Perfume & Flavor Chemicals (Aroma Chemicals) Vol.II (Hardcover)
Steffen Arctander
R1,914 Discovery Miles 19 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A perfume-flavorist's practical description of most of the commercially available perfume and flavor chemicals, with their chemical structure and practical physical data, appearance, odor and flavor type, reported and suggested uses, production and evaluation, with literature references for further details and study. Volume II Monographs 1507 trans-4-HEPTENAL to 2928: TETROHYDRO-para-TOLYLALDEHYDE

Reconfigurations of the Bildungsroman - Taking Refuge from Violence in Kincaid, Danticat, hooks, and Morrison (Hardcover):... Reconfigurations of the Bildungsroman - Taking Refuge from Violence in Kincaid, Danticat, hooks, and Morrison (Hardcover)
Goncalo Cholant
R2,890 Discovery Miles 28 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The present work deals with the representation of trauma and violence in coming-of-age stories written by African-American and Afro-Caribbean women authors in the United States. The kinds of violence explored in this work are related to the post-colonial condition the women protagonists experience, in which racism, sexism, classism, among other kinds of discrimination, are co-created in an intersectional experience of oppression. The titles analyzed in this work are: Lucy (1990), written by Jamaica Kincaid; Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), written by Edwidge Danticat; Bone Black - Memories of Girlhood (1996), written by bell hooks; and God Help the Child (2015), written by Toni Morrison. The Bildungsroman genre serves as the form with which the authors are able to display the different forms of violence experienced during the the process of growing up female and black in the United States, and also in the Caribbean islands of Antigua and Haiti, in the cases of Kincaid and Danticat respectively. The coming-of-age stories written by women, and more specifically by African-American and Afro-Caribbean women, tend to showcase narratives in which the tensions between the protagonists' self-determination and the influence of social and cultural factors in their development opportunities are negotiated. The genre is adapted and subverted by the authors, deviating from its canonical European origins, becoming a site in which the authors are able to represent different kinds of violence, and the subsequent traumatic consequences caused by it.

Saving Forest Ecosystems - A Century Plus of Research and Education at the University of Washington (Hardcover): Robert L.... Saving Forest Ecosystems - A Century Plus of Research and Education at the University of Washington (Hardcover)
Robert L. Edmonds
R1,633 Discovery Miles 16 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Aproximaciones teorico-practicas para motivar la eleccion de areas cientifico-tecnologicas en Mexico (Hardcover): Gisela Yamin... Aproximaciones teorico-practicas para motivar la eleccion de areas cientifico-tecnologicas en Mexico (Hardcover)
Gisela Yamin Gomez Mohedano
R751 Discovery Miles 7 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Flora of Tropical Africa - Vol. Iv - Section 1 (Paperback): Oliver Daniel Oliver Flora of Tropical Africa - Vol. Iv - Section 1 (Paperback)
Oliver Daniel Oliver
R1,537 Discovery Miles 15 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Petroleum Geology for Geoscientists (Hardcover): Prof Ifeanacho Paul Orajaka, Johnbosco Azubuike Onyeji, Prof Nuhu George Obaje Petroleum Geology for Geoscientists (Hardcover)
Prof Ifeanacho Paul Orajaka, Johnbosco Azubuike Onyeji, Prof Nuhu George Obaje
R1,504 Discovery Miles 15 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Satellite Data Application, Validation and Calibration for Atmospheric Observation (Hardcover): Nicholas Nalli, Lori A Borg,... Satellite Data Application, Validation and Calibration for Atmospheric Observation (Hardcover)
Nicholas Nalli, Lori A Borg, Quanhua Liu
R2,583 R2,194 Discovery Miles 21 940 Save R389 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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