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Viitorul fericirii. Cinci strategii moderne de echilibrare a productivității și a stării de bine în era digitală

„Merita spus ca aceasta carte nu este doar pentru cei pasionați de tehnologie. Este pentru oricine are probleme cu numarul tot mai mare de incarcatoare

Care-i problema cu testosteronul

Fiecare dintre noi poate beneficia de pe urma invațarii a puțina știința, oricat de buna a fost treaba pe care au facut‑o acei profesori din

Minți posibile. Douăzeci și cinci de perspective asupra inteligenței artificiale

Inteligența artificiala este povestea zilei de astazi, povestea din spatele tuturor celorlalte povești, este a doua venire a lui Iisus și Apocalipsa in același timp:

Pacientul H.M. O poveste despre memorie, nebunie și secrete de familie

Pacientul H.M. O poveste despre memorie, nebunie si secrete de familieIn 1953, Henry Molaison, muncitor intr-o fabrica, in varsta de 37 de ani si suferind

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The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in New York State (Hardcover)

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Racing Green

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Vagina

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Cutting-Edge Science

How did the atom bomb help save the elephant? Have we found the secret to eternal youth? Could a parasite be manipulating you right now?

Beginning and the End of Everything

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First of Everything

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Missions to Mars

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Hidden Spring

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Infinitezimal (ebook)

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Chipul lui Dumnezeu

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Secrets in the Skies

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Ten Short Lessons in Space Travel

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The Brain That Changes Itself

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The Earth: From Myths to Knowledge

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Last Stargazers

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Spaceman

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30-Second Genetics

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The Book of Why

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Our Mathematical Universe

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Frankenstein and the Birth of Science

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Bazaconii... adevarate din stiinta si tehnologie

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Saturn's Moon Titan Owners' Workshop Manual

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Orbitals, Terms and States

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QI: The Third Book Of General Ignorance

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ALPHABETS: A Miscellany of Letters

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A Little History of Astro-Archaeology

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Back to Basics

Don't know Midas from Oedipus? Wouldn't recognize a concerto from a sonata?Many of us wish that we could fill in the gaps in our education

Megacatastrophes Nine Strange Ways The World Could End

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STORM IN A TEACUP

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When We Walked on the Moon

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Space Number Crunch!

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The Universe in Bite-sized Chunks

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Really Good Day

When a small vial arrives in her mailbox from 'Lewis Carroll,' Ayelet Waldman is at a low point. Her mood storms have become intolerably severe

Brain

Congratulations! You're the proud owner of the most complex information processing device in the known universe. The human brain comes equipped with all sorts of

Războiul viziunilor asupra lumii. Ştiinţă versus spiritualitate

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Alex Through the Looking-glass

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The Globotics Upheaval

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Till The Cows Come Home

The story of the relationship between humankind and cattle, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Counting Sheep. To tell the story of the relationship

Stiinta viitorului

Personalitați din lumea științei dezvaluie progresul și cercetarile facuta intr-o varietate de domenii, de la neuroștiința la psihologia evoluției, de la demografie la oceanografie.Antologia științei

Evidence of Extraterrestrials

Discover detailed analysis of thirty-six UFO encounters that prove once and for all that extraterrestrials are visiting the Earth. Beginning with historical cases such as...

Momentul cuantic

De la multiversuri și salturi cuantice la pisica lui Schrodinger și calatoriile in timp, mecanica cuantica a influențat ireversibil imaginația populara. Artiști și scriitori, John

Dream Universe

A vivid and captivating narrative about how modern science broke free of ancient philosophy, and how theoretical physics is returning to its unscientific roots In

Testosterone

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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

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100 Things to Know about Inventions

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Food, Inc.

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Death on Earth: Adventures in Evolution and Mortality

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The Entokil Man

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Human body

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