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The Ethnosociology of Music - Sounds of Portuguese Culture

by João Ranita Nazaré

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 Inclui CD áudio Sounds of Portuguese Culture The present work thus represents a certain stage in my way of thinking and research, when I tried to systematize knowledge from different areas of the social sciences leading to my main concern: a global theory of change in music.
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Episodes In The Mathematics Of Medieval Islam

by J.L. Berggren

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 This book presents an account of selected topics from key mathematical works of medieval Islam, based on the Arabic texts themselves. The author puts the works into their historical context and includes numerous examples of how mathematics interacted with Islamic society.
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Life 3.0 - Being Human In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence

by Max Tegmark

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Rutherford And Fryâ€™S Complete Guide To Absolutely Everything (Abridged) - New From The Stars Of Bbc Radio 4

by Adam Rutherford e Hannah Fry

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Era uma Vez a Tradução… | Once Upon a Time There Was Translation… - Ensaios sobre a história da tradução em homenagem a teresa seruya

by Alexandra Lopes, Isabel Capeloa Gil e Maria Lin Moniz

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 Esta coleção de ensaios traça caminhos percorridos e por percorrer numa área do saber crucial para o conhecimento dos modos como as culturas, suas línguas e literaturas se constroem em contacto com o(s) outro(s). Enquanto campo dos Estudos de Tradução, a história da tradução frequentemente transgride e reconfigura o que julgávamos saber sobre a história cultural, desafiando (três)leituras sobre a natureza complexa e sempre instável das práticas culturais. Os 40 estudos são dedicados a uma das mais relevantes figuras da história da tradução em Portugal: Teresa Seruya. This collection of essays traces the paths taken and yet to be taken in an area of knowledge crucial to ascertaining the ways in which cultures, and their languages and literatures, are constructed in contact with the other(s). As a field within Translation Studies, history of translation has often transgressed and reconfigured what we believe to know about cultural history, thereby challenging (mis)readings on the complex and unstable nature of cultural practices. The 40 essays are dedicated to one of the most relevant figures in the history of translation in Portugal: Teresa Seruya.
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A Short History Of Nearly Everything

by Bill Bryson

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 The author describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. This title is about his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us.
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The Foundations Of Modern Science In The Middle Ages - Their Religious, Institutional And Intellectual Contexts

by Edward (Professor Emeritus, Indiana University) Grant e Edward Grant

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 The Scientific Revolution associated with the names of Galileo and Isaac Newton began in the seventeenth century, but the foundations for that revolution were laid in the late Middle Ages. This 1997 book views the substantive achievements of this period for early modern science within a broad societal and institutional setting that includes Latin translations, Christianity, and the universities.
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Every Living Thing - The Great And Deadly Race To Know All Life (Winner Of The 2025 Pulitzer Prize For Biography)

by Jason Roberts

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 WINNER OF THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY An Economist book of the year 2024. The dramatic, globe-spanning and meticulously-researched story of two scientific rivals and their race to survey all life. In the 18th century, two men dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing all life on Earth. Their approaches could not have been more different. Carl Linnaeus, a pious Swedish doctor with a huckster’s flair, believed that life belonged in tidy, static categories. Georges-Louis de Buffon, an aristocratic polymath and keeper of France’s royal garden, viewed life as a dynamic, ever-changing swirl of complexities. Both began believing their work to be difficult, but not impossible-how could the planet possibly hold more than a few thousand species? Stunned by life’s diversity, both fell far short of their goal. But in the process they articulated starkly divergent views on nature, on humanity’s role in shaping the fate of our planet, and on humanity itself. The rivalry between these two unique, driven individuals created reverberations that still echo today. Linnaeus, with the help of acolyte explorers he called "apostles" (only half of whom returned alive), gave the world such concepts as mammal, primate and homo sapiens-but he also denied species change and promulgated racist pseudo-science. Buffon coined the term reproduction, formulated early prototypes of evolution and genetics, and argued passionately against prejudice. It was a clash that, during their lifetimes, Buffon seemed to be winning. But their posthumous fates would take a very different turn. With elegant, propulsive prose grounded in more than a decade of research, bestselling author Jason Roberts tells an unforgettable true-life tale of intertwined lives and enduring legacies, tracing an arc of insight and discovery that extends across three centuries into the present day.
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A Brief History Of Earth - Four Billion Years In Eight Chapters

by Andrew H. Knoll

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 Placing twenty first-century climate change in deep context, A Brief History of Earth is an indispensable look at where weâ€™ve been and where weâ€™re going.Features original illustrations depicting Earth history and nearly 50 figures (maps, tables, photographs, graphs).
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What Is Life? - With Mind And Matter And Autobiographical Sketches

by Erwin Schrodinger

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 Nobel laureate Erwin SchrÃ¶dinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the twentieth century. The philosopher Karl Popper hailed it as a 'beautiful and important book' by 'a great man to whom I owe a personal debt for many exciting discussions'.

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The Disappearing Spoon...And Other True Tales From The Periodic Table

by Sam Kean

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 The fascinating tales in The Disappearing Spoon follow carbon, neon, silicon, gold and every single element on the table as they play out their parts in human history, finance, mythology, conflict, the arts, medicine and the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them.
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In Search Of Now - The Science And Mystery Of The Present Moment

by Jo Marchant

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 Award-winning journalist Jo Marchant returns with a mind-bending exploration of the shifting science behind how we understand time
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A Short History Of Nearly Everything 2.0

by Bill Bryson

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 In this fully revised and updated edition of the best-selling popular science book of the 21st century, Bill Bryson makes complex subjects clear and compelling for everyone with an interest in the world around them. NOW FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED. 'Possibly the best scientific primer ever published.' Economist 'Truly impressive...It's hard to imagine a better rough guide to science.' Guardian Bill Bryson can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2.0 is the result of his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from being nothing at all to what we are today. Now fully updated to reflect the many scientific discoveries in the last twenty years since this book was first published, it explains among much else: why Pluto is no longer a planet how the number of moons in the solar system has more than doubled in 20 years how scientists used advances in genetics to discover previously unknown species of early humans why we still don't know what most of the universe is made of how the little Higgs boson transformed physics This journey through time and space will inform a new generation of readers, young and old, as well as those who read this book on first publication with a new perspective based on what we know now. Written in his inimitable style, Bryson makes complex subjects fascinating and accessible to everyone with an interest in the world around them. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2.0 reveals the world in a whole new way.

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The Voyage Of The Beagle

by Charles Darwin

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 Charles Darwin chronicles the landmark expedition which hecalled "by far the most important event in my life" and which wouldforever alter the course of scientific thought.
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The Science Of Cleaning - Use The Power Of Chemistry To Clean Smarter, Easier, And Safer-With Solutions For Every Kind Of Dirt

by Dario, Phd (University Of Insubria) Bressanini

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 The definitive, science-backed guide to cleaningÂ everythingÂ in your home in a safe, sustainable, evidence-based wayâ€œA great reference for anyone stumped by reluctant-to-leave dirtâ€"and far cheaper than hiring a professional.â€â€"Booklist
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Stress And Animal Welfare - Key Issues In The Biology Of Humans And Other Animals

by Donald M. Broom e Ken G. Johnson

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 This work encapsulates a very wide body of literature on scientific aspects of animal welfare and will thus prove a valuable asset for animal welfare scientists, psychologists, students and teachers of all forms of biology, behaviour, medicine, veterinary medicine and animal usage.
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Beneath The Night - How The Stars Have Shaped The History Of Humankind

by Stuart Clark

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 The awe-inspiring history of humanity told through our relationship with stars and the night sky. 'Excellent .
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Limiting Outer Space - Astroculture After Apollo

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 Limiting Outer Space propels the historicization of outer space by focusing on the Post-Apollo period.
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Fundamentals - Ten Keys To Reality

by Frank Wilczek

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 One of our great contemporary scientists reveals the ten profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical world. In Fundamentals, Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek offers the reader a simple yet profound exploration of reality based on the deep revelations of modern science. With clarity and an infectious sense of joy, he guides us through the essential concepts that form our understanding of what the world is and how it works. Through these pages, we come to see our reality in a new way--bigger, fuller, and stranger than it looked before. Synthesizing basic questions, facts, and dazzling speculations, Wilczek investigates the ideas that form our understanding of the universe: time, space, matter, energy, complexity, and complementarity. He excavates the history of fundamental science, exploring what we know and how we know it, while journeying to the horizons of the scientific world to give us a glimpse of what we may soon discover. Brilliant, lucid, and accessible, this celebration of human ingenuity and imagination will expand your world and your mind.
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Life As No One Knows It - The Physics Of Life'S Emergence

by Sara Imari Walker

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 A radical new approach to answering one of the hardest questions in science: what is life?
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A Living Work Of Art - The Life And Science Of Hendrik Antoon Lorentz

by A. J. (Pieter Zeeman Professor Of History Of Physics, Emeritus, Pieter Zeeman Professor Of History Of Physics, Emeritus, University Of Amsterdam) Kox e H. F. (Free-Lance Editor And Translator, Free-Lance Editor And Translator) Schatz

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 This biography describes the life of Lorentz, from his early childhood, as the son of a market gardener in the provincial town of Arnhem, to his death, as a towering figure in physics and in international scientific cooperation, and as a trailblazer for Einstein's relativity theory.
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Hubble Legacy - 30 Years Of Discoveries And Images

by Jim Bell

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 The first, last, and only book you'll ever need on the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Order Out Of Chaos - Manâ€™S New Dialogue With Nature

by Ilya Prigogine e Isabelle Stengers

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 A pioneering book that shows how the two great themes of classic science, order and chaos, are being reconciled in a new and unexpected synthesis.
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Another Science Is Possible - A Manifesto For Slow Science

by Isabelle Stengers

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 Like fast food, fast science is quickly prepared, not particularly good and it clogs up the system. Efforts to tackle our most pressing issues, like global warming, have been stymied by conflict within the scientific community and mixed messages, symptomatic of a rushed approach.
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