Virtual Reality has long been one of the dominant clichés of science fiction. Now Virtual Reality is a reality: those big headsets that make people look ridiculous, even while radiating star...
"If you can't trust those in charge, who can you trust? From government to business, banks to media, trust in institutions is at an all-time low. But this isn't the age of distrust - far from ...
For more than half a century, American power in the Pacific has successfully kept the peace. But it has also cemented the tensions in the toxic rivalry between China and Japan, consumed with endles...
From escalating climate change to the devastation in Syria, pandemic state surveillance to looming nuclear war, Noam Chomsky takes stock of the world today. Over the course of ten conversations wit...
For courses in Social PsychologyShow how the ever-changing field of Social Psychology is useful in students' everyday lives.Social Psychology, Fourteenth Edition retains the...
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Oneof the world's greatest contemporary thinkers and author of The Better Angels of Our Nature (described by Bill Gates as 'the most inspiring book I have ever read') shows how to think afresh abou...
What makes a hit a hit? In Hit Makers, Atlantic Senior Editor Derek Thompson puts pop culture under the lens of science to answer the question that every business, every producer, every person look...
Książka zawiera materiały z konferencji zorganizowanej pod patronatem ISA (International Sociological Association), która odbyła się na Uniwersytecie Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu. Poruszane ...
The New Yorker was launched in 1925, and offers reporting, criticism, essays, fiction, poetry, humour and cartoons. At the start, the founding editor Harold Ross declared that the sophsticated maga...
Zagadnienie integracji jakichkolwiek części w powstających z nich całościach to zjawisko wszechobecna w naszym świecie, będące efektem zachodzącego w nim procesu ewolucyjnego. Charakteryzuje ono ta...
Subtitled, "A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side Of Everything". A fascinating and amusing look at the hidden side of things, jammed full of anecdotes and provocative questions abou...
In an introduction to proceedings of the conference 'Images and Myths of Europe', organised in 2002 at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Romano Prodi wrote: "These 'Images a...
Hatha-yoga in Western culture is often perceived as the practice of physical exercises (practice of the asana position), usually done to improve one’s health and emotional state. Even if that...
The book comprises nearly 50 texts written by Polish, American and Israeli researchers into the child's world and show the complexity of this world and underline the contemporary categories of its ...
Ethnicity, as a conceptual category developed by representatives of various scientififi c disciplines, refers to extensive and complex sets of social and psychological phenomena that take place bot...
The book comprises nearly 50 texts written by Polish, American and Israeli researchers into the child's world and show the complexity of this world and underline the contemporary categories of its ...
"On the densely and richly populated Polish intellectual scene, Stanisław Obirek is one of the most prominent and significant, indeed outstanding actors. He stands out from the rest of actors ...