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Bad science by Ben Goldacre
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-04-02 | Author:Ben Goldacre

Professor? A couple of interesting things arise from this realisation. Firstly, and importantly, since I am always keen to engage with people’s ideas: how might you conduct a discussion with ...
( Category: Drug Dependency March 25,2014 )
The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-16 | Author:Dale Carnegie

* * * ANTONY'S ORATION OVER CÆSAR'S BODY Friends, Romans, countrymen! Lend me your ears; I come to bury Cæsar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives ...
( Category: Communication & Social Skills March 25,2014 )
American Language by H.L. Mencken
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-09 | Author:H.L. Mencken

2. THE ADVANCE OF AMERICAN SPELLING But such uncompromising defenders of English spelling lead a forlorn hope. Not only is there a general movement toward American forms in the newspapers ...
( Category: Linguistics March 25,2014 )
The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-15 | Author:Steven Pinker

BENEATH THE METAPHOR If learning and using a metaphor requires us to manipulate ideas in a deeper stratum of thought, do we have any idea what these ideas are? One ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions March 25,2014 )
The Language Instinct: How The Mind Creates Language by Pinker Steven
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-12-13 | Author:Pinker, Steven [Pinker, Steven]

There is a very good reason why the erotic side of Man has called forth so much more discussion lately than has his appetite for food. The reason is this: ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies March 25,2014 )
Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives by Michael Specter
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-10-15 | Author:Michael Specter

4 The Era of Echinacea Not long ago, for reasons I still don’t understand, I began to feel unfocused and lethargic. Work was no more stressful than it had ever ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 25,2014 )
Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution by Michael J. Behe
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1996-01-02 | Author:Michael J. Behe

182 WHAT DOES THE BOX TELL US? by which any complex biochemical system might have arisen in a Darwinian manner. A survey of thirty biochemistry textbooks (summarized in Table 8—1) ...
( Category: Developmental Biology March 25,2014 )
The Prague Cemetery by Eco Umberto
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-11-07 | Author:Eco, Umberto [Eco, Umberto]

It's time for bed. I have deviated from my habit of gastronomic moderation and have been drinking not wine but intemperate quantities of calvados (and intemperance is making my head ...
( Category: Espionage March 25,2014 )
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf | | 2004-04-26 | Author:Mary Roach

degree angle with the stipes (the upright beam) of the cross. In the pushed-up position, the arms formed a 70-degree angle with the stipes. Barbet then tried to verify this, ...
( Category: Medicine March 25,2014 )
Science & Islam: A History by Ehsan Masood
mobi |eng | 2006-05-14 | Author:Ehsan Masood

Ibn-Sina’s critics Ibn-Sina and other doctors of the period were very much experimentalists. They would play with different treatments and if something didn’t work, they were happy to discard it ...
( Category: History March 25,2014 )
The botany of desire: a plant's-eye view of the world by Michael Pollan
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-05-27 | Author:Michael Pollan

CHAPTER 4 Desire: Control Plant: The Potato (SOLANUM TUBEROSUM) To my eye, there are few sights in nature quite as stirring as fresh rows of vegetable seedlings rising like a ...
( Category: Ecology March 25,2014 )
Kitchen Mysteries: Revealing the Science of Cooking by Hervé This; Jody Gladding
mobi |eng | 2010-08-01 | Author:Hervé This; Jody Gladding

Sauces CREAMY, SATINY, FLAVORFUL Neither a Juice nor a Purée Before they sang of Trojan heroes or the adventures of Ulysses, the Greek poets invoked the Muses, who were supposed ...
( Category: History March 25,2014 )
Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-09-15 | Author:Bee Wilson

My mortar and pestle comes from Thailand and is fashioned from craggy black granite. I like it far better than those restrained white-china mortars, whose rough insides set my teeth ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )
The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive by Christian Brian
mobi, azw3, epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Christian, Brian [Christian, Brian]

7. Barging In Listeners keep up with talkers; they do not wait for the end of a batch of speech and interpret it after a proportional delay, like a critic ...
( Category: Intelligence & Semantics March 25,2014 )
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Singh Simon
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Singh, Simon [Singh, Simon]

5 The Language Barrier While British codebreakers were breaking the German Enigma cipher and altering the course of the war in Europe, American codebreakers were having an equally important influence ...
( Category: Cryptography March 25,2014 )

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