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1) How to love the universe: a scientist's odes to the hidden beauty behind the visible world

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Klein, Stefan

Language

English

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook

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The bestselling author of The Science of Happiness delivers a book "suffused with genuine wonder and affection for the beauty of particle physics" (Foreword Reviews).
A single rose suggests the sublime interdependence of all life. A sudden storm points to the world's unpredictability. A marble conjures the birth of the cosmos.
How to Love the Universe shows us how everyday objects and events can reveal some of...

2) We are all stardust: scientists who shaped our world talk about their work, their lives, and what they still want to know

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Klein, Stefan

Language

English

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook

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Nineteen brilliantly led conversations with a sterling roster of natural and social scientists, shedding new light on their ideas, discoveries and lives. How does Jane Goodall's relationship with her dog Rusty inform her thinking about our relationship to other species? Which time and place would Jared Diamond most prefer to live in, in light of his work on the role of chance in history? What does driving a sports car have to do with Steven Weinberg's...

3) Survival of the nicest: how altruism made us human and why it pays to get along

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Klein, Stefan

Language

English

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Book, eBook

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A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2014This revelatory tour de force by an acclaimed and internationally bestselling science writer upends our understanding of "survival of the fittest"-and invites us all to think and act more altruistically The phrase "survival of the fittest" conjures an image of the most cutthroat individuals rising to the top. But Stefan Klein, author of the #1 international bestseller The Science of Happiness, makes the startling...

4) Leonardo's legacy: how Da Vinci reimagined the world

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Klein, Stefan

Pub. Date

2010.

Edition

First Da Capo Press edition.

Language

English

5) The secret pulse of time: making sense of life's scarcest commodity

Author

Klein, Stefan

Pub. Date

[2007]

Language

English

6) Träume - Eine Reise in unsere innere Wirklichkeit

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Klein, Stefan

Language

Deutsch

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Träume sind der verborgene Teil unseres Selbst. Allerdings haben wir in der zunehmend hektischen Welt den Zugang zu unseren nächtlichen Erlebnissen verloren - und Sehnsucht danach, ihn zurückzugewinnen. Der Bestsellerautor Stefan Klein nimmt uns mit auf eine einzigartige Entdeckungsreise in das Land der Träume. Er verbindet die Faszination, die Träume auf uns ausüben, mit neuesten wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen und gibt uns mit diesem Hörbuch...