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HVAD DER SKER MED EN VERDEN, SOM ALDRIG SLUKKER FOR LYSET. For at sikre en lys fremtid, skal vi omfavne mørket. Verdens flora og fauna har siden tidernes morgen levet i en naturlig cyklus mellem nat og dag. Det har opfindelsen af elpæren ændret radikalt ved. Den konstante kunstige belysning...

Engang var jagten på et længere liv domineret af eventyrere, alkymister og kvaksalvere, men nu har videnskaben overtaget stafetten. Det betyder, at vi for første gang nogensinde står på tærsklen til at knække aldringens kode og besvare det ældgamle spørgsmål: Hvordan får jeg et langt...

A masterful synthesis of neuroscience, philosophy and evolutionary biology, this book transforms how we understand what it means to be conscious, alive and human. The age-old mystery of consciousness - our capacity to experience our own existence and have a sense of ourselves - remains unsolved...

L'Ingénu is a satirical novella by the French writer Voltaire, published in 1767. It tells the story of a Huron Indian transported to the sophistication of eighteenth century Paris, and satirizes religious doctrine, as well as the folly and injustices of French society. (Summary from Wikipedia).

The History of Troilus and Cressida has long baffled critics and audiences alike for its inconsistent tone, which ranges from bawdy comedy to somber tragedy, as well as its decidedly unheroic and unsympathetic cast of characters. It is also a work with a multivalent focus, jumping between different subplots and locations so that even the titular characters become lost in the shuffle of warcraft, manipulation, betrayal, and thwarted machismo. Not only do we follow the young Trojan warrior Troilus on his quest to woo the noncommittal Cressida, but also the Greek leader Agamemnon and his plot to ...

Mit diesem Podcast habt ihr die Möglichkeit, euch Inhalte der Vorklinik noch einmal neu erklären zu lassen. Genauso eignet er sich dazu, den Stoff vor einer Prüfung zu wiederholen oder vor dem Physikum aufzufrischen. Das alles kommt von Medizinstudierenden, die eben diese Prüfungen gerade erst hinter sich haben und selbst noch mitten im Studium stecken. Verständlich, erfrischend und auf Augenhöhe. Viel Spaß!WebApp mit Episodenfinder + Merkhilfendatenbank: dervorklinikpodcast.deFür Lob, Kritik und mehr: situs-inversus@bvmd.de Instagram: @der_vorklinikpodcast Hosted on Acast. See ...

An enchantingly profound meditation on our connection to the natural world and finding meaning beyond the demands of our daily lives, as told through the story of a pear orchard and the man who raised it Thirty years ago, Colin Harrison came across an ad in a local newspaper for an abandoned...

A spellbinding guide to the entwined evolution of humans and flowers—and what they can teach us about life The love story between flowers and humans is millions of years old. Over millennia of ecological changes and challenges, flowers have inspired us, comforted us, and taught us some of our...

In writing this book, author, naturalist, and educator Steve Ramirez traveled thousands of miles by plane, motor vehicle, boat, and foot. Each chapter includes his fishing with a notable person in the worlds of fishing and conservation. His fishing partners in this book include Bob White, Chris...

Welcome to Conversations in Reproductive Medicine: an RBMO Podcast. The official podcast of the journal Reproductive BioMedicine Online, hosted by co-Chief Editors Professor Nick Macklon (Medical Director at London Women's Clinic, UK) and Prof Juan García Velasco (Chief Scientific Officer at IVI RMA Global, Spain).Our first podcast series meets the people behind the papers; exploring the evolution of assisted reproductive technology through the first-hand experiences of the groundbreaking scientists who have guided its development.

Netta Syrett was the niece of Grant Allen and a "new woman" in her own right. Educated at the University of Cambridge, she tried to make a career in teaching before becoming a novelist and playwright. This novel, The Day's Journey, tells the story of an ideal marriage which turns up side down when the husband falls in love with another woman. - Summary by Stav Nisser

In The Threshold of Collective Intelligence, Peter Belter takes readers from Paleolithic Europe to Arctic wastelands, from the grandeur of imperial Rome to the cold logic of modern nuclear arsenals, following one question across deep time: what does it take for intelligence to stop dying locally and start becoming history?

The baron is busy building ventures which are doomed to fail. He thinks the next one would be better, and mourns the absence of his wife who went to beg for money from rich friends for his failing ventures. To this world of love, anger and disappointment, Erika is born, now a keen girl of 14. This story is about her way to fit in, solve her complicated relationships with her parents, and find love. Ossip Schubin is the pseudonym of Aloisia Kirschner, a popular Austrian novelist. - Summary by Stav Nisser

Qué es La revolución de la empatía Podcast Son analisis científicos semanales de artículos científicos de fácil comprención basados en la visión del libro La Revolución de la Empatía de divulgación que mezcla historia, ciencia y ética para defender que la empatía puede ser el motor de un cambio profundo en nuestra forma de organizarnos como sociedad. Color (Editorial RenoDrac): https://www.renodrac.es/es/inicio/221-libro-la-revolucion-de-la-empatia-9788494752940.html B/N (McGraw Hill, disponible en España y Latam): https://libros.cc/La-revolucion-de-empatia.htm

Vous rêvez d'un chien bien dans ses pattes… et bien éduqué ? Voilà LE guide qu'il vous faut ! Tony Silvestre, fondateur d'Esprit Dog et éducateur canin n° 1 sur les réseaux, partage ici des méthodes simples, bienveillantes et déjà testées par des milliers de maîtres. Dans ce guide ultra-pratique, vous allez apprendre à : Choisir la race qui vous correspond : taille, énergie, caractère, besoins réels. Comprendre votre chien : signaux, émotions, langage corporel et rythme de vie.

A determinedly tight knit family of sisters comes to unexpected tribulation after a ship arrives containing romantic complication and hidden pasts.

"This is the land of the lost, one of those happy spots where no questions are asked. Of course, the fact of a person's being here is usually all the explanation necessary." The Story of a New Zealand River is a romance set in the Northland region of New Zealand, in the time when the forests of New Zealand's grandest tree, the kauri, were being logged for their exquisite timber. The novel begins as Alice Roland and her free-spirited daughter Asia are being rowed in a black punt by handsome and cultured David Bruce up the Kaipara harbour to their new home at a raw kauri logging settlement in a ...

A romantic comedy in which love is complicated by a large inheritance. - Summary by W. Blaine Dowler

What could be more entrancing than Northanger Abbey? Catherine quite fears the Abbey. Find out why! - Summary by Victoria Bell

Lovers' Vows (1798), a play by Elizabeth Inchbald arguably best known now for having been featured in Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park (1814), is one of at least four adaptations of August von Kotzebue's Das Kind der Liebe (1780; literally "Child of Love," or "Natural Son," as it is often translated), all of which were published between 1798 and 1800. Inchbald's version is the only one to have been performed. Dealing as it does with sex outside marriage and illegitimate birth, Inchbald in the Preface to the published version declares herself to have been highly sensitive to the task of ...