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  • Chessays
    Howard Burton
    A collection of exhilarating essays by physicist-turned-filmmaker Howard Burton about a wide range of chess-related issues which he encountered during the production of the 4-part documentary series about the fascinating history and sociocultural significance of chess, Through the Mirror of Chess: A Cultural Exploration.Howard has produced a comprehensive investigation into the...
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    16,17 €

  • Pandemic Perspectives
    Howard Burton
    In 2022 Howard Burton launched the Pandemic Perspectives Project: a documentary film, podcast series and this engagingly candid collection of essays that chart his personal quest to make some sense of the COVID-19 pandemic through his interaction with a diverse array of 32 experts.Directly inspired by the award-winning writer, physician and self-professed 'biology watcher' Lewi...
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    16,28 €

  • Conversations About Religion
    Howard Burton
    Conversations About Religion, includes the following 5 in-depth Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring leading experts. This collection includes a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. Each book is broken into chapters with a detailed introduction and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter: 1.Rabbi With A Cause: Israel and Ident...
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    24,94 €

  • Conversations About The Environment
    Howard Burton
    Conversations About The Environment includes the following 5 in-depth Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring leading experts. This collection includes a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. Each book is broken into chapters with a detailed introduction and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter:1.Solar Impact: Climate and the S...
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    24,82 €

  • Conversations About Philosophy, Volume 2
    Howard Burton
    Conversations About Philosophy, Volume 2, includes the following 5 in-depth Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring leading researchers. This collection includes a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. Each book is broken into chapters with a detailed introduction and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter: 1.The Social World, Re...
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    24,91 €

  • Conversations About History, Volume 1
    Howard Burton
    Conversations About History, Volume 1, includes the following 5 wide-ranging Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring eminent historians. This collection includes a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. Each book is broken into chapters with a detailed introduction and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter:1. Embracing Complexity...
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    24,95 €

  • Conversations About Language & Culture
    Howard Burton
    Conversations About Language & Culture includes the following 5 in-depth Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring leading researchers. This collection includes a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. Each book is broken into chapters with a detailed introduction and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter: 1.Babbling Barbarians: Ho...
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    24,91 €

  • Conversations About History, Volume 3
    Howard Burton
    Conversations About History, Volume 3, includes the following 5 in-depth Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring leading historians. This collection includes a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. Each book is broken into chapters with a detailed introduction and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter:1.Eating One’s Own: Examini...
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    24,99 €

  • Conversations About Politics
    Howard Burton
    Conversations About Politics includes the following 5 wide-ranging Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring leading political scientists. This collection includes a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. Each book is broken into chapters with a detailed introduction and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter: 1.Exploring Southeast ...
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    24,89 €

  • Conversations About Psychology, Volume 2
    Howard Burton
    Conversations About Psychology, Volume 2, includes the following 5 in-depth Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring leading researchers. This collection includes a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. Each book is broken into chapters with a detailed introduction and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter: 1.The Psychology of Bi...
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    24,86 €

  • Conversations About Anthropology & Sociology
    Howard Burton
    Conversations About Anthropology & Sociology includes the following 5 carefully-edited Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring leading researchers. This collection includes a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. Each book is broken into chapters with a detailed introduction and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter:1.The Scienc...
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    25,05 €

  • Conversations About History, Volume 2
    Howard Burton
    Conversations About History, Volume 2, includes the following 5 in-depth Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring eminent historians. This collection includes a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. Each book is broken into chapters with a detailed introduction and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter:1.Constitutional Investigat...
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    24,97 €

  • Conversations About Philosophy, Volume 1
    Howard Burton
    Conversations About Philosophy, Volume 1, includes the following 5 wide-ranging Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring leading researchers. This collection includes a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. Each book is broken into chapters with a detailed introduction and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter: 1.Plato’s Heaven: ...
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    24,99 €

  • Conversations About Law
    Howard Burton
    Conversations About Law includes the following 5 in-depth Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring leading researchers. This collection includes a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. Each book is broken into chapters with a detailed introduction and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter:1. Neurolaw - A Conversation with Nita Fa...
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    24,94 €

  • Conversations About Physics, Volume 1
    Howard Burton
    Conversations About Physics, Volume 1, includes the following 5 in-depth Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring leading physicists. This collection includes a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. Each book is broken into chapters with a detailed introduction and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter: 1.The Power of Principles:...
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    24,64 €

  • Conversations About Physics, Volume 2
    Howard Burton
    Conversations About Physics, Volume 2, includes the following 5 in-depth Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring leading physicists. This collection includes a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. Each book is broken into chapters with a detailed introduction and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter:1.Pushing the Boundaries - ...
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    24,97 €

  • Conversations About Psychology, Volume 1
    Howard Burton
    Conversations About Psychology, Volume 1, includes the following 5 in-depth Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring leading researchers. This collection includes a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. Each book is broken into chapters with a detailed introduction and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter: 1.Believing Your Ears:...
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    24,87 €

  • Letters From Languedoc
    Howard Burton
    In this engaging epistolary memoir, Howard Burton describes his early experiences of moving with his family to a medieval hilltop village called Le Pouget in Languedoc after years of running Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada. The Languedoc region is sometimes referred to as the 'real South of France'- thanks to its largely unspoilt, breathtakingly-beautiful ...
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    16,43 €

  • Burning Down UNESCO
    Howard Burton
    By a curious set of circumstances, Howard Burton found himself hired as a fundraising consultant at UNESCO’s Paris headquarters. Overwhelmed by the bureaucratic double-speak and smug complacency that he encountered everywhere he went, he decided to use his clear-eyed analytical skills to ask a very different sort of question: What, exactly, was UNESCO doing that was actually wo...
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    16,34 €

  • First Principles
    Howard Burton
    In First Principles: Building Perimeter Institute, Howard Burton tells the remarkable and unconventional story-with a bold and biting humour and surprising candour-of the founding of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. How was PI created from scratch, from first principles? What were the hurdles? What were the challenges? What was the 'Howard and Mi...
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    18,57 €

  • EXCEPTIONALLY UPSETTING
    Howard Burton
    How did America reach its present state of striking dysfunctionality, and what can be done about it? Howard Burton offers his unique perspective on the raging culture war in the United States, vividly describing how Americans are increasingly falling prey to a culture of opinionated ignorance, while suggesting that a solution is nonetheless possible: simply harnessing the abund...
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    16,36 €

  • Conversations About Biology
    Howard Burton
    This Ideas Roadshow Collection includes the following 5 carefully-edited Ideas Roadshow Conversations which are based on in-depth filmed conversations with world-leading researchers:I. Autism: A Genetic Perspective - A conversation with Jay Gargus, Professor of Physiology, Biophysics and Pediatrics and Director of the Center for Autism Research and Translation at UC Irvine. Thi...
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    24,60 €

  • Conversations About The History Of Ideas
    Howard Burton
    This Ideas Roadshow Collection includes the following 5 Ideas Roadshow Conversations which are based on in-depth filmed conversations with 4 leading intellectual historians and an award-winning author: I. The Two Cultures, Revisited - A conversation with Stefan Collini, Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History and English Literature, University of Cambridge. The ’Two Cultures...
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    24,97 €

  • Conversations About Social Psychology
    Howard Burton
    This Ideas Roadshow Collection includes the following 5 Ideas Roadshow conversations which are based on in-depth filmed conversations with 4 renowned social psychologists and a former top 10 tennis player:I. Being Social - A conversation with Roy Baumeister, Professor of Psychology at the University of Queensland. This book explores Roy Baumeister’s unique combination of biolog...
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    24,91 €

  • Conversations About Astrophysics & Cosmology
    Howard Burton
    This Ideas Roadshow Collection includes the following 5 Ideas Roadshow Conversations which are based on in-depth filmed conversations with world-leading physicists plus a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books: I. Cosmological Conundrums - A conversation with Justin Khoury, Professor of Physics, University of Pennsylvania. This extensive conve...
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    24,84 €

  • Conversations About Neuroscience
    Howard Burton
    Conversations About Neuroscience consists of the following 5 Ideas Roadshow Conversations which are based on in-depth filmed conversations with world-leading neuroscientists. This collection includes a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. Each book is broken into chapters with a detailed introduction and questions for discussion at the end ...
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    24,92 €

  • Children’s Mental Health and Emotional Well-being in Primary Schools
    Colin Howard / Denisse Levermore / Madeleine Burton
    This is essential reading for aspiring and practicing primary school teachers to develop strategies to enhance the importance of mental health and emotional well-being. ...
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    77,58 €

  • Commercial Sicilian Sumac
    Burton James Howard / F P. 1868-1943 Veitch
    'Commercial Sicilian Sumac' (1908), by F. P. Veitch and Burton James Howard, offers a detailed examination of Sicilian sumac cultivation and its commercial applications, originally published by the United States Department of Agriculture. This treatise explores the plant’s cultivation, harvesting, and preparation for market, providing valuable insights into early 20th-century a...
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    15,91 €