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Future is Degrowth
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Future is Degrowth

Matthias Schmelzer edit. - Verso Books 2022, EAN: 9781839765841

Economic growth isn't working, and it cannot be made to work.

26,95 € Detail
Feminism or Death : How the Women's Movement Can Save the Planet
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Feminism or Death : How the Women's Movement Can Save the Planet

Francoise d´Eaubonne - Verso Books 2022, EAN: 9781839764400

Originally published in French in 1974, radical feminist Francoise d'Eaubonne surveyed women's status around the globe and argued that the stakes of feminist struggle was not about equality but about life and death-for humans and the planet.

26,95 € Detail
Designing Disorder
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Designing Disorder

- Verso Books 2022, EAN: 9781788737838

In 1970, Richard Sennett published the groundbreaking The Uses of Disorder, arguing that the ideal of a planned and ordered city was flawed. Fifty years later, Sennett returns to these still fertile ideas and, alongside campaigner and architect Pablo Sendra, sets out an agenda for the design and ethics of the Open City.

19,95 € Detail
Command
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Command

Lawrence Freedman - ALLEN LANE 2022, EAN: 9780241456996

Throughout history, the concept of command -- as both a way to achieve objectives and as an assertion of authority -- has been essential to military action and leadership. But, as Sir Lawrence Freedman shows, it is also deeply political.

38,95 € Detail
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
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An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

Chris Hadfield - PAN BOOKS , EAN: 9781529084788

Back on the earth after three spaceflights, Chris Hadfield's captivating memoir An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth reveals extraordinary stories from his life as an astronaut, and shows how to make the impossible a reality. This edition contains a new afterword. Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4,000 hours in space.

16,44 € Detail
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
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Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe

Niall Ferguson - Penguin Books , EAN: 9780141995557

'Magisterial ... Immensely readable' Douglas Alexander, Financial Times'Insightful, productively provocative and downright brilliant' New York Times A compelling history of catastrophes and their consequences, from 'the most brilliant British historian of his generation' (The Times) Disasters are inherently hard to predict.

21,95 € Detail
This Is Your Mind On Plants
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This Is Your Mind On Plants

Michael Pollan - Penguin Books , EAN: 9780141997339

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR NEW NETFLIX SERIES, HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND'It's a trip - engrossing, eye-opening, mind altering' New Statesman 'Fascinating. Pollan is the perfect guide ...

14,50 € Detail
Jungle
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Jungle

Patrick Roberts - Penguin Books , EAN: 9780241990780

'A bold, ambitious and truly wonderful history of the world' Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees'A fascinating story and a crucial revision of the momentous importance of tropical forests to human history' Lewis Dartnell, author of Origins_________________________ Jungle tells the remarkable story of the world's tropical forests, from the arrival of the first plants millions of

14,76 € Detail
Analogia
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Analogia

George Dyson - Penguin Books Ltd , EAN: 9780141975436

16,95 € Detail
The Secret Body
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The Secret Body

Daniel M Davis - VINTAGE , EAN: 9781529110975

'Thrilling' BILL BRYSON'Brilliant' TIM SPECTOR'Extraordinary' ALICE ROBERTSWelcome to a revolution in the science of you - this is the landmark new book from award-winning scientist Daniel M. Davis.

12,64 € Detail
The Hidden Universe
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The Hidden Universe

Alexandre Antonelli - EBURY PRESS , EAN: 9781529109160

We don't know what we've got until it's gone... This brief, lucid book by the Director of Science at Royal Botanical Gardens takes you on an unforgettable tour of the natural world, showing how biodiversity - the rich variety of life in the world and in our own backyards - provides both the source and the salvation of our existence.

16,88 € Detail
Before the Big Bang
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Before the Big Bang

Laura Mersini-Houghton - BODLEY HEAD , EAN: 9781847925527

Beyond the Big Bang presents a new cutting-edge theory from a pioneering scientist about the origins of our universe.

16,88 € Detail
Eat A Peach : A Chef's Memoir
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Eat A Peach : A Chef's Memoir

David Chang - SLOVART 2022, EAN: 9781529113426

The celebrated chef behind Momofuku and star of Netflix's Ugly Delicious gets uncomfortably real in his New York Times bestselling memoir. In 2004, Momofuku Noodle Bar opened in Manhattan's East Village. Its young chef-owner, David Chang, served ramen and pork buns to a mix of fellow restaurant cooks and confused diners whose idea of ramen was instant noodles in Styrofoam cups.

13,50 € Detail
Flight
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Flight

R.G. Grant - SLOVART 2022, EAN: 9780241515747

A stunning visual celebration of the world's aircraft and the pioneers who made a dream become reality.

34,95 € Detail
Do lejaka bez dáždnika (Príbeh medičky)
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Do lejaka bez dáždnika (Príbeh medičky)

CIBA - Patria I., spol. s r. o. , EAN: 9788085674767

Prekvapujúci, miestami až šokujúci autobiografický príbeh gymnazistky z malého slovenského mestečka, ktorá sa vyberie do Prahy študovať medicínu.   Jej neskúsenosť a stretnutie s atraktívnym egocentrickým "riaditeľom zemegule" poriadne zamotá život nielen Viere, ale aj trom ratolestiam, ktoré sa jej stihnú narodiť do vytúženej promócie.

11,70 € Detail
Liberalism and Its Discontents
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Liberalism and Its Discontents

Francis Fukuyama - SLOVART 2022, EAN: 9781800810082

A defence of liberalism by the renowned political philosopher 'We need more thinkers as wise as Fukuyama digging their fingers into the soil of our predicament' The New York Times 'A brilliantly acute summary of the way some aspects of liberal thought have consumed themselves' Guardian 'One of the West's most interesting public intellectuals' Times 'Hard to think of a better case

18,44 € Detail
Get Rich or Lie Trying
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Get Rich or Lie Trying

Symeon Brown - ATLANTIC BOOKS , EAN: 9781838950286

'Compelling.' Reni Eddo-LodgeA 'must-read book for 2022', as picked by StylistMore than one fifth of children want to become influencers and it's easy to understand why. What if you could escape economic uncertainty by winning the internet's attention? What if you could turn the adoration of your social media followers into a lucrative livelihood?

18,50 € Detail
Russia
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Russia

Antony Beevor - Weidenfeld & Nicolson , EAN: 9781474610148

Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the modern era. An incompatible White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood little chance against Trotsky's Red Army and Lenin's single-minded Communist dictatorship.

32,10 € Detail
Whole Earth
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Whole Earth

John Markoff - PENGUIN , EAN: 9780735223943

Told by one of our greatest chroniclers of technology and society, the definitive biography of iconic serial visionary Stewart Brand, from the Merry Pranksters and the generation-defining Whole Earth Catalog to the marriage of environmental consciousness and hacker capitalism and the rise of a new planetary culture--the story behind so many other stories Stewart Brand has long been famous if

33,80 € Detail