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The Extreme Life of the Sea - Stephen R. Palumbi

The Extreme Life of the Sea - Stephen R. Palumbi

The Extreme Life of the Sea exposes the eternal darkness of the deepest undersea trenches to show how marine life thrives against the odds, describing how flying fish strain to escape their predators, how predatory deep-sea fish use red searchlights only they can see to find and attack food, and how, at the end of her life, a mother octopus dedicates herself to raising her batch of young. This wide-ranging and highly accessible book also shows how ocean adaptations can inspire innovative commercial..

DKK 149.94
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Climate Shock - The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet - Gernot Wagner

Climate Shock - The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet - Gernot Wagner

In Climate Shock, Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman explore in lively, clear terms the likely repercussions of a hotter planet, drawing on and expanding from work previously unavailable to general audiences. They show that the longer we wait to act, the more likely an extreme event will happen. A city might go underwater. A rogue nation might shoot particles into the Earth's atmosphere, geoengineering cooler temperatures. Zeroing in on the unknown extreme risks that may yet dwarf all else, the authors..

DKK 158.95
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Revolution and Dictatorship - Steven Levitsky

Revolution and Dictatorship - Steven Levitsky

Why the world's most resilient dictatorships are products of violent revolutionRevolution and Dictatorship explores why dictatorships born of social revolution-such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam-are extraordinarily durable, even in the face of economic crisis, large-scale policy failure, mass discontent, and intense external pressure. Few other modern autocracies have survived in the face of such extreme challenges. Drawing on comparative historical analysis, Steven..

DKK 217.95
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Revolution and Dictatorship - Steven Levitsky

Revolution and Dictatorship - Steven Levitsky

Why the world's most resilient dictatorships are products of violent revolution Revolution and Dictatorship explores why dictatorships born of social revolution--such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam--are extraordinarily durable, even in the face of economic crisis, large-scale policy failure, mass discontent, and intense external pressure. Few other modern autocracies have survived in the face of such extreme challenges. Drawing on comparative historical analysis, Steven..

DKK 518.95
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The World Atlas of Deserts and Drylands

The World Atlas of Deserts and Drylands

A richly illustrated atlas of the world's deserts and drylands, their ecosystems, and environments Deserts and drylands account for more than 40 percent of land on our planet. Characterized by a lack of water and extreme temperatures, they are the result of atmospheric stability, large landmass characteristics, rain shadows, and cold ocean currents. They appear harsh and hostile, but deserts and drylands are also exceptionally beautiful environments. Desert ecosystems often teem with diverse forms..

DKK 569.95
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Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe - Roger Penrose

Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe - Roger Penrose

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose questions some of the most fashionable ideas in physics today, including string theoryWhat can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, theoretical physicists are immune to mere trends, dogmatic beliefs, or flights of fancy? In fact, acclaimed physicist and bestselling author Roger Penrose argues that researchers working at the extreme frontiers of physics are just..

DKK 188.95
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Racism - A Short History - George M. Fredrickson

Racism - A Short History - George M. Fredrickson

Are antisemitism and white supremacy manifestations of a general phenomenon? Why didn't racism appear in Europe before the fourteenth century, and why did it flourish as never before in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? Why did the twentieth century see institutionalized racism in its most extreme forms? Why are egalitarian societies particularly susceptible to virulent racism? What do apartheid South Africa, Nazi Germany, and the American South under Jim Crow have in common? How did the Holocaust..

DKK 184.95
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The Deep Ocean - Michael Vecchione

The Deep Ocean - Michael Vecchione

An epic excursion into one of the last great frontiers on Earth The deep ocean comprises more than 90 percent of our planet's biosphere and is home to some of the world's most dazzling creatures, which thrive amid extreme pressures, scarce food supplies, and frigid temperatures. Living things down here behave in remarkable and surprising ways, and cutting-edge technologies are shedding new light on these critically important ecosystems. This beautifully illustrated book leads you down into the canyons,..

DKK 392.95
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Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe - Roger Penrose

Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe - Roger Penrose

What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, theoretical physicists are immune to mere trends, dogmatic beliefs, or flights of fancy? In fact, acclaimed physicist and bestselling author Roger Penrose argues that researchers working at the extreme frontiers of physics are just as susceptible to these forces as anyone else. In this provocative book, he argues that fashion, faith, and fantasy, while sometimes..

DKK 213.95
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How the Universe Got Its Spots - Janna Levin

How the Universe Got Its Spots - Janna Levin

\Is the universe infinite or just really big? With this question, cosmologist Janna Levin announces the central theme of this book, which established her as one of the most direct, unorthodox, and creative voices in contemporary science. As Levin sets out to determine how big \really big\ may be, she offers a rare intimate look at the daily life of an innovative physicist, complete with jet lag and the tensions between personal relationships and the extreme demands of scientific exploration.\--..

DKK 153.95
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The Roman Rlic of Letters - Katharina Volk

The Roman Rlic of Letters - Katharina Volk

\An intellectual history of the late Roman Rlic-and the senators who fought both scholarly debates and a civil war. In The Roman Rlic of Letters, Katharina Volk explores a fascinating chapter of intellectual history, focusing on the literary senators of the mid-first century BCE who came to blows over the future of Rome even as they debated philosophy, history, political theory, linguistics, science, and religion. It was a period of intense cultural flourishing and extreme political unrest-and the..

DKK 345.95
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The Roman Rlic of Letters - Scholarship, Philosophy, and Politics in the Age of Cicero and Caesar - Katharina Volk

The Roman Rlic of Letters - Scholarship, Philosophy, and Politics in the Age of Cicero and Caesar - Katharina Volk

\An intellectual history of the late Roman Rlic-and the senators who fought both scholarly debates and a civil war. In The Roman Rlic of Letters, Katharina Volk explores a fascinating chapter of intellectual history, focusing on the literary senators of the mid-first century BCE who came to blows over the future of Rome even as they debated philosophy, history, political theory, linguistics, science, and religion. It was a period of intense cultural flourishing and extreme political unrest-and the..

DKK 330.95
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The Last Butterflies - A Scientist's Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature - Nick Haddad

The Last Butterflies - A Scientist's Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature - Nick Haddad

Most of us have heard of such popular butterflies as the Monarch or Painted Lady. But what about the Fender's Blue? Or the St. Francis' Satyr? Because of their extreme rarity, these butterflies are not well-known, yet they are remarkable species with important lessons to teach us. The Last Butterflies spotlights the rarest of these creatures--some numbering no more than what can be held in one hand. Drawing from his own first-hand experiences, Nick Haddad explores the challenges of tracking these..

DKK 198.95
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Hitler, Germans, and the Jewish Question - Sarah Ann Gordon

Hitler, Germans, and the Jewish Question - Sarah Ann Gordon

This book probes the background of the ultimately unexplainable evil of our century, the deliberate and unprovoked murder of millions of European Jews--and goes on to explore German reactions to that evil. Depicting the emergence in Weimar Germany of a new type of extreme anti-Semite, of which Hitler was the paramount example, Sarah Gordon discusses a number of related questions about the role of anti-Semitism in the rise of the Nazis and draws on hitherto unexamined Gestapo files, new data on court..

DKK 843.95
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