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Что делать с лосем, переходящим дорогу в неположенном месте? Или с медведем, пойманным на взломе с проникновением? Триста лет назад животных, нарушивших закон, отдавали под суд, назначив им официального представителя. В наши дни, как выяснила популярная писательница Мэри Роуч, ответы нужно искать не в области юриспруденции, а в сфере науки—любопытнейшей дисциплины, изучающей конфликт человека и животных.

Выдающийся нейробиолог Роберт Сапольски бросает вызов устоявшимся представлениям о свободе воли: он утверждает, что наше поведение предопределено биологическими и социальными факторами. Опираясь на современные научные данные, в том числе нейробиологии, генетики, квантовой механики, автор убедительно доказывает: на наши действия сильнейшим образом влияют и генетическая предрасположенность, и воспитание, и даже случайные события в жизни. В результате мы практически лишены настоящего выбора.

Все мы, как известно, что-то о себе рассказываем. Однако, разъясняет в своей аудиокниге «Иллюзия себя» психиатр и нейробиолог Грегори Бернс, мы не просто рассказываем истории, мы и есть истории.

Какого цвета был ихтиозавр? Сколько калорий в день требовалось мегалодону? Можно ли летать на брюшных ребрах (и что это вообще такое)? Как выглядели змеи с ногами, черепахи без панциря или земноводные с плавниками? Кто кого ел, как передвигался и чем дышал? Сегодня палеонтология отвечает на вопросы, которые всего десять лет назад никто не решился бы даже задать. На примере 27 очень разных животных известный российский геолог и популяризатор науки Андрей Журавлев рассказывает о том, что мы можем узнать из палеонтологических находок.

В новой книге Марк Солмс представляет революционную теорию, согласно которой сознание обусловлено чувствами. Его порождает не только кора головного мозга, отвечающая за интеллект и высшие психические функции, но также более древняя часть мозга, где зарождаются эмоции. Кора становится носителем сознания лишь настолько, насколько ее возбуждает ствол мозга. Это и есть тот самый «скрытый источник».

"A gifted and thoughtful writer, Metzl brings us to the frontiers of biology and technology, and reveals a world full of promise and peril." —Siddhartha Mukherjee MD, New York Times bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene A groundbreaking exploration of genetic...

“A rich sensory trip . . . this indispensable guide to all things smelly is as good as it gets.” —Sunday Telegraph One man's passion for perfume leads him to explore one of the most intriguing scientific mysteries: What makes one molecule smell of garlic while another smells of rose? In...

In his new book, Noam Chomsky writes cogently about the threats to planetary survival that are of growing alarm today. The prospect of human extinction emerged after World War II, the dawn of a new era scientists now term the Anthropocene. Chomsky uniquely traces the duality of existential...

When maps come up short and the path ahead is uncertain, how do we find our way? Visionary climate leader Katharine K. Wilkinson offers a compassionate and empowering guide to navigating from ache to action, doubt to possibility. “There’s an enormous amount of learning from many years of...

The challenge for most who are wrestling with whether to give a vaccine is a lack of understanding about what information they really need to make an informed decision. Written by a pediatrician who witnessed the difference over decades in the health outcomes of the vaccinated, partially vaccinated, and unvaccinated children in his practice, Vax Facts will enlighten parents and guardians and provide the information needed for informed consent.

From the beloved host of NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday, moving tales of the marvelous animals who have crossed his path. Scott Simon’s household does not make much distinction between humans and other animals. Whether two-legged or four-, flesh-covered, fur-covered, feathered, or...

Most agree on the urgent need for climate action, yet we are often divided on how to stop the destruction of the natural world. Earth for Sale exposes the danger of governments giving over this responsibility to powerful private interests, namely the same energy, chemical, agribusiness, and...

Award-winning journalist Jesse Winter takes us on a dangerous and often heroic journey to the frontlines of three Canadian wildfires, introducing readers to firefighters, volunteers and others who are facing the country’s most devastating infernos In Wild Fire, Jesse Winter takes readers on a...

"A sweeping tour of the laws of physics, the scope of the universe, and the place of life within it." —Sean Carroll, New York Times bestselling author of The Biggest Ideas in the Universe An elegant exploration of humanity’s continuous search to find the hidden truths of the universe and...

A lively and revelatory journey through the evolution of caretaking on Earth, from animal parents to modern-day humans, making the case that caring for children and each other made us who we are Poison frog fathers carry tadpoles on their backs. Killer whale grandmothers hunt to feed their adult...

The progress of astronomy from age to age has been far from uniform—rather by leaps and bounds: from the earliest epoch when man's planet earth was the center about which the stupendous cosmos wheeled, for whom it was created, and for whose edification it was maintained—down to the modern age whose discoveries have ascertained that even our stellar universe, the vast region of the solar domain, is but one of the thousands of island universes that tenant the inconceivable immensities of space. So rapid, indeed, has been the progress of astronomy in very recent years that the present is ...

Phædra was the wife of Theseus, the King of Athens, but she developed a passion for her step-son Hippolytus. His rejection of her declaration of love leads to tragedy and death. The Poems read here are from Swinburne's Poems and Ballads (First series) published in 1866. The poems were popular on publication but also controversial as Swinburne wrote about topics which were considered taboo at the time such as Lesbianism (or Sapphism), Sado-masochism and Anti-theism. Many of the poems have the common themes of love and death and there are several references to the Greek poet Sappho whose work ...

A short collection of Ballads by the German poet and polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe based on German and other European and Asian legends (Summary by Alan Mapstone)

This book was published as a companion text to 'Climatic Changes' by the same author. The affect of the solar neighbourhood on the atmosphere of Earth is analysed. Sunspots, the magnetic field between the sun and the planets, and how they interact with each other is presented with tables and charts. - Summary by leon.harvey

Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The first volume is on Astronomy written by Waldemar Kaempffert. This book briefly discusses the evolution of astronomical beliefs and the development of instruments and progress of methods in the science. It explains, further, the different astronomical laws, theories, phenomena and objects, as well as the history of these discoveries. (summary by Sienna)