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The Nature of Scientific Knowledge (1st ed 2016) – Kevin McCain

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Title: The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning
Author: Marcelo Gleiser
Language: angielski
Year: 2015
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Wydawnictwo: Basic Books
ISBN: 9780465049646
Total pages: 281

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Do all questions have answers? How much can we know about the world? Is there such a thing as an ultimate truth?

To be human is to want to know, but what we are able to observe is only a tiny portion of what’s “out there.” In The Island of Knowledge, physicist Marcelo Gleiser traces our search for answers to the most fundamental questions of existence. In so doing, he reaches a provocative conclusion: science, the main tool we use to find answers, is fundamentally limited.

These limits to our knowledge arise both from our tools of exploration and from the nature of physical reality: the speed of light, the uncertainty principle, the impossibility of seeing beyond the cosmic horizon, the incompleteness theorem, and our own limitations as an intelligent species. Recognizing limits in this way, Gleiser argues, is not a deterrent to progress or a surrendering to religion. Rather, it frees us to question the meaning and nature of the universe while affirming the central role of life and ourselves in it. Science can and must go on, but recognizing its limits reveals its true mission: to know the universe is to know ourselves.

Telling the dramatic story of our quest for understanding, The Island of Knowledge offers a highly original exploration of the ideas of some of the greatest thinkers in history, from Plato to Einstein, and how they affect us today. An authoritative, broad-ranging intellectual history of our search for knowledge and meaning, The Island of Knowledge is a unique view of what it means to be human in a universe filled with mystery.

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The Murder Of The Seven Points

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Name: The Murder Of The Seven Points
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Title: The Hostile Hospital
Author: Scanned by BigBallz
Language: angielski
Year: 2004
Subjects: Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Literature, Humor (Fiction)
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780060288914
Total pages: 10

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NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES
The Baudelaires need a safe place to stay-somewhere far away from terrible villains and local police. A quiet refuge where misfortune never visits. Might Heimlich Hospital be just the place?
In Lemony Snicket’s eighth ghastly installment in A Series of Unfortunate Events, I’m sorry to say that the Baudelaire orphans will spend time in a hospital where they risk encountering a misleading newspaper headline, unnecessary surgery, an intercom system, anesthesia, heart-shaped balloons, and some very startling news about a fire.

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The Most Valuable Skills in Chess

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Name: The Most Valuable Skills in Chess
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Title: The Purchasing Chessboard – 64 Methods to Reduce Costs and Increase Value with Suppliers
Author: Christian Schuh
Language: angielski
Year: 2011
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Wydawnictwo: Springer Science+Business Media
ISBN: N/A
Total pages: 162

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THE MIDDLE GAME IN CHESS

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Name: THE MIDDLE GAME IN CHESS
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Title: The Middle Game in Chess
Author: Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
Language: angielski
Year: 2012
Subjects: Games, Nonfiction
Publisher: Dover Publications
ISBN: 9780486239316
Total pages: 248

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Superior introduction to most demanding part of chess. Basic concepts of middle game play are systematically and logically presented. Every significant idea is illustrated by well-chosen excerpts from master play, including games by Alekhine, Capablanca, Lasker, Reshevsky, Botvinnik, Marshall, Pillsbury, and other prominent players. 80 illustrations.

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The Marriage of Heaven and Earth

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Name: The Marriage of Heaven and Earth
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Title: ABC Amber Text Converter
Author: Yernar Shambayev (ProcessText Group)
Language: angielski
Year: 2000
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Nonfiction
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9780313312694
Total pages: 215

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From the Middle Ages to the close of the 17th century, alchemy was fundamental to Western culture, as scores of experimenters sought to change lead into gold. Though its significance declined with the rise of chemistry, alchemy continued to captivate the imagination of writers and its images still appear in modern creative works. This book examines the literary representation of alchemical theory and the metaphor of alchemical regeneration in the works of Edward Taylor, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Margaret Fuller.
While Taylor used alchemical metaphors to illustrate the redeeming grace of God upon the soul, these same metaphors were used by Poe, Hawthorne, and Fuller to depict a broader concept of redemption. These later writers used alchemical imagery to describe both the regeneration of the individual and the possible transformation of society. For Poe, alchemy became a metaphor for the transforming power of imagination; for Hawthorne, it became a means of representing the redeeming power of love; for Fuller, it figured the reconciliation of gender opposites. Thus these four American writers incorporated the idea of regeneration in their works, and the tropes and metaphors of the medieval alchemists provided a fascinating way of imagining the transformative process.

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The Man Behind Forcing Chess Moves

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Name: The Man Behind Forcing Chess Moves
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Title: choct08.pmd
Author: Admin
Language: angielski
Year: 2017
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Wydawnictwo: Stonepine Publishing
ISBN: 0473396734
Total pages: 3

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The people, places and stories behind the chess openings and their names
When we play chess, the first few moves define the game . You probably know the names already: the Sicilian Defense, the Ruy Lopez, the French Defense, the Caro-Kann, the Benoni, the London System, the Scandinavian Defense and so on.

But most chess players don’t know WHY the openings are called what they are.
In this entertaining book, bestselling author Nathan Rose lays out the origins of over 50 standard chess openings and their names. The tales are often deeply connected to the lives of the leading chess grandmasters, the historical events taking place at the time, and the critical chess world championship contests. All these stories are collected together in this, the first book dedicated to uncovering them.

The names of the chess openings tell the history of chess.
You will meet larger than life characters such as Bobby Fischer, Aron Nimzowitsch, Alexander Alekhine, Frank Marshall, Siegbert Tarrasch, Wilhelm Steinitz, and Paul Morphy. Some of these men won their fame in the chess world championship, while some gained wider renown for reasons other than their ability to play chess. You will be agog at Paul Morphy’s stunning conquest of Europe and subsequent disappearance, the outrageous antics of Aron Nimzowitsch upon losing a game, and the eccentric names Alexander Alekhine gave his cats.

You will also travel through the places and events that defined chess in the early years. As David Shenk showed in "The Immortal Game", the history of chess has often mirrored the history of society. There’s the 1972 world chess championship that pitted the Soviet Union’s Boris Spassky against America’s irascible Bobby Fischer in the "Match of the Century". The 1939 chess olympiad in Argentina which coincided with the outbreak of World War II. The unveiling of the "Mechanical Turk" chess-playing contraption in 18th-century Vienna. And let’s not forget the triumph of Deep Blue over Garry Kasparov.

Over 50 standard chess openings and variations.

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The Lost Tomb Of Kruk-Ma-Kali

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Name: The Lost Tomb Of Kruk-Ma-Kali
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Title: The Lost Tomb
Author: Douglas Preston
Language: angielski
Year: 2023
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Wydawnictwo: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1538741229
Total pages: 116

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What’s it like to be the first to enter an Egyptian burial chamber that’s been sealed for thousands of years? Where might a blocked doorway or newly excavated corridor lead? And what might this stupendous tomb reveal about the most powerful pharaoh in Egyptian history?

From the jungles of Honduras to macabre archaeological sites in the American Southwest, Douglas Preston’s journalistic explorations have taken him across the globe. He broke the story of an extraordinary mass grave of animals killed by the asteroid impact that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, he explored what lay hidden in the booby-trapped Money Pit on Oak Island, and he roamed the haunted hills of Italy in search of the Monster of Florence. When he hasn’t been co-authoring bestselling thrillers featuring FBI Agent Pendergast, Preston has been writing about some of the world’s strangest and most dramatic mysteries.

The Lost Tomb brings together an astonishing and compelling collection of true stories about buried treasure, enigmatic murders, lost tombs, bizarre crimes, and other fascinating tales of the past and present.

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The Lathe Book

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Name: The Lathe Book
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Size: 7.98 MB

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Title: The Lathe of Heaven
Author: Administrator
Language: angielski
Year: 2022
Subjects: Classic Literature, Fantasy, Fiction
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 9781668017401
Total pages: 196

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With a new introduction by Kelly Link, the Locus Award-winning science fiction novel by legendary author Ursula K. Le Guin, set in a world where one man’s dreams rewrite the future.
During a time racked by war and environmental catastrophe, George Orr discovers his dreams alter reality. George is compelled to receive treatment from Dr. William Haber, an ambitious sleep psychiatrist who quickly grasps the immense power George holds. After becoming adept at manipulating George’s dreams to reshape the world, Haber seeks the same power for himself. George-with some surprising help-must resist Haber’s attempts, which threaten to destroy reality itself.
A classic of the science fiction genre, The Lathe of Heaven is prescient in its exploration of the moral risks when overwhelming power is coupled with techno-utopianism.

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The Last Gods

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Name: The Last Gods
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Title: The Last Gods–tome 1
Author: INÈS HECK
Language: polski
Year: 2025
Subjects: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance
Publisher: BMR
ISBN: 9788381788380
Total pages: 9

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Ils se battent comme des ennemis. Ils s’attirent comme des amants.
Lucinda, déesse de la lune et de la nuit, refuse de plier sous le poids d’une responsabilité qu’elle n’a pas choisie. Pour échapper à son destin, elle quitte Athesea et se réfugie sur Terre, où elle goûte enfin à une liberté fragile mais précieuse. Pendant un siècle, elle évolue parmi les mortels, loin des autres divinités et des intrigues célestes. Mais son exil touche à sa fin.
Lucinda comprend que le dieu de la mort l’a retrouvée, lorsqu’un familier au regard perçant surgit pour la ramener à son maître. Rhory. L’homme qu’elle hait le plus, celui qu’elle a toujours fui. Pourtant, derrière ses sarcasmes et ses colères, Rhory cache un secret. Et s’il ne cherche pas à la punir… c’est peut-être parce qu’il n’est pas celui qu’elle pense.
Alors que des créatures infernales sèment à nouveau le chaos sur Terre, Lucinda est forcée de renouer avec son passé divin. Car une prophétie lie la Nuit à la Mort. Une prophétie qu’elle rejette de toutes ses forces… mais qu’aucun des deux ne pourra ignorer.

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The Last Defender

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Name: The Last Defender
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Size: 2.61 MB

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Title: The Last Defender
Author: Clair McIntyre
Language: angielski
Year: 2016
Subjects: Fantasy, Fiction
Publisher: Clair McIntyre
ISBN: 9780345548634
Total pages: 10

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The road to ruin is often paved with good intentions…
Memphis Halsin is on a man on a reckless self-destructive quest to lure the last Horseman of the Apocalypse, Karanthos of Plague, into a winner-take-all fight. Unfortunately for Memphis, his bold moves have actually cost someone else very dear to him, their life. Not to mention, they nearly cost him his own as well if not for the one woman who swore to never have anything to do with him; Callie of the Griffins. Back to square one, Memphis has little choice but to trust Callie and take an entirely different approach, something that make just break this devil-may-care Halsin.
Time may heal all wounds but it does little to help the heart…
Callie of the Griffins was once just as reckless as Memphis but she too has paid a high price for her actions. Swearing to never return to those ways, she buries her past and becomes the tranquil Rare that everyone knows her to be today. Though since Memphis arrived on Terriana, the home of the Animalia, she has been far from tranquil as she recognizes him immediately as her mate. Callie fought the call for years but after Memphis has a near brush with death, Callie knows she has lost that battle and accepts her fate, though there is she still believes there is no hope for them with the Horseman of Apocalypse still looming over them.
The final battle is upon us, who will win?
Memphis knows that he must fight for a lot of things; his family, his people and most importantly his mate. Though for the first time in his life, Memphis must believe in an ancient prophecy that he has always scorned. The prophecy that has declared him to be ‘The Last Defender’, the only being able to stand on the very edge of disaster and hold back the tide. In order to do this he must journey around the world, fighting not only his own fears and self-doubts but the very real minions of the last Horseman of the Apocalypse that are out to kill him and those Memphis holds dear. After all, Memphis isn’t the only out for revenge, Karanthos is too and this is one battle that may be too close to call.

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