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The idea that plants have a mind of their own has been a prominent feature of some Indigenous narratives, literary works, and philosophical discourses. Recent scientific research in the field of plant cognition similarly highlights the capacity of botanical life to discern between options and learn from prior experiences or, in other words, to think. The Mind of Plants offers an accessible account of the idea of “the plant mind” by bringing together short essays and poems on plants and their interactions with humans.

Is there more than one history of the world? This is the question Pierce Moffett is seeking to answer when, jilted and newly jobless, he gets off a bus by chance in the Faraway Hills and steps unawares into a story that has been awaiting him there. His search will bring him into contact with Rosie Rasmussen, another seeker marked by loss. And it will lead them both on a path toward the longed-for country of our oldest dreams and most unanswerable desires, toward a magnificent discovery.

Collection includes the most famous horror stories of all time from the pens of genius' of the genre: Edgar Allan Poe and Bram Stoker.

Leo wanted to make something out of himself—and build dams. However, the world doesn't want dams. And it mostly doesn't want civil engineers. It doesn't want men who do any sort of building or fighting or grand design, it seems. So, when Leo finds his current girlfriend and boss being threatened by a brutal loan shark and all three of them get dragged through a portal to another world, it doesn't take long for him to decide this is the place for him. Plus, everyone has magic, and who wouldn't want that?

Where did God come from? What do the bible stories really tell us? Who or what was Jesus Christ? This audiobook challenges everything we think we know about the nature of religion.

Tres emocionantes historias del maestro Grisham con el mundo de la ley como hilo conductor.

Our universe is ruled by physics, and faster-than-light travel is not possible - until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field we can access at certain points in space-time that transports us to other worlds, around other stars. Humanity flows away from Earth, into space, and in time forgets our home world and creates a new empire, the Interdependency, whose ethos requires that no one human outpost can survive without the others. It's a hedge against interstellar war - and a system of control for the rulers of the empire.

In This Explains Everything, John Brockman, founder and publisher of Edge.org, asked experts in numerous fields and disciplines to come up with their favorite explanations for everyday occurrences. Why do we recognize patterns? Is there such a thing as positive stress? Are we genetically programmed to be in conflict with each other? Those are just some of the 150 questions that the world's best scientific minds answer with elegant simplicity.

Imagine your home, your living room, and in the center of your living room, you put all the materials you have from all the rooms in the house. Now, you have to do your best and find a place for every single thing inside the living room, and you can not put them in any other room. How would you do that? How would it look like? That is exactly how your mind operates when you give it all kinds of different tasks and materials.

Este volume constitui a continuação de O peregrino. Foi lançado em 1684, seis anos após a publicação do primeiro volume. Esta edição em português traz diversas inovações. A nova tradução (1999) combina fidelidade ao texto integral de Bunyan com linguagem atual. Trata-se da mais recente edição brasileira do grande clássico.

Professor John McWhorter of Columbia University takes you back through time and around the world, following the linguistic trails left by generations of humans that lead back to the beginnings of language. Utilizing historical theories and cutting-edge research, these 34 astonishing lectures will introduce you to the major language families of the world and their many offspring, including a variety of languages that are no longer spoken but provide vital links between past and present.

Never 2 without 3! John Peter Sloan torna su Audible per continuare la sua missione: portare tutti gli ascoltatori a padroneggiare la lingua inglese, quella reale parlata dai madrelingua. Sempre in compagnia di Robert e Daniela, l'insegnante più famoso d'Italia ci guida alla scoperta degli "Essential idioms", ovvero le espressioni idiomatiche più importanti e utilizzate nel parlare di tutti i giorni. Comprendere ed imparare ad utilizzare i modi di dire inglesi non è mai stato così facile e divertente, ascoltare per credere.

El implacable empresario de éxito Ennis Fultz ha muerto asesinado en su hogar. Conforme avanza la investigación, los inspectores P. T. Marsh y Remy Morgan descubren que la lista de sospechosos es más larga de lo que imaginaban. Demasiado para una pequeña ciudad de Georgia como Mason Falls. Sin embargo, Fultz puede ser tan solo el menor de los problemas de Marsh, que ve cómo una tragedia de su pasado vuelve a emerger con fuerza, al estar relacionada con una serie de crímenes. Marsh nunca hubiera imaginado que cruzaría ciertas líneas rojas.

Hanna is devastated when just a few weeks before her wedding, her fiancé drops the bomb that he doesn’t want to marry her. With the wedding bought and paid for (and completely non-refundable!), she decides to give it away to a deserving couple. Hanna chooses a pair of strangers that fate seems to put in her path, and then embarks on rearranging the wedding details with the help of the new bride-to-be’s brother.

Are you looking for a fun way to help you teach your child new words? Then you are in the right place! Perfect for preschoolers, kindergarteners, and grade 1 and 2 kids! Bonus: They learn some first-aid too! Created by a Harvard-trained teacher to educate and inspire, children will love learning awesome new words and powerful first-aid, through the adventures of a group of children - Maxx, Arielle, Ethan, and Lucas - in a colorful journey. Each new word is defined in simple language your bilingual child can understand and listed in a glossary at the end.

"Economic hit men," John Perkins writes, "are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder."

Vous allez découvrir l'Histoire de France, de la Révolution à l'Empire, en suivant Napoléon, ce personnage de légende, devenu Empereur des français à 35 ans. C'est avec enthousiasme que Philippe Dormoy nous raconte la destinée incroyable de Napoléon Bonaparte, en répondant aux questions de Nathan, 9 ans.

Bobby Saraceno tiene un padre afroamericano a quien nunca conoció y una madre blanca que, por momentos, desearía no conocer. Criado por un abuelo racista e intolerante decide ocultarle la verdad de su familia a todos. Es el año 1995 y en la ciudad de Pittsburgh a sus veintidós años Bobby se hace pasar por blanco.

Algo se mueve dentro de ti pero ha sido acallado, gravemente socavado y malentendido. Tienes que creer que Dios no te ha olvidado. El no te ha dejado fuera. No estás loco, Profeta, ¡levántate! Sal de tu cueva y anímate a hablar la palabra del Señor. Dios te está llamando a ser su trompeta y a sonar la alarma.

¿Puede la ciencia explicarlo todo? Es una pregunta interesante que John Lennox y mucha gente piensa que sí. La ciencia y las tecnologías que ha generado han aportado mucho al mundo: agua limpia; más comida; mejor asistencia sanitaria; vida más larga. Y vivimos en una época de rápido progreso científico que promete resolver muchos de los problemas que enfrentamos como humanidad.