The Science Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

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Examine major historical developments and ideas with a universal timeline, providing a global perspective on the origins and major events that have contributed to the growth and spread of religion and spirituality.

A perfect primer on the fundamental tenets of the subject, The Business Book sheds light on some of history's most important milestone developments and the key business strategies used by leading thinkers and gurus from Henry Ford to Steve Jobs. Using a bold approach, The Ecology Book explores and explains over 85 of the key ideas, movements and acts that have defined ecology and ecological thought. The book generates all of this from the best of the best minds in the field, from Sigmund Freud, to Carl Jung, Abraham Maslow, Viktor Frankl, Daniel Kahneman, Steven Pinker, Stanley Milgram, to the influential Carl Rogers, Albert Ellis, Virginia Satir, Bluma Zeigarnik, Endel Tulving, Donald Hebb, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Albert Bandura, to the controversial ones like Timothy Leary, non psychologists such as Alan Turing and Noam Chomsky, to my new favourites Fritz Perls and Erich Fromm. The Crime Book looks at the big ideas and concepts in criminology spanning from pirates, kidnapping and political plots to modern con artists, serial killers and rogue traders, including the Black Dahlia investigation, the Mississippi Scheme and the notorious Jeffrey Dahmer. Explore ecology in this accessible introduction to how the natural world works and how we have started to understand the environment, ecosystems and climate change.Making big historical ideas accessible and easy to understand, with stunning facts and memorable quotes, The History Book audiobook is perfect for students, adults or anyone who wants to travel back in time and understand the fascinating past of mankind. Then it explains the many overlaps with other disciplines, such as with medicine, physiology, neuroscience, computer science, anthropology, sociology, education, politics, economy and the law. Along the way, it answers some of the key questions on psychology, such as how ordinary people are capable of cruelty when under pressure to conform, is intelligence hereditary, how a cat and a mouse can live peacefully if conditioned from babies, the explanation behind obsessive compulsive behaviour, how our preference is not rational but can be conditioned, what happens when you put good people in an evil place, the association between genius and psychotic temperament, and of course the analysis of the marshmallow test that has been cited in almost every self help books. Joining DK's best-selling Big Ideas series, The Feminism Book, narrated by Antonia Beamish, is a complete study of feminism.

Looking at more than 100 of the most important Old and New Testament stories, The Bible Book profiles key figures, from Adam and Eve to Peter and Paul, locations such as Jerusalem and Rome, and essential theological theories like the Trinity to help create a clear insight into Christianity. The Literature Book features some of the world's most celebrated books, plays and poetry, including Latin American and African fiction, and best-selling masterpieces from the most renowned authors ever to have lived. All in all, this is a book about theses of the human minds, that have been tested, re-tested, debunked, few buried and got resurrected, others debated and still inconclusive, while some became world changing. This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees. The Religions Book clearly explains the key concepts behind the earliest religious beliefs right up to the world's newest faiths, getting to the heart of what it means to believe with jargon-free descriptions that encapsulate every aspect of religious thinking.Venture from ancient speculations about the nature of the universe, to the mind-boggling theories of recent science, including those of Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. More than just stories, myths are testament to the amazing creativity of humans striving to explain and make sense of the world around them. With the focus firmly on unpicking the thought behind each theory - as well as exploring when and how each idea and breakthrough came about - seven themed chapters examine the history and developments in areas such as energy and matter, and electricity and magnetism, as well as quantum, nuclear, and particle physics. We also use them to help detect unauthorized access or activity that violate our terms of service, as well as to analyze site traffic and performance for our own site improvement efforts.