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First coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene, a meme is any idea, behavior, or skill that can be transferred from one person to another by imitation. Susan Blackmore shows that once our distant ancestors acquired the crucial ability to imitate, a second kind of natural selection began, a survival of the fittest amongst competing ideas and behaviors. Ideas and behaviors that proved most adaptive-making tools, for example, or using language - survived and flourished, replicating themselves in as many minds as possible.

Richard Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the rare distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it. His theories have helped change the whole nature of the study of social biology, and have forced thousands to rethink their beliefs about life.

Revisit one of the most important pillars in modern philosophy with this new English translation—the first in more than 60 years—of Jean-Paul Sartre’s seminal treatise on existentialism. “This is a philosophy to be reckoned with, both for its own intrinsic power and as a profound symptom...

Despite political foes, professional jealousies, and the scandal which drove her into exile, Capt. Honor Harrington has been offered a chance to reclaim her career as an officer of the Royal Manticoran Navy. But there's a catch. She must assume command of a "squadron" of jury-rigged armed merchantmen with crew drawn from the dregs of her service and somehow stop the pirates who have taken advantage of the Havenite War to plunder the Star Kingdom's commerce.

It's hard to give peace a chance when the other side regards conquest as the only option and a sneak attack as the best means to that end. That's why the Kingdom of Manticore needs allies against the Republic of Haven, and the planet Grayson is strategically situated to make a very good ally indeed. But Her Majesty’s Foreign Office overlooked a “minor cultural difference” when they chose Honor Harrington to carry the flag: women on the planet of Grayson are without rank or rights and Honor’s mere presence is an intolerable affront to every male on the planet.

We all want to be healthy. But somehow the good information about how to get healthy keeps getting twisted. In The Cure for Everything! health and law expert Timothy Caulfield sets out to find the truth about what it takes to achieve a healthy lifestyle, even testing out many of the health...

In a world where there is so much conflicting information about how we are supposed to live, what can we really know? Knowing the truth, what’s real from what’s fake, should be easy. In today’s world, that’s far from the case. In The Certainty Illusion, Timothy Caulfield lifts the...

In Never Eat Alone, Ferrazzi lays out the specific steps - and inner mindset - he uses to reach out to connect with the thousands of colleagues, friends, and associates on his contacts list, people he has helped and who have helped him. And in the time since Never Eat Alone was published in 2005, the rise of social media and new, collaborative management styles have only made Ferrazzi’s advice more essential for anyone hoping to get ahead in business.

The rulers of the People's Republic of Haven are in trouble and revolt is brewing, so it's high time for a short victorious war. But Honor Harrington is going to give them a war that's neither short nor victorious.

Honor Harrington has survived ship-to-ship combat, assassins, political vendettas, and duels. But this time, Honor and her crew, ambushed and captured, are aboard an enemy ship, bound for a prison planet aptly named "Hell" - and her scheduled execution. Yet the one lesson Honor has never learned is how to give up. She and her people are going home--even if it means conquering hell to get there!

Exciting new developments in brain science are continuing the debates on these issues, and the field has now expanded to include biologists, neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers. This controversial book clarifies the potentially confusing arguments, and the major theories, while also outlining the amazing pace of discoveries in neuroscience. Covering areas such as the construction of self in the brain, mechanisms of attention, the neural correlates of consciousness, and the physiology of altered states of consciousness, Susan Blackmore highlights our latest findings.

The People's Republic of Haven's sneak attack on the Kingdom of Manticore has failed. The Peeps are in disarray, their leaders fighting for power in bloody revolution, and the Royal Manticoran Navy stands victorious.

For eight years, Commodore Honor Harrington was in the forefront of the battle between the Star Kingdom of Manticore and the powerful People's Republic of Haven. Then she was captured and publicly executed. But Honor is far from dead, what's more, she's going home and taking her people with her.

In Waves, Fredric Raichlen traces the evolution of waves, from their generation in the deep ocean to their effects on the coast. He explains, in a way that is readily understandable to nonscientists, both the science of waves themselves and the technology that can be used to protect us against their more extreme forms, including hurricanes and tsunamis.

The People's Republic of Haven made a tiny mistake when it announced the execution of Honor Harrington. It seemed safe enough. After all, she was already dead. Unfortunately, they were wrong. Now Honor has escaped from the prison planet called Hell and returned to the Manticoran Alliance with a few friends. Almost half a million of them, to be precise including some who know what really happened when the Committee of Public Safety seized power in the PRH.

Más de dos siglos después de que la Tercera Guerra Mundial envenenara el planeta, el último bastión de la humanidad vive en enormes aeronaves que circundan el globo en busca de un área habitable que puedan llamar hogar. Envejecidas y obsoletas, la mayoría de las naves se precipitaron de regreso a la tierra hace mucho tiempo. Lo único que mantiene a los dos botes salvavidas sobrevivientes en el cielo son los Buceadores del Infierno—hombres y mujeres que arriesgan sus vidas lanzándose en paracaídas a la superficie para buscar las piezas que las naves necesitan desesperadamente.

Hace diez años, el Buzo del Infierno Xavier «X» Rodríguez cayó a la Tierra. Aquellos que dejó atrás siguieron sin él a bordo de la aeronave que alguna vez llamó hogar. Michael Everheart—el muchacho antes conocido como Tin—se ha convertido en un hombre y en el comandante del Equipo Raptor de Buzos del Infierno. Mientras Michael bucea para ayudar a mantener la Colmena en el aire, el Capitán Leon Jordan gobierna con mano de hierro al timón de la nave. Pero el descontento se agita bajo su estricto liderazgo mientras una profecía de esperanza recorre las cubiertas inferiores.

Tras salvarse de la aniquilación gracias al audaz plan del Viejo Gator, Gabriel y la tripulación de la Magellan se encuentran en el lugar más insospechado: una nave estelar enemiga capturada. Aunque aprender a controlar la nave alienígena plantea una nueva serie de desafíos, los secretos que descubren en su interior podrían ser la ventaja que necesitan tan desesperadamente. Con la rebelión de la Tierra precipitándose hacia una última batalla a la desesperada, y el resto de la armada alienígena interponiéndose entre ellos y su hogar, necesitarán toda su fuerza, valor e ingenio ...

Tras haber vivido una vida relativamente tranquila en la Tierra y el mismo día en que cumplen setenta y cinco años, 1,022 ancianos se enrolan en las Fuerzas de Defensa Coloniales, el ejército que lucha por la supervivencia de la humanidad en el universo. La vida en la Tierra transcurre sin demasiados contratiempos. Sin embargo, en el universo se está librando una guerra sin cuartel por los últimos planetas todavía deshabitados de la galaxia.

El capitán Gabriel St. Martin y la tripulación del *Magellan* han logrado escapar, pero su huida desesperada los ha dejado varados a cientos de años luz de casa. Con la rebelión a punto de desmoronarse, deben descifrar los secretos de la tecnología enemiga, burlar a una de las naves estelares más poderosas jamás construidas y encontrar la forma de regresar a la batalla. De lo contrario, no habrá una Tierra a la que volver.