From the author of The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins' The Blind Watchmaker has been acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution in the last hundred years. In 1802 the Rev. William Paley's argued in Natural Theology that just as finding a watch would lead you to conclude that a watchmaker must exist, the complexity of living organisms proves that a Creator exists. Not so, says Richard Dawkins, and in this brilliant and controversial book, the acclaimed evolutionary biologist sets out to demonstrate that the theory of evolution by natural selection - the unconscious, automatic, blind yet essentially non-random process discovered by Charles Darwin - is the only answer to the biggest question of all: why do we exist? 'I want to persuade the reader, not just that the Darwinian world-view happens to be true, but that it is the only known theory that could, in principle, solve the mystery of our existence' To Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker is nature itself, gradually forming order from the very building-blocks of life: DNA. 'This might just be the most important evolution book since Darwin'
John Gribbin 'Richard Dawkins has updated evolution ... his subject is nothing less than the meaning of life'
The Times 'Enchantingly witty and persusive ... pleasurably intelligible to the scientifically illiterate'
Observer Richard Dawkins is a Fellow of both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature, and Vice President of the British Humanist Association. He was first catapulted to fame with The Selfish Gene, which he followed with a string of bestselling books: The Extended Phenotype, The Blind Watchmaker, River Out of Eden, Unweaving the Rainbow, and an impassioned defence of atheism, The God Delusion.

Persoonlijk verslag van de depressie van de schrijfster en haar ervaringen met het antidepressivum Prozac.

Rijk geïllustreerde inleiding op de populaire engelenleer, inclusief rituelen ter aanroeping.

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It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want to Be is a handbook of how to succeed in the world: a pocket bible for the talented and timid alike to help make the unthinkable thinkable and the impossible possible.

The world’s top advertising guru, Paul Arden, offers up his wisdom on issues as diverse as problem solving, responding to a brief, communicating, playing your cards right, making mistakes, and creativity – all endeavors that can be applied to aspects of modern life.

This uplifting and humorous little book provides a unique insight into the world of advertising and is a quirky compilation of quotes, facts, pictures, wit and wisdom – all packed into easy‐to‐digest, bite‐sized spreads. If you want to succeed in life or business, this book is a must.

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This pocket-sized reader will be cherished by students of Tibetan Buddhism as well as the many readers of such popular books as The Art of Happiness, When Things Fall Apart, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, and Awakening the Buddha Within. This unique collection features short inspirational selections and pithy quotations from the great masters of Tibetan Buddhism, past and present, including Milarepa, the Dalai Lama, Sogyal Rinpoche, Patrul Rinpoche, Chögyam Trungpa, and others. Topics include cultivating compassion, letting go of ego, and developing a clear perception of our own true nature.

Tips en oefeningen om beter en bewuster om te gaan met tijd.

Methode om in het verleden opgedane pijnlijke ervaringen te verwerken en te integreren.

Jo Frost veroverde de wereld met haar unieke opvoedingsstrategie Met veel warmte en liefde en een strenge, maar redelijke aanpak slaagde ze erin duiveltjes om te toveren tot engeltjes en wanhopige ouders op te leiden tot prima opvoeders.
Het vorige boek van deze supernanny maakte zoveel los in gezinnen wereldwijd, dat de vragen en oplossingen die uit deze discussies voortkwamen, stof vormden voor een nieuw boek: De meest gestelde vragen aan Supernanny. Een boek met diepgaande adviezen, gebaseerd op de vragen waar iedere ouder mee worstelt. Alleenstaande ouders, gescheiden gezinnen en rouwverwerking zijn onderwerpen die niet geschuwd worden. Stressvolle situaties op school kunnen ook leiden tot spanningen thuis. Jo Frost laat zien hoe het familieleven een stevige en warme basis moet bieden voor kinderen.
De meest gestelde vragen aan Supernanny is een praktische uitwerking van de adviezen die Jo Frost in haar eerdere boek gaf en toegespitst op bijzondere thuissituaties. Een behoorlijke dosis humor en relative ringsvermogen maakt dit een onmisbaar boek voor ieder gezin!

Met een ten geleide van rabbijn dr. Tzvi Marx, predikant drs. J.R. Nienhuis en Imam Hamz Zeid Kailani Drie vrouwen uit de christelijke, islamitische en joodse religie wisselden informatie uit over de teksten en tradities van hun geloof. Zij spraken over hun geloofsbeleving en over de verschillen en overeenkomsten die zij in hun bronnen tegenkwamen. Dit leverde interessante inzichten en visies op, die ook van belang kunnen zijn voor de hele multiculturele samenleving in Nederland. In Woord zoekt Woord hebben zij teksten uit de Bijbel, de Koran en de Tanach over dezelfde onderwerpen en personen integraal opgenomen en het geloofsleven in elke religie beschreven. In dialoog en trialoog wagen zij zich ten slotte ook aan actuele en netelige vragen. Een uniek boek dat een belangrijke bijdrage levert aan een beter onderling begrip tussen mensen uit deze drie geloofstradities – jodendom, christendom en islam.

Speciaal uitgegeven voor het Johannes Hospitium te Vleuten.

Kritische analyse van het beleidsmodel dat uit het optreden van paus Johannes Paulus II spreekt.

De voedselzandloper is een vervanging van de bestaande driehoeken, cirkels en schijven die nu gangbaar zijn als richtlijn voor een gezonde voeding. De auteur is arts, onderzoeker en publicist. In zijn boek beschrijft hij de wetenschappelijke achtergronden ervan en verduidelijkt de verschillende onderdelen. Hij specialiseert zich in de biogerontologie, de wetenschap van de veroudering. Zijn voedingsrichtlijnen, waarvan de zandloper de samenvatting is, beogen een betere gezondheid en minder snelle veroudering met gewichtsverlies als welkome bijkomstigheid.

Anger. Fear. Guilt. Denial. Silence. These are the ways in which ordinary white people react when it is pointed out to them that they have done or said something that has - unintentionally - caused racial offence or hurt. After, all, a racist is the worst thing a person can be, right? But these reactions only serve to silence people of colour, who cannot give honest feedback to 'liberal' white people lest they provoke a dangerous emotional reaction.

Robin DiAngelo coined the term White Fragility in 2011 to describe this process and is here to show us how it serves to uphold the system of white supremacy. Using knowledge and insight gained over decades of running racial awareness workshops, she shows us how we can start having more honest conversations, listen to each other better and react to feedback with grace and humility. It is not enough to simply hold abstract progressive views and condemn the obvious racists on social media - change starts with us all at a practical, granular level, and it is time for all white people to take responsibility for relinquishing their own racial supremacy.

Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Do numbers truly exist? What sort of reality do formulas describe?

The complexity of mathematics - its abstract rules and obscure symbols - can seem very distant from the everyday. There are those things that are real and present, it is supposed, and then there are mathematical concepts: creations of our mind, mysterious tools for those unengaged with the world. Yet, from its most remote history and deepest purpose, mathematics has served not just as a way to understand and order, but also as a foundation for the reality it describes.

In this elegant book, mathematician and philosopher Paolo Zellini offers a brief cultural and intellectual history of mathematics, ranging widely from the paradoxes of ancient Greece to the sacred altars of India, from Mesopotamian calculus to our own contemporary obsession with algorithms.

Masterful and illuminating, The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men transforms our understanding of mathematical thinking, showing that it is inextricably linked with the philosophical and the religious as well as the mundane - and, indeed, with our own very human experience of the universe.

A new edition of conversations between the artist Ai Wei Wei and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, coming up to the present day

Ai Weiwei - artist, architect, curator, publisher, poet and urbanist - extended the notion of art and is one of the world's most significant creative and cultural figures. In this series of interviews, conducted over several years with the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, he discusses the many dimensions of his artistic life, ranging over subjects including ceramics, blogging, nature, philosophy and the myriad influences that have fed into his work. He also talks candidly about his father, his childhood spent in exile and his criticism of the Chinese state. Together, these extraordinary discussions are an essential reminder of the need for personal, political and artistic freedom.

Why do we try to use military force to solve our political problems? And why, when our forces win the military battles does this still fail to solve those problems? It is because the force lacks utility. From Iraq to the Balkans, and from Afghanistan to Chechneya, over the past fifteen years there has been a steady stream of military interventions that have not delivered on their promise for peace, or even political resolution. The Utility of Forceexplains this anomaly at the heart of our current international system.

Compiled more than two thousand years ago by a mysterious warrior-philosopher, The Art of War is still perhaps the most prestigious and influential book of strategy in the world today, as eagerly studied in Asia by modern politicians and executives as it as been by military leaders since ancient times. As a study of the anatomy of organizations in conflict, The Art of War applies to competition and conflict in general, on every level from the interpersonal to the international. Its aim is invincibility, victory without battle, and unassailable strength through understanding of the physics, politics, and psychology of conflict.

This translation presents the classic from the point of view of its background in the great spiritual tradition of Taoism, the origin of psychology, science, and technology in East Asia and the source of the insights into human nature that underlie this most revered of handbooks for success. Translated from a standard collection of commentaries on Sun Tzu's text by eleven interpreters, the work has been edited by Thomas Cleary to bring out the meaning of the principles of strategy. In addition, the translator provides an extensive introduction discussing the content and background of the book.

The completely revised and updated new edition delivers comprehensive, clearly written coverage of the development of the human embryo from conception to birth. Using a classical morphological approach to embryology, it offers mechanistic explanations for both normal and abnormal human development, enabling readers to understand development in terms of cellular and molecular controls. And, a wealth of reader-friendly features make this resource exceptionally user friendly.

Thematisch bepaalde keuze van fragmenten uit het werk van de Griekse wijsgeer (428-348 v. Chr.).

Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969), novelist, essayist, and playwright, was one of the most important Polish writers of the twentieth century. A candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, he was described by Milan Kundera as “one of the great novelists of our century” and by John Updike as “one of the profoundest of the late moderns.”
Gombrowicz’s works were considered scandalous and subversive by the ruling powers in Poland and were banned for nearly forty years. He spent his last years in France teaching philosophy; this book is a series of reflections based on his lectures.
Gombrowicz discusses Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Sartre, and Heidegger in six “one-hour” essays and addresses Marxism in a shorter “fifteen-minute” piece. The text—a small literary gem full of sardonic wit, brilliant insights, and provocative criticism—constructs the philosophical lineage of his work.