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At the First International Spring Colloquium "Humanity under threat: Who is in charge of the future?", 38 specialists such as Noam Chomsky, Rigoberta Menchú and Tawakkol Karman, from 11 countries, met to analyze and project the future of humanity. The discussions addressed crucial issues in what ended up being a deep inquiry into humanity's responsibility in building and caring for the future. The book Threatened humanity brings together these...

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There are two kinds of people in the world: those who love puzzles and those who can't stand them. Intricate problems can challenge but also disturb intelligence. Fixx introduces you to this fascinating and controversial minefield by explaining first what is intelligence in the strict sense. You will be delighted with a group of puzzles of various kinds -mathematical, verbal, logical- that will test your mind and your patience. But Fixx will a...

How much mathematical knowledge can be stored inside a cube? Can we get an artistic work from any cube? Many researchers throughout history have been eagerly trying to find out. That mystery hides another mystery directly related to mathematics and the art of construction. We refer to the so-called golden number, section or golden ratio. Thanks to Doctor Matrix you will learn that from any two cubes it is possible to create a scale model of th...

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For centuries, while men led governments and wrote political philosophy, women had little influence in democratic practice or thought. Starting in the 1980s, feminist ideas began to take center stage in the emerging debate about the nature of democratic politics. Models drawn from women's experiences and feminist thinking now constitute one of the most persistent and controversial themes in democratic theory. This volume brings together a sele...

After the flood ended and the water level dropped, all the animals had to be dispersed throughout the world. Noah stopped at the top of Mount Ararat and caused half of all the beasts plus one to disembark. He then headed for Everest, where he left half of his remaining animals plus one. He then arrived at Popocatépetl, at the summit of which he left half of the animals that remained on board plus one. He did the same on Kilimanjaro and left th...

Few things have stimulated the imagination as much as infinity! It has all sorts of curious properties that at first seem paradoxical, but later turn out not to be. As such, it provides material for a book of brain teasers and paradoxes. The Witcher and his two young apprentices Annabelle and Alexander offer you a guided excursion through infinity here. They will visit, for example, an island where talking robots create other intelligent robot...

I like amateur sports because it socializes, moralizes, produces human relationships, and brings forth an epic." With his characteristic benevolence, Boris Cyrulnik talks to us about the human condition through the lens of sports. As a major social phenomenon of the 20th century, he considers sports to be a magnificent field of reconstruction in which resilience, a concept popularized by the French neuropsychiatrist, finds an exemplary applica...

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