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  2. The World (book) - Wikipedia

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    The World, also called Treatise on the Light ( French title: Traité du monde et de la lumière ), is a book by René Descartes (1596–1650). Written between 1629 and 1633, it contains a nearly complete version of his philosophy, from method, to metaphysics, to physics and biology . Descartes espoused mechanical philosophy, a form of natural ...

  3. Factfulness - Wikipedia

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    Website. Gapminder: Factfulness (the book) Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think is a 2018 book by Swedish physician, professor of international health at Karolinska Institute [ 1] and statistician Hans Rosling with his son Ola Rosling and daughter-in-law Anna Rosling Rönnlund. The ...

  4. World Book Encyclopedia - Wikipedia

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    The World Book Encyclopedia is an American encyclopedia. [ 1] World Book was first published in 1917. Since 1925, a new edition of the encyclopedia has been published annually. [ 1] Although published online in digital form for a number of years, World Book is currently the only American encyclopedia which also still provides a print edition. [ 2]

  5. Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Wikipedia

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    In the puzzle the question is unknown, but the answer is already known to be 42. This is similar to the book where the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything" is known but not the question. The puzzle first appeared in The Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It was later incorporated into the covers of ...

  6. When Bad Things Happen to Good People - Wikipedia

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    When Bad Things Happen to Good People (ISBN 1-4000-3472-8) is a 1981 book by Harold Kushner, a Conservative rabbi.Kushner addresses in the book one of the principal problems of theodicy, the conundrum of why, if the universe was created and is governed by a God who is of a good and loving nature, there is nonetheless so much suffering and pain in it—essentially, the evidential problem of evil.

  7. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop ...

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    Quiet was voted No. 1 nonfiction book of 2012 in the "Goodreads Choice Awards". [76] John Dupuis collated information from 69 "Best of 2012" book lists, and wrote for the National Geographic Society's ScienceBlogs that Quiet was the most listed science related book. [77] "Best of 2012 List" inclusions, not limited to science book lists:

  8. List of World Book Day books - Wikipedia

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    Welcome to the World of Norm by Jonathan Meres (Hachette) Star Wars: Adventures in Wild Space: The Escape by Cavan Scott (Egmont) Harper and the Sea of Secrets by Cerrie Burnell (Scholastic) The Boy Who Could Do What He Liked by David Baddiel (HarperCollins) Stick Man by Julia Donaldson.

  9. The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History

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    9780806513508. OCLC. 644066940. The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History is a 1978 book by the American white nationalist author Michael H. Hart. Published by his father's publishing house, it was his first book and was reprinted in 1992 with revisions. It is a ranking of the 100 people who, according to Hart, most ...