Less Than Human

Reducere. Friday is a secret courier and ardent lover. Employed by a man she only knows of as "Boss", she is given the most awkward and dangerous cases, whic...

The Rwandan genocide, the Holocaust, the lynching of African Americans, the colonial slave trade: these are horrific episodes of mass violence spaw...

A fascinating look at the role of animals in human love through the agesPublisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Dominic PettmanNumber of...

Reducere. Otto Shenk is the youngest son of a minor baron and a wizard.Abused by his family and considered less than human by his kingdom, Otto does his best...

Reducere. The theme of The Book of Job is nothing less than human suffering and the transcendence of it: it pulses with moral energy, outrage, and spiritual ...

The Diary of a Nobody is so unassuming a work that even its author, George Grossmith, seemed unaware that he had produced a masterpiece. For more t...

Reducere. Lou Savary and Patricia Byrne have provided a valuable contribution in this book by clearly explaining Teilhard's doctrine of love on every level o...

Reducere. The fastest growing realization everywhere is that humanity can t go on the way it is going. Indeed, the great fear is we re entering endgame where...

How to develop robots that will be more like humans and less like computers, more social than machine-like, and more playful and less programmed.

Reducere. An Irish princess is kidnapped and sold into slavery in this powerful retelling of an Icelandic legend from award-winning author Donna Jo Napoli, a...

Jane Hirshfield is a visionary American writer whose poems ask nothing less than what it is to be human.

Reducere. From the author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People comes an inspiring new bestseller that puts human feelings of guilt and inadequacy in pers...

December 2553. Less than a year after the end of the Covenant War, a string of violent incidents continues to threaten the tenuous peace in human-h...

Set in the same world as Faith Hunter's New York Times bestselling Jane Yellowrock novels, the third, thrilling Soulwood novel stars Nell Ingram, w...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Barton M. NunnellyIntroduction by: Nick RedfernForeword by: Linda S. GodfreyInhumanoids are creatures or entities that have...

Decolonising the Camera trains Mark Sealy's sharp critical eye on the racial politics at work within photography, in the context of heated discussi...

Reducere. From The Louisiana Purchase Like many other major events in world history, the Louisiana Purchase is a fascinating mix of destiny and individual en...

Reducere. This collection of essays constitute an extended argument for an anthropocentric, human-focused, study of religious practices. The basic premise of...

This book is to free the humanities from their anthropocentric frame and explore how they might instead deepen our understanding of animals' lives ...

Reducere. Dehumanization has led to serious misinterpretation of the Gospels. On the one hand, Christians have often made Jesus so much more than human that ...

Reducere. Zoey is finally home where she belongs, safe with her Guardian Warrior, Stark, by her side, and preparing to face off against Neferet - which would...

Reducere. Zoey is finally home where she belongs, safe with her Guardian Warrior, Stark, by her side, and preparing to face off against Neferet - which would...

Mercenary Vick Corren is steadfast in her love for empath Kelly LaSalle. When it comes to her love of herself, not so much. After an acidic-lake du...

DescriptionThe past continues to operate powerfully, wordlessly, in that less conscious part of our human mind and can trip us up unexpectedly. We ...

It has been 6 months since the alien Invasion of 2018. In that time, the Earth Defense Sector- Tach, Fitz, Suika, John, Andrews, and T- has gone fr...

Reducere. Informing these insights is a new understanding of how Darwinian processes underlie the brain's development and function as well as its evolution. ...

Reducere. How much is a human life worth? Individuals, families, companies, and governments routinely place a price on human life. The calculations that unde...

Reducere. Beneath the unassuming surface of a progressive women's college lurks a world of intellectual pride and pomposity awaiting devastation by the pens ...

Reducere. Description'The opposite of war isn't always peace...' Battlestar Galactica was one of the most impressive American telefantasy series of the 1970s...

Brig Ellis is a private investigator hired to protect an artist who paints using cremated human remains. Many people less than thrilled by his art ...

Reducere. A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: "Nothing Mr. Gilder says or writes is ever delivered at anything less than the fu...

Reducere. DescriptionDo you worry about cyber criminals hacking your computers and other digital devices? You should. Connect a new computer to the Internet ...

Reducere. DescriptionDo you worry about cyber criminals hacking your computers and other digital devices? You should. Connect a new computer to the Internet ...

Reducere. Astonish your friends and family with this incredible collection of mind-boggling facts about the scariest animals ever to walk the Earth. Did you ...

Gaurav Monga's Costumes of the Living functions less as naked commentary on contemporary fashion than as a sartorial taxonomy of the human system a...

Contributor(s): Author: Dr William a. DouglasAn Easier and Better Way to Learn Anatomy.The human body is wondrously complex, with 700 muscles, 206 ...

Reducere. An Easier and Better Way to Learn Anatomy.The human body is wondrously complex, with 700 muscles, 206 bones, and countless cells and tissues ... bu...

Reducere. An Easier and Better Way to Learn Anatomy.The human body is wondrously complex, with 700 muscles, 206 bones, and countless cells and tissues ... bu...

Reducere. Volume I of The Dragonriders of Pern(R), the groundbreaking series by master storyteller Anne McCaffrey On a beautiful world called Pern, an ancien...

This enthralling book alerts us to nothing less than the existence of new varieties of life. Some of these species can move and eat, see, reproduce...

Reducere. Discover the world of the Shadowhunters in the first installment of the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series and ``prepare to be h...

Reducere. A maddening, twice-annual horse race held in Siena's public square, the Palio is less a sport than it is a game--one that involves a combination of...

Reducere. The title, Blessings for the Animal Nations, refers to the fact that animals are a nation only different because of the number of legs and or appea...

Reducere. I have worked as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst for nearly fifty years, and I have consulted on and treated hundreds of patients.I have never met...

In this text, that is a celebration of joy as hope, H.A. Williams explores the world of selfhood, of other people, of nature and of the arts. Willi...

Finance is the evil we cannot live without. It governs almost every aspect of our lives and has the power to liberate as well as enslave. With the ...

Should digital technology be viewed as a new life form, sharing our ecosystem and coevolving with us?Are humans defining technology, or is technolo...

Reducere. Ethics is perhaps the most ambitious attempt to apply the method of Euclid in philosophy. Spinoza puts forward a small number of definitions and ax...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: David BenatarAre our lives meaningful, or meaningless? Is our inevitable death a bad thing? Would immortality be an improve...

Reducere. DescriptionThe past year has seen a resurgence of interest in the political thinker Hannah Arendt, "the theorist of beginnings, " whose work probes...

A concise history of spaceflight, from military rocketry through Sputnik, Apollo, robots in space, space culture, and human spaceflight today.Space...

Reducere. What is good? How can we know, and how important is it? In this book Richard Kraut, one of our most respected analytical philosophers, reorients th...

Reducere. DescriptionA maddening, twice-annual horse race held in Siena's public square, the Palio is less a sport than it is a game--one that involves a com...

DescriptionSeeing Science offers an insightful and reader-friendly collection of essays and pictures about photography's role in visualizing scienc...

Reducere. Very few twenty-century scientists made as a lasting influence on modern society as Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud. Physicists routinely use the...

Reducere. Polo Life: Horses, Sport, 10 and Zen delves into the world of high goal polo through the uniquely situated lenses of former 10-goaler Adam Snow and...

``There are no vampires in Japan. That is the position of the Emperor. The Emperor is wrong...`` In 1899 Genevieve Dieudonne travels to Japan with ...

Reducere. The Best of America-Captured in Print for the First TimeSomething powerful happened in New York. We had a rare opportunity to experience the healin...

Philosopher, novelist, dramatist and existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre is one of the greatest writers of all time. He was fascinated by the role play...

DescriptionAn Easier and Better Way to Learn Anatomy.The human body is wondrously complex, with 700 muscles, 206 bones, and countless cells and tis...

Combine fitness, Pilates, yoga, and barre, and what do you get? An incredible workout that will engage you, challenge you, and change the way you e...

Reducere. This important survey of alchemical symbols and doctrines sets forth the mysterious worldview and teachings of the practitioners of the "royal art....

Reducere. Revised and updated throughout, Human Geography: A Short Introduction, Second Edition, is an ideal choice for professors who prefer the flexibility...

Reducere. Technically speaking, slavery was not legal in the English-speaking world before the mid-seventeenth century. But long before race-based slavery wa...

DescriptionFrom the popular Seraph of the End series comes the latest prequel of the light novels Three years after the events of Seraph of the End...

DescriptionFrom the popular Seraph of the End series comes the latest prequel of the light novels Three years after the events of Seraph of the End...

DescriptionWhen the Winter arrives, the Wolves will come down over the walls and eat little boys in their beds. Doctor Nicholas Blake might still b...

Reducere. "The most critical period in Earth's history." -- Gary Seven, Supervisor 194 Even centuries later, the final decades of the twentieth century are s...

Reducere. Polo Life: Horses, Sport, 10 and Zen delves into the world of high goal polo through the uniquely situated lenses of former 10-goaler Adam Snow and...

Reducere. From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Rebecca Zanetti comes a new story in her Dark Protectors/Rebels series...Tabi Rusko has a simp...