Meathooked: The History and Science of Our 2.5-Million-Year Obsession with Meat, Hardcover - Marta Zaraska

One of the great science and health revelations of our time is the danger posed by meat-eating. Every day, it seems, we are warned about the harm p...

America's favorite cultural historian and author of Ghostland takes a tour of the country's most persistent "unexplained" phenomena In a world wher...

Reducere. An acclaimed surgeon specializing in weight loss delivers a paradigm-shifting examination of the diet and health industry's focus on protein, expla...

Reducere. Over the past twenty-five years, our quest for thinness has morphed into a relentless obsession with weight and body image. In our culture, "fat" h...

Find out what vaccines are, how they were invented and how they are developed todayPublisher: Hachette Children's GroupAuthor(s): Sarah RidleyNumbe...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tara HaelleVaccines are biological substances that cause the human immune system to build up its defenses against specific ...

A fun yet comprehensive celebration of the world's fermented food and drink.Illustrations: 76 illustrations

Publisher: Transworld Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Sidarta RibeiroTranslator: Daniel HahnNumber of pages: 480Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 163 x 24...

Publisher: Transworld Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Sidarta RibeiroTranslator: Daniel HahnNumber of pages: 480Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 19...

Here, for the first time, is a simple, single explanation for the major problems facing the world today. Environmental superstar Annie Leonard has ...

Reducere. DescriptionJulie Powell thought cooking her way through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking was the craziest thing she'd ever do--unt...

A smart, research-driven case for why optimism, kindness and strong social networks will help us live to 100

Reducere. Every January 1, a quirky crowd storms out across North America for a spectacularly competitive event called a Big Year--a grand, expensive, and oc...

Reducere. In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four Confederate monuments. M...

Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): Alex ZamalinNumber of pages: 184Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 191 x 223 x 22Cover type: Paperback / softbackR...

The Secret History of Here is the story of a single place, a farm in the Scottish Borders. The site on which Alistair Moffat's farm now stands has ...

Janet is sad. And she's quite happy with that. But the world has other plans... SAD JANET introduces a hilarious, provocative new voice in literary...

The unforgettable novel about a boy in a million - and the 104-year-old woman who saves his family. 'A bittersweet story about finding friendship i...

Contributor(s): Author: Earl SwiftA brilliant, soulful, and timely portrait of a two-hundred-year-old crabbing community in the middle of the Chesa...

Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Bayesian Models with R-INLA provides a much needed, practically oriented & innovative presentation of the combination o...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Peter BellwoodIllustration(s): 25 b/w illus. 6 tables. 21 maps.Number of pages: 384Publication date...

Reducere. Butterflies have always served as a metaphor for resurrection and transformation, but as Sharman Apt Russell points out in this lyrical meditation,...

Iain McGilchrist addresses some of the hardest questions humanity faces - Who are we? What is the world? How can we understand consciousness, matte...

DescriptionA provocative argument that eating meat is not what made humans human and that the future is not necessarily carnivorous.Humans are eati...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF OUR HOUSE, WINNER OF THE CRIME & THRILLER BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDCOMES A NAIL-BITING STORY OF TRAGEDY AND REVENGEPubl...

A leading neuroscientist offers a history of the evolution of the brain from unicellular organisms to the complexity of animals and human beings to...

A small set of fossilized bones discovered almost thirty years ago led paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee on a lifelong quest to understand their pla...

An account of Noah Strycker's record-breaking year when he spotted 6, 042 of the world's 10, 000 species of birds. Traveling to 41 countries, on al...

Description Monsters arrived in 2011--and now they are back. Not only do they continue to live in our midst, but, as historian Scott Poole shows, t...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

A visual introduction to our planet and society told through the history of our greatest inventions and the technology that has changed the world. ...