Merpeople. A Human History, Hardback - Vaughn Scribner

A wide-ranging, beautifully illustrated history of mermaids and merman.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn God, Reza Aslan sheds new light on mankind's relationship with the divine and challenges our perspective on faith a...

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Reducere. After the curse of the angels' sins, seven lives were destroyed and rebuilt; Those who were born monsters and those who became, all faced with two ...

Reducere. In this remarkable book, Barbara Freese takes us on a rich historical journey that begins hundreds of millions of years ago and spans the globe. Pr...

Reducere. From the bestselling author of Zealot and host of the new CNN series Believer comes a fascinating account of humanity's struggle to make sense of t...

Reducere. Masterly. Adam Hochschild, The New York Times Book Review In this widely praised history of an infamous institution, award-winning scholar Marcus R...

The human stories behind disease, plagues and epidemics and their deadly impact through history.

Reducere. For centuries, the unique and astonishing geography of the Himalaya has attracted those in search of spiritual and literal elevation: pilgrims, adv...

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Reducere. DescriptionExamines the critical role of urban taverns in the social and political life of colonial and revolutionary America From exclusive "city ...

Reducere. Noise explores the human dramas that have revolved around sound at various points in the last 100, 000 years, allowing us to think in fresh ways ab...

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Reducere. " A] winningly obsessive history of our relationship with underground places" (The Guardian), from sacred caves and derelict subway stations to nuc...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the beginning of history to the present, a sweep of the world's oceans and seas and how they have shaped the course of civilization...

Reducere. Connecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea has been for millennia the place where religions, economies, and political systems met, ...

The extraordinary story of how the human brain evolved... and is still evolving.Publisher: John Murray PressAuthor(s): Joseph JebelliNumber of page...

Reducere. On August 6, 2011, 30 American soldiers aboard Extortion 17 perished in the single greatest loss of Navy SEAL lives. Among them - Aaron Carson Vaug...

Reducere. The Arctic of towering icebergs and midnight sun, of flaming auroras and endless winter nights, has long provoked flights of the imagination. Now, ...

It is hard to imagine that much of the suburban townscape from Croydon to the Thames at Deptford was a vast wood, stretching for almost seven miles...

Roland Ennos' The Wood Age is a love-letter to the world's most vital and yet most threatened material. It is the story of how wood has shaped our ...

Insects are seldom mentioned when we discuss human history, yet they significantly shaped today's societies. In this book, entomologists Robert N. ...

How have our emotions shaped the course of human history? And how have our experience and understanding of emotions evolved with us?Publisher: Harp...

Reducere. A sweeping exploration of the ways in which emotions shaped the course of human history, and how our experience and understanding of emotions have ...

"The University of Central Arkansas (UCA) began its life as the Arkansas State Normal School in 1907. Originally intended to bolster Arkansas's tea...

Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Michael HorshamIllustration(s): 21 Illustrations, black and white; 98 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages:...

Renowned child psychologist and New York Times bestselling author of Lost at School and The Explosive Child explains how to cultivate a better pare...

An authoritative review of issues in waste management both in the United States and globally that measures the scope of the problem and examines th...

A thrilling, beautifully illustrated account of human space exploration, from the space race of the 1950s and '60s to the present day.Illustrations...

A journey through the history of science and man's relationship with the night sky and the cosmos beyond, from the author of Royal Society Prize-sh...

Reducere. A Harvard psychiatrist, the author of A Prince of Our Disorder, presents accounts of alien abduction taken from the more than sixty cases he has in...

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Reducere. DescriptionThis charming, irresistible debut novel set in London during World War II about a young woman who longs to be a war correspondent and in...

Reducere. Description"A lively popular history of an oft-overlooked element in the development of human society" (Library Journal)--walls--and a haunting and...

Reducere. Those Who Forget, published to international awards and acclaim, is journalist G raldine Schwarz's riveting account of her German and French grandp...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncNumber of pages: 472Collection: Oxford Philosophical ConceptsPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 x 212 x 33...

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