Origins of Life, Paperback

The question of why an individual would actively kill itself has long been an evolutionary mystery. Pierre M. Durand's ambitious book answers this ...

In The Secret Life of Bones, Brian Switek frames the history of our species through the importance of bone from instruments and jewellery, to objec...

Drawing on a range of evidence using large-scale data from various countries, the authors consider the key factors that affect human well-being, in...

Reducere. This story is about African-American civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois and it teaches children about the need for education. Young W.E.B. Du Boi...

Charles Darwin's theories, first published more than 150 years ago, still set the paradigm of how we understand the evolution of life--but scientif...

Reducere. DescriptionYoung Marcus Garvey was a person with a big dream. He dreamed of gathering people all across the globe so they could come together and w...

Reducere. DescriptionA children's book snippet about the life, accomplishments, and achievements of the great Booker T. Washington - an inspirational African...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Karl S. MatlinIllustration(s): 38 halftones, 2 line drawingsNumber of pages: 368Collection: Co...

Reducere. Have you ever wondered what your passion was? What you were put on this Earth to do? Dr. Yvette Fay Francis-McBarnette, a trail blazing woman of me...

How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in India Dur...

Social capital theorists have shown that some people do better than others in part because they enjoy larger, more supportive, or otherwise more us...

Reducere. Step into the world of Ida B. Wells as she uses her life experiences and obstacles as motivation to achieve many firsts in editing and journalism i...

Reducere. The Earth teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies and cities. Yet there's a black hole at the heart of biology. We do not know why complex l...

A Matter of Life and Death investigates famous explorers and sailors who became stranded or lost and had to fight for their survival in extreme con...

Reducere. "The year's most intriguing book about God was produced not by theologians but by 60 world-class scientists, 24 Nobel Prize-winners among them. Cos...