Secret Life of Bones. Their Origins, Evolution and Fate, Paperback - Brian Switek

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...

This book chronicles the Amsterdam's 17th-century Canal District District's origins and historical evolution over 400 years and debates its future ...

Explores the connection between humans and animals, and asks what our responsibility is towards our fellow creatures. Inspired by the insights of R...

Publisher: World Bank PublicationsAuthor(s): Alexandra GrossIllustration(s): figs.tabs.Number of pages: 122Publication date: 2003Dimensions: 272 x ...

Reducere. Changes in climate and sea level are nothing new - over the last 700 million years, the Earth has been slowly but constantly changing from within. ...

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Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Daniel MendelsohnNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 293 x 13Cover type: Pape...

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...

This is the only book in eighty years to deal with traditional secret societies from a comparative perspective. It is also the only study undertake...

The rogue archaeologist returns - with a new crew and a new mission With the Rebel Alliance on the run after their defeat at the Battle of Hoth, it...

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...

Reducere. A fascinating, accessible introduction to Islam from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Zealot and host of the CNN s Believer FINALIST FOR...

Discover the mysteries of science with Future Geniuses Darwin the chicken feels like the smallest animal in the farm, but he wants to be big and st...

Wael Hallaq treats the rise of Islamic law from 622 to 950 AD when the law and legal system reached maturity. This is the first book that offers su...

Reducere. Ever held a marble and wondered about its history? There is always something surprising (sometimes dark and unbelievable) to be revealed for each o...

Reducere. Marjorie Williams knew Washington from top to bottom. Beloved for her sharp analysis, elegant prose and exceptional ability to intuit character, Wi...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Jonathan (Balliol College, University of Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK) BardIllustration(s): 94 Line drawings, ...

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This remarkable work of scholarship sought to deal with the very roots of European civilisation and thought: the fundamental beliefs about life, mi...

Stone Tools and Fossil Bones: Debates in the Archaeology of Human Origins - Dr Manuel Dominguez-Rodrigo

Publisher: Web of Life Children's BooksAuthor(s): Alexandra SiyNumber of pages: 32Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 219 x 261 x 10Cover type: Hardb...

In almost every human society some people get more and others get less. Why is inequity the rule in human societies? Philosopher Cailin O'Connor re...

Less than 450 years ago, all European scholars believed that the Earth was at the center of a Universe that was at most a few million miles in exte...

DescriptionThis book presents a challenge to the discipline of international relations (IR) to rethink itself, in the light of both its own modern ...

Reducere. Conventional wisdom traces Tarot cards to medieval Italy, but their roots go back much further in time and draw on a surprisingly rich variety of c...

Our true origins are not just human, or even terrestrial, but in fact cosmic. Drawing on recent scientific breakthroughs and the current cross-poll...

Reducere. Winner of the World Fantasy Award, here is Brian McNaughton's masterpiece-The Throne of Bones."You hold in your hands a book of stories that forced...

Analysing the work of Schutz, Gurwitsch, Merleau-Ponty and Bourdieu, this book considers the historical development of competing philosophies of so...

After the death of his wife in a mass shooting, secret agent Jason Bourne is convinced that there is more to her murder than it seems, and that the...

Reducere. Bartering with the Bones of their Dead tells the unique story of a tribe whose members waged a painful and sometimes bitter twenty-year struggle am...

Reducere. This book chronologically documents the rise and fall of the major religions of the world and explores the role that various cultural factors such ...

Mensuration and Proportion Signs represents the first attempt to see the origin of musical mensuration and proportion signs in the context of other...

Description*Includes pictures of important places and historic illustrations and art depicting Odin and other important Norse figures. *Explains th...

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After the death of his wife in a mass shooting, secret agent Jason Bourne is convinced that there is more to her murder than it seems, and that the...

Reducere. Volume 1] "Hearth wastes no time getting straight to the heart of the matter: a compelling introductory work to his new novel "ORMUS The Secret Alc...

A new theory about the origins of consciousness that finds learning to be the driving force in the evolutionary transition to basic consciousness.W...

Dazzlingly written, The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde meticulously and brilliantly reconstructs Oscar Wilde's emotional and sexual life, painting an a...

Reducere. Explore the inner world of plants and its fascinating relation to mankind, as uncovered by the latest discoveries of science. A perennial bestselle...

Reducere. This follow-up to The Secret Life of Plants provides an astonishing account of how spiritualists and scientists alike are revealing that the physic...

Reducere. Nearly a century after it was first published in 1925, Medieval Cities remains one of the most provocative works of medieval history ever written. ...

Reducere. Fat is an obsession, a dirty word, a subject of national handwringing--and, according to biochemist Sylvia Tara, the least-understood part of our b...

Reducere. Have you ever wondered why there is such a huge discrepancy between what scientists say about the age of our planet and what the Bible says? Accord...

Floods, Famines and Emperors. El Nino and the Fate of Civilisations - Brian Fagan

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Gerald E. (Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) SchneiderIllustration(s): 243 color illus., 127 b&w...

After the death of his wife in a mass shooting, secret agent Jason Bourne is convinced that there is more to her murder than it seems, and that the...

The much-overlooked variation and richness of character among cows is given affectionate attention in this 2017 Times Book of the Year, with a fore...

The perfect gift this Christmas for anyone with a love of the natural world - from gardeners to viewers of nature programmes. A gleeful and affecti...

Uncover the lives of 20 real-life spies who dedicated their lives to the world of espionage and made it their mission to uncover the truth and coll...