Smell of Burning, Paperback - Colin Grant

Part memoir, part history, this looks at epilepsy throughout history, and the pioneering work done by doctors to understand how the brain works. Gr...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

The history of the original Wailers - Tosh, Livingstone and Marley - as never before told.

Bageye already finds it a struggle to feed his family on his wage from Vauxhall Motors, but now his wife Blossom has set her heart on her sons goin...

Reducere. New in paperback, this groundbreaking biography captures the full sweep and epic dimensions of Marcus Garvey's life, the dazzling triumphs and the ...

The Japanese had promised that there would be no Dunkirk in Singapore, and its fall led to imprisonment, torture, and death for thousands of allied...

A celebration of our connection with treesPublisher: Octopus Publishing GroupAuthor(s): David George HaskellNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2...

A call to South Asian women to question everything they've been taught about self-lovePublisher: Hardie Grant Books (UK)Author(s): Sharan DhaliwalI...

This book STINKS . . . of monsters! A hilariously funny debut, perfect for fans of Pamela Butchart and David Solomons.

Matthew Cobb explores the sense of smell - its complex evolutionary history, and its many functions in a wide variety of animals, including humans....

A celebration of our connection with treesPublisher: Octopus Publishing GroupAuthor(s): David George HaskellIllustration(s): 0 illustrationsNumber ...

Pia Tafdrup is one of Denmark's leading poets. The Taste of Steel and The Smell of Snow are the first two collections in her new series of books fo...

Reducere. Growing up in Arizona equates to magical inspiration. Experience hot summers and beautiful evenings. Envision the epic thunderstorms roll on throug...

Publisher: Amazon PublishingAuthor(s): E.J. MellowNumber of pages: 512Collection: The MousaiPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 140 x 208 x 40Cover t...

A collection of short stories that evokes isolated lives and a lost world in stories that are set in the Jewish-Italian community of 1930s Ferrara.

Reducere. BUILT TO BURN tells the story of how Tony, a San Francisco blues musician, became Coyote, builder of Burning Man's legendary city in the desert, an...

What are the origins of the Syrian crisis, and why did no one do anything to stop it? Since the upsurge of the Arab Spring in 2011, the Syrian civi...

Reducere. The Culling took the life of every single man on earth. The surviving women believed that man had been erased from the face of the earth for a reas...

Shows two worlds - the lucrative realm of the perfume makers, and the equally rivalrous domain of smell science. At the core of our sense of smell ...

An old man saws through his right ankle. A smooth-skinned boy lies to his father's face. Fetid tombs, harsh slavery, fatal choking . . . these imag...

Reducere. I grew up Grant because Ulysses was too dangerous a name to call a kid in the 1950s, when conformity ruled, and Ulysses S. Grant's reputation was i...

Reducere. Ruth wants to be remembered by her grieving mother. Dora wishes she was invisible to her abusive father. Alyce is staying at home to please her par...

Inspiring hope, solace, and courage in living through our losses, author Martin Prechtel, trained in the Tzutujil Maya shamanic tradition, shares p...

Offers a historiography of smell from ancient to modern times. Synthesizing existing scholarship in the field, this book shows how people have reli...

A scented and shaped board book with seven exclusive scents by one of the world's most sought-after fragrance designers Did you know that almost ev...

A fight for justice. A search for redemption. On a dark night in Lusaka, Zambia, an adolescent girl is brutally assaulted. In shock, she cannot spe...

Imaginative, humorous plays presented by celebrated children's author Julia Donaldson and part of Bug Club - the reading scheme loved by kids acros...

Reducere. What did nineteenth-century cities smell like? And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detectives ...

Publisher: Legend Press LtdAuthor(s): Bill S. HanssonNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 233 x 27Cover type: Paperback / so...

Arguing that it is vital for Labour to regroup if it is to offer a serious alternative government, Lord Ashcroft draws on extensive research among ...

In the distant future, Verloc Nim wakes suffering from complete amnesia. He remembers nothing of his former life. But when Verloc is handed his dia...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Molly Birnbaum"A rich, engrossing, and deeply intelligent story....This is a book I won't soon forget."--Molly Wizenberg, b...

Reducere. Many evangelicals paint fundamentalism with the same broad, negative brush. But we owe more to our pietist-revivalist roots than we realize.Richard...

A brilliantly conceived Viking epic set in eighth-century Sweden and medieval Constantinople. An ambitious, masterful series.