The Evolutionary Origins of Life and Death, Paperback - Pierre M. Durand

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 Devonshire countryside, a masked stranger is preying on young women. At first he doesn't kill and his motive for terrifying the women seems ...

Maths underpins nearly everything we do, but few of us know that it is often a matter of life and death.Illustrations: 35 illustrations

Any book of stories from Bernard MacLaverty is a cause for celebration, but Matters of Life and Death is more than that, as it is - without questio...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this book the author of On Having No Head investigates the most poignant problem our life poses - what lies at the end of it. He asks...

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Climate Psychology illuminates and engages the life and death challenges that face terrestrial life. It offers ways to work with the emotionally un...

Why do 70 percent of Americans believe in angels, while others are convinced that they were abducted by aliens? What makes people believe in improb...

Reducere. DescriptionRenowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has written a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautiful...

"A dazzlingly erudite synthesis of history, philosophy, anthropology, genetics, sociology, economics, epidemiology, statistics, and more" (Frank Br...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Pierre BertonIn 1897 a grimy steamer docked in Seattle and set into epic motion the incredible succession of events that Pi...

Reducere. The cited study uses two fantasy baseball teams to explain human potential for postmortem evolution and genetic immortality, while examining the mi...

Under the auspices of neoliberalism, technical systems of compliance and efficiency have come to underwrite the relations among the state, the econ...

Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing CoAuthor(s): Doctor Stephen HusseyNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 155 x 229 x 31Cover typ...

Reducere. Seek for the Ancient Paths"So, why is it so important to minister the Jewish roots to the Church?" I asked the Lord. "It's a matter of life and dea...

DescriptionSomewhere in Africa, more than a million years ago, a line of apes began to rear their young differently than their Great Ape ancestors....

The world's most popular medium answers your spiritual questions.

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Howard ThurmanDr. Howard Thurman explores how protest and resistance are expressed in spirituals as well as how these songs...

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 approach to life-and-death problems used in this book is to emphasize the status of standard groups. Most life-and-death problems in books are ...

A personal and moving book from an experienced psychologist and professional counsellor. Full of thoughtful insights that introduce alternative way...

Reducere. Vinyl 1Side A: 1. Different World - 4: 172. These Colours Don't Run - 6: 523. Brighter Than A Thousand Suns - 8: 44Side B: 1. The Pilgrim - 5: 072....

Publisher: Cygnus BooksAuthor(s): Pierre PradervandIllustration(s): Illustrations; IllustrationsNumber of pages: 283Publication date: 2010Dimension...

This book presents a history of spiritual exercises from Socrates to early Christianity, an account of their decline in modern philosophy, and a di...

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Rome's greatest orator, had a career of intense activity in politics, the law courts and the administration, mos...

This illustrated collection documents Quarantine's large scale performance work, Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring., together with a collection of wri...

On 1 November 1920, eighteen-year-old UCD medical student Kevin Barry was hanged in Mountjoy Jail for his role in an IRA raid that killed a British...

Pierre Emile Cornillier (1862 - 1933) was a French artist who had an interest in psychical research. One day in 1912, he noticed that Reine, an 18-...

DescriptionWhere do we go when we die? Or is there nowhere to go? Is death something we can do or is it just something that happens to us? Now in h...

The bonds we share with our pets go beyond words and are often deeper than many of our human relationships. What is the nature of these close conne...

Reducere. When author Dawn DiRaimondo, PsyD, lost her brother in 2004, she found only one book on sibling loss. So, she wrote the book she wished she had the...

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Interweaving images of the manuscript, portraits, medical instruments and contemporary diagrams into her narrative, Sharon Ruston shows how this ex...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Ian ChristieIllustration(s): 60 colour illusNumber of pages: 112Collection: BFI Film ClassicsPublica...

A young man has stopped breathing in a supermarket toilet. A pedestrian with a nasty head injury won't let the crew near him on a busy road. A newb...

I know because I've seen most of them at close quarters.' As one of just a few judges licensed to try murder cases at the Old Bailey, the author ha...

Daringly provocative and searingly entertaining, Conviction is a brilliant political thriller, and a witty literary confrontation with Israel's mos...

Reducere. With searing honesty Henri J. M.Nouwen describes the events leading up to his near fatal accident and recalls the transformative experience at the ...

Publisher: Brewin BooksAuthor(s): Simon ButeuxIllustration(s): 111 colour illustrationsNumber of pages: 184Publication date: 2003Dimensions: 239 x ...

The untold stories of mountaineering achievements and tragedies - an oral history of the Sherpas.Publisher: Octopus Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Prad...

The Social Life of Greylag Geese: Patterns, Mechanisms and Evolutionary Function in an Avian Model System - Isabella B. R. Scheiber, Brigitte M. Weib,

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