The Human Cosmos. A Secret History of the Stars, Main, Paperback - Jo Marchant

A journey through the history of science and humankind's relationship with the night sky and the cosmos beyond, from the author of Royal Society Pr...

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...

This book is about a single, serpentine fact: late in 1976 a record called 'Anarchy in the UK' was issued in London, and this event launched a tran...

Reducere. DescriptionFilled with disclosures and based on the author's unprecedented access to the Irish Republican Army, this explosive book sparked controv...

A New York Times Notable Book - Daily Beast Best Nonfiction of 2014 - Inc. Magazine's Most Thought-Provoking Books of the Year"Man is born free, bu...

The story of the engineers, dreamers and rebels who brought about the American space programme proves to be eccentric, occultist and rife with unus...

Lies, spies, sex-magic and socialism: the secret history of the first American rocket in space.Illustrations: plate section

Reducere. The groundbreaking investigative story of how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public year after year about A...

Reducere. DescriptionThe long-buried truth about the dawn of the Space Age: lies, spies, socialism, and sex magick.Los Angeles, 1930s: Everyone knows that ro...

Reducere. Follow the struggles and victories that shaped Brunswick County from the first contact of Europeans with native Americans, to the successive admini...

In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history ...

Reducere. In Decoding the Heavens, Jo Marchant tells for the first time the full story of the hundred-year quest to decipher the ancient Greek computer known...

In 1900 a group of sponge divers blown off course in the Mediterranean discovered an Ancient Greek shipwreck dating from around 70 BC.

DescriptionThe official line is clear: the UK does not 'participate in, solicit, encourage or condone' torture. And yet, the evidence is irrefutabl...

Reducere. With wars among the city-states raging in early Renaissance Italy, the enigmatic genius Leonardo da Vinci was producing some of the most lavish the...

The new york times bestseller shortlisted for the royal society science book prize longlisted for the wellcome prize all in the mind? - Can meditat...

For the last four centuries, science has tried to account for everything in terms of atoms and molecules and the physical laws they adhere to. Rece...

Reducere. From the Yangtze to the Yellow River, China is traversed by great waterways, which have defined its politics and ways of life for centuries. Water ...

A personal investigation into the history that surrounds us, from the historian and award-winning author of The Hidden WaysPublisher: Canongate Boo...

Reducere. On the success of his two bestselling books about World War II, James Bradley began to wonder what the real catalyst was for the Pacific War. What ...

Reducere. Widely known for its musical influence, Beale Street was also once a hub for Hoodoo culture. Many blues icons, such as Big Memphis Ma Rainey and So...

Reducere. "The Secret History" concerns the deepest matters of all: cosmology and the story of life's emergence and meaning, told from the perspective of a p...

The awe-inspiring history of humanity told through our relationship with stars and the night sky. 'Excellent .Publisher: Guardian Faber PublishingA...

Reducere. Based in part on therecent interviews with more than 125 peopleamong them Tommy Ramone, Chris Stein (Blondie), Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith Group), Hill...

Neutron stars, the ultra-dense remnants of exploded stellar giants, are among the most fascinating objects in the cosmos. Katia Moskvitch introduce...

This startling history of secret psychological operations traces the century-long rise of organized deception from the Russian Revolution to contem...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Megan WatzkeIllustration(s): 57 black and white illustrations, 40 colour platesNumber of pages: 144Publication d...

Contributor(s): Author: Carlo GinzburgTranslator: Anne C. TedeschiThe Cheese and the Worms is an incisive study of popular culture in the sixteenth...

DescriptionCairngorms: A Secret History is a series of journeys exploring barely known human and natural stories of the Cairngorm Mountains. It loo...

Reducere. Description"Perhaps every woman will lie for the man she lies with."-Sarah Wakefield August 18, 1862. On the Sioux reservation in southwestern Minn...

Reducere. The entire Amiculus Trilogy is now in one volume. In A.D. 476, Rome fell.The last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, a 12-year-old boy namedRomul...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Stars of the Magdalene is a richly expanded chapter from The Secret Dossier of a Knight Templar of the Sangreal: Relaunched as a Rev...

The author of award winning novels (such as Spies), plays (Copenhagen and Noises Off) and films (Clockwise) here produces his first work of non-fic...

Reducere. DescriptionWelcome to the weird and wonderful world of the Bible. When we read Scripture we often imagine that the world inhabited by the Bible's c...

The Dream of the Cosmos is the story of a multi-layered quest to understand the causes of human suffering and to reconnect with a deeper reality th...

DescriptionThe historical continuity of spinal catastrophism, traced across multiform encounters between philosophy, psychology, biology, and geolo...

Reducere. Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Story of the Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe, Paperback

These two short novels, published in the early 1930's ranked high in Tanizaki's own estimation of his work. The contrast is stark, but in their con...

Reducere. 917In recent years controversy over the Catholic Church's stance on environmentalism has increased. In order to avoid the errors promoted by some e...

Reducere. The Rise of the West, winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNei...

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 ...

DescriptionWitchcraft: A Secret History unravels the myth from the mystery, the facts from the legends. Meet all the witches of your imagination an...

Based on the notes of the deceased historian, Dr Emile Fouchet, this book attempts to unlock the secrets of the Knights Templar. It offers an exami...

Reducere. Michael Spitzer has pulled off the impossible: a Guns, Germs and Steel for music. --Daniel Levitin A colossal history spanning cultures, time, and ...

Living with the Stars tells the fascinating story of what truly makes the human body. The body that is with us all our lives is always changing. We...