The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth - A Radio 4 Book of the Week, Hardcover - Michael Spitzer

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

'She [Bessie Smith] showed me the air and taught me how to fill it ... she's the reason I started singing, really' - Janis Joplin'[Jackie Kay] offe...

'A stark and important warning about the value of knowledge . . . Vital reading for this day and age' PETER FRANKOPAN

A personal story from the child of corner shop owners that explores how these tiny open-all-hours shops changed our country -- as heard on Saturday...

165 million years ago saw the birth of rhythm.66 million years ago was the first melody.40 thousand years ago Homo sapiens created the first musica...

An extraordinary, moving and funny coming-of-age memoir about identity, chip shops and pop songs.

A rediscovered classic memoir - a fascinating insight into the life of a crime writer during and after the First World War - a woman ahead of her t...

A cricketing history of the last 20 years.Publisher: Octopus Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Felix WhiteNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2022Dimens...

The moving, playful memoir of Hans Rosling - Swedish statistics mastermind, researcher extraordinaire and author of the global bestseller, Factfuln...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Edward EnninfulNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 163 x 240 x 32Cover type: Hardb...

One family's escape from the Taliban and their fight to save their son.

Evolution is one of the most fundamental principles that governs life. Its actions may be subtle, but they can be observed every day, such as preda...

Reducere. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Extraordinary. . . . Anyone with the slightest interest in biology should read this book."--The New Y...

Guy de la Bedoyere's new book is a history of a key period in ancient Egypt's astonishing history that tears away the gold and glamour to show how ...

This unconventional book takes a journey of discovery into the realm of time and timing methods. It highlights the fallacies of methods currently a...

4.6 billion years of the story of life on Earth, in 52, 000 words. Brief, brilliant and entirely gripping.Publisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s): Henry ...

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. If every known species on Earth were a leaf on a tree, that tree would have 1 750 000 leaves. Since humans count for just one leaf on the tree, we ...

Reducere. Our world is filled with extraordinary diversity, from amoebas to zebras, from tiny toadstools to giant oaks. The wonders of the natural world are ...

Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Henry GeeNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 136 x 188 x 28Cover type: Hardbac...

Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2017 Named a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2017 A Buzzflash/TruthOut Progressive Pick of the Week From t...

Reducere. Apollo 15 command module pilot Al Worden was one of the highest-profile personalities among the Apollo astronauts, renowned for his outspokenness a...

Reducere. After magnifying the beauty of unseen organisms in Tiny Creatures, Nicola Davies and Emily Sutton turn their talents to the vast variety of life on...

The Sunday Times Bestseller A new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough's seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet.Publis...

Reducere. An accessible graphic introduction to evolution for the most science-phobic readerIllustrated by the brilliant duo Kevin Cannon and Zander Cannon, ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Arkan LushwalaThe Time of the Black Jaguar speaks to the times of change that we are now living in. The insights contained ...

Reducere. How did it all start? What was there in the beginning? What exactly is the universe? The brilliant stars, distant galaxies, the sun, the moon and o...

Reducere. What day is it? The Days of the Week give us clues Days and weeks are Patterns of Time that help us know what will happen today and tomorrow.

Uniting the conceptual foundations of the physical sciences and biology, this groundbreaking multidisciplinary book explores the origin of life as ...

Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Ben RawlenceNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 163 x 242 x 38Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

Reducere. Music remains something of a mystery to many people--ephemeral sounds floating invisibly through the air--here, and then gone. This book begins wit...

A thrilling investigation into one of the big unanswered questions that science has to offer: the origins of life on Earth

A thrilling investigation into one of the big unanswered questions that science has to offer: the origins of life on Earth

Reducere. In Revolutionary Iran, Michael Axworthy guides us through recent Iranian history from shortly before the 1979 Islamic revolution through the summer...

DescriptionIn first-century Rome, following Jesus comes at a tremendous social cost.

"The Tree of Life and Prosperity is one of the most important business books out there right now for people looking to build, create, and do so wit...

As well as writing cookbooks and presenting cooking shows on the BBC, the author is also a cultural anthropologist based in the United Kingdom. Thi...

Reducere. Is the emergence of life on Earth the result of a single chance event or combination of lucky accidents, or is it the outcome of biochemical forces...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ben Fong-TorresBuzzing with behind-the-scenes stories, this blast from the past peels back the layers of radio's Top 40 phe...

Reducere. Proficiency as a drummer has always come from great hand dexterity. However, with the introduction of modern drumming techniques, it has become inc...

A newly updated biography of life behind the Palace doors - a celebration of the 60 year reign of Elizabeth II.