The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World

"This text has been prompted by the impact of technology, but it's not about microchips, databases and algorithms. It's about humans. Particularly,...

At a time when animal species are becoming extinct on every continent and we are confronted with bad news about the environment nearly every day, J...

Reducere. The New York Times bestselling author of The Female Brain explains how a woman's brain changes for the better in midlife, reframing the patriarchal...

Trade paperback. This exploration of human creativity from the author of }The Brain{ (alongside acclaimed composer Anthony Brandt) looks at what se...

Sonic Intimacy asks us who--or what--deserves to have a voice, beyond the human. Arguing that our ears are far too narrowly attuned to our own spec...

The definitive book on leadership in the digital era: why digital technologies call for leadership that emphasizes creativity, collaboration, and i...

How do you keep your employees engaged, creative, innovative, and productive? Simple: Work human From the pioneers of the management strategy that'...

'I have yet to come away from reading [Bering's] work and not feel considerably better informed than I was minutes before' (Forbes)________________...

How the World Listens explores our everyday and professional interactions with sound. The book aims to uncover the human relationship with sound ac...

Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, lik...

Reducere. This book reflects the mature judgment of an author with broad experience in and out of public life. It sets out in stark and unvarnished terms mos...

A memoir

What is property, and why does our species happen to have it? In The Property Species, the economist Bart Wilson explores how we acquire, perceive,...

A sweeping history of the full range of human labor Few authors are able to write cogently in both the scientific and the economic spheres. Even fe...

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Reducere. DescriptionA dazzling new history of the irrepressible demographic changes and mass migrations that have made and unmade nations, continents, and e...

Reducere. In this eclectic and entertaining study of the interrelationship between the arts and the sciences, Barrow explains how the landscape of the Univer...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Paul HellyerThis book reflects the mature judgment of an author with broad experience in and out of public life. It sets ou...

A dazzling new history of the modern world, as told through the remarkable story of population change.

Reducere. The ultimate reference book for birdwatchers and bird lovers--the first single-volume book to illustrate all of the world's bird species This is a ...

A leading ecologist argues that if humankind is to survive on a fragile planet, we must understand and obey its iron laws.Publisher: John Murray Pr...

Cognitively human minds produced a list of behavioral singularities that indicate a discontinuity between them and all other living things. This fa...

Acclaimed scholar Kathryn Sikkink examines the important and controversial new trend of holding political leaders criminally accountable for human ...

How have our emotions shaped the course of human history? And how have our experience and understanding of emotions evolved with us?Publisher: Harp...

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The plants are organized into 28 intuitively logical groups, such as succulent euphorbias, mesembryanthemums, bulbs, succulent trees, aloes, agaves...

Reducere. Our current environmental crises -- most notably, climate change -- call on us to upgrade to a new way of life that will sustain us and our world f...

This book examines direct effects to human health from invasive species such as bites, wounds and illness and indirect effects via changes induced ...

It's warming. It's us. We're sure. It's bad. But we can fix it. After speaking to the international public for close to fifteen years about sustain...

Publisher: Prufrock PressAuthor(s): Eric L. MannNumber of pages: 168Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 176 x 253 x 15Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

Reducere. I'll never forget the night when everything changed. I saw the first glimmers of daylight over the roofs from the window before I heard it. We were...

Reducere. A #1 New York Times Bestseller! Based on their #1 kids podcast, Wow in the World, hosts Mindy Thomas and Guy Raz take readers on a hilarious, fact-...

Reducere. A sweeping exploration of the ways in which emotions shaped the course of human history, and how our experience and understanding of emotions have ...