The Story of the Human Body

In Da Vinci's Ghost, critically acclaimed historian Toby Lester tells the story of the world's most iconic image, the Vitruvian Man, and sheds surp...

Tells the story of Matteo, which offers a glimpse into the world of Da Vinci. Fleeing from a murderous brigand, Matteo is saved by the companions o...

Reducere. This is the story of hockey, one scar at a time. For the casual enthusiast and hockey fanatic alike comes a brilliant collection of essays and phot...

An accessible guide to the most important discoveries and theories in the history of biologyWhat is life? Why do bees dance? How do animals know th...

Reducere. What is life? Why do bees dance? How do animals know their mothers? Who discovered germs? Biology is the story of our quest to understand the livin...

Reducere. In 1864 a U.S. army doctor dug up the remains of a Dakota man who had been killed in Minnesota. Carefully recording his observations, he sent the s...

Reducere. The ultimate head-to-toe guide to the human body for kids. Incredible computer-generated images reveal the amazing inside story of what goes on und...

Contributor(s): Author: Stefanos GeroulanosAuthor: Todd MeyersThe injuries suffered by soldiers during WWI were as varied as they were brutal. How ...

Reducere. This is a true story of awakening kundalini and the massive transformations it generates in the body/mind system. Kundalini is an old Eastern term ...

Description-A new take on perception and preconceptions about the unclothed body and how, through art, the naked becomes the nude Unframing the Nud...

Reducere. What would it really be like to have x-ray vision? Beyond diagnosing illness or injury, can images of ourselves tell us more about life?What if you...

A gripping story of spies, smugglers and brutal murder on the Kent coast of the eighteenth century, with protagonist Reverend Hardcastle set to hav...

DescriptionWhen a dinner between Inspector Maigret and friends ends abruptly at the discovery of a body, the detective must plumb the darker side o...

Reducere. A Body Across Two Hemispheres is a timely book, one many of us need and will be grateful to have read. --Shara McCallum A Body Across Two Hemispher...

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...

Reducere. The author of the "Twilight "series of # 1 bestsellers delivers her brilliant first novel for adults: a gripping story of love and betrayal in a fu...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Stephen MurrayWith: John McDonaldWith: Lee MartinStaying Strong is an immensely human story of how a working-class boy from...

In this volume, based on the series of Alexander Lectures she delivered at the University of Toronto, Julia Kristeva explores the philosophical asp...

Reducere. DescriptionA Girl's Mutilated Body is Found on a Portland, Maine Hiking Trail in A Child Shall Lead Them, a Murder Mystery Thriller by Kate Flora -...

Reducere. The true confessions of an eating disorders survivor This confessional self-help guide explores the complex emotional truth of what it's like when ...

Reducere. The Road from Orion is a story of magical realism, fictional characters and historical facts, based on an authentic study of signs in ancient Egypt...

Reducere. The real story of the shocking Jeffrey Dahmer murders, as told by the Milwaukee Journal reporter who broke the story--from the dramatic scene when ...

Reducere. Vampires drink blood, they're superior to humans, and they're sexual Dominants. Every vampire knows those truths. A vampire's human servant is prop...

Reducere. A quietly brilliant book that warms slowly in the hands. --Dwight Garner, The New York TimesI am not talking about surviving. I am not talking abou...

Reducere. Celebrity Fitness Trainer Joseph "The Body" Fitness has created The Ultimate Prison Body Building Program to help you get the body of your dreams. ...

Reducere. The Brain and the Spirit invites readers to embark on a practice of listening to the Christ story through the earpiece of neuroscience. After many ...

DescriptionIn today's highly charged social and political environment, we often don't know how to talk well with others--especially with people who...

A giant whale trapped in nets and ropes. Can she be helped? A humpback whale migrating south along the California coast becomes tangled in a fishin...

Reducere. Trapped tells the story of a young woman, recently graduated from an Eastern college and teaching in a small New Mexico town who follows her boyfri...

Reducere. HOW TO KISS THE UNIVERSE describes the shocking spiritual trips of a journalist from his physical body all the way to the Source of everything. The...

Documents a day in the life of Bobby Sands while he was imprisoned in Long Kesh. Written on toilet paper with a biro refill and hidden inside Bobby...

Using the Greek story of the Twelve Labors of Hercules, which outlines the progressive stages of spiritual development that spiritual practitioners...

Reducere. Blissfully Human is an intimate account of a profound spiritual awakening. In the long tradition of mystics throughout the ages, the author provide...

Reducere. In an epic, game-changing, moving and brilliant story of love and hate, two immortals chase each other across continents and centuries, binding the...

DescriptionLiterary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. From award-winning essayist Chelsea Biondolillo, THE SKINNED BIRD is about all the ways we break o...

Reducere. A comprehensive guide to how you can avoid wasting your life on the fruitless games played by the human ego Today many people are trapped within ti...

Reducere. Stable Weight is a story of resilience, empowerment, and the transformative power of the human-animal bond, revealing how even the most sensitive s...

From New York Times bestselling author Carmen Maria Machado (Her Body And Other Parties, In The Dream House) comes a story so horrifying you won't ...

Riveting. ... Pattison's uncanny ability [is] to write evocatively about science. ... In this, he is every bit as good as the best scientist writer...

DescriptionDilip da Cunha integrates history, art, cultural studies, hydrology, and geography to tell the story of how rivers have been culturally ...

Reducere. There is a wealth of potential trapped within our hidden and unresolved places of pain. Yet, without conscious participation, we can become stuck i...

Reducere. There is a wealth of potential trapped within our hidden and unresolved places of pain. Yet, without conscious participation, we can become stuck i...

Reducere. Nothing is as elemental, as essential to human life, as the air we breathe. Yet around the world, in rich countries and poor ones, it is quietly po...

Where did I come from? Why do I have two arms but just one head? How is my left leg the same size as my right one? Why are the fingerprints of iden...

Reducere. In any human life there are going to be periods of unhappiness. That is part of the human experience. Learning how to be sad is a natural first ste...

Reducere. Drawing its title from the biblical story of the prodigal son, The Journey Back to the Father's House explains that we have wandered away from know...

Reducere. If it is true that God is a male, then His Divinity or Deity is expressed in His masculinity. Yet I am a woman, and there are parts of my body; suc...

If it is true that God is a male, then His Divinity or Deity is expressed in His masculinity. Yet I am a woman, and there are parts of my body; suc...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Olivia RosewoodViolet the Purple Fairy learns how to make Gratitude Soup by thinking of all the things, people, places, and...

For a limited time, get three scorching hot sci-fi romances from New York Times bestseller Anna Zaires in one convenient, discounted bundle. These ...

Reducere. -A wonderful writer, Bill Hayes tells the multi-layered story of the two extraordinary young men who produced the most famous medical text of all t...

Reducere. STANDARD B&W EDITION] Paul Naschy, a.k.a. Jacinto Molina, is renowned as Spain's number one icon of the horror genre. His love of the macabre began...

Reducere. Locke Jenkins has some catching up to do. After spending 260 years as a disembodied mind in a little black box, he has a perfect new body. But befo...

Reducere. A Gypsy's Book of Revelation is a collection of stories with an astonishing range of styles and subject matters. A woman visits her cremation from ...

Reducere. ``We find that the story of Abraham and Isaac rises almost spontaneously in the mind of one generation after another.... Constantly past and presen...

"We find that the story of Abraham and Isaac rises almost spontaneously in the mind of one generation after another.... Constantly past and present...

Reducere. "We are each the love of someone's life." So begins The Confessions of Max Tivoli, a heartbreaking love story with a narrator like no other.Born wi...

Reducere. When a boy visits another village, he is amazed to find the townspeople terrified of something that -- just because they have never seen it before ...

Reducere. In the late fall of 1870 T.C. Everts found himself the unwilling lead in a man-versus-nature drama set against the backdrop of Manifest Destiny and...

Juan has been a thief for many, many years. So many, in fact, that he can't even remember what it's like to be anything else. When he tries to stea...

Reducere. The journey of Lent--from Ash Wednesday to Easter--is traditionally one of prayer, repentance, spiritual discipline, and meditation. But coloring? ...

This book will take you inside the human mind to understand the key aspects of breaking belief patterns and creating an unstoppable mindset. Kevin ...

DescriptionWith clear explanations and many contemporary examples drawn from popular culture and everyday life, author Paul Herrick untangles the c...

Reducere. From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Rebecca Zanetti comes a new story in her Dark Protectors/Rebels series...Tabi Rusko has a simp...

Reducere. What if photography is more listening than seeing? Come Get Your Honey uses this question as a compass while telling a story about the trans* and q...

DescriptionNo two pages look alike in this eye-popping children's encyclopedia. Exploring everything from amazing animals to art, this book is pack...

Reducere. In this poignant and startlingly original book, Brian Doyle examines the heart as a physical organ how it is supposed to work, how surgeons try to ...

Reducere. Deepens and refreshes our view of early Christianity while casting a disturbing light on the evolution of the attitudes passed down to us. How did ...

Reducere. Set around three thousand years before the rest of the Valdemar series, this is the ancient history of Velgarth and the story of Skandranon Rashkae...

In Janelle Monáe's full-length debut, the science fiction concept album The ArchAndroid, the android Cindi Mayweather is on the run from the author...