The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature - Univers...
The Blank Slate - The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Widely acknowledged as one of the worlds leading experts o...
Blank Slate the Modern Denial of Human Nature
In a study of the nature versus nurture debate; one of the w...
The World in Six Songs - How the Musical Brain Created ...
In his enthralling and revelatory This is Your Brain on Musi...
The Social Evolution of Human Nature: From Biology to L...
The Social Evolution of Human Nature: From Biology to Langua...
Out of Australia - Aborigines, the Dreamtime, and the D...
In their startling new book, Steven and Evan Strong challeng...
Shaping Rights in the ECHR: The Role of the European Co...
Shaping Rights in the ECHR: The Role of the European Court o...
Australia and the Birth of the International Bill of Hu...
Australia and the Birth of the International Bill of Human R...
European Consensus and the Legitimacy of the European C...
European Consensus and the Legitimacy of the European Court ...
European Consensus and the Legitimacy of the European C...
European Consensus and the Legitimacy of the European Court ...
The Critic in the Modern World - Public Criticism from ...
The Critic in the Modern World explores the work of six infl...
The Cold War and the Making of the Modern World
The Cold War and the Making of the Modern World - University...
The Shaping of the Modern Middle East
The Shaping of the Modern Middle East - University textbook ...
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial Of Human Nature
The Four Tendencies - The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People'...
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERI love Gretchen Rubin she helps me understand both myself and the people around me Cathy Rentzenbrink, Obliger and author of The Last Act of Love If you want to change anything in your life you need Gretchen Rubin. Viv Groskop Rebel OBLIGER? REBEL? QUESTIONER? UPHOLDER? Which one are you? Everyone falls into 1 of 4 personality types and knowing you...
The Four Tendencies - The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People'...
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER I love Gretchen Rubin she helps me understand both myself and the people around me Cathy Rentzenbrink, Obliger and author of The Last Act of Love. If you want to change anything in your life you need Gretchen Rubin. Viv Groskop Rebel OBLIGER? REBEL? QUESTIONER? UPHOLDER? Which one are you? Everyone falls into 1 of 4 personality types and knowing y...
Out of Australia - Aborigines, the Dreamtime, and the Dawn of the Human Race
In their startling new book, Steven and Evan Strong challenge the out-of-Africa theory. Based on fresh examination of both the DNA and archaeological evidence, they conclude that modern humans originated from Australia, not Africa. The original Australians (referred to by some as Aborigines), like so many indigenous peoples, are portrayed as backward and primitive. Yet, as the Strongs...
The Rise of Superman - Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance
A razor-sharp analysis of how record-breaking exploits in extreme sport are redefining the limits of being human. Right now, more people are risking their lives for their sports then ever before in history. As Thomas Pynchon once put it in Gravitys Rainbow, it is not often that Death is told so clearly to f@%* off. Over the past three decades, the bounds of the possible in action and adve...
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
Published in 1872, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals was a book at the very heart of Darwins research interests a central pillar of his human series. This book engaged some of the hardest questions in the evolution debate, and it showed the ever-cautious Darwin at his boldest. If Darwin had one goal with Expression, it was to demonstrate the power of his theories for expla...
The Body Keeps the Score - Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma
The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the worlds experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies and towards an alternative approach that heals mind, brain and body. Van der Kolk draws on thirty years of experience to argue powerfully that trauma is o...
Beneath the Black Water - The Search for an Ancient Fish
Beneath the Black Water is the wonderful account of a mad, disrupting, unforgiving but ultimately joyous addiction an addiction not just to the ferox, but to the truly wild waterscapes they inhabit. No fellow angler could be unimpressed; no ordinary human will quite believe it. Chris Yates, writer and eccentric angler This quest for a sense of belonging comes with dreams of great fishes. ...
The Spider and the Fly - A Reporter, a Serial Killer and a Journey into Murder
Extraordinarily suspenseful and truly gut-wrenching, The Spider and the Fly is not just a superb true-crime story but an insightful investigation of the nature of evil, the fragility of good, and the crooked road that can turn human beings into monsters. A must-read. GILLIAN FLYNN, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Gone Girl Well, well, Claudia. Can I call you Claudia? Ill have t...
Australia and the War in the Air - Volume I - The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War
The first book in a new series that will explore Australias role in the Great War.From the earliest days of the Great War, Australians volunteered to fight in the air warfares newest arena, and one that would transform the nature of military operations. In the squadrons of the Australian Flying Corps and with Britains flying services, Australian airmen fought in campaigns that spanned the...
How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life - An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness
A forgotten book by one of historys greatest thinkers reveals the surprising connections between happiness, virtue, fame, and fortune A great book. Makes you feel better about life, humanity, and yourself. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan Adam Smith became the patron saint of capitalism after he penned his most famous work, The Wealth of Nations. But few people know that w...
The Ten Types of Human - A New Understanding of Who We Are, and Who We Can Be
This book will introduce you to ten people. In a way, you already know them. Only you dont not really. In a sense, they are you. Only theyre not entirely. They inform and shape the most important decisions in your life. But youre almost certainly unaware of their intervention. They are the Ten Types of Human. Who are they? What are they for? How did they get into your head? We want to b...
Homecamp - Stories and Inspiration for the Modern Adventurer
Its difficult to find nature amidst the rush, bustle and electronic pop-ups that flood our modern lives to leave stress and hurry behind, embracing the simple pleasure to be found in pounding waves, a roaring campfire and a sky full of stars. But nature isnt as far away as you think. Homecamp is a beautiful collection of stories and images from everyday adventurers people who have found ...
The Glass Universe - The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars
`A biographical orrery intricate, complex and fascinating The Observer#1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobelreturns with a captivating, little-known true storyof women in science In the mid-nineteenth century, the Harvard College Observatory began employing women as calculators, or human computers, to interpret the observations their male counterparts made via telescope each nig...
Rainbow Magic: Victoria the Violin Fairy - The Music Fairies Book 6
The Music Fairies desperately need Rachels and Kirstys help! Jack Frost and his naughty goblins have stolen the fairies Magical Musical Instruments, which means that music is being ruined for everyone! Jack Frost plans to use the instruments to help him win a national talent competition in the human world, and with the help of the enchanted instruments, hes bound to win. If this happens, h...
The New Rules of Work - The ultimate career guide for the modern workplace
The modern playbook to finding the perfect career path, landing the right job, and waking up excited for work every day, from founders of online network TheMuse.com.In todays digital age, finding job listings and endless data about those jobs is easy. Whats difficult is making sense of it all. With The New Rules of Work, Muse founders Alexandra Cavoulacos and Kathryn Minshew give us the tool...
The Infidel and the Professor - David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendshipsand how it influenced modern thought David Hume is widely regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as the Great Infidel for his skeptical religious views and deemed unfit to teach the young. In contrast, Adam Smith was a revered professor of moral philosophy, and is ...
The Skull in the Rock - How a Scientist, a Boy, and Google Earth Opened a New Window on Human Origins
In 2008, Professor Lee Bergerwith the help of his curious 9-year-old sondiscovered two remarkably well preserved, two-million-year-old fossils of an adult female and young male, known as Australopithecus sediba; a previously unknown species of ape-like creatures that may have been a direct ancestor of modern humans. This discovery of has been hailed as one of the most important archaeological ...
Extreme Money - The Masters Of The Universe And The Cult Of Risk
The bestselling author on how money and finance enslaved the world. The human race created money and finance. But our inventions re-create us. Mankind mistook money a lubricant of society and human well-being for an end in itself. Finance, the monetary shadow of real things, came to dominate human reality. Extreme Money tells the story of how this happened and, in...
The Puffin Book of Modern Children's Verse
The Puffin Book of Modern Childrens Verse is the definitive collection of modern childrens poetry of our time. Enchanting, funny, exciting and poignant, there is every kind of poem for every kind mood. Discover the very best of childrens poetry from the greats of the poetry world including, Allan Ahlberg, W. H. Auden, Charles Causley, Roald Dahl, T. S. Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Ted Hughes, Rudy...
The Golem and the Djinni
THESE NEWCOMERS ARE DIFFERENT. THEY WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING.For fans of The Essex Serpent and The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock.`By far my favourite book of of the year Guardian`One of only two novels Ive ever loved whose main characters are not human Barbara Kingsolver One cold night, two newcomers emerge onto the streets of 1899 New York, and it is never the same again.But these two are more tha...
Rainbow Magic: Bella The Bunny Fairy - The Pet Keeper Fairies Book 2
Fairyland in uproar! Jack Frost has stolen the Pet Fairies magical pets. Without them, the Pet Fairies cant ensure that pets in the human world find the right owners. So its vital that the Pet Fairies get their magic pets back. The pets have escaped from Jack Frosts ice castle and are roaming the human world. Rachel and Kirsty have to help Katie the Kitten Fairy, Harriet the Hamster Fairy, G...