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Underland: A Deep Time Journey

W W Norton, 2019

National Bestseller • New York Times “100 Notable Books of the Year” • NPR “Favorite Books of 2019” • Guardian “100 Best Books of the 21st Century” • Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award

From the best-selling,...

Civilization: A History of the World in 1000 Objects

DK Adult, 2020

Discover how humans created their world from the objects they left behind - from the US Constitution to the first iPhone - in DK's latest history book.

From the beginning of human history, the one thing that has defined us is our talent for making things, from basic technology and everyday objects, such...

Biosignatures for Astrobiology (Advances in Astrobiology and Biogeophysics)

Springer, 2018

This book aims at providing a brief but broad overview of biosignatures. The topics addressed range from prebiotic signatures in extraterrestrial materials to the signatures characterising extant life as well as fossilised life, biosignatures related to space, and space flight instrumentation to detect biosignatures either in situ or from...

Love: A New Understanding of an Ancient Emotion

Oxford University Press, 2019

What is love's real aim? Why is it so ruthlessly selective in its choice of loved ones? Why do we love at all?

In addressing these questions, Simon May develops a radically new understanding of love as the emotion we feel towards whomever or whatever we experience as grounding our life--as offering us a possibility of...

Bioarchaeologists Speak Out (Bioarchaeology and Social Theory)

Springer, 2018

Bioarchaeologists who study human remains in ancient, historic and contemporary settings are securely anchored within anthropology as anthropologists, yet they have not taken on the pundits the way other subdisciplines within anthropology have. Popular science authors frequently and selectively use bioarchaeological data on...

Mutiny and Leadership

Oxford University Press, 2021

Whenever leadership emerges within a group, there will be resistance to that leadership. Discontent may manifest in a number of ways, and action will always be determined by factors such as resource, numbers, time, space, and the legitimacy of the resistance. What, then, turns discontent into
mutiny?

Mutiny is often...

The Age of Dinosaurs: The Rise and Fall of the World’s Most Remarkable Animals

HarperCollins, 2021

Think you know about dinosaurs? Think again! New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Steve Brusatte brings young scientists and readers everywhere into his world of massive herbivores and fearsome predators, daily unexpected discoveries, and all the new science used to learn about some of the...

Information and the History of Philosophy (Rewriting the History of Philosophy)

Routledge, 2021

In recent years the philosophy of information has emerged as an important area of research in philosophy. However, until now information’s philosophical history has been largely overlooked.

Information and the History of Philosophy is the first comprehensive investigation of the history of philosophical...

Show Me You Care - The Power of Silence in Selling

Target Point Ltd, 2021

The Power of Silence is immense.

Nothing establishes a closer connection or works better than silence and active listening. There is raw power to listening, hearing, and getting out of the way. When we let a buyer tell us what they want, vs. what we think they may need, long-lasting relationships are built. Silence and...

Poetry and Poetics in the Presocratic Philosophers: Reading Xenophanes, Parmenides and Empedocles as Literature

Cambridge University Press, 2021

Of the Presocratic thinkers traditionally credited with the foundation of Greek philosophy, Xenophanes, Parmenides and Empedocles are exceptional for writing in verse. This is the first book-length, literary-critical study of their work. It locates the surviving fragments in their performative and wider cultural contexts, applying intertextual...

Act Natural: A Cultural History of Misadventures in Parenting

Ecco, 2019

From a distinctive, inimitable voice, a wickedly funny and fascinating romp through the strange and often contradictory history of Western parenting

Why do we read our kids fairy tales about homicidal stepparents? How did helicopter parenting develop if it used to be perfectly socially acceptable...

Defenses Against the Dark Arts: The Political Education of Harry Potter and His Friends (Politics, Literature, & Film)

Lexington Books, 2021

As the publishing sensation of the last half-century, Harry Potter dominates early education in politics. Children, tweens, teens, and adults love it; and most students come to college knowing at least some of it. This dark fantasy analyzes politics in strikingly practical...

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