Footnotes - How Running Makes Us Human (Cregan-Reid Vybarr)(Paperback / softback)

Science of Storytelling - Why Stories Make Us Human, and How to Tell Them Better (Storr Will)(Paperback / softback)

Triumph of the City - How Urban Spaces Make Us Human (Glaeser Edward)(Paperback / softback)

A compellingly readable, critically acclaimed, agenda-setting account of how and why cities function as they do and why so many of us choose to live in

What Makes Us Human? (Vine Jeremy)(Paperback)

Blueprint - How DNA Makes Us Who We Are (Plomin Robert)(Paperback / softback)

Footnotes in Gaza (Sacco Joe)(Paperback)

'Sacco brings the conflict down to the most human level, allowing us to imagine our way inside it, to make the desperation he discovers, in some small way, our own.'--Los Angeles Times Rafah, a town at the bottommost tip of the Gaza Strip, has long been a notorious flashpoint in the bitter Middle

Human Mind (Winston Robert)(Paperback / softback)

He also tells us how to boost our intelligence, how to tap into creative powers we never knew we had, how to break old habits and keep our brain fit and active as we enter old age. The human mind is all we have to help us to understand

How to Pass Higher Computing Science, Second Edition (Reid Greg)(Paperback / softback)

Compelling People - The Hidden Qualities That Make Us Influential (Neffinger John)(Paperback / softback)

How people judge you - and how to come out looking

Creating Mind: How the Brain Works (Dowling John E.)(Paperback)

What makes us human and unique among all creatures is our brain. Consciousness, perception, emotion, memory, learning, language, and intelligence all originate in and depend on the brain. Over the past century, our understanding of the brain has raced forward to reveal many of the mechanisms by

The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human (Gottschall Jonathan)(Paperback)

A NYTimes.com Editor's ChoiceA Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Finalist A jaunty, insightful new book . . . that] draws from disparate corners of history and science to celebrate our compulsion to storify everything around us. New York Times Humans live in landscapes of make-believe. We spin

How to Tame a Human Tornado (Tobin Paul)(Paperback / softback)

Rebel (Camus Albert)(Paperback / softback)

An essay on the nature of human revolt, this book makes a critique of communism, how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain, and the resulting totalitarian regimes. It also questions two events held sacred by the left wing, the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian Revolution of

The Perfect Medicine: How Running Makes Us Healthier and Happier (Ramin Brodie)(Paperback)

The Perfect Medicine takes the reader on a personal journey of discovery and explores the science of exercise and health. It can help readers change their lives by providing facts about running and sharing inspiring examples of others who have used running to transform their

How to Be Human - The Manual (Wax Ruby)(Paperback / softback)

Island Home - A Landscape Memoir (Winton Tim)(Paperback / softback)

A wise, passionate and compelling investigation into how our landscape makes us who we

On Humour (Critchley Simon)(Paperback)

Does humour make us human, or do the cats and dogs laugh along with us? On Humour is a fascinating, beautifully written and funny book on what humour can tell us about being human. Simon Critchley skilfully probes some of the most perennial but least understood aspects of humour, such as our

The Wisdom of Wolves: How Wolves Can Teach Us to Be More Human (Radinger Elli H.)(Paperback)

Nature via Nurture - Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human (Ridley Matt)(Paperback / softback)

Acclaimed author Matt Ridley's thrilling follow-up to his bestseller Genome. Armed with the extraordinary new discoveries about our genes, Ridley turns his attention to the nature versus nurture debate to bring the first popular account of the roots of human

Catching Fire - How Cooking Made Us Human (Wrangham Richard)(Paperback / softback)

Argues that it was cooking that caused the transformation of our ancestors from apelike beings to Homo erectus. This title focuses on the idea: the habit of eating cooked rather than raw food permitted the digestive tract to shrink and the human brain to grow, helped structure human society, and

In Miniature - How Small Things Illuminate The World (Garfield Simon)(Paperback / softback)

A delightful and peculiar exploration of the human instinct to make things small, from the bestselling author of Just My Type and On the

Mirror Thinking: How Role Models Make Us Human (Murden Fiona)(Pevná vazba)

Most of us have someone we look up to and consider a 'role model', whether it's a parent, a teacher or a manager. In fact, a lot of people we come into contact with, whether we consider them a role model or not, probably have more of an impact on us than we realise. The area of the brain that we

Human Planet - How We Created the Anthropocene (Lewis Simon)(Paperback / softback)

How to Pass Higher Human Biology, Second Edition (Dickson Billy)(Paperback / softback)

How to tame the political animal: - The missing piece(Paperback / softback)

A journey of discovery of the underlying behaviour patterns that make us politically self-centred, and, effectively, less