On Extinction: How We Became Estranged from Nature (Challenger Melanie)(Paperback)

On Extinction: How We Became Estranged from Nature (Challenger Melanie)(Paperback)

Realizing the link between her own estrangement from nature and the cultural shifts that led to a dramatic rise in extinctions, award-winning writer Melanie Challenger travels in search of the stories behind these losses. From an exploration of an abandoned mine in England to an Antarctic sea

Before We Was We: Madness by Madness (Barson Mike)(Paperback)

New Foreword by Irvine Welsh. In Before We Was We Madness tell us how they became them. A story of seven originals, whose collective graft, energy and talent took them from the sweaty depths of the Hope and Anchor's basement to the Top of the Pops studio. In their own words they each look back on

Inheritors of the Earth - How Nature Is Thriving in an Age of Extinction (Thomas Chris D.)(Paperback / softback)

Ethical Issues in Psychology (Banyard Philip)(Paperback)

How do we know right from wrong, good from bad, help from hindrance, and how can we judge the behaviour of others? Ethics are the rules and guidelines that we use to make such judgements. Often there are no clear answers, which make this subject both interesting and potentially frustrating. In this

DarkMarket - How Hackers Became the New Mafia (Glenny Misha)(Paperback / softback)

We live our lives online - banking, shopping, working, dating - but have we become

The Arts and Their Mission: (cw 276) (Steiner Rudolf)(Paperback)

Art, always a daughter of the Divine, has become estranged from her parent.... We should not mock scientific materialism and naturalistic art. These have their place in human culture. But the starting point for a new life of art can come only through direct stimulation from the spiritual realm. We

How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed (Drakulic Slavenka)(Paperback)

This essay collection from renowned journalist and novelist Slavenka Drakulic, which quickly became a modern (and feminist) classic, draws back the Iron Curtain for a glimpse at the lives of Eastern European women under Communist regimes. Provocative, often witty, and always intensely personal, How

Ecological Footprint: Managing Our Biocapacity Budget (Wackernagel Mathis)(Paperback)

The only metric that tracks how much nature we have - and how much nature we use Ecological Footprint accounting, first introduced in the 1990s and continuously developed, continues to be the only metric that compares overall human demand on nature with what our planet can renew -- its biocapacity

Ethics Matters (Vardy Charlotte)(Paperback)

How do we know the difference between right and wrong? How can we make decisions about issues from germ-line genetic engineering to the regulation of banking, from nuclear power to ethnic bioweapons, from end-of-life care to global warming? What does it mean to live a good life? Ethics Matters

Origin of Our Species (Stringer Chris)(Paperback / softback)

Do all humans originate from Africa? How did we spread across the globe? Are we separate from Neanderthals, or do some of us actually have their genes? Has human evolution stopped, or are we still evolving? This title tackles the big questions in the ongoing debate about the beginnings of human

Oxygen: A Four Billion Year History (Canfield Donald E.)(Paperback)

The remarkable scientific story of how Earth became an oxygenated planetThe air we breathe is twenty-one percent oxygen, an amount higher than on any other known world. While we may take our air for granted, Earth was not always an oxygenated planet. How did it become this way? Donald Canfield--one

Empire of Things - How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First (Trentmann Frank)(Paperback / softback)

Magnificent ... groundbreaking ... a triumph' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'A masterpiece, a delight to read ... a rare and beautiful thing' Gerard DeGroot, The TimesWhat we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our economies live or die by spending, we are treated more

How I Became a Socialist (Morris William)(Paperback)

The definitive collection of political writings from William Morris William Morris is famous as a designer, poet and artist, but his work as a political thinker and activist is little known. This collection, the first of his political writings published for nearly 50 years, shows Morris as one of

Perpetual Euphoria: On the Duty to Be Happy (Bruckner Pascal)(Paperback)

How happiness became mandatory-and why we should reject the demand to 'be happy' Happiness today is not just a possibility or an option but a requirement and a duty. To fail to be happy is to fail utterly. Happiness has become a religion-one whose smiley-faced god looks down in rebuke upon everyone

City We Became (Jemisin N. K.)(Paperback / softback)

'A glorious fantasy, set in that most imaginary of cities, New York' Neil Gaiman on THE CITY WE BECAME'The most celebrated science fiction and fantasy writer of her generation. . .Jemisin seems able to do just about everything'NEW YORK TIMES'Jemisin is now a pillar of speculative fiction,

City, Street and Citizen: The Measure of the Ordinary (Hall Suzanne)(Paperback)

How can we learn from a multicultural society if we don't know how to recognise it? The contemporary city is more than ever a space for the intense convergence of diverse individuals who shift in and out of its urban terrains. The city street is perhaps the most prosaic of the city's public parts,

Human, Nature (Carter Ian)(Pevná vazba)

What does it mean to be a part of-rather than apart from-nature? This book is about how we interact with wildlife and the ways in which this can make our lives richer and more fulfilling. But it also explores the conflicts and contradictions inevitable in a world that is now so completely dominated

How the Irish Became White (Ignatiev Noel)(Paperback)

'...from time to time a study comes along that truly can be called 'path breaking, ' 'seminal, ' 'essential, ' a 'must read.' How the Irish Became White is such a study.' John Bracey, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachussetts, Amherst The Irish came to America

Home Is Where We Start from: Essays by a Psychoanalyst (Winnicott Donald Woods)(Paperback)

His ideas have influenced the diverse psychoanalytic schools of Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and Hans Kohut. But his reach extends far beyond professional circles: his talks to general audiences over the years won him enormous numbers of followers among parents and teachers who have found his

How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (Hayles N. Katherine)(Paperback)

In this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the 'bodies' that once carried it vanish into virtuality. While some marvel at these changes, envisioning consciousness downloaded into a computer or humans 'beamed' Star Trek-style, others view

A New History of Modern Computing (Haigh Thomas)(Paperback)

How the computer became universal. Over the past fifty years, the computer has been transformed from a hulking scientific supertool and data processing workhorse, remote from the experiences of ordinary people, to a diverse family of devices that billions rely on to play games, shop, stream music

Huts - a place beyond - how to end our exile from nature (Riddoch Lesley)(Paperback / softback)

Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed with Time (Garfield Simon)(Paperback)

A witty and entertaining journey through time from the bestselling author of Just My Type and On the

Bernard Dunne: Champion of the World (Dunne Bernard)(Paperback)

How a little kid from Dublin became a world champion boxer. Bernard Dunne tells his own story in his own words: for children Growing up in Neilstown, west Dublin, Bernard Dunne was always going to be a boxer. His Dad Brendan was an Olympic boxer in his day, and coached in the CIE club in Inchicore,