Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live (Zuk Marlene)(Paperback)

Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live (Zuk Marlene)(Paperback)

We evolved to eat berries rather than bagels, to live in mud huts rather than condos, to sprint barefoot rather than play football--or did we? Are our bodies and brains truly at odds with modern life? Although it may seem as though we have barely had time to shed our hunter-gatherer legacy,

God Is Not Dead: What Quantum Physics Tells Us about Our Origins and How We Should Live (Goswami Amit)(Paperback)

Move over, Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens--a highly regarded nuclear physicist enters the debate about the existence of God--and comes down on the side of the angels. Goswami's hypothesis is that quantum physics holds the key to all the unsolved mysteries of biology--the nature and origin

Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns (Traub Valerie)(Paperback)

What do we know about early modern sex, and how do we know it? How, when, and why does sex become history? In Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns, Valerie Traub addresses these questions and, in doing so, reorients the ways in which historians and literary critics, feminists and queer theorists

Guidance from the Greatest: What the World War Two Generation Can Teach Us about How We Live Our Lives (Mortimer Gavin)(Paperback)

'We will overcome it [and] I hope in the years to come, everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge, and those who come after us will say the Britons of this generation were as strong as any' Her Majesty The Queen The Coronavirus pandemic forced the great British

50 Things about Us: What We Really Need to Know about Britain (Thomas Mark)(Paperback)

In 50 Things About Us, Mark Thomas combines his trademark mix of storytelling, stand-up, mischief and really, really well-researched material to examine how we have come to inhabit this divided wasteland that some of us call the United Kingdom. Based on his latest show, 50 Things About Us, Mark

What Images Really Tell Us: Visual Rhetoric in Art, Graphic Design, and Advertising (Mariani Massimo)(Paperback)

How do images hold and convey meaning? How do we understand them? What are they trying to say? How do they persuade and influence us? The author writes a complete account analyzing the meaning and construction of images, throughout history to present times, from the point of view of visual

The Original Buddhist Psychology: What the Abhidharma Tells Us about How We Think, Feel, and Experience Life (Jacobs Beth)(Paperback)

Drawing on decades of experience, a psychotherapist and Zen practitioner makes the Abhidharma--the original psychological system of Buddhism--accessible to a general audience for the first time. The Abhidharma, one of the three major text collections of the original Buddhist canon, explores the

Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (Craig Edward)(Paperback)

How ought we to live? What really exists? How do we know? This Very Short Introduction discusses some of the key questions philosophy engages with. Edward Craig explores important themes in ethics, and the nature of knowledge and the self, through readings from Plato, Hume, Descartes, Hegel,

We Know It When We See It - What the Neurobiology of Vision Tells Us About How We Think (Masland Richard)(Pevná vazba)

Definitive pop science from a world

Fast Food Genocide: How Processed Food Is Killing Us and What We Can Do about It (Fuhrman Joel)(Paperback)

Revered nutrition and health expert, PBS personality, and bestselling author of Eat to Live, Super Immunity, and The End of Diabetes, Dr. Joel Fuhrman, delivers a hard-hitting, culture-shifting examination of the role fast and processed food plays in our nation's health crisis and offers a

How to Live. What To Do.: How great novels help us change - Josh Cohen

What can Alice in Wonderland teach us about childhood? Could reading Conversations with Friends guide us through first love? Does Esther Greenwood’s glittering success and subsequent collapse in The Bell Jar help us understand ambition? And, finally, what can we learn about death from Virginia

The Psychology of Sex (Barker Meg John)(Paperback)

What can psychology teach us about sex?How do different bodies and brains respond sexually?How can we prevent people being stigmatised for their sexuality?The Psychology of Sex takes you on a tour through the different ways that psychologists have created and sustained certain understandings of sex

Adornment: What Self-Decoration Tells Us about Who We Are (Davies Stephen)(Paperback)

Elaborating the history, variety, pervasiveness, and function of the adornments and ornaments with which we beautify ourselves, this book takes in human prehistory, ancient civilizations, hunter-foragers, and present-day industrial societies to tell a captivating story of hair, skin, and make-up

Guidance from the Greatest - What the World War Two generation can teach us about how we live our lives (Mortimer Gavin)(Pevná vazba)

A timely exploration of the twelve best qualities of the wartime generation - and how we can use these to improve our individual character and collective response in the face of

Life Finds a Way - What Evolution Teaches Us About Creativity (Wagner Andreas)(Paperback / softback)

How can new insights into evolution help us solve problems in life, art, business and

The Simple Guide to Collective Trauma: What It Is, How It Affects Us and How to Help (De Thierry Betsy)(Paperback)

- What is collective trauma?- How can it impact children and communities?- What can we do about it? Providing accessible answers to these complex questions and more, this guide explores the key characteristics of collective trauma and provides practical advice on how to help children, young people

The Bias That Divides Us: The Science and Politics of Myside Thinking (Stanovich Keith E.)(Pevná vazba)

Why we don't live in a post-truth society but rather a myside society: what science tells us about the bias that poisons our politics. In The Bias That Divides Us, psychologist Keith Stanovich argues provocatively that we don't live in a post-truth society, as has been claimed, but rather a myside

Lessons in Stoicism - What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us about How to Live (Sellars John)(Paperback / softback)

Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It (Oram Andy)(Paperback)

Many claims are made about how certain tools, technologies, and practices improve software development. But which claims are verifiable, and which are merely wishful thinking? In this book, leading thinkers such as Steve McConnell, Barry Boehm, and Barbara Kitchenham offer essays that uncover the

Hear, My Son - Teaching And Learning In Proverbs 1-9 (Estes Daniel J. (Author))(Paperback / softback)

A presentation of what Proverbs 1-9 tells us about learning to live

What If We Knew What God Knows about Us (Rogers Cris)(Paperback)

This is a book about who God is and who we are in light of that.What we think about ourselves governs what we do. If we think we are powerless, then we will behave that way. If we believe we are weak, we will be weak. If we believe we have no gifts, we will not use our gifting.When we believe the

What Do We Know and What Should We Do about the Future of Work? (Simms Melanie)(Paperback)

'An excellent summary of why and how we work.' People Management magazine What do we know about the current state of work and employment and what does the future of work look like? Professor Melanie Simms provides a far-reaching overview of paid employment in the UK, examining why we work, how we

Evolution's Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins (Ungar Peter)(Pevná vazba)

What teeth can teach us about the evolution of the human species Whether we realize it or not, we carry in our mouths the legacy of our evolution. Our teeth are like living fossils that can be studied and compared to those of our ancestors to teach us how we became human. In Evolution's Bite, noted

What Grieving People Wish You Knew about What Really Helps (and What Really Hurts) (Guthrie Nancy)(Paperback)

We want to say or do something that helps our grieving friend. But what? When someone we know is grieving, we want to help. But sometimes we stay away or stay silent, afraid that we will do or say the wrong thing, that we will hurt instead of help. In this straightforward and practical book, Nancy