Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships (Ryan Christopher)(Paperback)

Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships (Ryan Christopher)(Paperback)

'Sex at Dawn challenges conventional wisdom about sex in a big way. By examining the prehistoric origins of human sexual behavior the authors are able to expose the fallacies and weaknesses of standard theories proposed by most experts. This is a provocative, entertaining, and pioneering book. I

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

Voices Within - The History and Science of How We Talk to Ourselves (Fernyhough Charles)(Paperback / softback)

A wide-ranging look at the voices in all our heads, examining how we think and what it means for our lives and sense of self, now in

The Cash Ceiling: Why Only the Rich Run for Office--And What We Can Do about It (Carnes Nicholas)(Paperback)

Why working-class Americans almost never become politicians, what that means for democracy, and what reformers can do about itWhy are Americans governed by the rich? Millionaires make up only three percent of the public but control all three branches of the federal government. How did this happen?

Why Johnny Can't Tell Right from Wrong: And What We Can Do about It (Kilpatrick William)(Paperback)

In Why Johnny Can't Tell Right from Wrong: And What We Can Do About It, Kilpatrick shows how we can correct this problem by providing our youngsters with the stories, models, and inspirations they need in order to lead good lives. Kilpatrick shows how we can correct this problem by providing our

Why We Get Mad: How to Use Your Anger for Positive Change (Martin Ryan)(Paperback)

This is THE book on anger, the first book to explain exactly why we get mad, what anger really is - and how to cope with and use it. Often confused with hostility and violence, anger is fundamentally different from these aggressive behaviours and in fact can be a healthy and powerful force in our

Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense (Wright Tom)(Paperback)

What does Christianity stand for in the 21st century? How can we believe it? Why do we need it? In this modern classic, bestselling author Tom Wright invites you on a journey into the heart of Christianity and shows you how it can be lived authentically today. Taking the reader through the

Discomfortable: What Is Shame and How Can We Break Its Hold? (Bond A. J.)(Paperback)

The go-to guide to understand and unpack shame: what it is, why we feel it, and how to undo the lies it tells us about ourselves. Are you ready to get Discomfortable? This is a book about shame: what it is, why we have it, and how we can break its hold on our happiness. We all know shame: it's that

Before You Know It - The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do (Bargh John)(Paperback / softback)

And most crucial of all: if we understood how our unconscious worked - if we knew why we do what we do - could we finally, fundamentally, know ourselves?From checking a dating app to holding a cup of coffee or choosing who to vote for, our unconscious secretly governs everything we feel, think and

Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Achen Christopher H.)(Paperback)

Why our belief in government by the people is unrealistic--and what we can do about it Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human

Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism (Barber Aja)(Paperback)

A call to action for consumers everywhere, Consumed asks us to look at how and why we buy what we buy, how it's created, who it benefits, and how we can solve the problems created by a wasteful system. We live in a world of stuff. We dispose of most of it in as little as six months after we

Crying Book (Christle Heather)(Paperback / softback)

Why do we cry? How do we cry? And what does it mean? A scientific, cultural, artistic examination by a young poet on the cusp of

Acting with Power: Why We Are More Powerful Than We Believe (Gruenfeld Deborah)(Paperback)

'A refreshing and enlightening new perspective on what it means to be powerful.'--Susan Cain, bestselling author of Quiet We all know what it looks like to use power badly. But how much do we really know about how to use power well? There is so much we get wrong about power: who has it, what it

How Sex Works: Why We Look, Smell, Taste, Feel, and ACT the Way We Do (Moalem Sharon)(Paperback)

'Read this book and discover sex again, but from a scientific perspective, and see why it evolved. It's almost as much fun, and needs less energy.' -- Peter Macinnis, author of 100 Discoveries: The Greatest Breakthroughs in History 'How Sex Works manages to inject science writing with the prurient

The Science of Song: How and Why We Make Music (Cross Alan)(Pevná vazba)

What is music? How is it made? And what's changed --- and what hasn't --- about how we listen to it? Here's all the best stuff about the science and history behind our connection to music.Though most of us know we love listening to music, we may not spend much time thinking about how this came to

How Pleasure Works - Why we like what we like (Bloom Paul)(Paperback / softback)

We are attracted, whether we know it or not, to the hidden aspects of things and people. Some teenagers enjoy cutting themselves with razors. Some men pay good money to be spanked by prostitutes. The average Briton spends over a day a week watching television. This title examines the science behind

Families And How To Survive Them (Cleese John)(Paperback / softback)

Looking candidly at everything from our relationships with our parents to why and how we choose our partners, no emotional stone is left unturned: jealousy, rage, fear, envy, love, obsession, hope and despair - all are featured-with practical advice on how to turn round a negative situation and

Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts (Burnham Terry)(Paperback)

Why do we want--and why do we do--so many things that are bad for us? And how can we stop? In Mean Genes economist Terry Burnham and biologist Jay Phelan offer advice on how to conquer our own worst enemy--our survival-minded genes. Having evolved in a time of scarcity, when our ancestors struggled

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

What Are You Looking At? - 150 Years of Modern Art in the Blink of an Eye (Gompertz Will)(Paperback / softback)

What is modern art? Why do we either love it or loathe it? And why is it worth so much damn money? This book asks all the basic questions that you were too afraid to

Pure, White and Deadly - How Sugar Is Killing Us and What We Can Do to Stop It (Yudkin John)(Paperback / softback)

Sugar. It is killing us. Why do we eat so much of it? What are its hidden dangers? Using everyday language and a range of scientific evidence, the author explores the ins and out of sugar, from the different types - is brown sugar really better than white? - to how it is hidden inside our everyday

Scouting and Scoring: How We Know What We Know about Baseball (Phillips Christopher)(Paperback)

An in-depth look at the intersection of judgment and statistics in baseball Scouting and scoring are considered fundamentally different ways of ascertaining value in baseball. Scouting seems to rely on experience and intuition, scoring on performance metrics and statistics. In Scouting and Scoring,

At Our Wits' End: Why We're Becoming Less Intelligent and What It Means for the Future (Dutton Edward)(Paperback)

Why We Get Fat: And What to Do about It (Taubes Gary)(Paperback)

What's making us fat? And how can we change? Building upon his critical work in Good Calories, Bad Calories and presenting fresh evidence for his claim, bestselling author Gary Taubes revisits these urgent questions. Taubes reveals the bad nutritional science of the last century--none more damaging