Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe (Holloway Richard)(Paperback)

We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction (Didion Joan)(Pevná vazba)

Looking in the Distance: The Human Search for Meaning (Holloway Richard)(Paperback)

Spirituality, like morality, has historically been tied to religion--and yet it is possible for one to exist without the other. In this meditative and highly personal account, Richard Holloway considers the nature of the spiritual, and what it means to live with the inevitability of death. Both

Doubts and Loves: What Is Left of Christianity (Holloway Richard)(Paperback)

In this passionate and heartfelt book, Richard Holloway interrogates the traditional ways of understanding the Bible. In doing so he demonstrates the power of the great Christian stories as they apply today, away from their sometimes antiquated settings, providing a blueprint which takes the core

Stories We Tell Our Children (Nash Marc)(Paperback / softback)

Doing Digital Methods Paperback with Interactive eBook (Rogers Richard)(Mixed media product)

From building a URL list to discover internet censorship to making Twitter API outputs tell stories, Doing Digital Methods teaches the reader how to use digital devices, search engines and social media platforms to study some of the most urgent social issues of our

Conquering Fat Logic - how to overcome what we tell ourselves about diets, weight, and metabolism (Hermann Nadja)(Paperback / softback)

Survival Songs (Royer Meggie)(Paperback)

'Say girl now and we see ourselves in kitchens. See ourselves in graves. But still we read our horoscopes.' Survival Songs is a rerelease of Meggie Royer's first collection of poems, which was a finalist in the GoodReads Choice Awards for the Best Poetry Book of 2013. This edition includes new

What We Left Behind (Talley Robin)(Paperback / softback)

'A moving YA book. And an important one' - The Telegraph on Lies We Tell Ourselves What if discovering who you really are means letting go of who you've

Fables and Futures: Biotechnology, Disability, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves (Estreich George)(Pevná vazba)

How new biomedical technologies--from prenatal testing to gene-editing techniques--require us to imagine who counts as human and what it means to belong.From next-generation prenatal tests, to virtual children, to the genome-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9, new biotechnologies grant us unprecedented power

Tall Tales and Wee Stories (Connolly Billy)(Paperback)

'Coming from Glasgow, it's weird, I don't really tell jokes, like Irish jokes and all that. I tell wee stories. And some of them don't even have punchlines. But you'll get used to it as the night goes on, and on, and on, and on and on...' In December 2018, after 50-years of belly-laughs, energy,

Tatterdemalion (Linsteadt Sylvia)(Paperback)

In a ruined world, what survives are the stories we tell Poppy, who speaks the languages of wild things, travels east to the mountains with the wheeled and elephantine beast Lyoobov. He's seeking answers to the mysteries of his birth, and the origins of the fallen world in which he lives. Up in the

Mosquito Man (Bates Jeremy)(Paperback)

We tell ourselves there's nothing to fear - but sometimes, we're wrong.After a woman bangs at the door in the middle of the night, and promptly dies from her injury, a couple's remote cabin getaway becomes a psychological night of terror as they are hunted by an unknown assailant. Now they must go

A Networked Self and Love (Papacharissi Zizi)(Paperback)

We fall in love every day, with others, with ideas, with ourselves. Stories of love excite us and baffle us. This volume is about love and the networked self. It focuses on how love forms, grows, or dissolves. Chapters address how relationships of love develop, are sustained or broken up through

Deceived (Randall Anne)(Paperback)

Secrets.What secrets are hidden at the heart of family life? Deceit.The lies we tell ourselves are often more dangerous than the truth.When forty-one-year-old Sarah Price is reported missing after having arranged a date with a man she met on the internet, her son is distraught. Meanwhile, Glasgow

Ambiguity Machines: And Other Stories (Singh Vandana)(Paperback)

A book of stories of how uncertainly we move through space and time by ourselves and with

More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Schwartz Alvin)(Paperback)

More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a timeless collection of chillingly scary tales and legends. Folklorist Alvin Schwartz offers up some of the most alarming tales of horror, dark revenge, and supernatural events of all time.In this paperback edition, Stephen Gammell's artwork from the

Eerie Silence - Searching for Ourselves in the Universe (Davies Paul)(Paperback / softback)

Why isn't the universe teeming with alien life? This book is a guide to the 'Fermi

Incarnation (Pollard Clare)(Paperback)

Poems about children and the stories we tell them, about childbirth, innocence and responsibility and what it means to bring new human beings into this

The Consciousness' Drive: Information Need and the Search for Meaning (Cole Charles)(Pevná vazba)

1 Human Exceptionality: How We See Ourselves in Relation to the World.- 2 Framing - Lessons from Vermeer.- 3 Episodic Memory: Lessons from the Scrub Jays.- 4 Episodic Memory: Subjective Time-travel.- 5 Episodic-to-Mimetic Transition.- 6 Framing: The Mimetic-to-Mythic Transition.- 7 Framing: The

Faithful feelings: Emotion In The New Testament (Elliott Matthew)(Paperback)

Everything we do, say and think is, in some sense, emotional. We describe ourselves and our experiences in terms of how we feel. In the New Testament, Jesus and Paul displayed a wide range of emotions in their lives and teaching. Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin, Jonathan Edwards and others have

Best Bedtime Stories Ever (Scarry Richard)(Paperback / softback)

A collection of Richard Scarry's best loved stories, gathered together in the perfect bedtime storybook. Now in picture book

Black Vodka (Levy Deborah)(Paperback / softback)

How does love change us? How do we change ourselves for love - or for lack of it? Ten stories by acclaimed author Deborah Levy explore these delicate, impossible questions. From London gardens to a forest outside Prague, these are twenty-first century lives dissected with razor-sharp humour, about

Meaning in English: An Introduction (Valenzuela Javier)(Paperback)

This lively, compact textbook introduces readers to semantics - the study of how we construct meaning in communication. Easy to follow, and with a clear structure, it explains formal terminology in a simple and understandable way, without using formal notation or logic, and draws on dozens of

A Philosopher Looks at Human Beings (Ruse Michael)(Paperback)

Why do we think ourselves superior to all other animals? Are we right to think so? In this wide-ranging and fascinating book, Michael Ruse explores these questions in religion, science and