The Trouble with Testosterone: And Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament (Sapolsky Robert M.)(Paperback)

The Trouble with Testosterone: And Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament (Sapolsky Robert M.)(Paperback)

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize From the man who Oliver Sacks hailed as 'one of the best scientist/writers of our time,' a collection of sharply observed, uproariously funny essays on the biology of human culture and behavior. In the tradition of Stephen Jay Gould and Oliver Sacks,

Behave - The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Sapolsky Robert M)(Paperback / softback)

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Sapolsky Robert M.)(Pevná vazba)

Monkeyluv - And Other Lessons in Our Lives as Animals (Sapolsky Robert M)(Paperback / softback)

Described by Oliver Sacks as 'one of the best scientist-writers of our time', Robert M. Sapolsky here presents the human animal in all its quirkiness and diversity. In these remarkable essays, Sapolsky once again deploys his compassion and insights into the human condition to tell us who, why and

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Sapolsky Robert M.)(Paperback)

The New York Times Bestseller'It's no exaggeration to say that Behave is one of the best nonfiction books I've ever read.' --David P. Barash, The Wall Street Journal 'It has my vote for science book of the year.' --Parul Sehgal, The New York Times 'Hands-down one of the best books I've read in

A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons (Sapolsky Robert M.)(Paperback)

In the tradition of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, a foremost science writer and recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, tells the mesmerizing story of his twenty-one years in remote Kenya with a troop of Savannah baboons. 'I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew

Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life: A Psychologist Investigates How Evolution, Cognition, and Complexity Are Revolutionizing Our View of Human Natur (Kenrick Douglas T.)(Paperback)

'Kenrick writes like a dream.'--Robert Sapolsky, Professor of Biology and Neurology, Stanford University; author of A Primate's Memoir and Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers What do sex and murder have to do with the meaning of life? Everything.In Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life, social psychologist

How Not to be a Doctor - And Other Essays (Launer John)(Paperback / softback)

The essays in How Not to Be a Doctor combine erudition with humour, candour, and the human touch. They show how, in medicine, you cannot separate personal experiences from professional ones, in short stories and reflections that will inform and entertain readers on both ends of the

A New View of Society: Essays on the Principle of the Formation of the Human Character, and the Application of the Principle to Practice (Owen Robert)(Paperback)

Robert Owen (14 May 1771 - 17 November 1858) was a Welsh social reformer and one of the founders of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement. In 'A New View of Society,' Owens laid out his view that human beings reflect their environment, and thus that the creation of new socialist relations

Anarchism and Other Essays (Goldman Emma)(Paperback)

In the 1890s and for years thereafter, America reverberated with the name of the 'notorious Anarchist,' feminist, revolutionist, and agitator, Emma Goldman. A Russian Jewish immigrant at the age of 17, she moved by her own efforts from seamstress in a clothing factory to internationally known

In Praise of Idleness: And Other Essays (Russell Bertrand)(Paperback)

Intolerance and bigotry lie at the heart of all human suffering. So claims Bertrand Russell at the outset of In Praise of Idleness, a collection of essays in which he espouses the virtues of cool reflection and free enquiry; a voice of calm in a world of maddening unreason. From a devastating

The Trouble with Being Born (Cioran E. M.)(Paperback)

In this volume, which reaffirms the uncompromising brilliance of his mind, Cioran strips the human condition down to its most basic components, birth and death, suggesting that disaster lies not in the prospect of death but in the fact of birth, 'that laughable accident.' In the lucid, aphoristic

The Biology Coloring Book (Griffin Robert D.)(Paperback)

In The Biology Coloring Book, learn about the basic processes of life and the interactions of living things within their environment. Whether studying biology on your own or enrolled in a course in high school or college, you will find this book indispensable.More than 50% of your brain is devoted

Against the Double Blackmail - Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours (Zizek Slavoj)(Paperback / softback)

It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture & Other Essays (Berry Wendell)(Paperback)

An impassioned and rigorous appeal for reconnection to the land and human feeling by one of America's most heartfelt and humble writers. When he accepted the invitation to deliver The Jefferson Lecture--our nation's highest honor for distinguished intellectual achievement--Wendell Berry decided to

Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art (Clifford James)(Paperback)

The Predicament of Culture is a critical ethnography of the West in its changing relations with other societies. Analyzing cultural practices such as anthropology, travel writing, collecting, and museum displays of tribal art, Clifford shows authoritative accounts of other ways of life to be

The Emotional Load: And Other Invisible Stuff (Emma)(Paperback)

The author of The Mental Load returns with more 'visual essays which are transformative agents of change.' After the success of The Mental Load, Emma continues in her new book to tangle with issues pertinent to women's experiences, from consent to the 'power of love,' from the care and

Communal Nude: Collected Essays (Gluck Robert)(Paperback)

The collected essays of the cofounder of the New Narrative movement, on theory, identity, poetry, and muses from Kathy Acker to Georges Bataille.I read and wrote to invoke what seemed impossible--relation itself--in order to take part in a world that ceaselessly makes itself up, to 'wake up' to the

Busted in New York & Other Essays - with an introduction by Zadie Smith (Pinckney Darryl)(Paperback / softback)

A collection of essays that blend the personal and the social, from the celebrated literary critic and

Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays - Robert Louis Stevenson - e-kniha

eBook:,‘Across the Plains’ is a vibrant collection of travel and exploration pieces from Stevenson’s life. ‘Across the Plains’ itself recounts Stevenson’s journey from Glasgow to New York before his long train ride to California. It offers a fascinating insight in to how our world used

The Fear of the Feminine: And Other Essays on Feminine Psychology (Neumann Erich)(Paperback)

These essays by the famous analytical psychologist and student of creativity Erich Neumann belong in the context of the depth psychology of culture and reveal a prescient concern about the one-sidedness of patriarchal Western civilization. Neumann recommended a 'cultural therapy' that he thought

In the King's Name (Kent Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

A searing and gripping tale of trouble on the high seas, and of the weakness of the human spirit, In the King's Name heralds the return of our greatest living maritime writer and the legendary Adam

The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays (Makhno Nestor)(Paperback)

A collection of essays and articles from the Ukranian revolutionary, Nestor Makhno, who fought against encroaching Bolshevik terror during the Russian Revolution. 'The Struggle Against the State and other Essays' sheds valuable insight onto the man and the movement that bore his

The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writings (Gilman Charlotte Perkins)(Paperback)

Collected fiction and essays by a pillar of the American feminist canon--with an introduction by Halle Butler, a National Book Award Foundation '5 Under 35' honoree and a Granta Best Young American Novelist Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a writer, editor, and journalist whose poems, articles, short