Why We Fly (Jones Kimberly)(Pevná vazba)

Why We Fly (Jones Kimberly)(Pevná vazba)

Sydney Taylor Book Award Notable book in the Young Adult categoryFrom the New York Times bestselling authors of I'm Not Dying with You Tonight comes a story about friendship, privilege, sports, and protest.With a rocky start to senior year, cheerleaders and lifelong best friends Eleanor and Chanel

Why do we poo? (Blackford Harriet)(Pevná vazba)

Why Haven't We Seen Aliens (HB)(Pevná vazba)

Futureproof: How to Build Resilience in an Uncertain World (Coaffee Jon)(Pevná vazba)

A compelling and definitive account of why we need to radically rethink our approach to dealing with catastrophic events Catastrophic events such as 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the Tohoku 'Triple Disaster' of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown that hit the eastern seaboard of Japan in 2012

Big Questions, Big World: Why are we here? (Dickmann Nancy)(Pevná vazba)

Let's Save Antarctica: Why we must protect our planet (Barr Catherine)(Pevná vazba)

Lifespan: Why We Age--And Why We Don't Have to (Sinclair David A.)(Pevná vazba)

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Brilliant and enthralling.'​ --The Wall Street Journal A paradigm-shifting book from an acclaimed Harvard Medical School scientist and one of Time's most influential people. It's a seemingly undeniable truth that aging is inevitable. But what if everything we've been

Copycats and Contrarians: Why We Follow Others... and When We Don't (Baddeley Michelle)(Pevná vazba)

A multidisciplinary exploration of our human inclination to herd and why our instinct to copy others can be dangerous in today's interlinked world Rioting teenagers, tumbling stock markets, and the spread of religious terrorism appear to have little in common, but all are driven by the same basic

Women vs. Capitalism: Why We Can't Have It All in a Free Market Economy (Pryce Vicky)(Pevná vazba)

Why We Need Religion (Asma Stephen T.)(Pevná vazba)

How we feel is as vital to our survival as how we think. This claim, based on the premise that emotions are largely adaptive, serves as the organizing theme of Why We Need Religion. This book is a novel pathway in a well-trodden field of religious studies and philosophy of religion. Stephen Asma

Why We Kneel How We Rise (Holding Michael)(Pevná vazba)

A powerful look at the history of racism through the prism of sport, showing how we can change things through education and

Why Do We Eat? (Turnbull Stephanie)(Pevná vazba)

Why do you need food and what happens to it inside your body? Which foods give you energy and which ones make you fit and strong? In this book you can explore your amazing insides and discover all kinds of fantastic food facts. Usborne Beginners are colourful information books for children

Why We Cooperate (Tomasello Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Understanding cooperation as a distinctly human combination of innate and learned behavior.Drop something in front of a two-year-old, and she's likely to pick it up for you. This is not a learned behavior, psychologist Michael Tomasello argues. Through observations of young children in experiments

Nest: Rescued Chickens at Home (Holmes Janet)(Pevná vazba)

How do we decide which animals are family and which are food? Why are we surprised to see a rooster gazing out the kitchen window or a hen studying herself in the mirror? After all, chickens are present in many homes, as flesh and eggs, but not as individuals with personalities of their own. In

Kindness of Strangers - How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code (McCullough Michael E.)(Pevná vazba)

Why do we give a damn about

The Lost Boy's Gift (Holt Kimberly Willis)(Pevná vazba)

Kimberly Willis Holt explores themes of divorce, acceptance, intergenerational friendship, and the power that comes with noticing in The Lost Boy's Gift, an insightful middle-grade novel.There are places where you want to go and places where you want to leave. There are also places where you want

Why Do We Cry? (Pintadera Fran)(Pevná vazba)

This sensitive, poetic picture book uses metaphors and beautiful imagery to explain the reasons for our tears, making it clear that everyone is allowed to cry, and that everyone does.In a soft voice, Mario asks, 'Mother, why do we cry?' His mother thinks for a moment, and then begins to tell him

How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything (Seidman Dov)(Pevná vazba)

The flood of information, unprecedented transparency, increasinginterconnectedness-and our global interdependence-aredramatically reshaping today's world, the world of business, andour lives. We are in the Era of Behavior and the rules of the gamehave fundamentally changed. It is no longer what you

Britain by Numbers: A Visual Exploration of People and Place (Newman Stuart)(Pevná vazba)

How much more do we drink than we should? Why do immigrants come here? How have house prices changed in the past decade? What do we spend our money on? Britain by Numbers answers all these questions and more, vividly bringing our nation to life in new and unexpected ways by showing who lives here,

All About Friends (Brooks Felicity)(Pevná vazba)

Why do we need friends? And what makes a good friend? This charmingly illustrated book explores the benefits of having friends, looking at different types of friendships, and what happens when friends fall out and make up. Includes helpful notes for grown-ups on talking to children about

Language, Cognition, and Computational Models (Poibeau Thierry)(Pevná vazba)

How do infants learn a language? Why and how do languages evolve? How do we understand a sentence? This book explores these questions using recent computational models that shed new light on issues related to language and cognition. The chapters in this collection propose original analyses of

Fake Heritage: Why We Rebuild Monuments (Darlington John)(Pevná vazba)

This compelling book surveys reconstructions and imitations of landmarks, archaeological sites, and other artifacts, using them to explore the ethics and consequences of recreating the

Fly Flies (Bowsher Alice)(Pevná vazba)

Castle of Books (Sanna Alessandro)(Pevná vazba)

Everything starts with a question, like this one: Why do we need books? In Castle of Books, two children go on a creative journey to discover the answer to the question 'Why do we need books?' As they pore over piles and piles of books and discover the incredible worlds and words within, they find