' An ass clothed in the skin of a lion' Aesop's animal fables are some of the earliest stories ever told thought to have been composed by a slave in Greek antiquity & giving glimpses of a world that is harsh pitiless & yet also eerily familiar Introducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range & diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world & across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California & the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical & savage; poems epic & intimate; essays satirical & inspirational; & ideas that have shaped the lives of millions Aesop is believed to have lived in 6th century BC Aesop's The Complete Fables is available in Penguin Classics ...

Why do dogs behave in the ways that they do? Why did our ancestors tame wolves? How have we ended up with so many breeds of dog & how can we understand their role in contemporary human society? Explore the answers to these questions & many more in this study of the domestic dog Building on the strengths of the first edition this much-anticipated update incorporates two decades of new evidence & discoveries on dog evolution behavior training & human interaction It

Includes:: seven entirely new chapters covering topics such as behavioral modification & training dog population management the molecular evidence for dog domestication canine behavioral genetics cognition & the impact of free-roaming dogs on wildlife conservation It is an ideal volume for anyone interested in dogs & their evolution behavior & ever-changing roles in society

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Why do we care what others think? What keeps us bound together? How does the brain shape our behaviour? Bruce Hood is an award-winning psychologist who has researched & taught at Cambridge & Harvard Universities & is currently Director of the Cognitive Development Centre at the University of Bristol He delivered the Royal Institution's Christmas Lectures in 2011 & is the author of The Self Illusion & Supersense described by New Scientist as 'important crystal clear & utterly engaging' ...

When a man is found beaten to death in a local Manchester park Detective Constable Sam Parker is one of the investigating officers Sam swiftly identifies the victim but what at first looks like an open & shut case quickly starts to unravel when he realises that the victim's fingerprints were found on a knife at another crime scene a month earlier Meanwhile Sam's brother Joe
- a criminal defence lawyer in the city
- comes face to face with a man whose very presence sends shockwaves through his life Joe must confront the demons of his past as he struggles to come to terms with the darkness that this man represents Before long Joe & Sam are in way over their heads both sucked into a terrifying game of cat-&-mouse that threatens to change their lives for ever' Authenticity reeks from every pagehypnotic troubling crime writing with a superb villain & a distinctive atmosphere' Daily Mail on Next to Die

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play All six episodes of the 1970s teen adventure series When Commander David Wheeler (Donald Burton) is arrested for a seemingly motiveless attack on a mysterious vessel his son Richard (Andrew Ashby) along with friends Lucy (Shelley Crowhurst) & Peter (Richard Willis) embarks on a search for the top-secret information that might clear his name Along the way the three pals become entangled in an intrigue of codes espionage & a fearsome new weapon under the sea Episodes are ' Court of Shame' ' Escape to Danger' ' Death Beacon' ' Alarm at Gareth's Peak' ' The Devil's Jaws' & ' Assault On Cragfest' Actors Andrew Ashby Shelley Crowhurst Richard Willis Donald Burton Peter Vaughan Format PALRegion Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 1 ...

It is a mysterious city whose sun is switched on in the morning & switched off at night bordered by an abyss on one side & an impossibly high wall on the other Its inhabitants are people who were plucked from twentieth-century history at various times & places & left to govern themselves advised by Mentors whose purpose seems inscrutable This is life in the Experiment Andrei Voronin a young astronomer plucked from Leningrad in the 1950s is a die-hard believer in the Experiment even though his first job in the city is as a garbage collector As increasinbly nightmarish scenarios begin to affect the city he rises through the political hierarchy with devastating effect ...

Silent Kingdom The Never Machine A Spoonful Of Darkness See You Tomorrow The Sceptre Hand Of Hell The Silence The God Particle ...

Shortlisted for the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-Fiction From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers the first insider expose of the awful dangers of America's hidden seventy-year-long nuclear policy that is chillingly still extant At the same time former presidential advisor Daniel Ellsberg famously took the top-secret Pentagon Papers he also took with him a chilling cache of top-secret documents related to America's nuclear program in the 1960s Here for the first time he reveals the contents of those now-declassified documents & makes clear their shocking relevance for today The Doomsday Machine is Ellsberg's hair-raising account of the most dangerous arms build-up in the history of civilisation whose legacy
- & proposed renewal under the Trump administration
- threatens the very survival of humanity It is scarcely possible to estimate the true dangers of our present nuclear policies without penetrating the secret realities of the nuclear strategy of the late Eisenhower & early Kennedy years when Ellsberg had high level access to them No other insider has written so candidly of that long-classified history & nothing has fundamentally changed since that era Ellsberg's discussion of recent research on nuclear winter shows that even a 'small' nuclear exchange would cause billions of deaths by global nuclear famine Framed as a memoir
- a chronicle of madness in which Ellsberg acknowledges participating
- this gripping expose reads like a thriller with cloak-&-dagger intrigue returning him to his role as whistle-blower It is a real-life Dr Strangelove story but an ultimately hopeful
- & powerfully important
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Bongs goats amps & a lot of naked nuns! In five decades of wretched existence doom metal has evolved into a vast orchard of unearthly delights Explore its unholy rites with THE DOOMSTER’S MONOLITHIC POCKET ALPHABET the definitive illustrated lexicon of all things doom Or be doomed! ...