' From your brain to your fingertips you emerge from her book entertained & with a deeper understanding of yourself' Richard Dawkins'A masterful account of why our bodies are the way they are this book really shines Roberts's lightness of touch is joyous & celebratory' Observer' Witty personal & above all informed by passion & deep knowledge this is the story of you not just from conception onwards but from the millions of years of evolution that have shaped the way we are today' Adam Rutherford SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZEAlice Roberts takes you on the most incredible journey revealing your path from a single cell to a complex embryo to a living breathing thinking person It's a story that connects us with our distant ancestors & an extraordinary unlikely chain of events that shaped human development & left a mark on all of us Alice Roberts uses the latest research to uncover the evolutionary history hidden in all of us from the secrets found only in our embryos & genes
- including why as embroyos we have what look like gills
- to those visible in your anatomy This is a tale of discovery exploring why & how we have developed as we have This is your story told as never before

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play After creating the last great traditionally animated film of the 20th century The Iron Giant filmmaker Brad Bird joined top-drawer studio Pixar to create this exciting completely entertaining computer-animated film Bird gives us a family of "supers" a brood of five with special powers desperately trying to fit in with the 9-to-5 suburban lifestyle Of course in a more innocent world Bob & Helen Parr were superheroes Mr Incredible & Elastigirl But blasted lawsuits & public disapproval forced them & other supers to go incognito making it even tougher for their school-age kids the shy violet & the aptly named Dash When a stranger named Mirage (voiced by Elizabeth Pena) secretly recruits Bob for a potential mission the old glory days spin in his head even if his body is a bit too plump for his old super suit ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region Free DVD Player in order to play Bob Parr (AKA Mr Incredible) & his wife Helen (AKA Elastigirl) are the world&s greatest famous crime-fighting superheroes in Metroville Always saving lives & battling evil on a daily basis But fifteen years later they have been forced to adopt civilian identities & retreat to the suburbs where they have no choice but to retire as superheroes to live a "normal life" with their three children violet Dash & Jack-Jack (who were secretly born with superpowers) Itching to get back into action Bob gets his chance when a mysterious communication summons him to a remote island for a top secret assignment He soon discovers that it will take a super family effort to rescue the world from total destruction Language English Number of discs 1 ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-Ray player in order to play From the Academy Award-winning creators of Toy Story & Finding Nemo comes this hilarious animated adventure about a team of superheroes Bob Parr was once known as Mr Incredible the world&s greatest superhero Fifteen years later Bob & his wife Helen (Formerly Elastigirl) have adopted civillian identities & retreated to the suburbs to lead "normal lives" with their three children Now Bob&s a clock-punching insurance claims adjuster fighting boredom & an ever-bulging waistline However Bob is thrown back into the world of super-heroism when he receives a mysterious communication summoning him to a remote island for a top-secret mission Yet again Pixar continue their trend for making ground-breaking animated films stretching the boundries laid down by their previous movies Actors Craig T Nelson Holly Hunter Samuel L Jackson Jason Lee Dominique Louis Teddy Newton Jean Sincere Eli Fucile Maeve Andrews Wallace Shawn Spencer Fox Lou Romano Elizabeth Pena & John Ratzenberger Director Brad Bird Certificate Universal Suitable for All Year 2004 Screen Widescreen 2391 Languages English
- DTS-HD Master Audio (51) Additional Languages Spanish ; Hindi ; Catalan ; Portuguese Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; Spanish ; Portuguese Duration 1 hour & 55 minutes (approx)
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From Beast Kingdom Toys' Mini Egg Attack series comes this cute PVC mini figure It stands approx 14 cm tall & comes with base in a printed box ...

THE INDIAN COLLECTION boxset contains six classic INDIAN westerns They include Cry Blood Apache Mohawk The Battle Of Bloody Stones Heller Sitting Ball Kentucky Rifle ...

This comprehensive guide to Indian cooking explores the myriad regional varieties of authentic healthy & lesser known Indian ...

Dr Prem Sharmar (Sanjeev Bhaskar) & his wife arrives as the GP in a small Welsh mining village in 1963 He is expecting a position in a prestigious London practice but the local community warms to him In the second series the doctor is confronted by a hellfire preacher has to isolate the source of a deadly outbreak in the town & face a long-dreaded visit by his mother-in-law ...

Sanjeev Bhaskar (GOODNESS GRACIOUS ME THE KUMARS AT NO42) stars in comedy-drama THE INDIAN DOCTOR as Dr Prem Patel a medical graduate from Delhi Hoping to find work in a top London surgery Prem brings his wife Kamini (Ayesha Dharker) to the UK during the swinging 60's Their path to a new life however leads them to the sleepy Welsh coal mining village of Trefelin ...

A brilliantly original history of the First World War re-tracing the footsteps of the Indian Army's 15 million men who in 1914-18 served about the globe from Europe to Africa Asia & the Indian Ocean 592 pages Approx 32 bw & colour photos Morton-Jack George ...