More than 98 percent of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee The 'third' chimpanzee is man Jared Diamond surveys out life-cycle culture sexuality & destructive urges both towards ourselves & the planet to explore the ways in which we are uniquely human yet still influenced by our animal origins ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play British crime drama starring Timothy Spall Iwan Rheon & Matthew Lewis Falsely imprisoned as a result of local drug kingpin Roper (Neil Maskell)&s scheming Harvey (Luke Treadaway) returns home a man desperate to get his revenge As well as concocting a plan with the help of his three close friends Dempsey (Rheon) Charlie (Gerard Kearns) & Dodd (Lewis) to strip Roper of all his assets & undermine his reputation Harvey is also tasked with winning back the trust & admiration of his girlfriend Nicola (Vanessa Kirby) ...

New omnibus edition of Mike Lee's classic Warhammer fantasy trilogy The Rise of Nagash In the fantasy world of Warhammer magic suffuses the land to such an extent that even the dead can live' again & whole empires of undead creatures hold sway in the dark places of the Old World The vampires in the forests the ghouls in their tunnels the tomb kings of the southern deserts
- all can trace their dark lineage back to Nagash the first necromancer & supreme lord of undeath For it was Nagash two millennia before the time of Sigmar who wrested the secrets of life & death from the dark elves embarking upon a quest for immortality that would spark a war destroy an empire & unleash a plague of undeath that would blight the Old World until the End Times & beyond The Time of Legends omnibuses tell the stories of the ancient events that shaped the Warhammer Old World & still resonate aeons later in the current Age of Sigmar setting Nagash is a key antagonist in the original Warhammer setting & he has risen again to cause havoc amid the Mortal Realms in the Age of Sigmar A great-value collection of three novels that bring the legend of the dark necromancer Nagash vividly to life Previous trade paperback omnibus edition The Rise of Nagash (ISBN9781849702829)
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The Rise of Nine is the next thrilling instalment in the gripping Lorien Legacies series by Pittacus Lore' Number Four is a hero for this generation' Michael Bay director of Transformers Until I met John Smith Number Four I'd been on the run alone hiding & fighting to stay alive Together we are much more powerful But it could only last so long before we had to separate to find the others I went to Spain to find Seven & I found even more including a tenth member of the Garde who escaped from Lorien alive Ella is younger than the rest of us but just as brave Now we're looking for the others
- including John But so are they I am Number Six To finish what they started they'll have to fight us first Praise for Pittacus Lore' Tense exciting full of energy' Observer' Relentlessly readable' The Times' Tense keeps you wondering' Sunday Times' Set to eclipse Harry Potter & moody vampires Pittacus Lore is about to become one of the hottest names on the planet' Big Issue The Rise of Nine is the third book in Pittacus Lore's Lorien Legacies series The first book in his Lorien Legacies series I Am Number Four is now a major Disney motion picture & along with The Power of Six & The Rise of Nine perfect for fans of The Hunger Games
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'the fates ordained the founding of this great city & the beginning of the world's mightiest empire second only to the power of the gods' Romulus & Remus the rape of Lucretia Horatius at the bridge the saga of Coriolanus Cincinnatus called from his farm to save the state
- these & many more are stories which immortalised by Livy in his history of early Rome have become part of our cultural heritage The historian's huge work written between 20 BC & AD 17 ran to 12 books beginning with Rome's founding in 753 BC & coming down to Livy's own lifetime (9 BC) Books 1-5 cover the period from Rome's beginnings to her first great foreign conquest the capture of the Etruscan city of Veii & a few years later to her first major defeat the sack of the city by the Gauls in 390 BC The complete Livy in English available in five volumes from Oxford World's Classics ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more
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A razor-sharp analysis of how record-breaking exploits in extreme sport are redefining the limits of being human Right now more people are risking their lives for their sports then ever before in history As Thomas Pynchon once put it in Gravity's Rainbow 'it is not often that Death is told so clearly to f off' Over the past three decades the bounds of the possible in action & adventure sports
- from sky-diving to motocross to surfing & beyond
- have been pushed farther & faster A generation's worth of iconoclastic misfits have rewritten the rules of the feasible; not just raising the bar but obliterating it altogether Along the way they have become a force pushing evolution relentlessly onward In a thrilling narrative that draws on biology psychology & philosophy Steven Kotler asks why at the tail end of the 20th century & the early portion of the 21st are we seeing such a multi-sport assault on reality? Did we somehow slip through a wormhole to another universe where gravity is optional & common sense obsolete? & where
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- do our actual limits lie?



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This book is the first to offer an accessible & uncompromising look at the English Defence League (EDL) It aims to alter thinking about working-class politics & the rise of right-wing nationalism in the de-industrialised & decaying towns & cities of England The rise of the right among the working class the authors claim is inextricably connected to the withdrawal of the political left from traditional working-class communities & the left's refusal to advance the economic interests of those who have suffered most from neoliberal economic restructuring Incisive contentious & boundary-breaking it uses the voices of men & women who now support far-right political groups to address the total failure of mainstream parliamentary politics & the rising tide of frustration resentment & anger ...

If a robot' could do your job quicker than you & better than you for no pay would you still be employed? Today it's travel agents data-analyst & paralegals whose jobs are under threat Soon it will be doctors taxi-drivers & ironically even computer programmers Without a radical reassessment of our economic & political structures we risk the implosion of the capitalist economy itself In a frightening tour of artificial intelligence's rapid advances technology expert Martin Ford draws on a wealth of economic data from both the US & the UK to outline the terrifying societal implications of the robots' rise From health & education to finance & technology his warning is stark any job that is on some level routine is likely to be automated & if we are to see a future of prosperity rather than catastrophe we must act now ...

The Greek statesman Polybius (c 200-118 BC) wrote his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire in order to help his fellow countrymen understand how their world came to be dominated by Rome Opening with the Punic War in 264 BC he vividly records the critical stages of Roman expansion its campaigns throughout the Mediterranean the temporary setbacks inflicted by Hannibal & the final destruction of Carthage An active participant of the politics of his time as well as a friend of many prominent Roman citizens Polybius drew on many eyewitness accounts in writing this cornerstone work of history ...

Legend says that a spirit sleeps within each of usand that a childhood trauma can awaken it such is the awakening of the Zelphire Young Sylvan Khelmann is one such host doing his best to hide the strange tree-like features that start growing on his body This mysterious condition comes with strange abilities which he doesn&t understand until meeting Professor Wernes who invites him to join an expedition of discovery But they find themselves pursued by the evil Dreghans who possess supernatural abilities of their own tracking down all known Zelphires to serve their secret nefarious purpose The first book in the globally popular middle-grade fantasy series by writerillustrator Karim Friha this supernatural tale is steeped in Victorian steampunk & is a delightfully dark adventure like Charles Dickens by way of Tim Burton ...