What is the history of human populations? How are cultural traditions maintained & changed over time? Why did people destroy their environments in the past & were they ever conservationists? What led to the emergence of marked social inequalities? These are some of the questions that this text addresses & answers, in an application of neo-Darwinian evolutionary ideas to the human past. Stephen Shennan opens with the study of human behaviour, as acted upon by natural selection, & goes on to demonstrate that the same ideas can be applied to human societies, not just through the genes but through what Richard Dawkins has called memes, units of cultural information which are passed on in our second inheritance system, culture. The book ranges from life history theory to game theory, & from the origins of farming to the collapse of societies. ...

Human (and) nature. Epic journeys to the ends of the earth: Salgado`s opus on our planet in its natural state. On a very fortuitous day in 1970, 26-year-old Sebastiao Salgado held a camera for the first time. When he looked through the viewfinder, he had an epiphany: suddenly life made sense. From that day onward
- though it took years of hard work before he had the experience to earn his living as a photographer
- the camera became his tool for interacting with the world. Salgado, who ”always preferred the chiaroscuro palette of black-&-white images, ” shot very little color in his early career before giving it up completely. Having been raised on a rural farm in Brazil, far from civilization & without television, Salgado possessed a deep love & respect for nature; he was also particularly sensitive to the ways in which human beings are affected by their often devastating socio-economic conditions. Of the myriad works Salgado has produced in his esteemed career, three long-term projects stand out: ” Workers” (1993), documenting the vanishing way of life of manual laborers across the world, ” Migrations” (2000), a tribute to mass migration driven by hunger, natural disasters, environmental degradation & demographic pressure, & this new opus, ” Genesis”, the result of an epic eight-year expedition to rediscover the mountains, deserts & oceans, the animals & peoples that have so far escaped the imprint of modern society
- the land & life of a still-pristine planet. ” Some 46 per cent of the planet is still as it was in the time of genesis, ” Salgado reminds us. ” We must preserve what exists.” The Genesis project, along with Salgado`s Instituto Terra, are dedicated to showing the beauty of our planet, reversing the damage done to it, & preserving it for the future. Over 32 trips
- traveled by foot, light aircraft, seagoing vessels, canoes, & even balloons, through extreme heat & cold & in sometimes dangerous conditions
- Salgado created a collection of images showing us nature, animals, & indigenous peoples in such shocking & intense beauty as to take one`s breath away. Mastering the monochrome with an extreme deftness to rival the virtuoso Ansel Adams, Salgado brings black & white photography to a new dimension; the tonal variations in his works, the contrasts of light & dark, recall the works of Old Masters such as Rembrandt & Georges de la Tour. On the earth is instilled a glistening, textured fabric so intricate in its weave that even the most finite details seem to extend to infinity. What does one discover in ” Genesis”? The ancient animal species & volcanoes of the Galapagos; penguins, sea lions, cormorants, & whales of the Antarctic & South Atlantic; Brazilian alligators & jaguars; African lions, leopards, & elephants; the isolated Zo`e tribe deep in the Amazon jungle; the Stone Age Kurowai people of West Papua; nimadic Dinka cattle farmers in Sudan; Nenet nomads & their reindeer herds in the Arctic Circle; Mentawai jungle communities on islands west of Sumatra; the icebergs of the Antarctic; the volcanoes of Central Africa & the Kamchatka Peninsula; Saharan deserts; the Negro & Jurua rivers in the Amazon; the ravines of the Grand Canyon; the glaciers of Alaska...and beyond. Having gone, quite literally in some cases, where no man has gone before, & having spent so much time, energy, & passion dedicated to the making of this work, Salgado likens ” Genesis” to ”my love letter to the planet.”




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What if a teenage boy washed up on the banks of the River Thames, soaked to the skin & unable to explain who he is? What if the only clue to the boy`s identity is a sketch he made from a strange symbol? Who would help him? Who would hunt him? Who is River Boy? When a mystery teenage boy emerges from the River Thames drenched, distressed & unable to remember anything about himself, he becomes the focus of worldwide media speculation. Unable to communicate, the River Boy is given paper & a pencil & begins to scribble. Soon a symbol emerges, but the boy has no idea why he has drawn it even thought it`s the only clue to the mystery of his identity... As the boy begins to build a new life under a new name, the hunt for his real identity begins. A hunt which will lead him on a dangerous QUEST that he has only one year to complete.. . Introducing the first book in a thrilling new series packed with adventure & mystery. ...

Genetics in Minutes is your compact & accessible guide to the central concepts of the science of genetics, revealing how our genes shape our bodies & our lives, & how in turn we are beginning to shape them. Covering the basics of DNA, inheritance & evolution in animals, plants & humans alike
- from the origins & development of life to the Human Genome & designer babies
- this is the fastest, fullest path to understanding genetics. Contents include Genes, DNA, Natural selection, Darwinism, Stem cell & gene therapies, Evo-devo, Epigenetics, Cloning, Genetic engineering & Artificial life, as well as biology basics such as the Processes of life, Cells, Sex, Classification & Ecology.

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Indexed street plan of the city with the outer suburbs, extending north to include the exit from the Geneva airport onto the N5 in France. The city centre is shown at a more detailed scale of 1:8.000. Both plans indicate one way streets, taxi ranks, car parks, etc. A separate diagram shows the entire regional public transport. Map legend

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Indexed street plan of Geneva & the surrounding communes, covering a much larger area than all the other plans. The map shows bus & tram lines in the city & highlights places of interest, car parks, taxi ranks, etc. An enlargement shows the city centre at a more detailed scale of 1:7, 500. Map legend

Includes:: English.

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Small indexed street plan, extending to the main airport terminal & the headquarters of the international institutions based in the city. An enlargement shows the city centre in greater detail. Both plans show public transport, car parks, park & ride locations, theatres, museums, tourist offices etc. Map legend

Includes:: English.

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Indexed street plan of Geneva & the surrounding communes, covering a much larger area than all the other plans. The map shows bus & tram lines in the city & highlights places of interest, car parks, taxi ranks, etc. An enlargement shows the city centre at a more detailed scale of 1:7, 500. Map legend

Includes:: English.

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Double-sided map from ITMB presenting on one side a clear, indexed street plan of Geneva with a diagram of its tram network, plus on the reverse an indexed road map of Switzerland at 1:360, 000. The plan extends north to include the city’s international airport & the Palexpo grounds. Tram routes are shown with stops, main traffic arteries are highlighted & one way streets are marked. Important public building & institutions are named, & the map also indicates locations of selected hotels & restaurants, embassies, etc. The plan is accompanied by an index, a diagram of the tram network, & a small road map of the city’s environs. On the reverse is an indexed road map of Switzerland at 1:360, 000, colourful but information provided on it, particularly the road network, should be treated with caution (based on the comparison with road maps from Swiss publishers). ...

Geneva
- Annecy Michelin Centenary Map-Pack, a set of two maps showing the area at 1:200, 000: a current road map from 2014 plus
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