As young boys both Jacques Rebiere & Thomas Midwinter become fascinated with trying to understand the human mind. As psychiatrists their quest takes them from the squalor of the Victorian lunatic asylum to the crowded lecture halls of the renowned Professor Charcot in Paris; from the heights of the Sierra Madre in California to the plains of unexplored Africa. As the concerns of the old century fade & the First World War divides Europe the two mens volatile relationship develops & changes but is always tempered by one exceptional woman; Thomass sister Sonia. Moving & challenging in equal measure Human Traces explores the question of what kind of beings men & women really are. ...

A funny touching authentic story of life at Broadcasting House during the Blitz. The human voices of Penelope Fitzgerald's ...

Why should we believe in God without any evidence? How can there be meaning in life when death is final? With historical adherents including such thinkers as Einstein Freud Philip Pullman & Frank Zappa Humanism"s central quest is to make sense of such questions explaining the ethical & metaphysical by appealing to shared human values rationality & tolerance. Essential reading for atheists agnostics ignostics freethinkers rationalists skeptics & believers too this Beginners Guide will explain all aspects of the Humanist philosophy whilst providing an alternative & valuable conception of life without religion." ...

The most comprehensive up-to-date & readable introduction to the field of human evolution. The ninth edition of Humankind Emerging tells the story of how when & why the human lineage developed from ape-grade ancestors. In Part I Chapters 1 & 2 present a short history of the rise of evolutionary theory & the science of genetics followed by a description of the various mechanisms that produce evolutionary change. In Part II Chapters 3-5put humans in their proper context among the primates first discussing those aspects of modern primate behavior that help to interpret human prehistory & then describing the fossil evidence for the early stages of primate evolution. In Part III Chapters 6 & 7 describe the australopiths-members of the subtribe Australopithecina & the first representatives of humans zoological tribe Hominini. Part IV consists of nine chapters that detail the anatomical cognitive & behavioral evolution of the genus Homo & its various premodern & modern species. Here the second hominin subdivision-the subtribe Hominina-is described & interpreted. The book ends with Part V in which Chapter 17 discusses modern human diversity the question of biological races of humans & the challenges facing humanity in the future. The current edition provides an absolutely up-to-date survey of the hominin fossil species including descriptions of the oldest members of the tribe-Sahelanthropus Orrorin & Ardipithecus kadabba (Chapters 6 & 7)-as well as the recently discovered dwarfed species from Indonesia Homo floresiensis (expanded post-script in Chapter 15). Updates of the taxonomic scheme for the human lineage bring the text into agreement with current paleoanthropological usage. Australopiths are assigned to the subtribe Australopithecina species of the genus Homo are placed in the subtribe Hominina & the two subtribes are combined to form the tribe Hominini. Great apes & hominins now are combined in the family Hominidae. The newest edition also expands the fossil & behavioral descriptions of Homo heidelbergensis & identifies this species as the first hominin type to show the hunting lifestyle." Speculations about societal changes that may have accompanied the beginning of the hunting way of life (Chapter 12) are updated. The latest studies of the neural regions & connections responsible for human speech & language (Chapter 13) are described as well. In-text citations for all source materials are provides as well as a full bibliography-features that allow for in-depth study. Over 30% of the references are from 2000 or later." ...

It's hardest to belong when you're closest to home... One wet Friday evening Professor Andrew Martin of Cambridge University solves the world's greatest mathematical riddle. Then he disappears. When he is found walking naked along the motorway Professor Martin seems different. Besides the lack of clothes he now finds normal life pointless. His loving wife & teenage son seem repulsive to him. In fact he hates everyone on the planet. Everyone that is except Newton. & he's a dog. Can a bit of Debussy & Emily Dickinson keep him from murder? Can the species which invented cheap white wine & peanut butter sandwiches be all that bad? & what is the warm feeling he gets when he looks into his wife's eyes? ...

This is the story of Humbert a working horse Mister Firkin his master & the Lord Mayor of London. Mister Firkin was a scrap-iron dealer & he would travel the streets of London with Humbert shouting ' Any scrap any old iron for sale?' The Brewery horses are terrible snobs & show off about how important they are because they are used in the Lord Mayor's Show. But when disaster strikes it's Humbert who rushes to rescue & escorts the Mayor to Mansion House. ...

In 2007 after twenty years of living in London Kate Humble & her husband Ludo decided it was time to leave city life behind them. Three years later now the owner of a Welsh smallholding Kate hears that a nearby farm is to be broken up & sold off. Another farm lost; another opportunity for a young farmless farmer gone. Desperate to stop the sale Kate contacts the council with an alternative plan
- to keep the farm working & to run a rural skills & animal husbandry school alongside it. Against all odds she succeeds. Here in Humble By Nature Kate shares with us a highly personal account of her journey from London town house to Welsh farm. Along the way we meet Bertie & Lawrence the donkeys Myfanwy & Blackberry the pigs & goats Biscuit & Honey not forgetting a dog called Badger & his unladylike sidekick Bella. & we are introduced to the tenant farmers Tim & Sarah the locals who helped & some who didn't & a whole host of newborn lambs. Full of the warmth & passion for the natural world that makes Kate such a sought after presenter Humble By Nature is the story of two people prepared to follow their hearts & save a small part of Britain's farming heritage whatever the consequences.
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Meet Nellie Welche
- companion to royalty & keeper of secrets.. . Nellie Welche is the daughter of a high-ranking steward in the
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Everyone thinks they know the real Gordon Ramsay: rude loud pathologically driven stubborn as hell. But this is his bestselling real story... Humble Pie tells the full story of how he became the world's most famous & infamous chef: his difficult childhood his brother's heroin addiction & his failed first career as a footballer: all of these things have made him the celebrated culinary talent & media powerhouse that he is today. Gordon talks frankly about: * his tough childhood: his father's alcoholism & violence & the effects on his relationships with his mother & siblings * his first career as a footballer: how the whole family moved to Scotland when he was signed by Glasgow Rangers at the age of fifteen & how he coped when his career was over due to injury just three years later * his brother's heroin addiction. * Gordon's early career: learning his trade in Paris & London; how his career developed from there: his time in Paris under Albert Roux & his seven Michelin-starred restaurants. * Kitchen life: Gordon spills the beans about life behind the kitchen door & how a restaurant kitchen is run in Anthony Bourdain-style. * How he copes with the impact of fame on himself & his family: his television career the rapacious tabloids & his own drive for success. ...

Oscar Wilde claimed that Humiliated & Insulted is not at all inferior to the other great masterpieces" & Friedrich Nietzsche is said to have wept over it. Its construction is that of an intricate detective novel & the reader is plunged into a world of moral degradation childhood trauma & above all unrequited love & irreconcilable relationships. At the centre of the story are a young struggling author an orphaned teenager & a depraved aristocrat who not only foreshadows the great figures of evil in Dostoevskys later fiction but is a powerful literary presence in his own right. This new translation catches the verve & tumult of the original which
- in concept & execution
- affords a refreshingly unfamiliar glimpse of the author."

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