That the dog evolved from the wolf is an accepted fact of evolution & history but the question of how wolf became dog has remained a mystery obscured by myth & legend. How the Dog Became the Dog illustrates how the dog was an evolutionary inevitability in the nature of the wolf & its human soul mate. How the Dog Became the Dog presents the domestication of the dog as a biological & cultural process that began in mutual cooperation & has taken a number of radical turns. At the end of the last Ice Age the first dogs emerged with their humans from refuges against the cold. In the eighteenth century humans began the drive to exercise full control of dog reproduction life & death to complete the domestication of the wolf begun so long ago. ...

The domestic dogs descent from the wolf is an accepted part of evolution but the question of how the wolf became the dog has remained a mystery & the subject of myth & legend. How the Dog Became the Dog shows that the dogs domestication was both a biological & cultural process. At the end of the last Ice Age the first dogs emerged with their human companions from refuge against the cold. It was only in the eighteenth century that humans began to exercise full control of dog reproduction life & death to complete the domestication of the wolf begun so long ago. ...

A completely original history of one of the most extraordinary movements in the world -- the Girl Guides -- & how they helped win the war. Mention Girl Guides to any woman & the reaction will be strong. They either loved them or hated them; they were either proud to wear their uniform or refused to join. Whatever their feelings most former Guides retain strong memories of their experiences. All too often regarded merely in terms of biscuit sales & sing-songs hardly anybody is aware of the massive impact that the Guides had on gender equality & more fundamentally the outcome of the Second World War. In this eye-opening history Janie Hampton explores how the Guides work was crucial to Britains victory. When the Blitz broke out the Guides knew what to do. They kept up morale in bomb shelters demonstrating blitz cooking with emergency ovens made from the bricks of bombed houses at the request of the Ministry of Food. They grew food on their company allotments & knitted for the entire country. The embodiment of the Home Front spirit they dug shelters provided crucial First Aid & also assisted the millions of children who were forced to flee their city homes to safer places in the country. It is difficult to imagine what the war effort would have looked like without the Guides. Full of fond & funny anecdotes & rich social history How the Guides Won the War takes us on the journey of one of the twentieth centurys most extraordinary movements. ...

This beautiful paperback edition of Dr. Seusss classic tale comes complete with an audio CD read by the inimitable Rik Mayall. Listen & read along as the story of the Grinchs attempts to ruin Christmas for all the Whos in Who-ville is brought to life with added music & sound effects. When he spies the citizens of Who-ville enjoying their Christmas preparations the Grinch comes down from his cave & makes a dastardly attempt to take all the joy out of the occasion by actually stealing Christmas. With hilarious rhymes & distinctive original illustrations this classic seasonal story has become a favourite for good reason & teaches readers the true meaning of Christmas. ...

This classic Seussian tale tells the story of the disgruntled Grinch & his fiendish attempts to steal Christmas from the citizens of Who-ville. With wacky rhymes & zany illustrations from the master himself it has been a seasonal favourite with young readers for over 40 years. As the second step in a major rebrand programme Harper Collins is relaunching 10 more hilarious Dr. Seuss books including such all-time favourites as How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? & Dr. Seuss Sleep Book. In response to consumer demand the bright new cover designs incorporate much needed guidance on reading levels with standard paperbacks divided into three reading strands
- Blue Back Books for parents to share with young children Green Back Books for budding readers to tackle on their own & Yellow Back Books for older more fluent readers to enjoy. How the Grinch Stole Christmas! belongs to the Yellow Back Book range. It has also been adapted for the big screen & is now a blockbuster movie starring the irrepressible Jim Carrey.
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From bestselling author Stephen Pinker How the Mind Works" draws on the latest scientific research to present a blueprint for the most sophisticated machine on Earth: the human brain. Why do we laugh? What makes memories fade? Why do fools fall in love? Why do people believe in ghosts? How do we recognize a face? " How the Mind Works" explores every aspect of our brains showing that our minds are not a mystery but rather a system designed by natural selection over years of human evolution. Whether looking at optical illusions or religion Mozart or films Stephen Pinker offers us a new way of understating ourselves. " Witty lucid & ultimately enthralling". (" Observer"). " Powerful & gripping... To have read it is to have consulted a first draft of the structural plan of the human psyche.. .a glittering tour de force". (" Spectator"). " Witty popular science that you enjoy reading fro the writing as well as for the science... He is a top-rate writer & deserves the superlatives that are lavished on him". (" The New York Times"). " Pinker has a remarkable capacity to explain difficult ideas & he writes with the comic verve of Martin Amis or Woody Allen..." How the Mind Works" will change the way your mind works". (" The Times"). Steven Pinker is a best-selling author & Professor of Psychology & Director of the Center for cognitive Neuroscience at MIT. Pinker has been awarded research prizes from the National Academy of Sciences & the American Psychological Association graduate & undergraduate teaching prizes from MIT & book prizes from the American Psychological Association the Linguistics Society of America & the " Los Angeles Times". He is the author of " How the Mind Works" " The Blank Slate" " The Better Angels of Our Nature" & " The Language Instinct"." ...

Now more than ever people are being affected by the fluctuations in the global economy & by financial uncertainty
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With exceptional clarity & power of argument Noam Chomsky lays bare as no one else can the realities of contemporary geopolitics. Divided into four sections & originally published in the US as individual short books which have collectively sold over half a million copies How the World Works" is a collection of speeches & interviews with Chomsky by David Barsamian edited by Arthur Naiman. It

Includes:: What Uncle Sam Really Wants about US foreign policy; The Prosperous Few & the Restless Many about the new global economy food Third World economic miracles & the roots of racism; Secrets Lies & Democracy about the US the CIA religious fundamentalism global inequality & the coming eco-catastrophe; & The Common Good about equality freedom the media the myth of Third World debt & manufacturing dissent."

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What's wrong with Football today? In June 2011 Sepp Blatter was elected
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This is an amazing flap book packed with inventions machines gadgets & devices & facts & information about how they work. Over 90 flaps reveal the insides of car engines toilets escalators submarines & microwaves & many many other machines. It

Includes:: internet links to websites with animations games & experiments.

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