Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal by Juan José Millás, Juan Luis Arsuaga
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Category: Humanities
Prehistory is all around us. We just need to know where to look. Juan Jose Millas has always felt like he doesn't quite fit into human society. Sometimes he wonders if he is even a Homo sapiens at all, or something simpler. Perhaps he is a Neanderthal who somehow survived? So he turns to Juan Luis Arsua ...Show more
Death As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal by Juan José Millás, Juan Luis Arsuaga
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Category: Humanities
A dazzling follow-up to Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal. 'We would love to discover that each species has a biological clock in its cells, because, if that clock existed and if we were able to find it, perhaps we could stop it and thus become eternal,' Arsuaga tells Millás in this book, in wh ...Show more
The Needs of Strangers: On solidarity and the politics of being human by Michael Ignatieff
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Category: Humanities
This brilliant and penetrating book uncovers a crisis in the political imagination, a wide-spread failure to provide the passionate sense of community in which our need for belonging can be met . Seeking the answers to fundamental questions, Michael Ignatieff writes vividly both about ideas and about th ...Show more
Keanu Reeves Is Not in Love with You - The Murky World of Online Romance by Becky Holmes
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Category: Humanities
One woman's hilarious and fascinating quest to expose the truth behind fraudulent Twitter profiles: romance scammers beware, you have met your match! Online romance fraud is a problem across the globe. It causes financial and emotional devastation, yet many people refuse to take it seriously. This is t ...Show more
Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
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Category: Humanities
From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution--a #1 international bestseller--that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human." One hundred thousand years ago, at least six ...Show more
Chemistry for Breakfast - The Amazing Science of Everyday Life by Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim; Claire Lenkova (Illustrator)
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Category: Humanities
FINALIST for the Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books "This book shows that chemistry is not just relevant to life; it's really, really interesting."--Foreword Reviews, STARRED review A perfect book for readers of The Physics of Everyday Things and Storm in a Teacup Have you ever wondered why yo ...Show more
Love Triangle: The Life-changing Magic of Trigonometry by Matt Parker
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Category: Humanities
Explore the life-changing magic of trigonometry with Matt Parker, stand-up mathematician and No. 1 bestselling author of Humble Pi Why do mobile phones work when you're on a train? What happens when you pull a pop song apart into pure sine waves and play it back on a piano? And what did mathematicians ...Show more
Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World
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Category: Humanities
Every human being is endowed with an inheritance. A set of ancient biases - forged by natural selection and fine-tuned by millennia of culture - that shape every facet of our behaviour.For countless generations, this inheritance has been taking us to ever greater heights- driving the rise of more sophis ...Show more
Growing Up Human: The Evolution of Childhood by Brenna Hassett
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Category: Humanities
Explores how our evolutionary history has shaped a phenomenon every reader will have experienced childhood. Tracking deep into our evolutionary history, anthropological science has begun to unravel one particular feature that sets us apart from the many, many animals that came before us our uniquely lon ...Show more
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray
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Category: Humanities
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Times and Sunday Times Book of the YearIn his devastating new book The Madness of Crowds, Douglas Murray examines the twenty-first century's most divisive issues - sexuality, gender, technology and race. He reveals the astonishing new culture wars playing out in our workplac ...Show more
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
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Category: Humanities
THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Sapiens shows us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond - from ove ...Show more
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