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AT HOME does for the history of the way we live what A Short History of Nearly Everything did for science. Bill Bryson was struck one day by the thought that we devote a lot more time to studying battles and wars than to what history really consists of: centuries of people quietly going about their daily business - eating, sleeping and merely endeavouring to get more comfortable. So he embarked on a journey around his own house, an old rectory...

A doctrine widely considered to jeopardize Christian belief in the immortality of the soul, monopsychism aroused members of the theology and arts faculties at the University of Paris into intense debate about the nature of man. Born out of the philosophical legacy of Greek Antiquity, late antique Neoplatonic philosophy, and medieval Arabic commentary, Christian theologians and philosophers were forced to confront their own intellectual past in...

Uses cutting-edge computational models to explore the fundamental biological problem of action selection in nature.

Henry George the greatest, most famous and most rejected of early American economists who trained himself in classical economics and developed a theory of a 'single tax'. There is much literature on many specific facets and aspects of George's work, but we lack a book which provides an overview of George's economics... until now!

When the wise-cracking whiz kid, Puggie Liddell's modified Gameboy activates a time portal, he lands in the 1890s with his sibling rival, annoyingly prissy teen sister, Gigi, who thinks history is like-totally-gross. The kids must learn to work together to find a time portal back to the present before the eccentric scientist, Nikola Telsa*, or his arch nemesis, inventor Thomas Edison*, can steal the Gameboy and use it to complete a death ray m...

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Sabies que cadascun dels àtoms que forma el teu organisme, abans de ser part de tu, havia passat per diferents estrelles i milions d'altres organismes? Què va passar amb els dinosaures? Com és de gran l'univers? Quant pesa la Terra? Per què els oceans són salats? En aquest llibre trobarem uns quants científics estrambòtics, teories errònies que van dominar el pensament científic durant molt de temps, i alguns descobriments casuals que van canv...

As the twenty-first century begins, significant changes are occurring in the way that services and goods are produced and consumed. This book aims to aid understanding of the evolving economic geography of advanced capitalist economies.

The story starts in the mid 1970's and follows the life of Danny who is a very easy going lifeguard and Gina, who works in a bank. They meet and Danny is besotted with Gina, but whereas Danny is a plodder and a dreamer, Gina wants to get on and make something of her life and her job. She is the realist to Danny's dreams. Gina's parents are Italian and hence she speaks English and Italian. The story follows their lives and quite frankly, Gina d...

The story starts in the mid 1970's and follows the life of Danny who is a very easy going lifeguard and Gina, who works in a bank. They meet and Danny is besotted with Gina, but whereas Danny is a plodder and a dreamer, Gina wants to get on and make something of her life and her job. She is the realist to Danny's dreams. Gina's parents are Italian and hence she speaks English and Italian. The story follows their lives and quite frankly, Gina d...

En este libro innovador y práctico, Daniel J. Siegel, neuropsiquiatra y autor del bestseller Mindsight, y la experta en educación infantil Tina Payne Bryson desmitifican las crisis y los conflictos, explicando los nuevos conocimientos científicos sobre có

This book, now recognised as a classic, has done perhaps more than any other single work to change the face of art criticism in the twentieth century. Whereas previous books on French painting looked only at the history of painting as an evolution of artistic styles (baroque, rococo, neo-classical, and so on), Norman Bryson examines the evolution of narrative styles: the kinds of stories paintings tell, the ways they communicate their informat...

This exquisitely illustrated edition of Bill Bryson's best-selling biography of William Shakespeare takes the reader on an enthralling journey through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship.

This best-selling text focuses on the analysis and design of complicated dynamics systems. CHOICE called it ¿a high-level, concise book that could well be used as a reference by engineers, applied mathematicians, and undergraduates. The format is good, the presentation clear, the diagrams instructive, the examples and problems helpful¿References and a multiple-choice examination are included.¿

Carly Bryson is a native Texan raised in the oilfields of west Texas somewhere between the Edwards Plateau and the Guadalajara desert. Currently residing in Houston, she writes poetry and prose dealing with politics, current events, nature, and family dynamics. She has been published in Carcinogenic Poetry, Calliope Nerve, The Shine Journal, ETC: A Review of General Semantics as well as two anthologies, and NothingNoOneNowhere. Bandana Wastela...

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There are few books that surprise their readers on every page-even fewer that show readers how to live. Boldly, the OUROH trilogy does both. Trevor and Trudy, siblings from Earth, take an unforgettable journey through these pages, a journey you will gladly take alongside them, they're the kind of inspiring characters that live and breathe on the page and live on in your mind and heart long after the story's final word. You can't help but root ...

There are few books that surprise their readers on every page-even fewer that show readers how to live. Boldly, the OUROH trilogy does both. Trevor and Trudy, siblings from Earth, take an unforgettable journey through these pages, a journey you will gladly take alongside them, they're the kind of inspiring characters that live and breathe on the page and live on in your mind and heart long after the story's final word. You can't help but root ...