Perhaps the biggest question Stephen Hawking tried to answer in his extraordinary life was how the universe could have created conditions so perfectly hospitable to life. Pondering this mystery led...
It takes a whole universe to make one small black birdThe bestselling author of Crow Country and writer of The Guardian's Country Diary tells the story of all life on Earth through a si...
This book is a summary of the author’s achievements and his research on the problematic triad "Operational Risk – Resource Security – Business Continuity”, which have r...
An essential overview of the problems of our world today -- and how we should prepare for tomorrow -- from the world’s leading public intellectualWe have two choices. We can be pessimis...
For generations now, Edward W. Said's Orientalism has defined our understanding of colonialism and empire, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition contains a preface written by Said shortly before...
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Why are people successful? For centuries, humankind has grappled with this question, searching for the secret to accomplishing great things. In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on ...
Overcoming app now available via iTunes and the Google Play Store. 'A thoroughly enjoyable read, and [I] would recommend trainee therapists read it also, as it will increase your understanding of t...
Written by one of the world's foremost palmistry experts, Johnny Fincham, this invaluable introductory guide explores the art of palm reading, beautifully presented in an elegant hardback gift edit...
PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of abbreviations1. Introduction2. Parallelization of the objective function calculation3. Parallel estimation of the objective function val...
This humbling and revelatory book shows how infectious disease has shaped humanity at every stage, from the first success of Homo sapiens over the equally intelligent Neanderthals to the fall of Ro...
We all use a lot of plastic every day. It is cheap and strong, and plastic things last. But where does plastic come from? And what can we do to recycle all the plastic in our world?Peng...
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also ...
Why is the Earth's climate changing? And how will this change our lives? HRH The Prince of Wales is worried about climate change. In this book, he explains why it is so important for us to stop cli...
How should I live my life? What values shall I live by? What sort of person should I be? What shall I aim for?In this summation of a lifetime thinking and writing about these great ques...
A bedroom, a kitchen, a bathroom - are these rooms all that make a home? Not at all, argues Emanuele Coccia. The buildings we inhabit are of immense psychological and cultural significance. They pl...
The occasion for bringing together the articles in this volume was the conference Philosophy and Medicine – the History of Their Relations held at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń in 2...
PrefaceI. Introduction to Communication Adaptation Theory1. Conversational Interactions2. Sources of Speech Signal Variability3. Speech SegmentationI...
The Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands of miles away on the island of Madagascar, in the late seventeenth century, when it was home to several thousand pirates. T...
Everyone's a player on The Golden Eagles football team . . . Camden Fields is the star quarterback of our college football team.And he’s absolutely gorgeous.