ISBN: 9780393303759 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 478
Evolutionary theory is the theme that binds together these essays on such seemingly disparate topics as the feeding habits of flamingos, flowers and snails that change from male to female and...
ISBN: 9780393342604 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 768 Rok wydania: 2012
With a new preface as well as a final chapter on William S. Burroughs s last years, the acclaimed Literary Outlaw is the only existing full biography of an extraordinary figure. Anarchist, heroin...
ISBN: 9780393070217 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 256 Rok wydania: 2012
For millennia, fresh olive oil has been one of life's necessities-not just as food but also as medicine, a beauty aid, and a vital komponent of religious ritual. Today's researchers are...
ISBN: 9780393323733 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 224 Rok wydania: 2003
Common wisdom has it that love is fragile, but leading psychoanalyst Stephen A. Mitchell argues that romance doesn't actually diminish in long-term relationships it becomes increasingly...
ISBN: 9780393348286 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 304 Rok wydania: 2014
Andre Aciman has been hailed as "the most exciting new fiction writer of the twenty-first century" (New York magazine), a "brilliant bronicler of the disconnect between who we are and...
ISBN: 9780393341386 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 366 Rok wydania: 2012
In 1692, brilliant, captivating Corrag-accused witch, orphaned herbalist, and unforgettable heroine-is imprisoned in the Scottish highlands, suspected of witchcraft and murder. As she awaits her...
ISBN: 9780393338669 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 344 Rok wydania: 2010
Where does DNA come from? What is consciousness? How did the eye evolve? Drawing on a treasure trove of new scientific knowledge, Nick Lane expertly reconstructs evolution s history żeby describing...
ISBN: 9780393087000 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 608 Rok wydania: 1994
A national bestseller over 7 million copies sold. "(A) social document of rare importance." The New Republic.
ISBN: 9780393326024 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 687 Rok wydania: 2004
Howard Hughes has always fascinated the public with his mixture of secrecy, dashing lifestyle, and reclusiveness. This is the book that breaks through the image to get at the man. Originally...
ISBN: 9780393313260 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 128 Rok wydania: 1995
The author begins with showing how to solve common problems of writing. He covers: how to recognize common problems of writing, and words and phrases that should be cut; how to shorten cumbersome...
ISBN: 9780393357622 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 464 Rok wydania: 2020
Beautifully written and deeply researched, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the...
ISBN: 9780393341607 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 288 Rok wydania: 2012
When Lord Tilbury receives a letter from Galahad Threepwood stating he will no longer be publishing his memoir, he decides to travel to Blandings Castle and steal the manuscript. But he isn't...
ISBN: 9780393347258 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 528 Rok wydania: 2013
Raised in a South Boston housing project, James "Whitey" Bulger became the most wanted fugitive of his generation. In this riveting story, rich with family ties and intrigue, award-winning...
ISBN: 9780393330328 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 592 Rok wydania: 2008
Before the ink was dry on the U.S. Constitution, the establishment of a permanent military became the most divisive issue facing the new government. The founders particularly Jefferson, Madison,...
ISBN: 9780393307610 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 416 Rok wydania: 1991
Third in the series of Aubrey-Maturin adventures, this book is set among the strange sights and smells of the Indian subcontinent, and in the distant waters ploughed żeby the ships of the East...
ISBN: 9780393315080 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 288 Rok wydania: 1996
"The Wanting Seed" is a Malthusian comedy about the strange world that overpopulation will produce. Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world of...
ISBN: 9780393346596 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 304 Rok wydania: 2013
Filled with colorful characters and history, Double Entry takes us from the ancient origins of accounting in Mesopotamia to the frontiers of modern finance. At the heart of the story is...
ISBN: 9780393039764 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 208 Rok wydania: 1996
Every weekend, in the basements and parking lots of bars across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded...
ISBN: 9780393343434 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 544 Rok wydania: 2012
In a bravura performance, Andrew Graham-Dixon explores Caravaggio s staggering artistic achievements, delving into the original Italian sources to create a masterful profile of the mercurial...
ISBN: 9780393868418 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 400 Rok wydania: 2021