"The Third Chimpanzee" was first published in 1991 and has been in print ever since. This new, illustrated edition is aimed at a young readership. In it, Jared Diamond explores what makes us human and poses fascinating questions. If we share more than 98% of our DNA with chimpanzees, how is it that we can write, read, talk, build telescopes and bombs, while we put our speechless and bomb-less close relatives in cages and zoos? What can woodpeckers teach us about spacecraft? Is genocide a human invention? Why does extinction matter? Why are we destroying the natural resources on which we depend for survival? ... |
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Увлекателна и стойностна история, която пресъздава хармоничното единство между два коренно различни свята - дивата природа и живота в града, които не се противопоставят един на друг. Детски роман, който в същото време поставя общочовешки въпроси, свързани с изборите, които правим, чувството за вина, преодоляването на срама от отхвърляне при децата на възраст 9-14 години, справянето с емоциите на ярост, гняв, тъга, разочарование и самота. Историята има още по-дълбок смисъл, защото разказва за кръговрата на живота, но през погледа на 11-годишното момиченце Октомври. Книгата е носител на най-престижната международна награда ... |
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Dr. Alexandra Glavanakova received her MA and PhD degrees at Sofi a University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, where she has been a tenured lecturer at the Department of English and American Studies for over 20 years. She teaches courses in American and Canadian culture and literature, in digital culture, multimodal writing, and literature in the age of the Internet. Her publications have explored the major cultural shift in literacy, education and literature under the impact of digital technology. Posthuman Transformations: Bodies and Texts in Cyberspace explores the re/positioning of the human body and the evolution of the ... |
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#1 New York Times Bestselling author. ... Of course I want to be like them. They're beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever. And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe. One terrible morning, Jude and her sisters see their parents murdered in front of them. The terrifying assassin abducts all three girls to the world of Faerie, where Jude is installed in the royal court but mocked and tormented by the Faerie royalty for being mortal. As Jude grows older, she realises that ... |
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Двуезично издание на немски и английски език. ... Ferien in London! Britta soll die Ferien bei ihrer Tante verbringen - ganz allein, ohne ihren Vater. Ein bisschen mulmig ist ihr schon dabei. Aber dann schlittert sie zusammen mit ihrem Cousin Christopher unversehens in ein spannendes Abenteuer. Fesselnd von der ersten bis zur letzten Seite – Krimi-Spaß auf Englisch für Jungen und Mädchen! Die englische Lekture ist zweisprachig gehalten und eignet sich fur Kinder ab 10 Jahren. Die Dialoge sind auf Englisch geschrieben, die Geschichte aber in Deutsch - das erleichtert das Verstandnis, ohne den Lesefluss zu ... |
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You're fast asleep, and nothing is happening. Or is it? In fact, your body is hard at work. Your lungs are taking oxygen from the air, and your heart is pumping blood round your body. Millions of pieces of information are travelling backwards and forwards to your brain all the time. Muscles are repairing themselves, and in your lymph nodes special cells are cleaning germs and waste from the body. You may think that nothing is happening, but in the extraordinary machine that is the human body, it is very busy indeed... Oxford Bookworms Library Factfiles are non-fiction graded readers from the Oxford Bookworms Library ... |
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Умален модел на космически изтребител V-19 Torrent Starfighter - Star Wars. За да може да сглобите този макет НЕ ви е неоходимо лепило. Моделът е предварително оцветен - нямате нужда от боички. Оригинално описание: Der einsitzige V-19 Torrent Sternjäger bewies seine überragende Eigenschaft als Angriffsjäger erstmalig bei der Schlacht von Geonosis. Dabei brillierte er mit seiner beachtlichen Manövrierfähigkeit, der hohen Wendigkeit und seiner Geschwindigkeit im normalen Raum. Aufgrund seiner Erfolge in der Schlacht wurde der V-19 schnell und in großer Stückzahl produziert, um so ... |
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А 48 Card Deck and Guidebook. ... Manifesting with the Moon has never been easier! Discover how to use the Moon as a cosmic timer to create the life of your dreams. Supercharge your manifesting powers and find out how to consciously create positive change in your life with this magical 48-card oracle from bestselling Moonologer Yasmin Boland . Featuring beautiful cosmic collage imagery, each card explains what you're bringing into your life, and how and when to supercharge your manifesting powers to achieve what you most desire. This captivating oracle deck will: reveal the true answers to your questions show ... |
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"Oxford Bookworms Library Factfiles" are non-fiction graded readers from the "Oxford Bookworms Library" available for Levels 1 to 4 (CEFR A1 - B2). Students learn about different countries and cultures, science and nature, history and historical figures all while practising and improving their English. Some call it football, some call it soccer, and to others it's "the beautiful game". By any name, it's a sport with some fascinating stories. There is murder in Colombia, and a game that lasts for two days where many players never see the ball. There's the French writer who learnt ... |
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A graphic exploration of how our brains work with other brains. Professors and husband-and-wife team Uta and Chris Frith have pioneered major studies of brain disorders throughout their nearly fifty-year career. Here, in this pleasing mix of wonder, genial humor, and humility, they tell the compelling story of the birth of neuroscience and their paradigm-shifting discoveries across areas as wide-ranging as autism and schizophrenia research, and new frontiers of social cognition including diversity, prejudice, confidence, collaboration, and empathy. Working with their son Alex Frith and artist Daniel Locke, the Friths ... |
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Film Tie-In. A Netflix Film. ... Soon to be a major film starring Elle Fanning and Justice Smith. A compelling and beautiful story about a girl who learns to live from a boy who wants to die. Theodore Finch constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself, but each time something good stops him. Violet Markey exists for the future, counting the days until she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief for her late sister. When they meet on the ledge of a tower, what might have been their end turns into their beginning. It's only with Violet that Finch can truly be himself - a funny guy who's able to find ... |
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"For a person to write a book like this, he has to love art, passionately and selflessly, and to love, of course, the artist as well. The author possesses these qualities in full measure. But even with the love, enthusiasm, and admiration that permeate the entire book, it in no way amounts to a glorification, veneration, or canonization of Zlatyu Boyadzhiev’s image. Quite the opposite - the author has succeeded in keeping a necessary distance, allowing him the opportunity to combine an up-close and a distant view of the artist. He doesn’t carve a monument, he doesn’t paint an icon; rather, he presents a dynamic image, ... |
