HUMAN NATURE

Better Angels of Our Nature

This title is shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2012. This acclaimed book by Steven Pinker, author of "The Language Instinct" and "The Blank Slate", argues that, contrary to popular belief, humankind has become progressively less violent, over millenia and decades. Can violence really have de...

Being Human - Lewis Dartnell, Vintage Publishing

'Illuminating' TIM MARSHALL, author of Prisoners of Geography'Refreshing' THOMAS HALLIDAY, author of OtherlandsBeing Human is history made flesh. It will change how you see the world. We’re a wonder of evolution, capable of incredible feats.But we’re also deeply flawed. Our bodies and minds often br...

Nightwish: Human. :II: Nature - Nightwish, NUCLEAR BLAST

Invention of Nature

Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist: more things are named after him than anyone else. There are towns, rivers, mountain ranges, the ocean current that runs along the South American coast, there's a penguin, a giant squid - even the Mare Humboldtianum on the moon. His colo...

Nature in Mind

In a time of apparent global crisis, ecopsychology is a rapidly emerging new field that attracts those concerned with the state of the planet and Psychotherapists wanting to bring nature more fully into their practise. Exploring both ecology and psychotherapy from a systemic perspective, Soul and Na...

The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire

&i>Nature &/i>editor and Science Book Prize winner Henry Gee explores the future of our species and our probable extinction, while suggesting how, through technological innovation, we might indefinitely postpone our fate.

Design With Nature

"In presenting us with a vision of organic exuberance and human delight, which ecology and ecological design promise to open up for us, McHarg revives the hope for a better world." --Lewis Mumford "...important to America and all the rest of the world in our struggle to design rational, wholesome, a...

Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species

Maternal instinct -- the all-consuming, utterly selfless love that mothers lavish on their children -- has long been assumed to be an innate, indeed defining element of a woman's nature. But is it? In this provocative, groundbreaking book, renowned anthropologist (and mother) Sarah Blaffer Hrdy shar...

Human Cosmos

For most of human history, we have had a close relationship with the stars. Once they shaped our religious beliefs, power structures, scientific advances and even our biology. But over the last few centuries we have separated ourselves from the universe that surrounds us.And it comes at a cost. The ...

Modelling and Sculpting the Human Figure

INTRODUCTIONPART I TOOLS THE FEATURES FROM THE CAST (a) The Mouth (b) The Nose (c) The Ear (d) The Eye THE HEAD FROM THE CAST (I) The Skull (2) The MusclesPART II THE BUST FROM LIFE MEASUREMENTS DIAGRAM OF CONSTRUCTION OF FEATURES (a) Mouth (b) Nose (c) Ear (d) Eye TREATMENT OF HAIR MOUSTACHE AND BE...