"A bold, ambitious and truly wonderful history of the world"—Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of TreesFrom the age of dinosaurs to the first human cities, a groundbreaking new history of the planet that tropical forests made.To many of us, tropical forests are the domain of movies and novels. These dense, primordial wildernesses are beautiful to picture, but irrelevant to our lives.Jungle tells a differen...

Recent decades have seen much greater attention paid to risk management at an organizational level, as evidenced by the proliferation of legislation, regulation, international standards and good practice guidance. The recent experience of Covid-19 has only served to heighten this attention. Growing interest in the discipline has been accompanied by significant growth in the risk management profession; but practitioners are not well served with suitable books to guide them in their work or ...

CRASH! That's the sound of Peyton Richard's life as he's confronted with his own destiny. Already dealing with memories he can't remember, he finds a paranormal artifact that can and will change his life forever. The bright side is that he's not alone.With friends and a father-like mentor, Peyton is CHOSEN to protect the world from the paranormal threats that seem to find him. The question is...what happens when destiny and free-will collide?

CRASH! That's the sound of Peyton Richard's life as he's confronted with his own destiny. Already dealing with memories he can't remember, he finds a paranormal artifact that can and will change his life forever. The brightside is that he's not alone. With friends and a father-like mentor, Peyton is CHOSEN to protect the world from the paranormal threats that seem to find him. The question is...what happens when destiny and free-will collide?

In popular discourse, tropical forests are synonymous with 'nature' and 'wilderness'; battlegrounds between apparently pristine floral, faunal, and human communities, and the unrelenting industrial and urban powers of the modern world. It is rarely publicly understood that the extent of human adaptation to, and alteration of, tropical forest environments extends across archaeological, historical, and anthropological timescales. This book is the first attempt to bring together evidence for ...

First published in 1975, The Psychology of Tragic Drama offers an interpretation of some of the themes of both ancient and modern tragic drama through an investigation of the plays in the light of psychoanalytical ideas.In his introduction, the author explains and defends the application of psychoanalytical insights to the study of literature. Then in the first part of the book, he proceeds to an exploration of some primitive and infantile situations expressed in Euripides...

From the age of dinosaurs to the first human cities, a groundbreaking new history of the planet that tropical forests made.To many of us, tropical forests are the domain of movies and novels. These dense, primordial wildernesses are beautiful to picture, but irrelevant to our lives.Jungle tells a different story. Archaeologist Patrick Roberts argues that tropical forests have shaped nearly every aspect of life on earth. They made the planet habitab...

Learn how to treat addiction naturally and overcome addiction.

How can you turn an English department into a revenue center? How do you grade students if they are "customers" you must please? How do you keep industry from dictating a university's research agenda? What happens when the life of the mind meets the bottom line? Wry and insightful, Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line takes us on a cross-country tour of the most powerful trend in academic life today--the rise of business values and the belief that efficiency, immediate pract...

From a course they created for professionals, Mark Waldman and Chris Manning adapted their lectures, and present simple brain exercises, based on the latest neuroscience research, to guide listeners on what makes us happy, wealthy, and wise.The promise of their original class—and now of this book—is to help people create more “wealth” in their lives, defined as the combination of money, happiness, and success. The book presents both the scientific background and sets of NeuroWisdom...

Best Blues Book of the Year, Living Blues Readers' Poll: "A fascinating look at one of the great independent record labels, and producers, of our time." — Library JournalIt started with the searing sound of a slide careening up the neck of an electric guitar. In 1970, twenty-three-year-old Bruce Iglauer walked into Florence's Lounge in Chicago's South Side and was overwhelmed by the joyous, raw music of Hound Dog Taylor and the HouseRockers. A year...

Dan Davis, an electronics engineer, had finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot that could do almost anything. Wild success was within reach—and Dan’s life was ruined. In a plot to steal his business, his greedy partner and greedier fiancée tricked him into taking the “long sleep”—suspended animation for thirty years.But when he awoke in the far different world of AD 2000, he made an amazing discovery. And suddenly Dan had the means to travel back in time—and ge...