The book that transforms our understanding of what we are and where we came from.Specialist scientific fields are developing at incredibly swift speeds, but what can they really tell us about how the universe began and how we humans evolved to play such a dominant role on Earth?John Hands’ extraordinarily ambitious quest is to bring together this scientific knowledge and evaluate without bias or preconception all the theories and evidence about the origin a...

Scientific & Medical Network Book Prize 2016Los campos de especialización científica se desarrollan a velocidad de vértigo, pero ¿qué nos están explicando en realidad sobre cómo empezó el universo y sobre cómo evolucionó el ser humano para llegar a jugar un papel tan dominante en la Tierra?La expedición extraordinariamente ambiciosa que ha emprendido John Hands pretende compilar todos estos conocimientos científicos y evaluar sin sesgos ni prejuicios todas ...

This is the sequel to the award-winning Cosmosapiens, named Book of the Year by the UK’s Times Literary Supplement and One of the Best Science Books of 2015 by The Telegraph.In his acclaimed Cosmosapiens, renowned scientist John Hands looked back on how we humans evolved from the origin of the universe to the present day. Building on that work, The Future of Humankind: Why We Should Be Optimistic looks ahead to our ultim...

What If Science Could Make You Immortal?For centuries, humanity has pursued the dream of immortality. Myths, religions, and now science all point toward the possibility of defeating aging. But what if someone had already unlocked the secret-and what if the consequences were far more terrifying than anyone ever imagined?The Serpent's Embrace is a brilliantly crafted scientific thriller that delves into genetic engineering, corporate power, and the ethical di...

At a time of a growing housing crisis this republication of John Hands's classic Housing Co-operatives could not be timelier.It provides a unique mixture of theory and practice, showing from other countries and from the author's own experience in Britain how housing co-operatives can work and how they can fail.In a new Introduction, John Hands argues that the creation of a third tenure for housing distinct from both individual owner occupation on the one hand and tenancy-wh...

Ein grundlegendes Werk mit dem Zeug zum KlassikerWas stand am Anfang unserer Welt? Woher kommt die Materie, die Energie, aus der sich alles entwickelte? Und wann begannen wir, darüber nachzudenken? John Hands fängt ganz von vorne an und zeigt die Grenzen unseres Wissens. Er greift aktuelle Diskussionen der Evolutionsbiologie und Neurogenetik auf, hinterfragt Konzepte wie kosmische Inflation, dunkle Energie und egoistische Gene. Spannend und klar verfolgt er die Ent...

A bomb slaughters American intelligence officers, their wives, and children. Irish-American CIA officer John Darcy seizes the opportunity to redeem his failed professional and personal life by finding and eliminating the terrorist..Darcy plunges deeper into an undercover operation that the CIA will disown should he fail. He's on his own in a terrorist world that operates according to its own rules. His quest forces him to confront not only the fanaticism of the bomber but a...

"A critical overview of scientific orthodoxy in an attempt to answer the fundamental questions "what are we?" and "why are we here?" (Kirkus Reviews).Specialist scientific fields are developing at incredibly swift speeds, but what can they really tell us about how the universe began and how we as humans evolved to play such a dominant role on Earth?John Hands's extraordinarily ambitious book merges scientific knowledge from multiple disciplines and...

A SCIENTIFIC THRILLER WHERE IMMORTALITY COMES AT A TERRIFYING COST"What if curing aging was humanity’s greatest breakthrough—and its deadliest mistake?"In The Serpent’s Embrace, John Hands crafts a heart-pounding scientific thriller that pits cutting-edge genetics against corporate greed, ancient mythology, and moral decay. Narrated by Phillip Nathaniel Freeman & Claire Glover and published by...

A Daily Telegraph and TLS Book of the Year'An audacious tour of all that science can teach us' Edward O. WilsonSpecialist scientific fields are developing at incredibly swift speeds, but what can they really tell us about how the universe began and how humans evolved to play such a dominant role on Earth? John Hands's extraordinarily ambitious quest brings together our scientific knowledge and evaluates the theories and ev...

Intended for all readers--including magicians, detectives, musicians, orthopedic surgeons, and anthropologists--this book offers a thorough account of that most intriguing and most human of appendages: the hand. In this illustrated work, John Napier explores a wide range of absorbing subjects such as fingerprints, handedness, gestures, fossil remains, and the making and using of tools.

You thought you could leave the past behind.Think again.Donnie Miller counts himself lucky. Living in a beautiful, spacious house in the wild and remote landscape of central Canada, he spends his days writing for the local newspaper, working on a film script, and acting as house-husband. After a troubled and impoverished upbringing in Scotland, he now has all he wants: a caring wife, a bright and happy son, a generous father-in-law. As the brutal northern winter begins to b...