"The who, what, where, when and how of human evolution, from one of the world's experts on the dating of prehistoric fossils." —Steve Brusatte, New York Times –bestselling authorA fascinating investigation of the origin of humans based on incredible new discoveries and advanced scientific technology.Fifty thousand years ago, Homo sapiens was not the only species of humans in the world. There were also Nea...

A fascinating investigation of the origin of humans based on incredible new discoveries and advanced scientific technologyFifty thousand years ago, Homo sapiens was not the only species of humans in the world. There were also Neanderthals in what is now Europe, the Near East, and parts of Eurasia, Hobbits (H. floresiensis) on the island of Flores in Indonesia, Denisovans in Siberia and eastern Eurasia, and H. luzonensis in the Philippines...

This book critically explores sport-related tourism drawing on the fields of sport management, the sociology of sport, consumer behaviour, sports marketing, economic, urban and sports geography, and tourism studies. It presents multidisciplinary perspectives of sport tourism, as structured by the geographical concepts of space, place and environment. The volume offers a comprehensive update of the discussions presented in the two previous editions, recognising the significant growth in sub...

Sport and Tourism: Globalization, Mobility and Identitymarks a new era in sport tourism texts. Written by global experts whose previous collaborations have been integral to the development of the field, the book applies key social science concepts and issues relevant to the academic study of sport and tourism.This is a ground-breaking text, which:Critically explores the wider manifestations of sport-related tourism and mobilityAddresses key themes such...

Sydney actor, Aileen Huynh presents five new short Australian stories written by authors under 30 and narrated by professional actors. Each story has been selected by editors at the Australian short story publishing house, Spineless Wonders. You’ll hear about a levitating housemate, a zombie in the make-up department, a haunted tree and a deadly workplace. Narrators include Eleni Schumacher, Briallen Clarke, Tom Burt and Daniel Fischer. We hope you enjoy Slinkies audio.

Albert Einstein was the first modern-day celebrity and, decades after his death, still has the world's most recognizable face. His influence is seen in much of the technology we use every day: GPS, remote controls, weather forecasts, even toothpaste. But it's not just Einstein's scientific discoveries that continue to shape our world. His legacy underpins the search for aliens, the rescue of refugees, the invention of time machines, and the debunking of fake news. He appears in new books, ...

“One of the best books on the American presidency to appear in recent years” (The Wall Street Journal) and based on a decade of research and reporting, this is a delightful new window into the public and private lives America’s presidents as authors.Most Americans are familiar with Abraham Lincoln’s famous words in the Gettysburg Address and the Emancipation Proclamation. Yet few can name the work that helped him win the presidency: his published collectio...

On May 7, 1940, the House of Commons began perhaps the most crucial debate in British parliamentary history. On its outcome hung the future of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's government and also of Britain—indeed, perhaps, the world. Troublesome Young Men is Lynne Olson's fascinating account of how a small group of rebellious Tory MPs defied the Chamberlain government's defeatist policies that aimed to appease Europe's tyrants and eventually forced the prime minister's resign...

When Columbus triumphantly returned from America to Spain in 1493, his discoveries inflamed an already-smoldering conflict between Spain's renowned monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, and Portugal's João II. Which nation was to control the world's oceans? To quell the argument, Pope Alexander VI issued a proclamation laying the foundation for the Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494, an edict that created an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean dividing the entire known (and unknown) world between ...

Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, railroads, and gunboats propelled the West's rise to power in the nineteenth century, and the development of computers and nuclear weapons in the twentieth century secured its global supremacy. Now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, many worry that the emerging economic power of China and India spells the end of the West...

In this New York Times bestseller and longlist nominee for the National Book Award, “our greatest living chronicler of the natural world” (The New York Times), David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology, evolutionary biology, and genetics and genomics affect our understanding of evolution and life’s history.In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequencing to reexamine the history of all life. Perhaps the most startli...

The inspirational story of Compass CEO Robert Reffkin, whose mother, mentors, and search for belonging taught him valuable lessons that anyone with a dream can put into action today to improve their own quality of lifeNo one expected a dreadlocked fifteen-year-old who cared more about his DJ business than his homework to grow up to become one of the youngest-ever White House fellows, create multiple nonprofits, and found a multibillion-dollar company. But ...