'tells a great story and manages to be informative at all levels. Conway Morris has a collector's eye for the sort of entertaining yet informative snippets that keep readers on their toes.' New Scientist Located in the west of Canada, the Burgess Shale contains a unique collection of fossil remains,[...]
The six studies collected in this CESifo volume analyze the sometimes unpredictable effects of public regulation on the labor market. Examining a wide range of policy interventions -- from subsidized employment to an increased tax on capital -- and using a variety of methodologies to analyze them, t[...]
In a war of lies, the truth can kill. Jonah Said is a loner and a troublemaker, shipped off by the British army to work with the UN in the buffer zone between Kuwait and Iraq, because they want him out of harm's way. Big mistake. From the minute he lands, Jonah becomes drawn into a deadly spiral of [...]
An edgy and gripping thriller that cuts right to the core of the modern army, and fears of terrorism and conspiracy[...]
The assassinâs bullet misses, the Archdukeâs carriage moves forward, and a catastrophic war is avoided. So too with the history of life. Re-run the tape of life, as Stephen J. Gould claimed, and the outcome must be entirely different: an alien world, without humans and maybe not even intel[...]
This title is a controversial challenge to current views of evolution, for the general reader.
A savage thriller that thrusts us into the vividly authentic world of modern intelligence, terrorism and conspiracy.[...]
As science develops more and more sophisticated military hardware, inevitably it has also turned to the genetic 'enhancement' of military personnel.Scottish former police protection officer Harriet 'Harry' Armstrong discovers the body of a beautiful young woman outside the home of a powerful US Sena[...]
How did human beings acquire imaginations that can conjure up untrue possibilities? How did the Universe become self-aware? In "The Runes of Evolution," Simon Conway Morris revitalizes the study of evolution from the perspective of convergence, providing us with compelling new evidence to support th[...]
Var tredje person som lever med skyddade personuppgifter i Sverige är barn. Trots det vet myndigheterna försvinnande lite om dessa barns livsvillkor och bristen på kunskap leder till brist på stöd.
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