Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught...
Volomari Volotinen a deux passions: son épouse, Laura, et les antiquités. De voyages en Laponie en expéditions archéologiques, il constitue une collection très particulière. D'une touffe de...
Count down to Christmas with this advent calendar collection of twenty-four mini activity, puzzle and game books, based on the bestselling picture books aby Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler....
The medical treatises collected under Hippocrates' name are essential sources of information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and about Greek theories concerning the human body. In...
L'inspecteur principal Jalmari Jyllänketo est envoyé par la Sécurité nationale finlandaise dans l'ouest de la Laponie. Alors que des rumeurs font état de mystérieuses disparitions, il doit...
"Assez tôt, j'ai compris que je n'allais pas pouvoir faire grand-chose pour changer le monde. Je me suis alors promis de m'installer quelque temps, seul, dans une cabane. Dans les...
Scared of the Dark? It's Really Scared of You is a picture book that playfully unpacks a common childhood fear. You may be afraid of the dark... But did you know that the dark is actually...
The complete shooting scripts for series one of the hit BBC television show Poldark. Delve deeper into the hit BBC drama starring Aidan Turner as Ross Poldark and Eleanor Tomlinson as Demelza....
"Jon Scieszka, the groundbreaking storyteller and master of wit, brings us a smart and hilarious adventure. AstroNuts doesn't just break new ground-it breaks outer space Brilliant." --...
Until his death in 1982, Karl von Frisch was the world's most renowned authority on bees. "The Dance Language and Orientation of Bees" is his masterwork--the culmination of more than...
In 1490/92 the Florentine Platonist Marsilio Ficino made new translations of two treatises he believed were the work of Dionysius the Areopagite, the disciple of St. Paul mentioned in the Acts of...
Presents the author's analysis of politics, sexuality and the law from the perspective of women. Using the debate over Marxism and feminism as a point of departure, MacKinnon develops a theory...
Of the Greek lyric poets, Pindar (c.519-438 BC) was "by far the greatest for the magnificence of his inspiration" in Quintilian's view; Horace judged him "sure to win Apollo's...
It's an unforgettable field trip! In this follow-up to A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to School..., Henry is late to a museum where his class is spending the day. But he has a plan:...
From Allie Esiri, editor of the bestselling A Poem for Every Day of the Year and A Poem for Every Night of the Year, comes this beautiful gift anthology of Shakespeare's works. Shakespeare For...
Unlike the papers of some other great economists, those of Kenneth Arrow are being read and studied today with even greater care and attention than when they first appeared in the journals. The...
This is a guide to the use of homeopathy in treating a wide range of complaints. The book includes treatments for: coughs, colds, flu and sore throats; childhood illnesses, such as mumps, measles...
A non-fiction thriller aby international bestselling author Blaine Harden (Escape from Camp 14) that explores the world's most repressive state through the intertwined lives of two North...
Une terrible guerre divise les royaumes de Pyrrhia. Selon une mystérieuse prophétie, seuls cinq jeunes dragons nés lors de la Nuit-la-plus-Claire pourront mettre fin aux combats et apporter la...
In his most extraordinary book, Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. These are case studies of people who have...
Legislation to change Korean society along Confucian lines began at the founding of the Chos n dynasty in 1392 and had apparently achieved its purpose żeby the mid seventeenth century. Until this...
Published in association with the Science Museum, this is a fun, informative and fact-filled look at fear. With a bit of biology and a spot of psychology the author of }Why Is Snot Green?{ shows...