sykes bryan the wolf within the astonishing evolution of man s best friend
Sykes Bryan The Wolf Within. The Astonishing Evolution of Man's Best Friend
The evolution of dogs and the forces that drove its amazing transformation from a fierce wild carnivore, the wolf, to the astonishing range of comparatively docile domesticated dogs that we know today. Sykes paints a vivid picture of the dog as an ancient and essential ally. While undoubtedly it was the mastery of fire, language and agriculture that propelled Homo sapiens from a scarce, medium-sized primate to the position we enjoy today, Sykes crucially credits a fourth element for this success: the transformation of the wolf into the multi-purpose helpmate that is the dog. Drawing upon archaeology, history and genetics, Sykes shows how humans evolved to become the dominant species on Earth, but only with the help of our canine companions.
1873 Руб.
AUDIO CD Metallica - Metallica (SHM-CD)
Треклист:1 Enter Sandman, 2 Sad But True, 3 Holier Than Thou, 4 The Unforgiven, 5 Wherever I May Roam, 6 Don't Tread on Me, 7 Through the Never, 8 Nothing Else Matters, 9 Of Wolf and Man, 10 The God That Failed, 11 My Friend of Misery, 12 The Struggle Within
10799 Руб.
Sykes Bryan The Seven Daughters Of Eve
In 1994 Professor Bryan Sykes, a leading world authority on DNA and human evolution, was called in to examine the frozen remains of a man trapped in glacial ice in northern Italy. News of the discovery of the Ice Man and his age, which was put at over five thousand years old, fascinated the world. But what made the story particularly extraordinary was that Professor Sykes was also able to track down a living generic relative of the Ice Man, a woman living in Britain today. How was he able to locate a living relative of a man who died thousands of years ago? In The Seven Daughters of Eve, Bryan Sykes gives us a first hand account of his research into a remarkable gene which passes undiluted from generation to generation through the maternal line and shows how it is being used to track our genetic ancestors through time and space. After plotting thousands of DNA sequences from all over the world he found that they had clustered around a handful of distinct groups. In Europe there are only seven. The conclusion: almost everyone of native European descent, wherever they live in the world, can trace their ancestry back to one of seven women, the Seven Daughters of Eve. He has named them Ursula, Xenia, Helena, Velda, Tara, Katrine and Jasmine. In this remarkable scientific adventure story we learn exactly how our origins can be traced, how and where our ancient genetic ancestors lived, what their live were like and how we are each living proof of the almost miraculous strength of our DNA which has survived and prospered over so many thousands of years to reach us today. It is a book that not only presents the story of our evolution in a wholly new light, but also strikes right at the heart of ourselves as individuals and of our sense of identity.
2869 Руб.
Sykes Bryan Blood of the Isles
Bryan Sykes, the world's first genetic archaeologist, takes us on a journey around the family tree of Britain and Ireland, to reveal how our tribal history still colours the country today. In 54BC Julius Caesar launched the first Roman invasion of Britain. His was the first detailed account of the Celtic tribes that inhabited the Isles. But where had they come from and how long had they been there? When the Romans eventually left five hundred years later, they were succeeded by invasions of Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and Normans. Did these successive invasions obliterate the genetic legacy of the Celts, or have very little effect? After two decades tracing the genetic origins of peoples from all over the world, Bryan Sykes has now turned the spotlight on his own back yard. In a major research programme, the first of its kind, he set out to test the DNA of over 10,000 volunteers from across Britain and Ireland with the specific aim of answering this very question: what is our modern genetic make-up and what does it tell us of our tribal past? Are the modern people of the Isles a delicious genetic cocktail? Or did the invaders keep mostly to themselves forming separate genetic layers within the Isles? As his findings came in, Bryan Sykes discovered that the genetic evidence revealed often very different stories to the conventional accounts coming from history and archaeology. Blood of the Isles reveals the nature of our genetic make-up as never before and what this says about our attitudes to ourselves, each other, and to our past. It is a gripping story that will fascinate and surprise with its conclusions.
2664 Руб.
Metallica Виниловая пластинка Metallica Metallica - Coloured
Состояние носителя: S. Состояние конверта: S. Metallica - Coloured. Виниловая пластинка . 2 lp Clear with Black Marble (Some Blacker Marbled) A1 Enter Sandman 5:29 A2 Sad But True 5:24 A3 Holier Than Thou 3:47 B1 The Unforgiven 6:26 B2 Wherever I May Roam 6:42 B3 Don't Tread On Me 3:59 C1 Through The Never 4:01 C2 Nothing Else Matters 6:29 C3 Of Wolf And Man 4:16 D1 The God That Failed 5:05 D2 My Friend Of Misery 6:47 D3 The Struggle Within 3:5 Тип носителя: Виниловая пластинка
12285 Руб.
Mantel Hilary Wolf Hall
Winner of the Man Booker Prize The first book in Hilary Mantel’s award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, with a new cover design to celebrate the publication of the much anticipated The Mirror and the Light From one of our finest living writers, Wolf Hall is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel. In Wolf Hall, one of our very best writers brings the opulent, brutal world of the Tudors to bloody, glittering life. It is the backdrop to the rise and rise of Thomas Cromwell: lowborn boy, charmer, bully, master of deadly intrigue, and , finally, most powerful of Henry VIII’s coutiers.
1490 Руб.
Zaczek Iain Dog: A dog's life in art and literature
Dog is an affectionate portrait of "man's best friend" and within its pages you are sure to find some tamihar faces: from heroic canine to whimpering cur; trorn slavering yellow-fanged wolf to pampered, beribboned lapdog; from mega-sized Saint Bernard to micro-Chihuahua; from pedigree princeling to homely mutt. And it you think that dogs are a mirror of their owners, then judge tor yourself in the pages on anthropomorphism. Almost 300 paintings, drawings, and sculptures from all eras and all parts of the world are supported here by prose and poetry, chronicling the infinite facets ot doghood. Издание на английском языке.
964 Руб.
Fallon Jane Faking Friends
Best friend, soulmate . . . backstabber? Amy thought she knew everything about her best friend Melissa. And she also thought she was about to marry the man of her dream. Until she discovers he has been having an affair . . . and Melissa is The Other Woman. In one disastrous weekend she has lost her home, her fiance and her best friend. But instead of falling apart, she is determined to get her own back . . .
2179 Руб.
Larsen Nella Passing
Clare Kendry has severed all ties to her past. Elegant, fair-skinned and ambitious, she is married to a white man who is unaware of her African-American heritage. When she renews her acquaintance with her childhood friend Irene, who has not hidden her origins, both women are forced to reassess their marriages, the lies they have told - and to confront the secret fears they have buried within themselves. Nella Larsen's intense, taut and psychologically nuanced portrayal of lives and identities dangerously colliding established her as a leading writer of America's Harlem Renaissance. The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.
1937 Руб.
Shaw William The Birdwatcher
Dark, intelligent crime novel about a policeman with a secret past, and an emotive exploration of violence within the family. What drives good men to murder? Sergeant William South has always avoided investigating murder. A passionate birdwatcher and quiet man, he has few relationships and prefers it that way. But when his only friend is found brutally beaten, South's detachment is tested. Not only is he bereft - it seems that there's a connection between the suspect and himself. For South has a secret. He knows the kind of rage that killed his friend. He knows the kind of man who could do it. He knows, because Sergeant William South himself is a murderer. Moving from the storm-lashed, bird-wheeling skies of the Kent Coast to the wordless war of the Troubles, THE BIRDWATCHER is a crime novel of suspense, intelligence and powerful humanity about fathers and sons, grief and guilt and facing the darkness within.
1717 Руб.
Brown Peter, Gaines Steven The Love You Make: An Insider's Story of the Beatles
Here is the national bestseller that Newsday called "the most authoritative and candid look yet at the personal lives…of the oft-scrutinized group." In The Love You Make, Peter Brown, a close friend of and business manager for the band-and the best man at John and Yoko's wedding-presents a complete look at the dramatic offstage odyssey of the four lads from Liverpool who established the greatest music phenomenon of the twentieth century. Written with the full cooperation of each of the group's members and their intimates, this book tells the inside story of the music and the madness, the feuds and the drugs, the marriages and the affairs-from the greatest heights to the self-destructive depths of the Fab Four. In-depth and definitive, The Love You Make is an astonishing account of four men who transformed the way a whole generation of young people thought and lived. It reigns as the most comprehensive, revealing biography available of John, Paul, George, and Ringo. Includes 32 pages of rare and revealing photos A Literary Guild® Alternate Selection
399 Руб.
Larsen N. Passing
Clare Kendry has severed all ties to her past. Elegant, fair-skinned and ambitious, she is married to a white man who is unaware of her African-American heritage. When she renews her acquaintance with her childhood friend Irene, who has not hidden her origins, both women are forced to reassess their marriages, the lies they have told - and to confront the secret fears they have buried within themselves. Nella Larsen’s intense, taut and psychologically nuanced portrayal of lives and identities dangerously colliding established her as a leading writer of America’s Harlem Renaissance. The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers’ editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.
692 Руб.
Larsen N. Passing
Clare Kendry has severed all ties to her past. Elegant, fair-skinned and ambitious, she is married to a white man who is unaware of her African-American heritage. When she renews her acquaintance with her childhood friend Irene, who has not hidden her origins, both women are forced to reassess their marriages, the lies they have told - and to confront the secret fears they have buried within themselves. Nella Larsen’s intense, taut and psychologically nuanced portrayal of lives and identities dangerously colliding established her as a leading writer of America’s Harlem Renaissance. The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers’ editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.
692 Руб.
The 12 Cellists Of The Berlin Philharmonic
The 12 Cellists Of The Berlin Philharmonic. 1 CD. 1 's Best Friend, 2 Main Theme (Basic Instinct), 3 The Man With The Harmonica (Once Upon A Time In The West), 4 La Strada, 5 Tea For Two, 6 Lullaby Of Birdland, 7 As Time Goes By (Casablanca), 8 Family Portrait, 9 Poverty, 10 Catch Me If You Can, 11 Main Theme From Titanic, 12 I Could Have Done More, 13 The Windmils Of Your Mind, 14 The Bare Necessities, 15 Love Me Tender, 16 Love Scene
5199 Руб.
Porta Carles Hello Mister Cold. Tales from the Hidden Valley
Bundle up and get ready to spend the long winter with the charming creatures in Carles Porta's enchanting Hidden Valley. It's winter now in the hidden valley, and Maximus Cold has fallen into the valley, completely by mistake. Everyone thinks he's a strange, trumpet-playing monster who has kidnapped our wolf friend Yula! One can only hope that the gang of friends, including the rabbits, Reindeer, the pixie onion-headed ballerina, and Yula's best friend Sara can save the day with some trumpeting of their own. Dive into Carles Porta's elaborate world of enchanting, snowy forests and mysterious music and meet all the charming creatures of the Valley along the way.
2645 Руб.
Kusaka Hidenori Pokemon Adventures: X-Y. Volume 2
Awesome Pokemon adventures inspired by the best-selling Pokemon X and Y video games! X was a Pokemon Trainer child prodigy. He hated being in the spotlight, so he took to hiding in his room and avoiding everyone—including his best friend Y. But now a surprise attack has brought X out of hiding! The mystery of Mega Evolution begins to unravel, and new Pokemon join X and Y and their friends as they face an intensifying battle! Meanwhile, the headquarters of the Mega Evolution family, the Tower of Mastery, is under attack by a mysterious figure in a mechanical suit! Who is the masked marauder named Essentia?!
1464 Руб.