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Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human
Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human

A savory account of how the pursuit of delicious foods shaped human evolution

Nature, it has been said, invites us to eat by appetite and rewards by flavor. But what exactly are flavors? Why are some so pleasing while others are not? Delicious is a supremely entertaining foray into the heart of
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Breathing: An Inspired History
Breathing: An Inspired History
Our knowledge of breathing has shaped our social history and philosophical beliefs since prehistory. Breathing occupied a spiritual status for the ancients, while today it is central to the practice of many forms of meditation, like Yoga. Over time physicians, scientists, and engineers have pieced together the intricate biological mechanisms of...
Light in the Darkness: Black Holes, the Universe, and Us
Light in the Darkness: Black Holes, the Universe, and Us

The International Bestseller

On April 10, 2019, award-winning astrophysicist Heino Falcke presented the first image ever captured of a black hole at an international press conference—a turning point in astronomy that Science magazine called the scientific breakthrough of the year. That photo was...

Supply Chain Planning, Second Edition: An Analytics-based Approach
Supply Chain Planning, Second Edition: An Analytics-based Approach
The book is intended for supply chain professionals, as well as for graduate and advanced undergraduate students. Practitioners will obtain valuable new insights and examples of implementable frameworks and methods for managing their supply chain functions and organizations. Students will develop an understanding of real-world approaches for...
Waste Recycling Technologies for Nanomaterials Manufacturing (Topics in Mining, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering)
Waste Recycling Technologies for Nanomaterials Manufacturing (Topics in Mining, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering)
This book discusses the recent advances in the wastes recycling technologies to provide low-cost and alternative ways for nanomaterials production. It shows how carbon nanomaterials can be synthesized from different waste sources such as banana fibers, argan (Argania spinosa) seed shells, corn grains, camellia oleifera shell, sugar cane...
Girl With No Job: The Crazy Beautiful Life of an Instagram Thirst Monster
Girl With No Job: The Crazy Beautiful Life of an Instagram Thirst Monster
The instant New York Times bestseller and laugh-out-loud look at pop culture and social media stardom from one of the most popular funemployed millennials today, perfect for fans of Give Them Lala and The Betches.

As the creator of the breakout Instagram account @GirlWithNoJob, Claudia Oshry has
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Macroeconomic Policy in Fragile States
Macroeconomic Policy in Fragile States
Setting macroeconomic policy is especially difficult in fragile states. Political legitimacy concerns are heightened, raising issues such as who the policymakers are, what incentives they face, and how the process of policymaking is likely to work under limited legitimacy and high uncertainty
both about the macroeconomic environment
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Concise Foraging Guide (The Wildlife Trusts)
Concise Foraging Guide (The Wildlife Trusts)

This brand-new title in our ever popular series of Concise Guides will bring the delights of foraging to a new audience.

A practical pocket guide to the edible berries, shoots, leaves, roots, flowers and fungi of Britain and Europe.

This field guide includes accurate artwork to help with
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Paint Your Town Red: How Preston Took Back Control and Your Town Can Too
Paint Your Town Red: How Preston Took Back Control and Your Town Can Too
Paint Your Town Red tells the story of how one city in the north of England decided to level up without waiting for Whitehall.

Across the world, there is a growing recognition that a new kind of economy is needed: more democratic, less exploitative, less destructive of society and the planet. Paint Your Town
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The Secret Lives of Customers: A Detective Story About Solving the Mystery of Customer Behavior
The Secret Lives of Customers: A Detective Story About Solving the Mystery of Customer Behavior
A "detective story" that delivers key insights for any businessperson asking the questions: who really are our customers, why do we lose them, how do we regain them?

Customers can be a mystery. Despite the availability of more data than ever before, everyone, from the CEO to salespeople in the
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Clothes and Monasticism in Ancient Christian Egypt (Routledge Studies in Religion)
Clothes and Monasticism in Ancient Christian Egypt (Routledge Studies in Religion)

This book is an exploration of the ideals and values of the ascetic and monastic life, as expressed through clothes. Clothes are often seen as an extension of us as humans, a determinant of who we are and how we experience and interact with the world. In this way, they can play a significant role in the embodied and...

Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment (New Forum Books, 65)
Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment (New Forum Books, 65)

A compelling exploration of how our pursuit of happiness makes us unhappy

We live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see signs that our pursuit of happiness has proven fruitless. Dissatisfied, we seek change for the sake of change?even if it means undermining the foundations of our
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