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Bear Head (Paperback)
Adrian Tchaikovsky; Narrated by Laurence Bouvard, Nathan Osgood, William Hope
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WELCOME TO HELL CITY, MARS Jimmy Martin has a sore head. He's used
to smuggling illegal data in his headspace. But this is the first
time it has started talking to him. The data claims to be a
distinguished academic, author and civil rights activist. It also
claims to be a bear. A bear named Honey. Jimmy has nothing against
bioforms - he's one himself, albeit one engineered out of human
stock - and works with them everyday in Hell City, building the
future, staking mankind's claim to a new world: Mars. The problem
is that humanity isn't the only entity with designs on the Red
Planet. Out in the airless desert there is another presence. A
novel intelligence, elusive, unknowable and potentially lethal. And
Honey is here to make contact with it, whether Jimmy likes it or
not.
A celebration of the huge linguistic diversity that is open to all
of us at birth, and that has inspired and fascinated humans since
the invention of speech This book opens with the first sounds a
child hears in their mother's womb and their capacity for quickly
learning more than one language. Hardach explores how this capacity
has always been a necessary and normal aspect of human behaviour,
from the earliest evidence of writing in different languages on
Mesopotamian clay tablets to the role of trade in transmitting
words across cultures and continents through families of
multilingual merchants. She takes us into the 'book cemeteries' of
medieval synagogues; describes the riddles of hieroglyphics and
cuneiform, and the long struggle to decipher them; discovers the
enigmatic lost language of Cypro-Minoan Britain; and reminds us, in
an era of resurgent nationalism, that in the British Isles many
languages have mingled in fruitful and fascinating ways. This is a
book about languages and the people who love them. It is about the
strange and wonderful ways in which humans have used languages
since the days of the earliest clay records. About the linguistic
threads that connect us all. Above all, it is about pleasure.
Can she play the game, and win? Suspicion and fear surround the
mysterious disappearance of a movie star's daughter. The race to
claim the reward for finding Anna Louise Caley - dead or alive -
spirals into a deadly voodoo trail in the French quarter of New
Orleans. In her desperation to succeed in her first case as a
private detective, ex-Lieutenant Lorraine Page is caught in a web
of deceit and violence that threatens to drag her back into the
murky world she has fought so hard to escape. Continuing the
investigation means risking everything. But the million-dollar
bonus is one hell of an incentive not to back off from a case that
could kill her - or give her the future and the professional
respect she craves. The complete and unabridged Lorraine Page
trilogy available for the first time in audio! This audiobook is an
mp3-CD edition
How far would you go to obey orders? Why do many people - even some
scientists - believe in miracles? Find out the answers to these
questions and much more in this visual guide to applied psychology.
Lying at the intersection of biology, philosophy, and medicine,
psychology is at the heart of what makes us human. Perfect both for
students and people new to the topic, How Psychology Works has a
unique graphic approach and uses direct, jargon-free language. It
explores various approaches that psychologists use to study how
people think and behave, such as behaviourism, cognitive
psychology, and humanism. This indispensable guide describes a wide
range of mental health conditons, including bipolar disorder and
obsessive-compulsive disorder. It then takes you through
treatments, from cognitive behavioural therapy and psychoanalysis
to group therapy and art therapy. This book also explores the role
of psychology in everyday situations. Discover what makes you, you
- the unique blend of nature and nurture that makes up your sense
of who you are - and pyschology's role in relationships, sport,
work, and education. How Psychology Works is a fascinating read
that will quickly hone your emotional intelligence and give you
perceptive insights into both your own and other people's feelings
and behaviour.
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