"Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old" is a guide to the biggest issue we all face. Ageing - not cancer, not heart disease - is the world's leading cause of death and suffering. What would the world be like if we could cure it? Living disease - free until the age of 100 is achievable within our lifetimes. In prose that is lucid and full of fascinating facts, "Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old" introduces us to the cutting edge research that is paving the way for this revolution. Computational biologist Andrew Steele explains what occurs ... |
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Star Wars exploded onto our cinema screens in 1977, and the world has not been the same since. After watching depressing and cynical movies throughout the early 1970s, audiences enthusiastically embraced the positive energy of the Star Wars galaxy as they followed moisture farmer Luke Skywalker on his journey through a galaxy far, far away, meeting extraordinary characters like mysterious hermit Obi-Wan Kenobi, space pirates Han Solo and Chewbacca, loyal droids C-3PO and R2-D2, bold Princess Leia Organa and the horrific Darth Vader, servant of the dark, malevolent Emperor. Writer, director, and producer George Lucas ... |
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The Sunday Times bestseller. ... 66 million years ago the dinosaurs were wiped from the face of the earth. Today, Dr. Steve Brusatte, one of the leading scientists of a new generation of dinosaur hunters, armed with cutting edge technology, is piecing together the complete story of how the dinosaurs ruled the earth for 150 million years. The world of the dinosaurs has fascinated on book and screen for decades - from early science fiction classics like The Lost World, to Godzilla terrorizing the streets of Tokyo, and the monsters of Jurassic Park. But what if we got it wrong? In The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, top ... |
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Deep rivers, tall trees, strange animals, beautiful flowers - this is the rainforest. Burning trees, thick smoke, new roads and cities, dead animals - this is the rainforest too. To some people the rainforests mean beautiful places that you can visit; to others they mean trees that they can cut down and sell. Between 1950 and 2000 half of the world's rainforests disappeared. While you read these words, people are cutting down rainforest trees. What are these wonderful places that we call rainforests - and is it too late to save them? Oxford Bookworms Library Factfiles are non-fiction graded readers from the Oxford ... |
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Building the next business generation. The Business 2.0 provides university students who are preparing for future employment with the language and business skills they need to succeed in a competitive international environment. Based on extensive user feedback, research into Business English studies and the evolving needs of employers, the course builds on the success of the original edition and offers students the confidence, language and skills to thrive in an international work environment. There is a strong focus on the "intangible" business skills - emotional intelligence and interpersonal abilities. So ... |
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It is 1866, and there is trouble in the world's oceans. What is the extraordinary thing that people have seen there, travelling faster than a whale and cutting holes in the bottom of the strongest ships? Dr Aronnax joins the search for the monster, hoping for an exciting adventure. But when he meets the mysterious Captain Nemo, his adventure becomes more extraordinary than he had ever imagined, and he discovers a new underwater world, full of wonders, but of strange dangers too... Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading ... |
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Building the next business generation. The Business 2.0 provides university students who are preparing for future employment with the language and business skills they need to succeed in a competitive international environment. Based on extensive user feedback, research into Business English studies and the evolving needs of employers, the course builds on the success of the original edition and offers students the confidence, language and skills to thrive in an international work environment. There is a strong focus on the "intangible" business skills - emotional intelligence and interpersonal abilities. So ... |
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Building the next business generation. The Business 2.0 provides university students who are preparing for future employment with the language and business skills they need to succeed in a competitive international environment. Based on extensive user feedback, research into Business English studies and the evolving needs of employers, the course builds on the success of the original edition and offers students the confidence, language and skills to thrive in an international work environment. There is a strong focus on the "intangible" business skills - emotional intelligence and interpersonal abilities. So ... |
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Building the next business generation. The Business 2.0 provides university students who are preparing for future employment with the language and business skills they need to succeed in a competitive international environment. Based on extensive user feedback, research into Business English studies and the evolving needs of employers, the course builds on the success of the original edition and offers students the confidence, language and skills to thrive in an international work environment. There is a strong focus on the "intangible" business skills - emotional intelligence and interpersonal abilities. So ... |
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New York Times bestseller. From the )1 bestselling author of "Drive" and "A whole new mind". "Brims with a surprising amount of insight and practical advice." The Wall Street Journal ... The groundbreaking book that unlocks the scientific secrets of good timing to help you flourish at work, at school, and at home. Every day we confront a never-ending stream of "when" decisions. When to change jobs. When to schedule a meeting or a class. When to get serious about a person or a project. Yet we make such decisions haphazardly-based on intuition and guesswork. In "When", ... |
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Sleep is one of the most important aspects of our life, health and longevity and yet it is increasingly neglected in twenty-first-century society, with devastating consequences: every major disease in the developed world - Alzheimer's, cancer, obesity, diabetes - has very strong causal links to deficient sleep. In this book, the first of its kind written by a scientific expert, Professor Matthew Walker explores twenty years of cutting-edge research to solve the mystery of why sleep matters. Looking at creatures from across the animal kingdom as well as major human studies, Why We Sleep delves into everything from ... |
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Problem and Perspectives. ... New Realism is a movement in philosophy initiated in 2011 by Maurizio Ferraris (University of Turin) and Markus Gabriel (University of Bonn). It has already had success in prompting debates on the perspectives for a realist turn in philosophy. Hundreds of articles pro and contra New Realism have been published, some authored by distinguished contemporary thinkers. All over the world there have been international forums related to the movement. The main task of New Realism is to develop a theoretical alternative to postmodernism and other antirealist traditions in contemporary philosophy. ... |
