Most cultures tell the tale of a maiden who gives birth untouched by a man, and in the wild there are plenty of creatures turkeys, Komodo dragons, and the Jesus Christ lizard (which even walks on water) that take various approaches to making babies without having sex.
Dividing the sum total of human musical achievement, from Beethoven to The Beatles, Busta Rhymes to Bach, into just six fundamental forms, Levitin illuminates, through songs of friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion and love, how music has been instrumental in the evolution of language, thought and culture.
A word of mouth bestseller which has become one of the best loved and most successful books in the parenting field from Australian writer and lecturer Steve Biddulph, who's been called 'a mixture of Billy Connelly and Dr Spock' by The Times.
With an anti-abortion majority on the Supreme Court, and several states with only one abortion clinic, many reproductive rights activists are on the defensive, hoping to hold on to abortion in a few places and cases.
In this fascinating and often hilarious work - winner of the Royal Society of Science Prize 2007 - pre-eminent psychologist Daniel Gilbert shows how - and why - the majority of us have no idea how to make ourselves happy.
Leihmütter, Samenspender, künstliche Befruchtung: wenn die biologischen Elternnicht die sozialen sind …+++ NEU: Ergänzt um das Thema »Social Freezing« +++Immer mehr Babys werden mit medizinischer Unterstützung gezeugt.
En cierta ocasión conversando informalmente con el doctor Luis Enrique Ruiz López, conocedor como pocos de la historia y el trajinar de la Universidad de La Salle, me decía que esta había tenido tres momentos fundantes de creación y transformación profundas.
Vanity, Vitality, and Virility is a fascinating portrait gallery of chemicals involved in our everyday life, from Viagra and selenium to whispering asphalt, nappies, and chewing gum.
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'Informative, powerful' VOGUE'A fascinating and friendly guide for you to understand you better' MELISSA HEMSLEY'Amy's book is everything I should have learned at school' EMMA GANNONHormones were something Amy Thomson, founder and CEO of leading women's health app and tech service Moody, never paid attention to, until one day her periods stopped.
Understand the menopause with all its changes and challenges and choose practices and treatments, brought to you by a team of experts, to make this next stage in your wellness journey healthy and positive.
From the hugely respected journalist Miranda Sawyer, a very modern look at the midlife crisis - delving into the truth, and lies, of the experience and how to survive it, with thoughtfulness, insight and humour.
Este libro explora los significados, las posibilidades y los límites de la humanización de la salud principalmente desde la perspectiva de la bioética y de las ciencias humanas y sociales, renunciando a la racionalidad empresarial y a la retórica publicitaria que puede tener el concepto.
'I believe it is an ethical imperative for all clinicians who treat women in menopause or women with breast cancer to alert their patients to this book' Michael Baum, MD, Professor Emeritus of Surgery and visiting professor of Medical Humanities, University College London'A thorough, careful and unbiased assessment .
The Power of the Spoken Word Florence Scovel Shinn - "e;The Power of the Spoken Word"e; is a collection of the most influential author's lectures, which have been gathered, made into the book and published posthumously by her student.
