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Anatomical Oddities by Alice Roberts
Category: Science & Natural History
Every part of the human body has a name - and story. But how familiar are you with your arachnoid mater or your Haversian canals? Anatomical Oddities is an artistic and linguistic adventure, taking the reader on a journey to discover the hidden landscape of the human body: its crypts and caverns, gorges ...Show more
Ancestors: A Prehistory of Britain in Seven Burials by Alice Roberts
Category: History
An extraordinary exploration of the ancestry of Britain through seven burial sites. By using new advances in genetics and taking us through important archaeological discoveries, Professor Alice Roberts helps us better understand life today.'This is a terrific, timely and transporting book - taking us he ...Show more
Ancestors: A prehistory of Britain in seven burials by Alice Roberts
Category: History
This book is about belonging: about walking in ancient places, in the footsteps of the ancestors. It's about reaching back in time, to find ourselves, and our place in the world.We often think of Britain springing from nowhere with the arrival of the Romans. But in Ancestors, pre-eminent archaeologist, ...Show more
Artificial Intelligence: A Ladybird Expert Book by Alice Roberts; Michael Woolridge
Category: Science | Series: Ladybird Expert Ser.
Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Artificial Intelligence is a clear, simple and entertaining introduction to intelligent machines and the humans that program them. Written by computer scientist Michael Wooldridge, Artificial Intelligence chronicles the development of intelligent machines, from Tu ...Show more
Bathe the Cat by AliceB. McGinty, David Roberts, Alice B. McGinty
Category: Children's
Bathe the floor? Sweep the dishes? This riotous romp of a picture book follows a frantic family as they try to get some chores done--with no help from the family cat, who keeps scrambling the list of chores with hilarious effects. Get ready for a rollicking read-aloud with a truly purrfect ending. I ...Show more
Buried: An alternative history of the first millennium in Britain by Alice Roberts
Category: History
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Tender, fascinating ... Lucid and illuminating' Robert MacfarlaneFunerary rituals show us what people thought about mortality; how they felt about loss; what they believed came next. From Roman cremations and graveside feasts, to deviant burials with heads rearranged, from rich ...Show more
Buried: An alternative history of the first millennium in Britain by Alice Roberts
Category: History
Funerary rituals show us what people thought about mortality; how they felt about loss; what they believed came next. From Roman cremations and graveside feasts, to deviant burials with heads rearranged, from richly furnished Anglo Saxon graves to the first Christian burial grounds in Wales, Buried prov ...Show more
Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond by Alice Roberts
Category: History
The new book by Sunday Times bestselling author of Ancestors and Buried - the final instalment in Professor Alice Roberts' acclaimed trilogy.We can unlock secrets from bones preserved for centuries in tombs, graves and crypts.The history of the Middle Ages is typically the story of the rich and powerful ...Show more
Evolution: The Human Story by Dr. Alice Roberts
Category: Children's Educational
This unrivalled illustrated guide to human evolution brings you face to face with your ancient ancestors. Travelling back in time almost eight million years, the book charts the development of our species, Homo sapiens, from tree-dwelling primates to modern humans. Evolution investigates each of our an ...Show more
Evolution: The Human Story by Dr. Alice Roberts
Category: Science
Come face to face with our ancestors Travel back 8 million years with "Evolution: The Human Story" and go on a fascinating journey to discover how our species has developed from tree-dwelling primates to modern humans. This is the first time that the story of evolution has been documented in such amazin ...Show more
Human Anatomy: The Definitive Visual Guide by Alice Roberts
Category: Science
The definitive visual guide to human anatomyDiscover fascinating facts about the human body in Human Anatomy.Did you know that your stomach is only a centimetre away from the bottom of your heart? You'll get to see all the biological wonders of the human body, often at life-size, with spectacular anatom ...Show more
Human AnatomyThe Definitive Visual Guide by Alice M. Roberts
Category: Health and Wellbeing
For students of anatomy, biology, and the biomedical sciences; medical professionals; and curious families, DK'sHuman Anatomy will be a definitive resource.Written by acclaimed anatomist, Dr. Alice Roberts, Human Anatomy is an up-to-the-minute study of the body. Spectacular digital images show the body ...Show more