Prehistoric people

Who were our earliest ancestors and how did they live? Step inside the cave of a prehistoric family by turning the page... Learn to hunt mammoth and reindeer, make clothes from animal skins and paint on cave walls.

Farm animal

The cock crows at dawn, ducklings paddle, geese hiss, cows gaze, lambs frisk, and pigs roll in the mud. Visit the farmyard, the cowshed the pig sty and the fields.

Atlas of the earth

See how wins, water and ice sculpt valleys and mountains. Witness a new island being born as a volcano erupts. Find out how landscapes are formed over millions of years

Trees

See how a little seed can grow into a mighty tree. Trees flower every year and new seeds form. Some will grow into new trees. Discover the shapes and leaves and fruit of different trees.

The town

Travel through time. See primitive huts by a river replaced by houses in a hilltop village inside fortified walls. Watch how bridges, road and railways change the village into a modern town.

Feeling & knowing: making mind conscious

In recent decades, many philosophers and cognitive scientists have declared the problem of consciousness unsolvable, but Antonio Damasio is convinced that recent findings across multiple scientific disciplines have given us a way to understand consciousness and its significance for human life.

Egyptian tombs

Light up the past as you enter an Egyptian tomb. What do the strange hieroglyphics mean? Who is inside the sarcophagus? How did the Egyptians preserve dead bodies

Mrs. dalloway

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9780143136132

Collation

179 p. ; 21 cm

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Call Number

823 WOO m

Ancestor trouble: a reckoning and a reconciliation

An acclaimed writer goes searching for the truth about her wildly unconventional Southern family–and finds that our obsession with ancestors opens up new ways of seeing ourselves.

A case of life and limb

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9781526668752

Collation

322 p. ; 20 cm

Series Title

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Call Number

823 SMI a