Adults & General Classification
Why Animals Talk: The New Science of Animal Commun...
JOD 22.00
"Animal communication doesn’t need to resemble human language to be full of meaning and nuance. Arik Kershenbaum delivers an expert overview of the astonishing discoveries made in the last few decades" —Frans de Waal From leading zoologist Arik Kershenbaum, a delightful and groundbreaking explorati..
Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?
JOD 23.50
Look around your office. Turn on the TV. Incompetent leadership is everywhere, and there's no denying that most of these leaders are men. In this timely and provocative book, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic asks two powerful questions: Why is it so easy for incompetent men to become leaders? And why is it ..
Why Friendship Matters: Selected Writings
JOD 12.50
Some friendships need celebrating, some are hard to navigate, and some need a bit of tender love and care. Delve into this anthology for a tour of all aspects of friendship by your favourite classic authors. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized cl..
Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
JOD 20.00
Filled with secrets from the therapy room, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? offers simple advice, effective strategies and powerful coping techniques to help readers stay positive and resilient no matter what life throws their way. Written in short, bite-sized entries, in Dr Julie's warm and info..
Why Motivating People Doesn't Work...and What Does...
JOD 18.00
Top leadership researcher, consultant, and coach Susan Fowler says stop trying to motivate people! It's frustrating for everyone involved and it just doesn't work. You can't motivate people—they are already motivated but generally in superficial and short-term ways. In this book, Fowler builds upon ..
Why Our Children Can't Read and What We Can Do Abo...
JOD 16.40
JOD 41.00
In America today, 43 percent of our children fall below grade level in reading. In her meticulously researched and groundbreaking work, Diane McGuinness faults outmoded reading systems for this crisis -- and provides the answers we need to give our children the reading skills they need. Drawing on t..
Why Peace and Prayer Are Not Enough: A Primer on J...
JOD 11.00
How can we begin to understand the violent brutality that haunts the Holy Land today? See through the eyes of an American Lutheran pastor who has spent years of her life dedicated to the people there that she grew to love. She worked on the ground in Jerusalem, Ramallah and other parts of the West ..
Why The West Rules - For Now
JOD 16.50
In the middle of the eighteenth century, British entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal and the world changed forever. Factories, railways and gunboats then propelled the West's rise to power, and computers and nuclear weapons in the twentieth century secured its global su..
Why We Die: And How We Live
JOD 27.50
We are living through an exciting revolution in biology. Giant strides are being made in our understanding of why we age, and why some species live longer than others. Will we soon be able to cheat disease and death and live for a very long time, possibly many times our current lifespan? In Why We ..
Why We Get Sick
JOD 22.00
A scientist reveals the groundbreaking evidence linking many major diseases, including cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s disease, to a common root cause—insulin resistance—and shares an easy, effective plan to reverse and prevent it. We are sick. Around the world, we struggle with diseases that we..
Why We Remember
JOD 12.50
A new understanding of memory is emerging from the latest scientific research. In Why We Remember, pioneering neuroscientist and psychologist Charan Ranganath radically reframes the way we think about the everyday act of remembering. Combining accessible language with cutting-edge research, he revea..
Why We Remember: The Science Of Memory And How It ...
JOD 22.00
We talk about memory as a record of the past, but here's a surprising twist: we aren't supposed to remember everything. In fact, we're designed to forget. Over the course of twenty-five years, Charan Ranganath has studied the seemingly selective and unreliable nature of human memory to find that our..