The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World 9780062968838, 9780062968814

Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife [1st ed] 9780060554750, 2009026063, 9780062002884, 0060554754

An accessible history of heaven from the earliest scriptural conceptions of the afterlife to theologians to the convicti

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The Book of Eels 9780007394692, 9780007115938

What has been the dish of kings, the subject of myths and the traveller of epic and mysterious journeys? The eel. Beginn

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The Natural World in the Exeter Book Riddles 1843844648, 9781843844648

Humanity is a dominant presence in the Exeter Book riddle collection. It is frequently shown using, shaping and binding

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Seduced by Mathematics: The Enduring Fascination of Mathematics [1 ed.] 9811255466, 9789811255465, 9789811256356, 9789811255472, 9789811255489

Seduction is not just an end result, but a process — and in mathematics, both the end results and the process by which t

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The Mysterious World of the Human Genome 0007549067, 9780007549061

How could a relatively simple chemical code give rise to the complexity of a human being? How could our human genome hav

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Hope beneath our feet: restoring our place in the natural world: an anthology 9781583944035, 1583944036

What's at stake -- A way forward -- Taking single steps -- Little steps to big leaps -- The body of the world -- Ba

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The Spanish Craze: America’s Fascination with the Hispanic World, 1779–1939 [Hardcover ed.] 1496207726, 9781496207722

The Spanish Crazeis the compelling story of the centuries-long U.S. fascination with the history, literature, art, cultu

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Antichrist: Two Thousand Years of the Human Fascination with Evil

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Creature of the Word 9781433678639

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Countries of the World: Our World in Pictures 9781465491503

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