Chinese astrology can help anyone to become better parents by understanding the strengths and weaknesses of each sign and how it will affect the undeveloped personality of a child. Divided into twelve chapters to correspond with the twelve signs, Rat, Rooster, Ox..., each chapter explains the sign's personality traits, along with the effect of birth order (i.e. the order of a child within the family, first-born or second child...) on a child's outlook on life. Your child's birth time gives the ascendant sign that will characterise the child's inner self'.Each chapter concludes with a specially written fable dedicated to each sign that imparts lasting lessons for your child.

Chinese Horoscopes for Your Child: How Birth Order Influences A Child's Personality

Religion & Spirituality

LAU, Theodora

New Age & Spirituality

Profile Books, Ltd.

Robert Greene 6 Books Collection Set (Mastery, The Laws of Human Nature, The Daily Laws & 3 More)

Robert, Greene

Island on Fire: The extraordinary story of Laki, the volcano that turned eighteenth-century Europe dark

Jeff Kanipe

Alexandra Witze

Three hundred action-packed years of Roman history, encompassing the fall of Rome and the rise of a new empire in the East 'Conventional histories of the last days of the Roman Empire will no longer suffice after you read this book.' Averil Cameron, author of Byzantine Matters Long before Rome fell to the Ostrogoths in AD 476, a new city had risen to take its place as the beating heart of a late antique empire, the glittering Constantinople: New Rome. In this magisterial work, Professor Paul Stephenson charts the centuries surrounding this epic shift of power. He traces the cultural, social and political forces that led to the empire being ruled from a city straddling Europe and Asia, placing all into a rich natural and environmental context informed by the latest scientific research. Blending narrative with analysis, he shows how the city and empire of New Rome survived countless attacks and the rise of Islam. By the end, the wide world of linked cities had changed into a world founded on new ideas about government and God, art and war, and the very future of a Christian empire: Byzantium.

New Rome: The Roman Empire in the East, AD 395 - 700 - Longlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic Runciman Award (The Profile History of the Ancient World Series)

History

Paul Stephenson

Ancient Civilizations

Why do birds sing at dawn? what's the slowest a plane can fly without stalling and falling out of the sky? and how long can you keep a tiger cub as a pet? will we ever speak dolphin?, the eagerly-awaited new 'last word' collection, has the answers to these questions and many more. Seven years on from does anything eat wasps?, the new scientist series still rides high in the bestseller lists, with well over two million copies sold. Popular science has never been more stimulating or more enjoyable. Like why don't penguins' feet freeze?, do polar bears get lonely?, and why can't elephants jump?, this collection of wry and well-informed answers to a remarkable range of baffling questions is guaranteed to delight.

Will We Ever Speak Dolphin?: and 130 other science questions answered (New Scientist)

New, Scientist

Chancing It: The Laws of Chance and How They Can Work For You

Over the years, some very smart people have thought they understood the rules of chance—only to fail dismally. Whether you call it probability, risk, or uncertainty, the workings of chance often defy common sense. Fortunately, advances in math and science have revealed the laws of chance, and understanding those laws can help in your everyday life.In Chancing It, award-winning scientist and writer Robert Matthews shows how to understand the laws of probability and use them to your advantage. He gives you access to some of the most potent intellectual tools ever developed and explains how to use them to guide your judgments and decisions. By the end of the book, you will know:How to understand and even predict coincidencesWhen an insurance policy is worth havingWhy “expert” predictions are often misleadingHow to tell when a scientific claim is a breakthrough or baloneyWhen it makes sense to place a bet on anything from sports to stock marketsA groundbreaking introduction to the power of probability, Chancing It will sharpen your decision-making and maximize your luck.

Chancing it: The Laws of chance and How They Can Work for You

Matthews, Robert

Feeding Frenzy: The New Politics of Food

Politics & Social Sciences

Paul McMahon

Social Sciences

To explain the mystery of how life evolved on Earth, Nick Lane explores the deep link between energy and genes. 
Why is life the way it is? For two billion years, bacteria continually evolved without ever changing their basic form. Then single-celled organisms made the jump into complex life. In The Vital Question, award-winning author and biochemist Nick Lane argues that the evolution of multicellular life—the kind found in fungi, plants, animals, and humans—was contingent on a single event: the first successful prokaryotic endosymbiosis, or a bacterium living within another bacterium. Building on the pillars of evolutionary theory, Lane’s hypothesis draws on cutting-edge research into the link between energy and genes to suggest a novel account of cellular evolution and large-scale life as we know it. At once rigorous and enchanting, the conclusions in The Vital Question not only explain the vast sweep of evolutionary history but also provide insights that stretch forward into our understanding of sex, speciation, and the complexity of human life.

The Vital Question: Why is life the way it is?

Nick Lane

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A Nation and not a Rabble: The Irish Revolution 1913-23

Ferriter, Diarmaid

The Burning Question: We Can't Burn Half the World's Oil, Coal and Gas. So How Do We Quit?

Science & Math

Berners-Lee

Earth Sciences

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