Huge advances in our ability to sequence ancient DNA have revolutionised what we know about the earliest human populations. David Reich explains the science, and tells the emerging story of our complex and often surprising ancestry - the extraordinary ancient migrations and mixtures of populations that have made us who we are.
<p><strong>'Will Storr is one of our best journalists of ideas ... <em>The Status Gam</em>e might be his best yet' </strong>James Marriott, Books of the Year, <em>The Times</em></p>
<p>Als der Mord an zwei Frauen in den Medien erscheint, deutet alles darauf hin, dass es sich bei dem Mörder um einen Psychopathen handelt, dessen Profil die Data Spezialistin Midnight Jones bei psychometrischen Persönlichkeitstests analysiert hat. Doch niemand glaubt ihr, dass er noch zu viel mehr fähig ist. </p>
He set her up. Theyll bring him down. Emily Charlton does not do the suburbs. A successful stylist and image consultant to Hollywood stars, and once assistant to a legendary fashion editor. But with Snapchatting millennials stealing her clients, Emily needs to get back in the game. When Miriams friend, Karolina, is dumped by her husband Graham, a senator, Emily scents the client of a lifetime.
<p>Privatdetektiv Kryszinski auf wahn-witziger Undercover-Mission in den Schweizer Alpen</p>
Kristof Kryszinski ist am Ende - so sehr, dass er sogar einen wahnwitzigen Job von der Polizei annimmt. Kriminelle sollen zusammen mit Behinderten einen Abenteuerurlaub in den Bergen verbringen. Kryszinski ist als Undercover-Aufsicht mittendrin. Aber schon bald bleiben die ersten Teilnehmer buchstäblich auf der Strecke ...
Overthinking is a form of anxiety that many people suffer from. Psychologist Gwendoline Smith explains clearly the concepts of positive and negative overthinking, the truth about worry and how to deal with the 'thought viruses' that are holding you back. Based on cognitive behavioural theory, this book will help in all the key areas of your life: from your personal life to relationships and work.
The theorists of art and film commonly depict the modern audience as aesthetically and politically passive. In response, both artists and thinkers have sought to transform the spectator into an active agent and the spectacle into a communal performance. In this follow-up to the acclaimed The Future of the Image, Ranciere takes a radically different approach to this attempted emancipation. First asking exactly what we mean by political art or the politics of art, he goes on to look at what the tradition of critical art, and the desire to insert art into life, has achieved. Has the militant critique of the consumption of images and commodities become, ironically, a sad affirmation of its omnipotence?
