Get under the skin of the human body as we find out what happens to our food on a journey through the digestive system and discover how our immune system protects us from harm. Check out the habitats that will help humans live and thrive on Mars and learn how NASA’s legendary Space Shuttle worked. Explore some of the wonders of the natural world, including how tigers hunt their prey and the importance of trees on the environment around them.

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Covering around 70 per cent of our planet’s surface and home to more than 200,000 known species, the world’s oceans are vital to life on Earth. However, despite producing around half the world’s oxygen and helping to regulate our climate and weather patterns, human behaviour has put our incredible oceans and the amazing animals within them at risk. In Book of the Ocean, we go beneath the surface to explore the fascinating secrets of the sea

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Sketches by "Boz," Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People (commonly known as Sketches by Boz) is a collection of short pieces published by Charles Dickens in 1836 accompanied by illustrations by George Cruikshank. The 56 sketches concern London scenes and people and are divided into four sections: "Our Parish", "Scenes", "Characters", and "Tales". The material in the first three of these sections is non-fiction. The last section comprises...

The play opens in the aftermath of the death of King Henry V of England (although it was written before Shakespeare's play, Henry V). News reaches England of military setbacks in France, and the scene shifts across the English Channel, to Orleans, where 'La Pucelle' (Joan of Arc) is encouraging the Dauphin to resist. She defeats an English army led by Talbot.

Buddenbrooks: Verfall einer Familie, geschrieben von Thomas Mann, ist ein Meisterwerk der deutschen Literatur und erzählt die packende Geschichte des Niedergangs einer wohlhabenden Kaufmannsfamilie über mehrere Generationen hinweg. Die Handlung spielt im 19. Jahrhundert und schildert die Kämpfe und Herausforderungen der Buddenbrooks, während sie mit den sozialen, wirtschaftlichen und persönlichen Veränderungen ihrer Zeit konfrontiert werden. Durch...

This eyewitness account of religious and political persecution in 1930s Mexico inspired the British novelist's masterpiece, The Power and the Glory (John Updike). In 1938, Graham Greene, a burgeoning convert to Roman Catholicism, was commissioned to expose the anticlerical purges in Mexico by President Plutarco Elias Calles. Churches had been destroyed, peasants held secret masses in their homes, religious icons were banned, and priests disappeared....

Inspired by his trip aboard "The Great Eastern" ship, Jules Verne writes the adventure novel "A Floating City". The story depicts a wonderful picture of the long sea voyage, the ship which seems so big that it is described as a city, the vivid places and sights that unfold before the passengers and the lasting impressions of New York and Niagara Falls. It is also a story of romance and bravery as a desperate woman who is travelling with her abusive...

Using object relations theory, the text portrays man's deep ambivalence about power and uncovers the early sources of our wishes and fears about it. It aims to provide a clarification of the essential differences between destructive and creative power and its position in everyday life.

Steven de Selby has a hangover. Bright lights, loud noise, and lots of exercise are the last thing he wants. But that's exactly what he gets when someone starts shooting at him. Steven is no stranger to death-Mr. D's his boss after all-but when a dead girl saves him from sharing her fate, he finds himself on the wrong end of the barrel. His job is to guide the restless dead to the underworld but now his clients are his own colleagues, friends, and...

It's not easy being Death. For starters, people keep dying. And then, they keep getting up again. Steven de Selby got promoted. This makes the increasing number of stirrers (and the disturbing rumors of a zombie god rising sometime soon) his problem. That time management seminar he keeps meaning to take would also remind him that he's got a Death Moot to plan, a Christmas party to organize, and an end-of-the-world thing to avert. Steven must...