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  • Love

    A History

    by Simon May ...
    "What is love? May plunders Western poetry, philosophy and psychology to find answers . . . Thought-provoking stuff" ( The Sunday Telegraph).Love—unconditional, selfless, unchanging, sincere, and totally accepting—is worshipped today as the West's only universal religion. To challenge it is one of our few remaining taboos. In this path-breaking and superbly written book, philosopher Simon May does ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Power of Cute

    by Simon May ...
    An exploration of cuteness and its immense hold on us, from emojis and fluffy puppies to its more uncanny, subversive expressionsCuteness has taken the planet by storm. Global sensations Hello Kitty and Pokémon, the works of artists Takashi Murakami and Jeff Koons, Heidi the cross-eyed opossum and E.T.—all reflect its gathering power. But what does “cute” mean, as a sensibility and style? Why is ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • How to Be a Refugee

    The gripping true story of how one family hid their Jewish origins to survive the Nazis

    by Simon May ...
    'A lyrical, fascinating, important book. More than just a family story, it is an essay on belonging, denying, pretending, self-deception and, at least for the main characters, survival.' Literary Review'Simon May's remarkable How to Be a Refugee is a memoir of family secrets with a ruminative twist, one that's more interested in what we keep from ourselves than the ones we conceal from others.' ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Bobby the Blackbird goes to see the King

    by Simon May ...
    Bobby the Blackbird sets out on a little adventure to see the King of England at his palace in London. Bobby meets his new little friends, Owl, Red Robin, Duck and Seagull, and they each join him on his journey. Along the way they see the ravens on top of the tower and ask them for help in finding the King. The ravens take them to the palace where they find the King and his golden crown. A perfect ... Read more

    $2.72 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Straw in the Sun

    A Memoir

    by Charlie May Simon ...
    “Last spring I went to Rocky Crossing again. New green grass was sprouting on the high ridge of the road that led there, and now and then there grew a persimmon shoot, or a small hickory, where a nut had fallen and opened deep in the untrampled earth. But the ruts made long ago by passing wagons were still there, guiding the wheels of our car through the dense forest, around the boulders and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Love

    A New Understanding of an Ancient Emotion

    by Simon May ...
    What is love's real intent? Why can love be so ruthlessly selective? How is it related to sex, beauty, and goodness? And is the child now the supreme object of love? In addressing these questions, Simon May develops a radically new understanding of love as the emotion we feel towards whomever or whatever we experience as grounding our life--as offering us a possibility of home in a world that we ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • The Archaeology of Human Bones

    by Simon Mays ...
    The Archaeology of Human Bones provides an up to date account of the analysis of human skeletal remains from archaeological sites, introducing students to the anatomy of bones and teeth and the nature of the burial record.Drawing from studies around the world, this book illustrates how the scientific study of human remains can shed light upon important archaeological and historical questions. This ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Innovation Sucks!

    Time to Think Differently

    by Alan Watkins, Simon May ...
    Businesses spend billions on innovation with very little to show for their investment or effort. This book challenges some of the ‘ingrained truths’ of innovation and suggests a different approach.Innovation is not the creation of a novel idea. It is the successful commercialisation of that novel idea. Rather than starting with a costly, time-consuming problem assessment that seeks to push ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • The Bioarchaeology of Metabolic Bone Disease

    by Megan B. Brickley, Rachel Ives, Simon Mays ...
    The Bioarchaeology of Metabolic Bone Disease, Second Edition is a comprehensive source dedicated to better understanding this group of conditions that have significant consequences for health in both past and present communities on a global scale. This edition presents an updated introduction to the biology and metabolism of mineralised tissues that are fundamental to understanding the expression ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Curating Human Remains

    Caring for the Dead in the United Kingdom

    by Myra Giesen, Kirsty McCarrison, Liz White, Margaret Clegg, Mark A. Hall, Michael G Parker Pearson, Mike Pitts, Rebecca Redfern, Simon Mays, Victoria Park0, Charlotte Roberts1, Charlotte Woodhead2, Duncan Sayer3, Gillian Scott4, Hedley Swain5, Jacqueline McKinley6, Jelena Bekvalac7, Jennifer Sharp8 ...
    How to care for, store, display and interpret human remains, and issues of their ownership, are contentious questions, ones that need to be answered with care and due consideration. This book offers a systematic overview of the responses made by museums and other repositories in the United Kingdom, providing a baseline for understanding the scope and nature of human remains collections and the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Atomic Sushi

    by Simon May ...
    As the first British Professor of Philosophy since 1882 to be invited to teach at the prestigious and enigmatic University of Tokyo - the Oxbridge of Japan - Simon May enjoyed a degree of access denied to other commentators. Each chapter of the book focuses on some everyday human matter, such as love, death, bureaucracy, hygiene, food, toilets, commuting, education, marriage and memory. Japanese ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality

    A Critical Guide

    Edited by Simon May ...
    Series series Cambridge Critical Guides
    On the Genealogy of Morality is Nietzsche's most influential, provocative, and challenging work of ethics. In this volume of newly commissioned essays, fourteen leading philosophers offer fresh insights into many of the work's central questions: How did our dominant values originate and what functions do they really serve? What future does the concept of 'evil' have - and can it be revalued? What ... Read more

    $31.99 USD