On Human Nature: Revised Edition(Audiobook)

This revised edition of Human Nature begins a new phase in the most important intellectual controversy of this generation: Is human behavior controlled by the species' biological heritage? Does this heritage limit human destiny?
With characteristic pungency and simplicity of style, the author of Sociobiology challenges old prejudices and current misconceptions about the nature-nurture debate. He shows how evolution has left its traces on the most distinctively human activities, how patterns of generosity, self-sacrifice, and worship, as well as sexuality and aggression, reveal their deep roots in the life histories of primate bands that hunted big game in the last Ice Age.

Natural Architecture by Alessandro Rocca

Never has the relationship between art and nature been more complicated and more fragile, but also richer and more fascinating. The artists and architects in Natural Architecture have transformed the act of building into an art form capable of sparking new relationships with nature, landscape, and the environment. Though far from basic or primitive, these creations are built from humble elements branches, twigs, pebbles, straw, stone found at their site. Fulfilling a wide variety of intentions sometimes structural, sometimes sculptural, sometimes sacred the works presented here inspire a sense of awe and reverence for the forces of nature.  

The Nature of Happiness

In this book well-known, award-winning zoologist and TV-host, Desmond Morris takes us on a journey on how we can approach the matter of happiness, how we can define it and he shares 17 different ways to "hunt for happiness" since he believes that the essence of happines lies in the man's "hunting" for happiness in various activities such as sports, dancing, music and so on. He means that when we do something and we reach a certain goal or purpose with it we feel a certain satisfaction with this "hunt/chase" and thus we experience what is known as happiness, and he shares 17 different ways for doing this.

Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures: An Anthology

This authoritative anthology presents key selections from the best contemporary work in philosophy of film. Designed for classroom use, the essays that comprise this volume have been specially chosen for their clarity, precision, philosophical depth, and consonance with current cognitive science and psychology.The volume's eight sections, each introduced by the editors, cover topics such as The nature of film Film as art Documentary cinema Narration and emotion in film Film criticism Film's relation to knowledge and morality...

Greybeard

The sombre story of a group of people in their fifties who face the fact that there is no younger generation coming to replace them; instead nature is rushing back to obliterate the disaster they have brought on themselves.