Andrew Cohen

L'histoire de l'équipée du HMS Investigator et de la récente découverte de son épave par une équipe d'archéologues subaquatiques de Parcs Canada. En 1850, le capitaine Robert McClure et l'équipage du HMS Investigator furent dépêchés à la recherche de survivants de l'expédition de sir John Franklin partie cinq ans plus tôt. Ils ne parvinrent pas à retrouver les navires perdus, mais réussirent à identifier la dernière portion du passage...

Top ten Sunday Times Bestseller Where are we? Are we alone? Who are we? Why are we here? What is our future? Human Universe tackles some of the greatest questions that humans have asked to try and understand the very nature of ourselves and the Universe in which we live. Through the endless leaps of human minds, it explores the extraordinary depth of our knowledge today and where our curiosity may lead us in the future. With groundbreaking insight...

Most of us have had at least one profound spiritual experience. But have these experiences changed our lives so that our behavior is more moral, more kind, less neurotic, and less narcissistic? Teacher Andrew Cohen says, "Over the years I've realized the experiences we have are a lot less important than our behavior . . . what really matters most has to do with what is motivating us to act in the way we do.

This book deals with intercultural pragmatics and how both nonnative teachers (NNTs) and native teachers (NTs) may enhance their classroom instruction regarding target language (TL) pragmatics. It focuses primarily on the experiences of instructors as they teach their learners about the pragmatics of the TL, both in second and foreign language learning settings. It makes clear that there are aspects of teaching pragmatics where it may help to be an...

Recounts forty-eight hours in John F. Kennedy's presidency in which he delivered two addresses to the public that would result in the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

"El libro de la serie de televisión de la BBC que muestra el Sistema Solar que nos rodea como nunca antes lo habíamos contemplado: desde los descomunales surtidores de hielo de Encélado hasta los mares de metano líquido de Titán, o desde tormentas que duplican el tamaño de la Tierra hasta la vapuleada luna Ío con sus supervo lcanes gigantescos. Un viaje de expedición donde otros mundos se convierten en lugares que podemos ver, sentir o visitar:...

This is a documentary that chronicles artist and activist Ai Weiwei as he prepares for a series of exhibitions and gets into an increasing number of clashes with the Chinese government. Follows Ai "from the close of the 2008 Beijing Olympics (for which he helped design the acclaimed 'Bird's Nest' stadium) to his arrest and 81-day detention in 2011" (container).

Now that Mac and Kelly Radner have a second baby on the way, they are ready to make the final move into adulthood, the suburbs. Just as they thought they'd reclaimed the neighborhood and were safe to sell, they learn that the new occupants next door are a sorority even more out of control than Teddy and his brothers. Now forced to turn to the one ex-neighbor with the skills to bring down the new Greeks next door, they bring in charismatic Teddy as...

A beautiful, full colour book to accompany the 5 part BBC TV series telling the most important story of all, the deep history of our own planet. With the trademark dramatic storytelling techniques of The Planets and The Universe, Andrew Cohen and Chris Packham narrate the biography of the Earth, revealing the most epic moments from its history, from the first seconds of its existence to the arrival of its most incredible inhabitants, us. But humans...

Recommended for viewing on a color tablet. In Wonders of the Solar System - the book of the acclaimed BBC TV series - Professor Brian Cox will take us on a journey of discovery where alien worlds from your imagination become places we can see, feel and visit. The Wonders of the Solar System - from the giant ice fountains of Enceladus to the liquid methane seas of Titan and from storms twice the size of the Earth to the tortured moon of Io with its...