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In this series of 24 captivating lectures, an award-winning teacher and acclaimed scholar delves into the story of how, why, where, and when we became human. You'll gain a fresh understanding of the forces that have shaped our species, as Professor King synthesizes the best that more than a century of scientific scholarship has to offer across a variety of disciplines to gain the insights offered by fossils, ancient skeletal remains, and lifestyle information like cave art and stone tools.

While human history is usually studied from the perspective of a few hundred years, anthropologists consider deeper causes for the ways we act. Now, in these 12 engrossing lectures, you'll join an expert anthropologist as she opens an enormous window of understanding for you into the thrilling legacy left by our primate past. In these lectures, you'll investigate a wealth of intriguing, provocative questions about our past and our relationship to primates.

The life story of Coretta Scott King, wife of Martin Luther King Jr and a singular 20th-century American civil and human rights activist. Born in 1927 in the Deep South, Coretta Scott always felt called to a special purpose. After an awakening to political and social activism at college, Coretta went on to study at the New England Conservatory of Music, where she met Martin Luther King Jr - the man who would one day become her husband.

Der Briefwechsel mit ihrer Großmutter Yun in Shanghai wirft Monicas Leben aus der Bahn. Denn was Yun ihr aus ihrer Kindheit in den 1940er Jahren unter der japanischen Besatzung erzählt, scheint zu fantastisch, um wahr zu sein: In der Phönix-Bleistiftfabrik von Yuns Eltern sollen magische Stifte hergestellt worden sein, um damit Geheimbotschaften zu übermitteln! Wurden Yun und ihre Cousine gezwungen, als Geheimagentinnen ihre eigenen Landsleute zu verraten?

As people come to understand more about animals' inner lives, we feel a growing compassion, a desire to better their lives. But how do we translate this compassion into helping other creatures, both those that are and are not our pets? Bringing together the latest science with heartfelt storytelling, Animals' Best Friends reveals the opportunities we have in everyday life to help animals in our homes, in the wild, in zoos, and in science labs, as well as those considered to be food.

These prayers, In His Presence, are reflections and meditations for numerous occasions in praise of God, in adoration of Jesus Christ, honoring the Holy Trinity, seeking the intercessions of the Mother of God, and celebrating the real presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist. For the Salvation of Souls.

The life story of Coretta Scott King - wife of Martin Luther King Jr., founder of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, and singular 20th-century American civil rights activist - as told fully for the first time, toward the end of her life, to one of her closest friends. Born in 1927 to daringly enterprising Black parents in the Deep South, Coretta Scott had always felt called to a special purpose.

These prayers in Lovingly Lord, I Serve Thee are reflections and meditations for numerous occasions in praise of God, in adoration of Jesus Christ, honoring the Holy Trinity, seeking the intercessions of the Mother of God, and celebrating the real presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist. For the Salvation of Souls.