New Releases by Ian Macdonald

Arguing that gossiping is vital to a society, and that there is no such thing as idle gossip, this book disputes the assumption that language developed in male-male relationships. The author believes that, on the contrary, language evolved among women, and contends that, although men are just as likely to natter as women, women gossip more about other people, thus strengthening the female-female relationships that underpin society.

Robin Dunbar asks whether science really is unique to Western culture, even to humankind. He suggests that our "trouble with science" may lie in the fact that evolution has left our minds better able to cope with day-to-day social interaction than with the complexities of the external world.

Leven en werk van de Russische componist (1906-1975).

A practical manual to rear cattle, donkeys, goats, pigs, poultry, ducks, rabbits, sheep, and waterbuffaloes in the tropics

Ouvrage axé sur les tribulations du Parti libéral durant l''interrègne de Claude Ryan et la campagne du référendum.