23 May
Henrik Ibsen died in 1906. Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the god father" of modern drama and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre. Read more Ibsen plays
Read the opening extract of the brand new Philippa Gregory book before its publication on 24/05/2012
Neil Shubin
Neil Shubin is a palaeontologist in the great tradition of his mentors, Ernst Mayr and Stephen Jay Gould. He has discovered fossils around the world that have changed the way we think about many of the key transitions in evolution and has pioneered a new synthesis of expeditionary palaeontology, developmental genetics and genomics. He trained at Columbia, Harvard and Berkeley and is currently Chairman of the Department of Anatomy at the University of Chicago. His latest book is Your Inner Fish (2008).
Featured Books, with extracts, by Neil Shubin
Your Inner Fish: The Amazing Discovery of Our 375-Million-Year-Old Ancestor Neil Shubin
Shortlisted for the 2009 Royal Society Prize for Science Books.
For anyone wanting to understand evolution – Your Inner Fish is a revelation showing we may be closely related to the apes but further back, fish, anemones, sea-worms – they’re all... Format: Paperback - Released: 29/01/2009