Autor: Chris Knight

Jack Mc Clusky , was your average man in the street. A happily married, hotel worker.He looked forward to seeing his wife, Brenda, upon her return home from work, at the end of each day. Little did h …

This book discusses the history of thermal heat generators and focuses on the potential for these processes using micro-electrical mechanical systems (MEMS) technology for this application. The main …

Jeff Tozier was your everyday working man, caught up in your everyday, largely uneventful life. Little did he know that one night, a phonecall from his boss was going to change his life forever…A d …

There was once a little pig called Piggy. He lived near his best friend Charlie Cat on Feline fairway. In this predominantly cat neighbourhood, the residents decided one day that they were going to h …

On a wet summer evening in New Zealand, a 46-year-old History teacher who went out shopping for a magazine, made a split second decision to buy a lotto ticket. Little did he know that the consequence …

This book contains a variety of poems embracing many aspects of human experience. Typically, the poems touch on the poets sensitivity towards his God, the Christian God, the God of The Bible. They al …

In The Dramatic Portrait: The Art of Crafting Light and Shadow, Chris Knight addresses portraiture with a unique approach to both light and shadow that allows you to improve and elevate your own port …

’When, why, and how did language evolve?’ 'Why do only humans have language?’ This book looks at these and other questions about the origins and evolution of language. It does so via a rich diversity …

This book is the first to focus on the African origins of human language. It explores the origins of language and culture 250, 000-150, 000 years ago when modern humans evolved in Africa. Scholars fr …

This book offers an exciting new perspective on the origins of language. Language is conceptualized as a collective invention, on the model of writing or the wheel, and the book places social and cul …

The emergence of symbolic culture is generally linked with the development of the hunger-gatherer adaptation based on a sexual division of labor. This original and ingenious book presents a new theor …

A fresh and fascinating look at the philosophies, politics, and intellectual legacy of one of the twentieth century’s most influential and controversial minds Occupying a pivotal position in po …

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On a seemingly ordinary Monday morning, an office secretary at Trusthouse, a reputable New Zealand Insurance firm, is astounded when she checks her answering machine. A blood-curdling, anonymous voic …

Without light, there is no photograph. As almost every photographer knows, the word "photograph" has its roots in two Greek words that, together, mean "drawing with light." But wh …

With the publication of ‘The Responsibility of Intellectuals’ half a century ago, Noam Chomsky burst onto the US political scene as a leading critic of the war in Vietnam. Privilege, he argues, bring …

This book explores the ways in which contemporary evolutionary thinking might inform the study of the peculiarly human phenomenon of symbolic culture, including language, ritual, religion, religion a …