• Human is genuinely unique. No other book covers all aspects of human life, from evolution and biology to society, culture, and the future of our species
  Professor Robert Winston is chief UK consultant, backed up by a team of authoritative contributors and consultants from a wide variety of fields
• The immense variety in society and culture worldwide is revealed through comparative profiles of beliefs, customs, rituals, and the arts
• Structure and workings of the human body and mind are fully illustrated and explained
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This amazing book looks at the extraordinary world of extreme buildings and structures, many of which are the personal expression of an individual builder or patron who had the vision to create in a realm beyond the norm. The buildings cover 250 years of creative endeavour and range from domestic oddities to large-scale masterpieces: from the private house in Oxford with a shark through its roof, via bus stations and business premises, hotels and concert halls to Bilbao's Guggenheim Museum and Gaudi's Cathedral in Barcelona. These remarkable buildings are pictured and explained - as far as possible considering their extraordinary gestation and execution - by architecture writer Paul Cattermole, the former Creative Director of the Arcaid architectural ... more