The Human Story

8 best books like The Human Story (Robin I.M. Dunbar): The 101 Dalmatians, The Wall, Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart, Beauty and the Beast, Szósta klepka, Le Petit Nicolas, The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution, Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe

The 101 Dalmatians

Author	Dodie Smith
ISBN	0760704066

Pongo and Missis had a lovely life. With their human owners, the Dearlys, to look after them, they lived in a comfortable home in London with their 15 adorable Dalmatian puppies, loved and admired by all. Especially the Dearlys' neighbor Cruella de Vil, a fur-fancying fashion plate with designs on the...

The Wall

Author	John Lanchester
ISBN	1324001631

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2019

Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall―an enormous concrete barrier around its entire coastline. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender, has one task: to protect his section of the Wall from the Others, the desperate...

Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart

Author	James R. Doty
ISBN	1594632987

Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke. Today he is the director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University, of which the Dalai Lama is a...

Beauty and the Beast

Author

Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

Beauty and the Beast, finally.


Not that one.



No, not the one with Hermione either.



Ah, the original! Where Beauty has five siblings including two (evil) sisters and Beast is pretty much a nice guy from the very beginning.

And I really don't...

Szósta klepka

Author	Małgorzata Musierowicz
ISBN	8387463981

Główną bohaterką powieści jest Celestyna Żak, nastolatka, która wciąż musi pokonywać przeciwności losu. Na szczęście wrodzone poczucie humoru pozwala jej skutecznie stawiać czoło kolejnym wydarzeniom, których nie brakuje zarówno w domu, jak i w szkole. Żakowie prowadzą...

Le Petit Nicolas

Author	René Goscinny
ISBN	2070364232

La maîtresse est inquiète, le photographe s'éponge le front, le Bouillon devient tout rouge, les mamans ont mauvaise mine, les papas font les guignols, le directeur part à la retraite, quant à l'inspecteur, il est reparti aussi vite qu'il était venu. Pourtant, à l'école ou en famille, Geoffroy,...

The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution

Author	John Brockman
ISBN	0684823446

Thirty-five years ago, C. P. Snow, in a now famous essay, wrote about the polarization of the "two cultures" -- literary intellectuals on the one hand, and scientists on the other. Although he hoped for the emergence of a "third culture" that would bridge the gap, it is only recently that science has changed...

Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe

Author	Jane Goodall
ISBN	0618056777

THROUGH A WINDOW is the dramatic saga of thirty years in the life of a community, of birth and death, sex and love, power and war. It reads like a novel, but it is one of the most important scientific works ever published. The community is Gombe, on the shores of Lake Tangganyika, where the principal residents...