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What makes us happy? What makes us sad? How do we come to feel a sense of enthusiasm? What fills us with lust, anger, fear, or tenderness? Traditional behavioral and cognitive neuroscience have yet to provide satisfactory answers. The Archaeology of Mind presents an affective neuroscience approach - which takes into consideration basic mental processes, brain functions, and emotional behaviors that all mammals share - to locate the neural mechanisms of emotional expression. It reveals - for the first time - the deep neural sources of our values and basic emotional feelings.

First heard on radio between 4 August 2014 and 9 November 2018, each episode of Home Front is set exactly 100 years before the broadcast date, and each follows one character’s day. Together they create a mosaic of experience from a wide cross section of society, mixing historical fact with enthralling fiction to explore how ordinary people coped with daily life in wartime Britain. We resume the story in Folkestone, where hospital staff face pressure to return wounded men to duty as conscription is introduced.

Series 1-5 of the groundbreaking BBC Radio 4 drama charting life on the home front during World War One. First heard on radio between 4 August 2014 and 9 November 2018, each episode of Home Front is set exactly 100 years before the broadcast date, and each follows one character’s day. Together they create a mosaic of experience from a wide cross section of society, mixing historical fact with enthralling fiction to explore how ordinary people coped with daily life in wartime Britain.

Back in Folkestone, the residents are dealing with the aftereffects of a devastating air raid. Howard Argent is kept busy at the Bevan while Ulysses Pilchard experiments with electroshock therapy. Meanwhile, women’s suffrage, prostitution and unmarried mothers are hot topics, and Kitty Lumley experiences the sharp end of intolerance.

Helping animals, having fun! The best-selling Animal Ark series has been reimagined for a new generation of children and collated in this beautiful collection featuring titles one through four!

A shy boy at Amelia and Sam's school is using his pet guinea pig to help him make friends – by taking his pet to school. How can Animal Ark's young helpers get him to see that the playground isn't the best place for a guinea pig?

Mandy Hope loves animals more than anything else. She knows quite a bit about them too: both her parents are vets and Mandy helps out in their surgery, Animal Ark. Mandy's new friend John is crazy about rabbits! He's got his heart set on buying two baby rabbits in the local pet shop. But before he has a chance, Barney and Button are gone! Mandy and James decide to find the new owner - but that's when their problems begin...

Helping animals, having fun! The best-selling Animal Ark Specials series has been reimagined for a new generation of children and collated in this beautiful collection featuring titles one through four!

Amelia is starring as Dorothy in her school production of The Wizard of Oz, and her friend Sam's puppy, Mac, is playing Toto; Amelia and Sam are helping out at Animal Ark when twin sisters come into the surgery with their pet hamster; a shy boy at Amelia and Sam's school is using his pet guinea pig to help him make friends - by taking his pet to school; and when Amelia and Sam start taking riding lessons, they meet a homeless rescue pony named Ginger and a big horse named Walnut who keeps throwing off his riders.

Lost Kitten: When Amelia and Sam find a lost white kitten in the wilderness, they can't work out why her behaviour seems different to other cats. Llama on the Loose: When Amelia and Sam's friend Caleb adopts a new llama, they hope she will become friends with the other two llamas at the petting farm. Puppy Problem: Excitement is blooming in Welford as the village prepares for its annual garden contest. Owl All Alone: When Amelia and Sam find an abandoned baby tawny owl, they help nurse it back to health.

The first novel in the heartwarming, countryside-set Hope Meadows series. Newly qualified vet Mandy Hope is leaving Leeds - and her boyfriend, Simon - to return to the Yorkshire village she grew up in, where she'll help out with animals of all shapes and sizes in her parents' surgery. But it's not all plain sailing: Mandy clashes with gruff local Jimmy Marsh, and some of the villagers won't accept a new vet. Meanwhile, Simon is determined that Mandy will rejoin him back in the city.

Animals always come first for Mandy, and at Animal Art - her parents' busy veterinary surgery - she is always making new friends. Mandy's delighted to see her first koala in a wildlife sanctuary, but then she learns that the koalas and their babies are threatened. Can Mandy save the koalas from starvation?

Animals always comes first for Mandy, and at Animal Ark - her parents' busy veterinary surgery - she is always making new friends. Mandy and James are helping to raise money for sick little Alex Hastings' treatment. Alex's pet kitten, Amber, is helping keep her spirits up, but when Amber vanishes, Alex is heartbroken. Where could the kitten be?

Christmas has arrived in the little village of Welford. The scent of hot roasted chestnuts is in the air, and a layer of frost sparkles on the ground. This year, vet Mandy Hope is looking forward to the holidays. Her animal rescue centre, Hope Meadows, is up and running - and she's finally going on a date with Jimmy Marsh, owner of the local outward bound centre. But when a mysterious local starts causing trouble, Mandy's plans for the centre come under threat.

Excitement is blooming in Welford as the village prepares for its annual garden contest. But Amelia and Sam are more interested in helping their new friend, Blossom! The cockapoo puppy seems happy in the daytime, so why is she keeping everyone up with her barking at night?

Amelia and Sam are helping out at Animal Ark when twin sisters come into the surgery with their pet hamster. The only thing the girls can agree on is that there's something wrong with their pet, who has stopped eating. When the poorly hamster escapes at the village food fair, everyone must work together to find him – even the twins!

When Amelia and Sam's friend Caleb adopts a new llama, they hope she will become friends with the other two llamas at the petting farm. But the new llama's arrival causes lots of problems as Llarry and LLiam are spitting mad about having to share their pasture with the newcomer! Can Amelia and Sam help sort out the llama drama?

When Amelia and Sam find a lost white kitten in the wilderness, they can't work out why her behaviour seems different to other cats. With the help of the vets at Animal Ark, they work out that the lost kitten is deaf and help track down her owners. Because she can't hear, Tinkerbell is safer staying at home – but she really wants to explore outdoors. Can Amelia and Sam find a way to make the intrepid little kitten's garden safe but fun to play in?

Amelia and Sam love helping animals. But when they find an injured fox, they have to find new home for a whole fox family. Can they find the perfect place for the cute cubs, safely away from danger?

Amelia and Sam are excited because it is nearly Christmas. This year's celebrations are going to be the best ever because real reindeer are visiting the village of Welford! When one of the reindeers falls ill with pneumonia, Amelia and Sam help the vets at Animal Ark nurse it back to health – and just in time, too. Because when a heavy snowfall blocks the roads, the only way to get poorly pets to Animal Ark is by sleigh!