From So Simple a Beginning - The Four Great Books of Charles Darwin by Charles Darwin; Edward O. Wilson (ed.)
$55.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: near fine
Never before have the four great works of Charles Darwin Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle (1845), The Origin of Species (1859), The Descent of Man (1871), and The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) been collected under one cover. Undertaking this challenging endeavor 123 years after Darwin's de ...Show more
Leonardo da Vinci - The Mechanics of Man by Martin Clayton; Ron Philo
$30.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good
The Death of Forever - A New Future for Human Consciousness by Darryl Reanney
$15.00 NZD
Category: Spirituality | Reading Level: very good
Virolution by Frank Ryan
$12.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
The extraordinary role of viruses in evolution and how this is revolutionising biology and medicine. Darwin's theory of evolution is still the greatest breakthrough in biological science. His explanation of the role of natural selection in driving the evolution of life on earth depended on steady varia ...Show more
Bully for Brontosaurus - Further reflections in natural history by Stephen Jay Gould
$12.00 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Science Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
"Provocative and delightfully discursive essays on natural history. . . . Gould is the Stan Musial of essay writing. He can work himself into a corkscrew of ideas and improbable allusions paragraph after paragraph and then, uncoiling, hit it with such power that his fans know they are experiencing the g ...Show more
I Have Landed - Splashes and reflections in natural history by Stephen Jay Gould
$12.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: good-very good
432 pages Stephen Jay Gould's writing remains the modern standard by which popular science writing is judged. Throughout his work Gould has developed a distinctive and personal form of essay to treat great scientific issues in the context of biography. Here, Gould once again applied biographical pe ...Show more
The Evolution of Everything - How small changes transform our world by Matt Ridley
$12.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: ery good
Human society evolves. Change in technology, language, morality, and society is incremental, inexorable, gradual, and spontaneous. It follows a narrative, going from one stage to the next, and it largely happens by trial and error--a version of natural selection. Much of the human world is the result of ...Show more
Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle - Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time by Stephen Gould
$14.00 NZD
Category: Science | Series: The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures | Reading Level: good-very good
Rarely has a scholar attained such popular acclaim merely by doing what he does best and enjoys most. But such is Stephen Jay Gould's command of paleontology and evolutionary theory, and his gift for brilliant explication, that he has brought dust and dead bones to life, and developed an immense followi ...Show more
Sacred Mountains - How the Revival of Daoism is Turning China's Ecological Crisis Around by Allerd Stikker
$15.00 NZD
Category: Ecology | Reading Level: very good
Allerd Stikker witnessed and actively participated in the Daoist resurgence, together with the Alliance of Religions and Conservation. Stikker shares his fascination for Daoism, and explains how nature conservation is deeply rooted in its philosophy and practice. He tells the story of his cooperation wi ...Show more
The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson
$15.00 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Questions of Science Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this book a master scientist tells the story of how life on earth evolved. Edward O. Wilson eloquently describes how the species of the world became diverse and why that diversity is threatened today as never before. A great spasm of extinction -- the disappearance of whole species -- is occurring no ...Show more
An Appetite for Wonder - The Making of a Scientist - A Memoir by Richard Dawkins
$15.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: good-very good
Born to parents who were enthusiastic naturalists, and linked through his wider family to a clutch of accomplished scientists, Richard Dawkins was bound to have biology in his genes. But what were the influences that shaped his life and intellectual development? And who inspired him to become the pionee ...Show more
Bleed by Bill Williams
$15.00 NZD
Category: Medicine
Surviving cerebral catastrophe: a tale of the mind, mortality and modern medicine On a trip to visit Pintubi friends in the remote western desert of central Australia, GP Dr Bill Williams wakes to a nightmare. Gisela, his wife, is felled by a thunderclap headache. What are the possibilities - migraine? ...Show more