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
The Mathematical Tourist - Snapshots of Modern Mathematics by Ivars Peterson
$15.00 NZD
Category: Mathematics | Reading Level: very good
The science writer Ivars Peterson conducts the reader through the world of modern mathematics.
The Gardener's Year by Karel Capek
$10.00 NZD
Category: Gardening | Series: Modern Library | Reading Level: very good
A droll meditation on the passions and isiosyncracies fo gardeners by the notable dissident Czech novelist and playwright Karel Capek.
Computing with Quantum Cats - From Colossus to Qubits by John Gribbin
$15.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: near fine
The quantum computer is no longer the stuff of science fiction. Pioneering physicists are on the brink of unlocking a new quantum universe which provides a better representation of reality than our everyday experiences and common sense ever could. The birth of quantum computers - which, like Schrodinger ...Show more
Dead Zone - Where the Wild Things Were by Philip Lymbery
$16.00 NZD
Category: Ecology | Reading Level: very good
A tour of some of the world's most iconic and endangered species, and what we can do to save them. Climate change and habitat destruction are not the only culprits behind so many animals facing extinction. The impact of consumer demand for cheap meat is equally devastating and it is vital that we confro ...Show more
Coffee with Isaac Newton by Michael White
$6.00 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Coffee with ... | Reading Level: very good
A conversation over coffee with Sir Isaac Newton takes us on a mind-expanding tour of the principles of modern science in the illuminating company of the man who defined them...and you can even ask questions! Newton's influence on our world is immense. He formulated the theory of gravity, devised a radi ...Show more
Readings in The Philosophy of Science by Herbert Feigl (ed.); May Brodbeck (ed.)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good