Injured Brains of Medical Minds by Narinder Kapur (ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: very good
This book provides a unique perspective on what it is like to be brain-damaged, seen through the eyes of doctors or neurosurgeons who have themselves suffered a brain injury or brain illness. Each of the personal accounts, written over the past 120 years, is accompanied by a commentary written by the au ...Show more
Spikes - Exploring the Neural Code by Fred Rieke; David Warland; Rob De Ruyter Van Steveninck; William Bialek
$85.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Series: Computational Neuroscience | Reading Level: very good
What does it mean to say that a certain set of spikes is the right answer to a computational problem? In what sense does a spike train convey information about the sensory world? Spikes begins by providing precise formulations of these and related questions about the representation of sensory signals in ...Show more
The Orbitofrontal Cortex by David H Zald; Scott L Rauch
$65.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: very good
The orbitofrontal cortex comprises the ventral surface of the frontal lobe, and is critical for functions ranging from olfaction and emotion to learning and behavioral flexibility. Since the time of Phineas Gage, this enigmatic brain region has intrigued clinicians due to its association with personalit ...Show more
The Ape and the Sushi Master - Cultural reflections by a primatologist by Frans de Waal
$15.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good
The Longman Literary Companion to Science by Walter Gratzer (ed.)
$18.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
Compost - How to Make and Use Organic Compost to Transform Your Garden by Clare Foster
$10.00 NZD
Category: Gardening | Reading Level: very good
In this new edition of her hands-on guide to the art of composting, House & Garden garden editor, Clare Foster, shows you how to build a compost box, select the best ingredients and put the resulting organic compost to the best use in your outdoor space. By taking some dead leaves, grass cuttings an ...Show more
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