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A World of Insects - The Harvard University Press Reader by Ring T. Cardé; Mark L. Winston (Contribution by); M. Lee Goff (Contribution by); Kenneth D. Roeder (Contribution by); Andrew Ross (Contribution by); Thomas D. Seeley (Contribution by); Vincent H. Resh; James T. Costa (Contribution by); Vincent G. Dethier (Contribution by); Thomas Eisner (Contribution by); Bernd Heinrich (Contribution by); Bert Hölldobler (Contribution by); Gilbert Waldbauer (Contribution by); Edward O. Wilson (Contribution by)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
As we follow the path of a giant water bug or peer over the wing of a gypsy moth, we glimpse our world anew, at once shrunk and magnified. Owing to their size alone, insects' experience of the world is radically different from ours. Air to them is as viscous as water to us. The predicament of size, alon ...Show more
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson
$33.99 AUD
Category: Science
In this work, the author argues for the fundamental unity of all knowledge and the need to search for what he calls "consilience", the composition of the principles governing every branch of learning. Edward O. Wilson, pioneer of sociobiology and biodiversity, breaks from the conventions of current thin ...Show more
Every Species Is a Masterpiece (Penguin Green Ideas series) by Edward O. Wilson
$9.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
This book brings together some of his most profound and significant writings on the rich diversity of life on Earth, our place in it, and our obligation to conserve the planet's fragile ecosystems.
Genesis: On the Deep Origin of Societies by Edward O. Wilson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
'With Genesis, Wilson inspires awe ... His message is that selection has shaped a society that is characterized by cooperation and division of labour' Nature Of all species that have ever existed on earth, only one has reached human levels of intelligence and social organisation: us. Why? In Genesis, ce ...Show more
Genesis: On the Deep Origins of Society by Edward O. Wilson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
Of all species that have ever existed on earth, only one has reached human levels of intelligence and social organisation: us. Why? In Genesis, celebrated biologist Edward O. Wilson traces the great transitions of evolution, from the origin of life to the invention of sexual reproduction to the developm ...Show more
Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life by Edward O. Wilson
$34.95 AUD
Category: Science
History is not a prerogative of the human species, Edward O. Wilson declares in Half-Earth. Demonstrating that we blindly ignore the histories of millions of other species, Wilson warns us that a point of no return is imminent. Refusing to believe that our extinction is predetermined, Wilson has written ...Show more
Letters to a Young Scientist by Edward O. Wilson
$27.95 AUD
Category: Science
Inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, Edward O. Wilson has distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, young and old. Wilson threads these twenty-one letters, each richly illustrated, with autobiographical anecdotes that illuminate his career - both his successes and ...Show more
Origins of Creativity by Edward O. Wilson
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
'An intellectual hero ... A superb celebrator of science in all its manifestations' Ian McEwan'Darwin's great successor' Jeffrey SachsThe legendary biologist Edward O. Wilson offers his most philosophically probing work to date'Creativity is the unique and defining trait of our species; and its ultimate ...Show more
The Creation by Edward O. Wilson
$33.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
In this daring work, E.O. Wilson proposes an alliance between science and religion to save Earth's vanishing biodiversity. The book is written in the form of a letter to a Southern Baptist Minister with personal anecdotes from Wilson's life. "Pastor, we need your help. The Creation - living Nature - is ...Show more
The Creation : An appeal to save life on Earth by Edward O. Wilson
$18.95 AUD
Category: Science
The book that launched a movement: "Wilson speaks with a humane eloquence which calls to us all" (Oliver Sacks), proposing a historic partnership between scientists and religious leaders to preserve Earth's rapidly vanishing biodiversity. "The Creation" is E. O. Wilson's most important work since the p ...Show more
The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson
$26.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
"Not since Darwin has an author so lifted the science of ecology with insight and delightful imagery" - Richard Dawkins. In this book a master scientist tells the great story of how life on earth evolved. E.O. Wilson eloquently describes how the species of the world became diverse, and why the threat to ...Show more
The Meaning of Human Existence by Edward O. Wilson
$30.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Searching for meaning in what Nietzsche called "the rainbow colours" around the outer edges of knowledge and imagination, Edward O. Wilson bridges science and philosophy to create a twenty-first-century treatise on human existence. Once criticised for his over-reliance on genetics, Wilson unfurls his mo ...Show more