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Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson
33.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
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: Science & Natural History | 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
19.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'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: Culture Ideas Politics
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
Letters to a Young Scientist by Edward O. Wilson
27.95 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
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
Letters to a Young Scientist by Edward O. Wilson
17.95 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
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: Science & Natural History
'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 Meaning of Human Existence by Edward O. Wilson
30.95 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
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
The Origins of Creativity by Edward O. Wilson
22.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
In a stirring exploration of human nature recalling his foundational work Consilience, Edward O. Wilson offers a "luminous" (Kirkus Reviews) reflection on the humanities and their integral relationship to science. Both endeavors, Wilson argues, have their roots in human creativity--the defining trait of ...Show more
The Social Conquest of Earth by Edward O. Wilson
35.95 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
In asking where we came from, what we are and where we are going, Edward O. Wilson directly addresses three fundamental questions of religion, philosophy and science. Refashioning the story of human evolution, he draws on his remarkable knowledge of biology and social behaviour to show that group select ...Show more
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