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Biophilia by Edward O. Wilson
RRP: $33.48Booksplease Price: $29.03Biophilia is Edward O. Wilson's most personal book, an evocation of his own response to nature and an eloquent statement of the conservation ethic. Wilson argues that our natural affinity for... -
Consilience by Edward O. Wilson
Booksplease Price: $17.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679768678Author Edward O. WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint
The Future of Life by Edward O Wilson
RRP: $21.93Booksplease Price: $13.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 2003.Book InformationISBN 9780679768111Author Edward O. Wilson
The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91"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...
Every Species is a Masterpiece by Edward O. Wilson
RRP: $6.44Booksplease Price: $5.30In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.Every Species is a Masterpiece brings together some of Edward O. Wilson's most profound and significant writings...
The Social Conquest of Earth by Edward O. Wilson
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.76Sparking vigorous debate in the sciences, The Social Conquest of Earth upends "the famous theory that evolution naturally encourages creatures to put family first" (Discover). Refashioning the story...
The Origins of Creativity by Edward O. Wilson 9780141986340
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.91'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...
The Meaning of Human Existence by Edward O. Wilson
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $12.99Searching 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...
Tales from the Ant World by Edward O. Wilson
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $21.14"Ants are the most warlike of all animals, with colony pitted against colony," writes E.O. Wilson, one of the world's most beloved scientists, "their clashes dwarf Waterloo and Gettysburg." In Tales...
The Diversity of Life: With a New Preface by Edward O. Wilson
Booksplease Price: $37.58"In the Amazon Basin the greatest violence sometimes begins as a flicker of light beyond the horizon. There in the perfect bowl of the night sky, untouched by light from any human source, a...
Letters to a Young Scientist by Edward O. Wilson 9780871403858
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $12.41Edward O. Wilson has distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, young and old. Reflecting on his coming-of-age in the South as a Boy Scout and a lover of ants and butterflies, Wilson...
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge Professor Edward O. Wilson 9780349111124
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95In this groundbreaking new book, one of the world's greatest living scientists argues for the fundamental unity of all knowledge and the need to search for what he calls consilience, the composition...
Tales from the Ant World by Edward O. Wilson 9781324091097
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $14.32In Tales from the Ant World, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Edward O. Wilson takes us on a thrilling myrmecological tour across continents and through time, inviting us into his decades-long...
The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth by Edward O. Wilson
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $12.54Called "one of the greatest men alive" by The Times of London, E. O. Wilson proposes an historic partnership between scientists and religious leaders to preserve Earth's rapidly vanishing...
Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies by Edward O. Wilson 9781631496677
Booksplease Price: $13.57An "endlessly fascinating" (Michael Ruse) work of scientific thought and synthesis, Genesis is Edward O. Wilson's twenty-first-century statement on Darwinian evolution. Asserting that religious...
Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life by Edward O. Wilson 9781631492525
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.51History 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...
The Most Dammed Country in the World by Dai Qing
RRP: $6.44Booksplease Price: $5.30In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.The courageous, unflinching speeches and writings collected in The Most Dammed Country in the World detail the...
A Guide For The Perplexed by E. F. Schumacher
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66A Guide for the Perplexed is E. F. Schumacher's classic work of philosophy and a statement of the philosophies that underpin his economic masterpiece Small is Beautiful. Schumacher asserts that it is...
Secrets of the Moneylab: How Understanding People Will Increase Your Profits by Kay-Yut Chen 9780670919451
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09Sensational books like Freakonomics have shown how human behaviour follows predictable patterns. But how do you take these radical ideas and apply them to your business? How do you make money from...
We Belong to Gaia by James Lovelock
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.77In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.James Lovelock's We Belong to Gaia draws on decades of wisdom to lay out the history of our remarkable planet, to...
The Last Tree on Easter Island by Jared Diamond
RRP: $6.44Booksplease Price: $5.30In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.This is Jared Diamond's haunting account of visiting the mysterious stone statues of Easter Island, showing how a...
The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves by W.Brian Arthur
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91In The Nature of Technology, ground-breaking economist W. Brian Arthur explores the extraordinary way in which the technology that surrounds us and allows us to live our modern lives has actually...
The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah by Masanobu Fukuoka
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.77In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.In The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah, the celebrated pioneer of the 'do-nothing' farming method reflects on global...
The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous by Joseph Henrich
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.71'A landmark in social thought. Henrich may go down as the most influential social scientist of the first half of the twenty-first century' MATTHEW SYEDDo you identify yourself by your profession or...
El Nino: Unlocking the secrets of the master weather-maker by J.M. Nash 9780446679923
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.06Mark Twain said that everyone talks about the weather but no-one does anything about it. In EL NINO, award-winning Time magazine science writer J. Madeleine Nash tells the story of scientists past...
Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray by Helen E. Fisher 9780393349740
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.47Lust, romance, attachment... Antatomy of Love explores such questions as whether monogamy is natural, why we choose certain partners and why we might cheat on them. In this completely revised...
Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker by James McManus
RRP: $39.98Booksplease Price: $27.34A steamy chronicle of life in Las Vegas investigates the murder of poker player Ted Binion, revealing a secret world of kinky sex, black magic, and science lurking at the heart of gambling's world...
The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct by Bert Holldobler 9780393338683
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $19.01The Leafcutter Ants is the most detailed and authoritative description of any ant species ever produced. With a text suitable for both a lay and a scientific audience, the book provides an...
Improbable Destinies: How Predictable is Evolution? by Jonathan Losos
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.91'One of the best books on evolutionary biology for a broad readership ever written' Edward O. WilsonA dazzling tour of evolution in action that sheds light on one of the greatest debates in...
The Song Of The Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions David Quammen 9780712673334
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $20.05Why have island ecosystems always suffered such high rates of extinction? In our age, with all the world's landscapes, from Tasmania to the Amazon to Yellowstone, now being carved into island-like...
James Lovelock et al. The Earth and I by James Lovelock 9783836588348
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $17.87“We are buried beneath mountains of fast-accumulating data. In such circumstances, this book, rather than adding to the data load, aims to offer real understanding.” —James LovelockHuman beings are...
Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus by David Quammen 9780393351552
Booksplease Price: $17.89In 1976 a deadly virus emerged from the Congo forest. As swiftly as it came, it disappeared, leaving no trace. Over the four decades since, Ebola has emerged sporadically, each time to devastating...
Bugs Save the World QU Lan 9781526313867
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55Written by the charity, Buglife, the Invertebrate Conservation Trust, this book will tell you why bugs are SO important - to humans, animals and the survival of our planet!Our amazing bugs are in...
Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration by Bert Holldobler 9780674485266
RRP: $36.06Booksplease Price: $29.22Richly illustrated and delightfully written, Journey to the Ants combines autobiography and scientific lore to convey the excitement and pleasure the study of ants can offer. Bert Hoelldobler and E...
The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen by Kwame Anthony Appiah
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.87In this groundbreaking work, Kwame Anthony Appiah, hailed as "one of the most relevant philosophers today" (New York Times Book Review), changes the way we understand human behavior and the way...
The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy by Anthony Gottlieb
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.91'This is a blast of fresh air' Jonathan Clark, TLS'Thank goodness for Gottlieb' Daily Telegraph'A joy to read' EconomistThe author of the celebrated The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of...
The Reason for Flowers: Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives by Stephen Buchmann 9781476755533
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $20.38"Fascinating...Buchmann's knowledge and enthusiasm jump off the page." -The Wall Street Journal "An extraordinarily good book." -Edward O. Wilson The lively and definitive story of the beauty,...
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams 9780393355574
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $14.24For centuries, poets and philosophers extolled the benefits of a walk in the woods: Beethoven drew inspiration from rocks and trees; Wordsworth composed while walking over the heath; Nikola Tesla...
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans De Waal 9780393353662
Booksplease Price: $14.96Hailed as a classic, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? explores the oddities and complexities of animal cognition-in crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, bats, chimpanzees, and...
There's a Hair in My Dirt!: A Worm's Story by Gary Larson 9780060932749
Booksplease Price: $13.91Once upon a time in a place far away, lived a man named Gary Larson who used to draw cartoons. It was a cartoon that appeared for many years in daily newspapers and was loved by millions. (And was...