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Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson
29.99 NZD
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
Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life by Edward O. Wilson
39.99 NZD
Category: Environment
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
Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life by Edward O. Wilson
27.99 NZD
Category: Environment
"An audacious and concrete proposal...Half-Earth completes the 86-year-old Wilson's valedictory trilogy on the human animal and our place on the planet." --Jedediah Purdy, New Republic In his most urgent book to date, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and world-renowned biologist Edward O. Wilson states th ...Show more
The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson
27.95 NZD
32.95 (15% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
Our world is far richer than previously conceived, yet so ravaged by human activity that half its species could be gone by the end of the present century. These two contrasting themes - unexpected magnificence and underestimated peril - have originated during the past two decades of research. In this ti ...Show more
The Meaning of Human Existence by Edward O. Wilson
24.99 NZD
Category: Mind/Body/Spirit | Reading Level: very good
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 Social Conquest of Earth by Edward O. Wilson
49.99 NZD
Category: 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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