The Unseen Body - A Doctor's Journey Through the Hidden Wonders of Human Anatomy by Jonathan Reisman
37.99 NZD
Category: Evolution / Biology
In his beautifully written prose, Dr Jonathan Reisman - physician, adventure traveller and naturalist - allows readers to navigate their insides like an explorer discovering a new world.Through his offbeat adventures in healthcare and travel, Reisman discovers new perspectives on the body: a trip to the ...Show more
Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19 by Alina Chan; Matt Ridley
39.99 NZD
Category: Evolution / Biology
It's the greatest whodunnit mystery of the century: how did the first detected outbreak of Covid-19 start in Wuhan city? We know that the natural reservoir of SARS-related coronaviruses is in bats, but we do not how, where, and when SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for Covid-19, acquired the ability to ...Show more
Reintroduction Biology - Integrating Science and Management by John G. Ewen (Editor); Doug P. Armstrong (Editor); Kevin A. Parker (Editor); Philip J. Seddon (Editor)
129.99 NZD
Category: Evolution / Biology | Series: Conservation Science and Practice Ser.
This book aims to further advance the field of reintroduction biology beyond the considerable progress made since the formation of the IUCN/SSC Re-introduction Specialist Group. Using an issue-based framework that purposely avoids a structure based on case studies the book's central theme is advocating ...Show more
Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity by Arup K. Chakraborty; Andrey Shaw; Philip J. S. Stork (Illustrator)
37.00 NZD
Category: Evolution / Biology
How viruses emerge to cause pandemics, how our immune system combats them, and how diagnostic tests, vaccines, and antiviral therapies work. Throughout history, humans have contended with pandemics. History is replete with references to plagues, pestilence, and contagion, but the devastation wrought by ...Show more
Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith
37.99 NZD
Category: Evolution / Biology | Reading Level: very good
From the human being to the octopus, the shark to the humble sea squirt, all animals are physical beings made up entirely of cells. And yet they can think, to varying degrees. How did this come to be? How did a mind first grow from the matter that is the body? And at what stage did that clump of cells b ...Show more
I, Mammal: The Story of What Makes Us Mammals by Liam Drew
26.99 NZD
Category: Evolution / Biology
Humans are mammals. Most of us appreciate that at some level. But what does it mean for us to have more in common with a horse and an elephant than we do with a parrot, snake or frog? After a misdirected football left new father Liam Drew clutching a uniquely mammalian part of his anatomy, he decided to ...Show more
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky
40.00 NZD
Category: Evolution / Biology | Reading Level: very good
Why do we do what we do? Behave is at once a dazzling tour and a majestic synthesis of the whole science of human behaviour. Brought to life through simple language, engaging stories and irreverent wit, it offers the fullest picture yet of the origins of tribalism and xenophobia, hierarchy and competiti ...Show more
Evolution: A Visual Record by Robert Clark
55.00 NZD
Category: Evolution / Biology
Stunning images to reawaken us to the scientific process that drives the amazing diversity of life on earth Evidence of evolution is everywhere. Through 200 revelatory images, award-winning photographer Robert Clark makes one of the most important foundations of science clear and exciting to everyone. E ...Show more
The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar by Matt Simon
34.99 NZD
Category: Evolution / Biology
For fans of WHAT IF? and NEW SCIENTIST comes Matt Simon's THE WASP THAT BRAINWASHED THE CATERPILLAR, a brilliantly funny and informative look at the stranger side of evolution. Featuring: The Zombie ants mind-controlled by a fungus Beautiful salamanders that can regenerate any part of their bodies, incl ...Show more
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