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Breaking the Spell : Religion as Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett
75.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Allen Lane Science S.
"Breaking the Spell" is Daniel Dennett's most innovative and important work yet; it offers a profound challenge to society and a compelling new history of belief. Few forces in the world are as potent as religion: it comforts people in their suffering and inspires them to both magnificent and terrible d ...Show more
Matters of Substance by Griffith Edwards
55.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Allen Lane Science S.
Edwards presents a radical approach to the much-debated question of drug control. Arguing for a consideration of all drugs, from valium to crack cocaine, as more than its chemical structure, he expands the idea that the effect of a drug is just as dependent on the social setting and psychology of the in ...Show more
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
39.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Allen Lane Science S. | Reading Level: good
What is the truth about human nature? Steven Pinker here argues that our usual explanations of human behaviour - stated most clearly in the human sciences of psychology, ethics and politics - tend to deny what is now undeniable: the role of an inherited human nature.
The Fellowship by John Gribbin
69.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Allen Lane Science S.
John Gribbin, bestselling author of In Search of Schrodinger's Cat, explores the defining decades of the seventeenth century's scientific revolution, when the Royal Society established what became the 'scientific method', a way of doing and communicating science that set the tone for the three and a hal ...Show more
The Secret Life of Trees: How They Live and Why They Matter by Colin Tudge
59.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Allen Lane Science S.
Take a journey into the mysterious world of trees . . .At Boscobel in Shropshire stands the Royal Oak, where the future King Charles II was alleged to have hidden from Cromwell's men. There are redwoods in California that would have been ancient by the time Columbus first landed, and there are pines st ...Show more
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