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Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead? by Steven Pinker Malcolm Gladwell Alain De Botton Matt Ridley
$16.99 NZD
Category: Books of Buderim
From the Enlightenment onwards, the West has had an enduring belief that through the evolution of institutions, innovations, and ideas, the human condition is improving. This process is supposedly accelerating as new technologies, individual freedoms, and the spread of global norms empower individuals a ...Show more
Francis Crick by Matt Ridley
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In the launch title of an exciting new series, acclaimed author Matt Ridley traces the colourful life of the man who discovered the structure of DNA, the building blocks of life. Building on a biographical tradition that can be traced back to Aubrey's Brief Lives, Dr Johnson's Lives of the Poets and Lyt ...Show more
Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code by Matt Ridley
$29.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Francis Crick, who died at the age of eighty-eight in 2004, will be bracketed with Galileo, Darwin, and Einstein as one of the great scientists of all time. Between 1953 and 1966 he made and led a revolution in biology by discovering, quite literally, the secret of life: the digital cipher at the heart ...Show more
Francis Crick Discoverer of the Genetic Code by Matt Ridley
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Eminent Lives Ser.
Acclaimed author Matt Ridley traces the colourful life of the man who discovered the structure of DNA, the building blocks of life. Building on a biographical tradition that can be traced back to Aubrey's 'Brief Lives', Dr Johnson's 'Lives of the Poets' and Lytton Strachey's 'Eminent Victorians', this e ...Show more
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley
$32.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The genome's been mapped. But what does it mean?Arguably the most significant scientific discoveru of the new century, the mapping of the twenty-three pairs of chromosomes that make up the human genome raises almost as many questions as it answers. Questions that will profoundly impact the way we think ...Show more
How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley
$28.00 NZD
Category: Business
'Ridley is spot-on when it comes to the vital ingredients for success' Sir James Dyson Building on his bestseller The Rational Optimist, Matt Ridley chronicles the history of innovation, and how we need to change our thinking on the subject. Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we ...Show more
Nature Via Nurture - Genes, Experience and What Makes us Human by Matt Ridley
$46.95 NZD
Category: Science, Technology & Nature
What makes us who we are? In February 2001 it was announced that the genome contains not the 100,000 genes as originally expected but only 30,000. This startling revision led some scientists to conclude that there are simply not enough human genes to account for all the different ways people behave: we ...Show more
Nature Via Nurture: Genes, experience and what makes us human by Matt Ridley
$25.99 NZD
Category: Science, Technology & Nature
Acclaimed author Matt Ridley's thrilling follow-up to his bestseller Genome. Armed with the extraordinary new discoveries about our genes, Ridley turns his attention to the nature versus nurture debate to bring the first popular account of the roots of human behaviour. What makes us who we are?In Februa ...Show more
The Evolution of Everything - How small changes transform our world by Matt Ridley
$27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: ery good
Human society evolves. Change in technology, language, morality, and society is incremental, inexorable, gradual, and spontaneous. It follows a narrative, going from one stage to the next, and it largely happens by trial and error--a version of natural selection. Much of the human world is the result of ...Show more
The Origins of Virtue by Matt Ridley
$27.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
Why are people nice to each other? What are the reasons for altruism? Matt Ridley explains how the human mind has evolved a special instinct for social exchange, offering a lucid and persuasive argument about the paradox of human benevolence.
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
$28.99 NZD
Category: Society & Culture
Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction 2011. Life is on the up. We are wealthier, healthier, happier, kinder, cleaner, more peaceful, more equal and longer-lived than any previous generation. Thanks to the unique human habits of exchange and specialisation, our species has found in ...Show more
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
$40.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Matt Ridley, acclaimed author of the classics Genome and Nature via Nurture, turns from investigating human nature to investigating human progress. In The Rational Optimist Ridley offers a counterblast to the prevailing pessimism of our age, and proves, however much we like to think to the contrary, tha ...Show more