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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes by Adam Rutherford
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to you, as it is to each of the 100 billion modern humans who have ever drawn breath. But it is also our collective story, because in every one of our genomes we each carry the history of our species - birth ...Show more
Control : The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics by Adam Rutherford
$29.99 NZD
Category: Social commentary
How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years? Control is a book about eugenics, what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls "a defining idea of the twentieth century." Inspired by Darwin's ideas about evolution, eugenics arose in Victorian England as a theory for mol ...Show more
Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics by Adam Rutherford
$44.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
* FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO ARGUE WITH A RACIST *Throughout history, people have sought to improve society by reducing suffering, eliminating disease or enhancing desirable qualities in their children. But this wish goes hand in hand with the desire to impose control over who ca ...Show more
Creation: The Origin Of Life by Adam Rutherford
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
THE ORIGIN OF LIFE: What is life? Where did it come from? In what form did it first appear? And how? Every creature, plant and cell that has ever inhabited the Earth owes its existence to the emergence, some four billion years ago, of a single life-form: the first ever living being, from which all othe ...Show more
Creation: The Origin of Life / The Future of Life by Adam Rutherford
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
Creation- The Origin of Life What is life? In what form did it first appear? And how? Every creature, plant and cell that has ever inhabited the Earth owes its existence to the emergence, some four billion years ago, of a single living being. From this first, unique life-form, all other life subsequen ...Show more
Genetics: A Ladybird Expert Book by Adam Rutherford
$21.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: The\Ladybird Expert Ser.
Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES. ____________ Who discovered genetics? How does gene inheritance work? Is DNA common to all living things? We inherit CODES from our parents. And these codes are written in the molecule DNA. This DNA means that we RESEMBLE each other, namely our families. This ...Show more
How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality by Adam Rutherford
$26.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'The ultimate anti-racism guide' Caroline Criado Perez 'Seriously important' Bill Bryson 'A fascinating debunking of racial pseudoscience' Guardian Race is real because we perceive it. Racism is real because we enact it. But the appeal ...Show more
How to Argue with a Racist (HB) by Adam Rutherford
$34.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
Race is real because we perceive it. Racism is real because we enact it. But the appeal to science to strengthen racist ideologies is on the rise - and increasingly part of the public discourse on politics, migration, education, sport and intelligence. Stereotypes and myths about race are expressed not ...Show more
Rutherford and Fry's Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged) by Adam Rutherford , Hannah Fry
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
'If only Adam Rutherford and Hannah Fry were on tap to all of us, all the time . . . The pair have such a gift for making life, numbers and the forces at work in the universe all the richer, stranger, funnier and more marvellous.' Stephen FryIn Rutherford and Fry's comprehensive guidebook, they tell the ...Show more
Rutherford and Fry's Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged): new from the stars of BBC Radio 4 by Hannah Fry, Adam Rutherford
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
In Rutherford and Fry's comprehensive guidebook, they tell the complete story of the universe and absolutely everything in it - skipping over some of the boring parts. This is a celebration of the weirdness of the cosmos, the strangeness of humans and the fact that amid all the mess, we can somehow make ...Show more
The Book of Humans - The Story of How We Became Us by Adam Rutherford
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Charming, compelling and packed with information. I learned more about biology from this short book than I did from years of science lessons. A weird and wonderful read' PETER FRANKOPAN We like to think of ourselves as exceptional beings, but is there really anything special about us that sets us apart ...Show more
Where Are You Really From? by Adam Rutherford
$22.99 NZD
Category: Children Non-Fiction
'Laugh out loud funny - and you'll learn lots too!' - Adam Kay, author of Kay's Anatomy Who do you think you are? Have you ever thought about who you might be related to? What if we told you that you were related to EXTRAORDINARY EMPERORS, GREAT KINGS and MAGNIFICENT QUEENS? Well, your majesty, you ar ...Show more
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