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Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead? by Steven Pinker Malcolm Gladwell Alain De Botton Matt Ridley
$18.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
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 Discoverer of the Genetic Code by Matt Ridley
$25.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | 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
Nature Via Nurture: Genes, experience and what makes us human by Matt Ridley
$25.99 NZD
Category: Miscellaneous
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 Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
$29.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: P.S.
Previously published in slightly different form in hardcover: HarperCollins, 2010.
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
$28.99 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
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
$41.00 NZD
Category: Business
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
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