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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes by Adam Rutherford
40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
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
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes by Adam Rutherford
25.00 NZD
Category: History
'A brilliant, authoritative, surprising, captivating introduction to human genetics. You'll be spellbound' Brian Cox 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 ...Show more
Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics by Adam Rutherford
45.00 NZD
Category: History
* 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
How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality by Adam Rutherford
25.00 NZD
Category: Politics
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
35.00 NZD
Category: Politics
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): new from the stars of BBC Radio 4 by Hannah Fry, Adam Rutherford
30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
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: Popular Science
'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
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