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Coral: A Pessimist in Paradise by Steve Jones
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
While writing this book, Steve Jones had beside him the coral brooch that his sea captain grandfather brought back across the Indian Ocean as a gift for his wife. This simple object is a starting point for a dazzling narrative that touches on a number of the most important issues facing us today. Follow ...Show more
Darwin's Island by Steve Jones
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
The Origin of Species may be the most famous book in science but its stature tends to obscure much of Charles Darwin's other works. His visit to the Galapagos lasted just five weeks and on his return he never left Britain again. Darwin spent forty years working on the plants, animals and people of his n ...Show more
Evolution (The Ladybird Expert) by Steve Jones
$21.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: The Ladybird Expert
** AN IDEAL GIFT FOR A YOUNG PERSON WITH AN OPEN AND ENQUIRING MIND. ** Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Evolution is a clear, simple and entertaining introduction to Charles Darwin's pioneering and revolutionary theory of how all life changes through natural selection. Written by broadcaster, pr ...Show more
Lonely Boy by Steve Jones
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
Foreword by Chrissie Hynde. Without the Sex Pistols there would be no Punk. And without Steve Jones there would be no Sex Pistols. It was Steve who formed Kutie Jones and his Sex Pistols, the band that eventually went on to become the Sex Pistols, with his schoolmate Paul Cook and who was its original l ...Show more
No Need for Geniuses: Revolutionary Science in the Age of the Guillotine by Professor Steve Jones
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine20
Paris at the time of the French Revolution was the world capital of science. Its scholars laid the foundations of today's physics, chemistry and biology. They were true revolutionaries: agents of an upheaval both of understanding and of politics. Many had an astonishing breadth of talents. The Minister ...Show more
The Serpent's Promise: The Bible Retold as Science by Professor Steve Jones
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
The Bible was the first scientific textbook of all; and it got some things right (and plenty more wrong). Steve Jones' new book rewrites it in the light of modern science. Are we all descended from a single couple, a real-life Adam and Eve? Was the Bible's great flood really a memory of the end of the I ...Show more
The Single Helix: A Turn Around the World of Science by Steve Jones
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
THE SINGLE HELIX is a miscellany of a hundred easy pieces about science. It brings to life a vast diversity of subjects, united under the banner of scientific truth - the universal solvent that brings clarity to almost all the mysteries of the world we live in. Scientists are trained to know ever more a ...Show more
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