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Letters to a Young Scientist by Edward O. Wilson
Category: Science
Inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, Edward O. Wilson has distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, young and old. Wilson threads these twenty-one letters, each richly illustrated, with autobiographical anecdotes that illuminate his career - both his successes and ...Show more
On Human Nature (25th Anniversary edition) by Edward O. Wilson (Pellegrino University Research Professor, HArvard University, USA)
Category: Philosophy
Twenty-five years after its first publication, Harvard University Press has re-released Edward O. Wilson's classic work, "On Human Nature. A double Pulitzer Prize winner, Wilson is a writer of effortless grace and stylish succinctness and this is one of his finest, most important books...A highly influe ...Show more
Origins of Creativity by Edward O. Wilson
Category: Science
'An intellectual hero ... A superb celebrator of science in all its manifestations' Ian McEwan'Darwin's great successor' Jeffrey SachsThe legendary biologist Edward O. Wilson offers his most philosophically probing work to date'Creativity is the unique and defining trait of our species; and its ultimate ...Show more
Tales from the Ant World by Edward O. Wilson
Category: Nature
Edward O. Wilson recalls his lifetime with ants, from his first boyhood encounters in the woods of Alabama to perilous journeys into the Brazilian rainforest. Ants are the most warlike of all animals, with colony pitted against colony, writes Edward O. Wilson, one of the worlds most beloved scientists. ...Show more
The Ants by Bert Hölldobler; Edward O. Wilson; Bert Hölldobler
Category: Nature
This landmark work, the distillation of a lifetime of research by the world's leading myrmecologists, is a thoroughgoing survey of one of the largest and most diverse groups of animals on the planet. Bert H??lldobler and Edward O. Wilson review in exhaustive detail virtually all topics in the anatomy, p ...Show more
The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson
Category: Reference
Our world is far richer than previously conceived, yet so ravaged by human activity that half its species could be gone by the end of the present century. These two contrasting themes - unexpected magnificence and underestimated peril - have originated during the past two decades of research. In this ti ...Show more
The Meaning of Human Existence by Edward O. Wilson
Category: Science
Searching for meaning in what Nietzsche called "the rainbow colours" around the outer edges of knowledge and imagination, Edward O. Wilson bridges science and philosophy to create a twenty-first-century treatise on human existence. Once criticised for his over-reliance on genetics, Wilson unfurls his mo ...Show more
The Meaning of Human Existence by Edward O. Wilson
Category: Science
Searching for meaning in what Nietzsche called "the rainbow colours" around the outer edges of knowledge and imagination, Edward O. Wilson bridges science and philosophy to create a twenty-first-century treatise on human existence. Once criticised for his over-reliance on genetics, Wilson unfurls his mo ...Show more
The Origins of Creativity by Edward O. Wilson
Category: Science
In a stirring exploration of human nature recalling his foundational work Consilience, Edward O. Wilson offers a "luminous" (Kirkus Reviews) reflection on the humanities and their integral relationship to science. Both endeavors, Wilson argues, have their roots in human creativity--the defining trait of ...Show more
The Social Conquest of Earth by Edward O. Wilson
Category: Non-Fiction
In asking where we came from, what we are and where we are going, Edward O. Wilson directly addresses three fundamental questions of religion, philosophy and science. Refashioning the story of human evolution, he draws on his remarkable knowledge of biology and social behaviour to show that group select ...Show more
The Social Conquest of Earth by Edward O. Wilson
Category: Accessories
In asking where we came from, what we are and where we are going, Edward O. Wilson directly addresses three fundamental questions of religion, philosophy and science. Refashioning the story of human evolution, he draws on his remarkable knowledge of biology and social behaviour to show that group select ...Show more