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Mushrooms: A Natural and Cultural History by Nicholas P. Money
$49.99 AUD
Category: Nature
Mushrooms hold a peculiar place in our culture: we love them and despise them, fear them and misunderstand them. They can be downright delicious or deadly poisonous, cute as buttons or utterly grotesque. These strange organisms hold great symbolism in our myths and legends. In this book, Nicholas P. Mon ...Show more
Mushrooms: A Natural and Cultural History by Nicholas P Money
$34.99 AUD
Category: Nature
A witty, beautifully illustrated overview of the weird world of mycology. Mushrooms are loved, despised, feared and misunderstood. They have been a familiar part of nature throughout human history and occupy a special place in our consciousness. Now in paperback, Mushrooms introduces the mythology and s ...Show more
Nature Fast and Nature Slow: How Life Works, from Fractions of a Second to Billions of Years by Nicholas P. Money
$34.99 AUD
Category: Nature
This book is a vision of biology set within the entire timescale of the universe. It is about the timing of life, from microsecond movements to evolutionary changes over millions of years. Human consciousness is riveted to seconds, but a split-second time delay in perception means that we are unaware of ...Show more
The Selfish Ape - Human Nature and Our Path to Extinction by Nicholas P. Money
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Weaving together stories of science and sociology, The Selfish Ape offers a refreshing response to common fantasies about the ascent of humanity. Rather than imagining modern humans as a species with godlike powers, or Homo deus, Nicholas P. Money recasts us as Homo narcissus--paragons of self-absorptio ...Show more
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