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How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
$26.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
"Presented with extraordinary lucidity, cogency and panache...Powerful and gripping...To have read [the book] is to have consulted a first draft of the structural plan of the human psyche...a glittering tour de force" - "Spectator". "Why do memories fade? Why do we lose our tempers? Why do fools fall in ...Show more
The Blank Slate - The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
$27.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
In the past century many people have assumed that we are shaped by our environment: a blank slate waiting to be inscribed by our upbringing and culture, with innate abilities playing little part. Steven Pinker's profound and essential book shows that this view denies the heart of our being: human nature ...Show more
The Secret Life of Trees - How They Live and Why They Matter by Colin Tudge
$27.99 AUD
Category: Nature | Series: Penguin Press Science
'Everyone interested in the natural world will enjoy The Secret Life of Trees. I found myself reading out whole chunks to friends' The Times, Books of the YearWhat is a tree? As this celebration of the trees shows, they are our countryside; our ancestors descended from them; they gave us air to breathe. ...Show more
The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size by Tor Norretranders
$38.95 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Press Science S.
As John Casti wrote, "Finally, a book that really does explain consciousness." This groundbreaking work by Denmark's leading science writer draws on psychology, evolutionary biology, information theory, and other disciplines to argue its revolutionary point: that consciousness represents only an infinit ...Show more
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