Third Lens: Metaphor and the Creation of Modern Cell Biology by Andrew S Reynolds
$54.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
Does science aim at providing an account of the world that is literally true or objectively true? Understanding the difference requires paying close attention to metaphor and its role in science. In The Third Lens, Andrew S. Reynolds argues that metaphors, like microscopes and other instruments, are a v ...Show more
Image Science: Iconology, Visual Culture and Media Aesthetics by W J T Mitchell
$46.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
Almost thirty years ago, W. J. T. Mitchell's Iconology helped launch the interdisciplinary study of visual media, now a central feature of the humanities. Along with his subsequent Picture Theory and What Do Pictures Want?, Mitchell's now-classic work introduced such ideas as the pictorial turn, the ima ...Show more
Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destrying Our Politics & Driving Us Crazy by Michael Mann, Tom Toles
$37.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
The award-winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize'��winning political cartoonist Tom Toles have been on the front lines of the fight against climate denialism for most of their careers. They have witnessed the manipulation of the media by business and political interests and the ...Show more
Oneness Hypothesis: Beyond the Boundary of Self by Philip J Ivanhoe, Owen J Flanagan, Victoria S Harrison, Hagop Sarkissian, Eric Schwitzgebel
$76.00 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
The idea that the self is inextricably intertwined with the rest of the world - the 'oneness hypothesis'? - can be found in many of the world's philosophical and religious traditions. Oneness provides ways to imagine and achieve a more expansive conception of the self as fundamentally connected with oth ...Show more
Restating Orientalism: A Critique of Modern Knowledge by Wael B Hallaq
$73.00 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
Since Edward Said's foundational work, Orientalism has been singled out for critique as the quintessential example of Western intellectuals' collaboration with oppression. Controversies over the imbrications of knowledge and power and the complicity of Orientalism in the larger project of colonialism ha ...Show more
Chaos in the Liberal Order: The Trump Presidency and International Politics in the Twenty-First Century by Robert Jervis, Francis J Gavin, Joshua Rovner, Diane Labrosse
$57.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
Donald Trump's election has called into question many fundamental assumptions about politics and society. Should the forty-fifth president of the United States make us reconsider the nature and future of the global order? Collecting a wide range of perspectives from leading political scientists, histori ...Show more
My Parent's Keeper: The Guilt, Grief, Guesswork, and Unexpected Gifts of Caregiving by Jody Gastfriend
$37.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
When it comes time to provide care for those who once cared for us, where can we turn? This book offers practical guidance for a broad range of caregiving situations when family caregivers assume their new role.Uses the latest research and draws on case histories and interviews.Is a resource as well as ...Show more
Minds Make Societies["How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create"] by Pascal Boyer
$70.00 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
A watershed book that masterfully integrates insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to explore the development and workings of human societies 'There is no good reason why human societies should not be described and explained with the same precision and succes ...Show more
Cane Toad Wars by Rick Shine; Harry W. Greene (Foreword by)
$49.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing | Series: Organisms and Environments Ser.
In 1935, an Australian government agency imported 101 specimens of the Central and South American Cane Toad in an attempt to manage insects that were decimating sugar-cane harvests. In Australia the Cane Toad adapted and evolved with abandon, voraciously consuming native wildlife and killing predators w ...Show more
Totally Random: Why Nobody Understands Quantum Mechanics (A Serious Comic on Entanglement) by Jeffrey Bub; Tanya Bub
$44.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
An eccentric comic about the central mystery of quantum mechanics Totally Random is a comic for the serious reader who wants to really understand the central mystery of quantum mechanics--entanglement: what it is, what it means, and what you can do with it. Measure two entangled particles separately, an ...Show more
and Evolutionary Innovation Genes Homology by Gunter Wagner
$68.00 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
Homology'a similar trait shared by different species and derived from common ancestry, such as a seal's fin and a bird's wing'is one of the most fundamental yet challenging concepts in evolutionary biology. This groundbreaking book provides the first mechanistically based theory of what homology is and ...Show more
Cosmic Web: Mysterious Architecture of the Universe by J Richard Gott
$39.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
J. Richard Gott was among the first cosmologists to propose that the structure of our universe is like a sponge made up of clusters of galaxies intricately connected by filaments of galaxies'a magnificent structure now called the "cosmic web" and mapped extensively by teams of astronomers. Here is his g ...Show more
