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Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead? by Steven Pinker Malcolm Gladwell Alain De Botton Matt Ridley
$16.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
From the Enlightenment onwards, the West has had an enduring belief that through the evolution of institutions, innovations, and ideas, the human condition is improving. This process is supposedly accelerating as new technologies, individual freedoms, and the spread of global norms empower individuals a ...Show more
How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Business
'Ridley is spot-on when it comes to the vital ingredients for success' Sir James Dyson Building on his bestseller The Rational Optimist, Matt Ridley chronicles the history of innovation, and how we need to change our thinking on the subject. Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we ...Show more
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
$30.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: P.S.
Previously published in slightly different form in hardcover: HarperCollins, 2010.
The Year the World Went Mad - A Scientific Memoir by Mark Woolhouse; Matt Ridley (Foreword by)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In January 2020, leading epidemiologist Professor Mark Woolhouse learned of a new virus taking hold in China. He immediately foresaw a hard road ahead for the entire world, and emailed the Chief Medical Officer of Scotland warning that the UK should urgently begin preparations. A few days later he recei ...Show more
Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19 by Alina Chan; Matt Ridley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
It's the greatest whodunnit mystery of the century: how did the first detected outbreak of Covid-19 start in Wuhan city? We know that the natural reservoir of SARS-related coronaviruses is in bats, but we do not how, where, and when SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for Covid-19, acquired the ability to ...Show more
Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19 by Matt Ridley
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
Understanding how Covid-19 started is more important than we know for the future of humankind. Determining whether the virus came from nature or from a lab will help us to safeguard against the next pandemic. This disease will forever punctuate modern history. It has led to the deaths of millions, ...Show more
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