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Beginners - The Curious Power of Lifelong Learning by Tom Vanderbilt
$33.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Discover why learning is good for us and how to develop a 'Beginner's Mindset'. For many of us, the last time we learned a new skill was during childhood. We live in an age which reveres expertise but looks down on the beginner. Upon entering adulthood and middle age, we begin to shy away from trying n ...Show more
On the Origin of Evolution: Tracing 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea' from Aristotle to Dawkins by John Gribbin; Mary Gribbin
$50.00 NZD
Category: History
The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from the brain of Charles Darwin. Rather it has been examined and debated by philosophers the world over for thousands of years. This lively history traces the evolution of the idea of evolution, showing how it ha ...Show more
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (HB) by Bill Bryson
$55.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the science of our world both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the globe. Now he turns his attention inwards to explore the human body, how it functi ...Show more
Reactions: An Illustrated Exploration of Elements, Molecules, and Change in the Universe by Theodore Gray
$35.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The third book in Theodore Gray's bestselling Elements Trilogy, Reactions continues the journey through the world of chemistry that began with his two previous bestselling books The Elements and Molecules. With The Elements, Gray gave us a never-before-seen, mesmerizing photographic view of the 118 ele ...Show more
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor
$40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
300,000 years ago, Homo sapienshad bigger skulls. Cooked food meant our heads shrunk; alongside a growing brain, our airways got narrower. Urbanisation then led us to breathe less deeply and less healthily. And so today more than 90% of us breathe incorrectly. So we might have been breathing all our lif ...Show more
There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years by Mike Berners-Lee
$21.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Feeding the world, climate change, biodiversity, antibiotics, plastics - the list of concerns seems endless. But what is most pressing, what are the knock-on effects of our actions, and what should we do first? Do we all need to become vegetarian? How can we fly in a low-carbon world? Should we frack? H ...Show more
A Small Illustrated Guide to the Universe by Ella Frances Sanders
$28.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A beautifully illustrated exploration of the principles, laws, and wonders that rule our universe, our world, and our daily lives, from the New York Times bestselling creator of Lost in Translation.
#NoFly: Walking the Talk on Climate Change (BWB Texts) by Shaun Hendy
$15.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
What happens when a leading New Zealand scientist (and frequent traveler) rules out flying for a year? From overnight buses to epic train journeys, Shaun Hendy's experiences speak to our desire to do something ¿ anything ¿ in the face of growing climate anxiety. #NoFly confronts the hard questions of on ...Show more
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems (XKCD) by Randall Munroe
$25.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Randall Munroe is . . .'Nerd royalty' Ben Goldacre 'Totally brilliant' Tim Harford 'Laugh-out-loud funny' Bill Gates 'Wonderful' Neil Gaiman AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever t ...Show more
Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking
$28.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: near fine
THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. 'A beautiful little book by a brilliant mind'- DAILY TELEGRAPH. 'Effortlessly instructive, absorbing, up to the minute and - where it matters - witty'- GUARDIAN. The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final ...Show more
Decoding the World by Po Bronson; Arvind Gupta
$38.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A vision of the future where the latest Silicon Valley tech meets cutting-edge genetics. Po Bronson and Arvind Gupta, venture capitalists from Silicon Valley, take everyday news headlines and decode them, leading us on a journey through their unique and highly entertaining view of the world. Each chapt ...Show more
The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code by Michael McCullough
$43.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
"A fine achievement."--Peter Singer, author of The Life You Can Save and The Most Good You Can Do A sweeping psychological history of human goodness -- from the foundations of evolution to the modern political and social challenges humanity is now facing. How did humans, a species of self-centered ...Show more