The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A narrative investigation into the new science of plant intelligence and sentience, from National Association of Science Writers Award winner and Livingston Award finalist Zoe Schlanger'. Look at the green organism across the room or through the window: the potted plant, or the grass, or a tree. Think h ...Show more
Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight Loss Drugs by Johann Hari
39.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus takes a revelatory look at the new drugs transforming weight loss as we know it sharing his personal experience on Ozempic and examining our ability to heal society's dysfunctional relationship with food, weight and our bodies. In January 2023, ...Show more
The Body Illustrated: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
75.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A new, beautifully illustrated edition of the Number One Bestseller and Sunday Times Science Book of the Year, which takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. A directory of wonders' - Guardian 'Jaw-dropping' -The Times 'It is a feat of narrative skill to bake so many facts in ...Show more
Saturated Facts - The Real Science Behind Diet Myths by Idz
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'Incredibly well written, accessible and a must in every household.' Dr Nighat Arif, author of The Knowledge and resident doctor on ITV This Morning'A fabulous read!' Rhiannon Lambert, Registered Nutritionist and Sunday Times bestselling author of The Science of NutritionAre carbs the enemy? Am I gettin ...Show more
Sapiens A Graphic History, Volume 2: The Pillars of Civilization by Yuval Noah Harari
48.00 NZD
Category: Comics & Graphic Novels
The second volume of an epic, beautifully illustrated graphic history of humankind, based on Yuval Noah Harari's internationally bestselling phenomenon. When nomadic Homo sapiens settled to live in one place, they started working harder and harder. But why didn't they get a better life in return? In Th ...Show more
The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Global History of Mathematics & its Unsung Trailblazers by Kate Kitagawa; Timothy Revell
40.00 NZD
Category: History
A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of maths. Mathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study of fundamental truths, the stories we have been told about it are wrong. In The Secret Lives of Numbers, historian Kate Kitagawa and journ ...Show more
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
30.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Sapiens shows us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond - from ove ...Show more
50 Math Tricks That Will Change Your Life - Mentally Solve the Impossible in Seconds by Tanya Zakowich
50.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Insane Number Hacks For Curious Adults And Daring Students! In this epic book, you'll uncover 50 unbelievable ways you can manipulate numbers to solve equations, word problems and brain teasers in a flash, no calculator required. Math wizard Tanya Zakowich uses colorful diagrams and quirky explanations ...Show more
New Zealand's Wild Weather by Gerard Hutching; MetService
45.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: near fine
The drama of New Zealand's changeable weather. Are the events we are seeing a sign of permanent change? A compelling, informative and highly illustrated series of investigations into the different types of weather events that occur in New Zealand. It covers the likes of cyclones, heat waves, snow and dr ...Show more
This Is Your Mind On Plants: Opium-Caffeine-Mescaline by Michael Pollan
26.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The instant New York Times bestseller A Washington Post Notable Book One of NPR's Best Books of the Year "Expert storytelling . . . [Pollan] masterfully elevates a series of big questions about drugs, plants and humans that are likely to leave readers thinking in new ways."--New York Times Book Review. ...Show more
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
26.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: very good
'We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us.' Bill Bryson sets off to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ab ...Show more
The Internet of Animals: Discovering the Collective Intelligence of Life on Earth by Martin Wikelski
45.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
For readers of An Immense World, this thrilling book unveils a new scientific technology that tracks animal movements from space and 'could fundamentally reshape the way we understand the role of mobility on our changing planet'. -The New York Times Animal senses are finely tuned to their environments. ...Show more