Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid by Thor Hanson
25.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
A fascinating insight into climate change biology around the globe, as well as in our own backyards. Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid is the first major book by a biologist to focus on the fascinating story of how the natural world is adjusting, adapting, and sometimes measurably evolving in respons ...Show more
Size - How It Explains the World by Vaclav Smil
30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
From the New York Times bestselling author of How the World Really Works, a wide-ranging look at the most fundamental governing principle of our world: size, whose laws, limits, and peculiarities offer the key to understanding health, wealth, and even happiness"No one writes about the great issues of ou ...Show more
Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
28.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: good
Ben Goldacre's wise and witty bestseller, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, lifts the lid on quack doctors, flaky statistics, scaremongering journalists and evil pharmaceutical corporations. Since 2003 Dr Ben Goldacre has been exposing dodgy medical data in his popular Guardian column. In this e ...Show more
The Irrational Ape: Why Flawed Logic Puts Us All at Risk and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World by David Robert Grimes
28.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
THE IRISH TIMES TOP FIVE BESTSELLER 'An unstoppable page-turner. If our leaders were forced to read this book, the world would be a safer place' Richard Dawkins 'A beautifully reasoned book about our own unreasonableness' Robin Ince Why did revolutionary China consider the sparrow an 'animal of capital ...Show more
The Future is Fungi: How Fungi Can Feed Us, Heal Us, Free Us and Save Our World by Michael Lim, Yun Shu
55.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The kingdom of fungi has survived all five major extinction events. They are the architects of the natural world, integral to all life. They sustain critical ecosystems, recycling nutrients and connecting plants across vast areas, and help to produce many staples of modern life, such as wine, chocolate, ...Show more
Carbon: One Atom's Odyssey by John Barnett; Roald Hoffman (Foreword by)
37.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A richly illustrated history of a single atom of carbon, tracing its many manifestations from the Big Bang to the present. Carbon: One Atom's Odyssey is an illustrated adaptation of 'Carbon,' a short story from Italian chemist, writer, and Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi. It traces the life story and many ...Show more
On the Origin of Species (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Oliver (AFT) Charles; Francis Darwin
20.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to lo ...Show more
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
26.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Imagine a world where… Your phone is too big for your hand Your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body In a car accident you are 47% more likely to be injured. If any of that sounds familiar, chances are you’re a woman. From government policy and medical research, to technology, workplac ...Show more
My Book of the Elements: A Fact-Filled Guide to the Periodic Table by DK, Adrian Dingle
26.00 NZD
Category: Children - Reference
An informative book that explores the elements that make up our world and the science that defines them. A perfect first book for any child interested in chemistry and the world around them. My Book of the Elements is a wonderful introduction to the periodic table. Covering all the elements, from the un ...Show more
Murder Isn't Easy The Forensics of Agatha Christie by Carla Valentine
30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Fascinating - PrimaEngaging and informative - Guardian Agatha Christie is one of our most beloved authors - a storyteller unparalleled in her clever plots and twisting tales. But Agatha was also a forensic expert; in each of her books she employs an expert weaving of human observation, ingenuity and ge ...Show more
Escape from Model Land - How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do about It by Erica Thompson
30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Shortlisted for Best Maths Book of 2022 by Chaulkdust Magazine 'A brilliant account of how models are so often abused and of how they should be used' John Kay How do mathematical models shape our world - and how can we harness their power for good? Models are at the centre of everything we do. Whether ...Show more
The Moon: A History for the Future by Oliver Morton
25.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
An intimate portrait of the Earth's closest neighbor--the Moon--that explores the history and future of humankind's relationship with it Every generation has looked towards the heavens and wondered at the beauty of the Moon. Fifty years ago, a few Americans became the first to do the reverse--and sh ...Show more