Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive by Carl Zimmer
25.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
<b>This book is not just about life, but about discovery itself. It is about error and hubris, but also about wonder and the reach of science. And it is bookended with the ultimate question: How do we define the thing that defines us? - Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of <i>The Gene</i>&l ...Show more
Numbercrunch by Oliver Johnson
37.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
This is a mathematician's toolkit for cutting through wall-to-wall informationoverload and making sense of our modern world. In our hyper-modern world we are bombarded with more facts, stats and information than ever before. Often these statistics can seem contradictory and say wildly different things d ...Show more
The Secret Lives of the Elements by Kathryn Harkup
50.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'A delightful and engaging treasure trove of a book that brings the chemical elements to life and gives them personalities of their own. A wonderful read for young and old alike to get you inspired by chemistry.' Jim Al-Khalili'The perfect book to escape our human-sized existence and take a tour of the ...Show more
What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
35.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
WHAT IF... one man decided to answer all the unanswerable questions, using science. The Sunday Times-bestselling author and xkcd creator, Randall Munroe is here to provide the best answers yet to the important questions you probably never thought to ask. The millions of people around the world who rea ...Show more
Unfit for Purpose by Adam Hart
28.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Stress, obesity, poor mental health, drug addiction, bowel diseases, violence and fake news; a stark checklist of modern world problems and every one of them is an echo of our evolutionary past. In Unfit for Purpose, biologist and broadcaster Adam Hart explores the mismatch between our fundamental biolo ...Show more
Numbers Don't Lie - 71 Things You Need to Know About the World by Vaclav Smil
26.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: very good
'My favourite author has done it again. Numbers Don't Lie is by far his most accessible book to date, and I highly recommend it to anyone who is curious about the world. I unabashedly recommend this book to anyone who loves learning' - Bill GatesIs flying dangerous? How much do the world's cows weigh? A ...Show more
Grounded: How soil shapes the games we play, the lives we make and the graves we lie in by Alisa Bryce
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
An Aussie scientist digs up some dirt about the history and science of soilLife on land could not exist without soil. Almost everything we need can be traced to the soil- food, fibre, medicines - even oxygen produced by plants. What would we be without it? Certainly not a planet worthy of the name Earth ...Show more
Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge by Erica Gies
43.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A journey through time and around the world to uncover water's true nature, and how it can help us adapt to climate change.Trouble with water increasingly frequent, extreme floods and droughts is one of the first obvious signs of climate change. Meanwhile, urban sprawl, industrial agriculture and engine ...Show more
The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Maths by Manil Suri
25.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'Who knew numbers could be so charming? ... Suri takes us on a light-hearted journey all the way from nothing (zero) to infinity' Karen Joy Fowler, New York Times bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves Our universe has multiple origin stories, from religious creation myths to the B ...Show more
The Importance of Being Interested - Adventures in Scientific Curiosity by Robin Ince
37.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The popular comedian and presenter journeys through science, explaining why it should be for everyone - including enthusiastic amateurs. Comedian Robin Ince quickly abandoned science at school, bored by a fog of dull lessons and intimidated by the barrage of equations. But, twenty years later, he fell ...Show more
The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
26.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explored its meaning while scientists have found that its structure is different from the simple intuition we have of it. From Boltzmann to quantum theory, from Einstein to loop quantum gravity, our understandi ...Show more
Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli
30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The instant Sunday Times bestseller -- a dazzling story of rebellion and science. In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, had retreated to the treeless, wind-battered island of Helgoland in the North Sea in order to think. Walking all night, by dawn he had wrest ...Show more