Brief Answers to the Big Questions: the final book from Stephen Hawking by Stephen Hawking
30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: very good
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 t ...Show more
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems from Randall Munroe of xkcd by Randall Munroe
30.00 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
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: good
From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love h ...Show more
The Unexpected Truth about Animals by Lucy Cooke
28.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Shortlisted for the 2018 Royal Society Investment Science Book Prize'Endlessly fascinating.' - Bill Bryson 'Eye-opening, informative and very funny!' - Chris Packham'Well-informed and downright funny' - Richard DawkinsHistory is full of strange animal stories invented by the brightest and most influenti ...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
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
Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning by Tom Vanderbilt
28.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Discover why learning is good for us and how to develop a 'Beginner's Mindset'. 'Beginners belongs on the list of books that have changed the way I understand my own limitations.' - Malcolm Gladwell For many of us, the last time we learned a new skill was during childhood. We live in an age which revere ...Show more
Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution by Richard Dawkins
25.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The Wonder of Flight. The Science of Evolution. From both, Richard Dawkins weaves a fascinating and beautifully illustrated account of how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to the skies. Do you sometimes dream you can fly like a bird? Gliding effortlessly above the ...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
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
Origins: How the Earth Shaped Human History by Lewis Dartnell
28.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The Sunday Timesbestseller that reveals the Earth's awesome impact on the shape of human civilizations.'Stands comparison with Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens... A thrilling piece of Big History'Sunday Times'A sweeping, brilliant overview of the history not only of our species but of the world' Peter Franko ...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