Letters from an Astrophysicist by Neil deGrasse Tyson
$24.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has attracted one of the world's largest online followings with his fascinating, widely accessible insights into science and our universe. Now, Tyson invites us to go behind the scenes of his public fame by unveiling his candid correspondence with people across the glo ...Show more
Inflight Science: A Guide to the World from Your Airplane Window by Brian Clegg
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The perfect companion to any flight - a guide to the science on view from your window seat. There are few times when science is so immediate as when you're in a plane. Your life is in the hands of the scientists and engineers who enable tons of metal and plastic to hurtle through the sky at hundreds of ...Show more
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
$27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ... A Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year ... 'Hugely, highly and happily recommended' Stephen Fry ... 'You should read Humankind. You'll learn a lot (I did) and you'll have good reason to feel better about the human race' Tim Harford ...Show more
How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch: In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe by Harry Cliff
$39.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.' Carl Sagan We all know what an apple pie is made of: flour and apples and butter. They are made of fats and cholesterol and proteins. They, in turn, are made of molecules of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen and other chemica ...Show more
Mage Merlin's Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries by Satyan Devadoss, Matt Harvey
$30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Sixteen of today's greatest unsolved mathematical puzzles in a story-driven, illustrated volume that invites readers to peek over the edge of the unknown.Most people think of mathematics as a set of useful tools designed to answer analytical questions, beginning with simple arithmetic and ending with ad ...Show more
Size: How It Explains the World by Vaclav Smil
$40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A mind-expanding exploration size, the measure of all things, from the New York Times bestselling author The New York Times bestselling author returns with a mind-opening exploration of how size defines life on Earth. Explaining the key processes shaping size in nature, society and technology, Smil bust ...Show more
Black Holes - the Reith Lectures by Stephen Hawking
$14.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
"It is said that fact is sometimes stranger than fiction, and nowhere is that more true than in the case of black holes. Black holes are stranger than anything dreamed up by science fiction writers."In 2016 Professor Stephen Hawking delivered the BBC Reith Lectures on a subject that fascinated him for d ...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
A Zero Waste Life by Anita Vandyke
$24.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Anita Vandyke wants to show you that by living zero waste, you actually gain more - more time, more money and more life.A Zero Waste Lifeis the ultimate guide to radically reducing your waste, without losing your lifestyle. In her thirty-day challenge, Anita provides you with the rules, tips and tricks ...Show more
Books do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science by Richard Dawkins
$40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
At a time when science can seem complex and remote, it has a greater impact on our lives, and to the future of our planet, than ever before. It really matters that its discoveries and truths should be clearly and widely communicated. That its enemies, from the malicious to the muddled, the self-deluding ...Show more
Tomorrow's People: The Future of Humanity in Ten Numbers by Paul Morland
$39.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The great forces of population change - the balance of births, deaths and migrations - have made the world what it is today. They have determined which countries are superpowers and which languish in relative obscurity, which economies top the international league tables and which are at best also-rans. ...Show more
For the Good of the World: Is a Universal Ethics Possible? by A. C. Grayling
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A lucid and inspiring consideration of the challenges we and our world now face, and a proposal for a way to avoid disaster. 'A must read' Gordon Brown 'A truly excellent book' Sir David King The three biggest challenges facing the world today, in A. C. Grayling's view, are climate change, t ...Show more