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 Get a Sofa Around a Corner: And 30 Other Everyday Examples of the Appliance of Science by Frary Mark
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The Next Great Migration - The Story of Movement on a Changing Planet by Sonia Shah
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'A dazzlingly original picture of our relentlessly mobile species' NAOMI KLEIN'Fascinating . . . Likely to prove prophetic in the coming months and years' OBSERVER'A dazzling tour through 300 years of scientific history' PROSPECT'A hugely entertaining, life-affirming and hopeful hymn to the glorious ada ...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
Sentient: What Animals Reveal About Our Senses by Jackie Higgins
$37.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Sentient assembles a menagerie of zoological creatures – from land, air, sea and all four corners of the globe – to understand what it means to be human. Through their eyes, ears, skins, tongues and noses, the furred, finned and feathered reveal how we sense and make sense of the world, as well as the u ...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
The Periodic Table: A Field Guide to the Elements by Paul Parsons & Gail Dixon
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: very good
As one of the most recognizable images in science, the periodic table is ingrained in our culture. First drawn up in 1869 by Dmitri Mendeleev, its 118 elements make up not only everything on our planet but also everything in the entire universe. The Periodic Table looks at the fascinating story and surp ...Show more
Birth of the Pill: How Four Pioneers Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution by Jonathan Eig
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
In the winter of 1950, Margaret Sanger, then seventy-one, and who had campaigned for women's right to control their own fertility for five decades, arrived at a Park Avenue apartment building. She had come to meet a visionary scientist with a dubious reputation more than twenty years her junior. His nam ...Show more
Shades of Grey (#1) by Jasper Fforde
$27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: very good
Hundreds of years in the future, after the Something that Happened, the world is an alarmingly different place. Life is lived according to The Rulebook and social hierarchy is determined by your perception of colour. Eddie Russett is an above average Red who dreams of moving up the ladder by marriage to ...Show more
1912: The Year the World Discovered Antarctica by Chris Turney
$45.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The rivalry between Robert Scott and Roald Amundsen is a familiar story; what fewer people know is that, in 1912, five separate teams were exploring beyond the limits of the known world: Scott for Britain, Amundsen for Norway, Mawson for Australasia, Filchner for Germany and Shirase for Japan. The Antar ...Show more
The Weil Conjectures - On Maths and the Pursuit of the Unknown by Karen Olsson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'Beguiling ... Olsson is evocative on curiosity as an appetite of the mind, on the pleasure of glutting oneself on knowledge' New York TimesSimone Weil- philosopher, political activist, mystic o and sister to Andr , one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century. These two extraordi ...Show more
Black and White Thinking: The burden of a binary brain in a complex world by Kevin Dutton
$24.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
From the author of the bestselling The Wisdom of Psychopaths, this is a wake-up call, a groundbreaking and timely explanation of the polarization seen in some of the biggest global news stories of our times.'Essential insights into the character of human choice and decision-making.' ROBERT CIALDINI, aut ...Show more