The Gene - An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
$40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: very good
The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history, from bestselling, prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee. Spanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form ...Show more
The Future Is Faster Than You Think by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
$35.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Exponential Technology Series
During the next decade, we will experience more disruption and create more wealth than we have in the past hundred years. In this insightful and gripping blueprint for our near future, bestselling authors and futurists Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler investigate how wave after wave of exponentially ac ...Show more
The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women by Sharon Moalem
$38.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Here are some facts - Women live longer than men. Women have stronger immune systems. They are less likely to suffer from learning and developmental disabilities, and are better at fighting cancer and surviving famine. Women are simply stronger than men at every stage of life, though we are taught the o ...Show more
Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
$27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Picador Collection
'The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' - GuardianHailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays and various TV documentaries, Awakenings by Oliver Sacks is the ext ...Show more
No Need for Geniuses: Revolutionary Science in the Age of the Guillotine by Professor Steve Jones
$39.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: near fine20
Paris at the time of the French Revolution was the world capital of science. Its scholars laid the foundations of today's physics, chemistry and biology. They were true revolutionaries: agents of an upheaval both of understanding and of politics. Many had an astonishing breadth of talents. The Minister ...Show more
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
$31.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: very good
The acclaimed bestseller that will change the way you make decisions.In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think and make choices. One system is fast, intuitive, and emotional; the other is slower, more delib ...Show more
The Plant Hunters by Carolyn Fry
$69.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
"The Plant Hunters" tells the story of our obsession with plants. This book contains topics that range from the entourage of Alexander the Great which included naturalists to the establishment of botanical gardens and the discovery through exploration of the plants that have made or broken economies, su ...Show more