The Secret Lives of the Planets - A User's Guide to the Solar System by Paul Murdin
$44.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
We have the impression that the solar system is perfectly regular like a clock, or a planetarium instrument. On a short timescale it is. But, seen in a longer perspective, the planets, and their satellites, have exciting lives, full of events - for example, did you know that Saturn's moon, Titan, boasts ...Show more
When Galaxies Collide by Lisa Harvey-Smith
$24.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
In 2018, Lisa Harvey-Smith was appointed as the inaugural Australian Women in STEM Ambassador by the Australian Federal Government. Why is the Milky Way blue? Why isn't a black hole dark? How many stars can you see with your naked eye?* How much hotter are blue stars than red ones?** Humans are the on ...Show more
Toxic Farts, Brain-Eating Amoebas, Mosquito Assassins and More - 297 Terrifying Ways Nature Is Trying to Murder You by Editors of Media Lab Books
$26.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Why does nature try to kill us? In the same way that humans "thin the herd" when a particular group of animals grow too dense or too expansive for their habitat, nature tries make sure we live in balance with the world as well, which, let's face it, we suck at. Toxic Farts, Brain-Eating Amoebas, Mosqui ...Show more
Symphony in C - Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything by Robert Hazen
$27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
An enchanting biography of the most resonant - and most necessary - chemical element on Earth. Carbon. It is the building block of every cell that makes up every living thing. It is the essential component of the food we eat, the fuel we burn, the wood we use and the air we breathe. It is worth billion ...Show more
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer
$26.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
In We Are the Weather, New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Safran Foer explores the central global dilemma of our time in a surprising, deeply personal, and urgent new way. Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. B ...Show more
Cosmos Possible Worlds by Druyan Ann
$60.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
With lucid prose that recalls the best-selling and beloved Cosmos, Ann Druyan takes readers on an extraordinary journey through the vast and unexplored realms of Earth and space, past and future, fact and imagination. Written and published in coordination with the sensational international television de ...Show more
When the Earth Had Two Moons - Cannibal Planets, Icy Giants, Dirty Comets, Dreadful Orbits, and the Origins of the Night Sky by Erik Asphaug
$36.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
An astonishing exploration of planet formation and the origins of life by one of the world's most innovative planetary geologists.In 1959, the Soviet probe Luna 3 took the first photos of the far side of the moon. Even in their poor resolution, the images stunned scientists: the far side is an enormous ...Show more
How Zoologists Organize Things - The Art of Classification by David Bainbridge
$45.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Discover how categorisation has shaped our view of the natural world with How Zoologists Organize Things. The book unveils wild truths and even wilder myths about animals, as perpetuated by zoologists - revealing how much more there is to learn, and unlearn.
The Seaweed Collector's Handbook - From Purple Laver to Peacock's Tail by Miek Zwamborn; Michele Hutchison (Translator)
$27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: near fine
A beautifully illustrated little book that will open your eyes at the seaside.
Dead in the Water: A very angry book about our greatest environmental catastrophe. . . the death of the Murray-Darling Basin by Richard Beasley
$32.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Full-throated and provocative, this is a very personal battle cry to save our most precious natural resource. 'I LOVE IT.' Peter FitzSimons'With a deft mixture of outrage, humour and in-depth knowledge, only Beasley could make water policy a page turner.' Craig Reucassel'It's great to shed some more l ...Show more
Light in the Darkness: Unveiling the Secrets of Black Holes and the Nature of the Human Spirit by PROFESSOR HEINO. ROEMER FALCKE (JOERG.)
$37.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
For readers of Stephen Hawking, a fascinating account of the universe from the perspective of world-leading astrophysicist Heino Falcke, who took the first ever picture of a black hole. 10th April 2019: a global sensation. Heino Falcke, a man "working at the boundaries of his discipline and therefore a ...Show more
Quantum Computing - The Transformative Technology of the Qubit Revolution by Brian Clegg
$22.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The ultimate non-technical guide to the fast-developing world of quantum computing.