Electrified Sheep by Alex Boese
$29.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Benjamin Franklin was a pioneering scientist, leader of the Enlightenment and founding father of the USA. But perhaps less well known is that he was also the first person to use artificial respiration to revive an electric shock victim. Odder still, it was actually mouth-to-beak resuscitation on a hen t ...Show more
Earth in 100 Groundbreaking Discoveries by Douglas Palmer
$44.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
Uncovered here are the 100 groundbreaking discoveries that reveal why Earth is the one lucky blue planet in our Solar System that can support life and how this has come about in its myriad forms. The Material World: clay and quartz, feldspar and diamond, satellite image of deltaic muds, sandy desert, fe ...Show more
The Exceptional Brain and How it Changed the World by Robert M. Kaplan
$39.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: very good
Dr Robert Kaplan, a forensic-psychiatrist and researcher, set out to explore the various brain diseases or conditions that have made some people very famous (or infamous), and often changed the course of history. The Exceptional Brain and How It Changed the World delves into the lives of famous figures ...Show more
Atlas of the Southern Night Sky by Steve Massey
$59.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A complete reference to everything in our southern sky. Includes over 100 maps and charts, solar system, how to observe the night sky, types of stars and planets. Completely updated and revised with new photographs of new discoveries.
Accidental Genius by Richard Gaughan
$29.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
From gunpowder to Viagra, many of the greatest eureka moments in human history were chance discoveries that led to world-changing inventions and ideas. Let this book take you on a tour of the scientific and technological advancements where leaps of faith, unexpected inspiration, and sudden shifts of und ...Show more
Nonviolent Communication : A Language of Life (2nd edition) by ROSENBERG M
$45.00 NZD
$55.00 (18% off)
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit
More than one million copies sold for one simple reason - it works! An enlightening look at how peaceful communication can create compassionate connections with family, friends, and other acquaintances. The book uses stories, examples, and sample dialogues to provide solutions to communication problems ...Show more
The Sea : A Photographic Celebration of the First Wonder of the World by ADLARD COLES
$85.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'It is no coincidence that so many of the world's creation myths involve water. Out of this apparent void, all else is born. Not surprising, then, that the sea holds such a primeval fascination. We are, in so many ways, made of water.' (From the Introduction) The sea is the first wonder of the world, an ...Show more
The Things That Nobody Knows : 501 Mysteries of Life, the Universe and Everything by William Hartston
$39.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The forward march of human knowledge has deepened our understanding of the universe and flung wide the floodgates of technological advance: we have established that the world came into being more than 4.5 billion years ago; we have deciphered the Rosetta Stone; travelled to the moon; eliminated smallpox ...Show more
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True by Richard Dawkins; Dave McKean (Illustrator)
$55.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: very good
Richard Dawkins, the world's most famous evolutionary biologist, presents a gorgeously lucid, science book examining some of the nature's most fundamental questions both from a mythical and scientific perspective. Science is our most precise and powerful tool for making sense of the world. Before we dev ...Show more
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
$39.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Richard Holmes, prize-winning biographer of Coleridge and Shelley, explores the scientific ferment that swept across Britain at the end of 18th century in this ground-breaking new biography . 'The Age of Wonde ...Show more
The Maths Handbook: Everyday Maths Made Simple by Dr Richard Elwes
$29.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
All the essential maths you need to know presented in a convenient, great value package.
The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: good
What if society wasn't fundamentally rational, but was motivated by insanity? This thought sets Jon Ronson on an utterly compelling adventure into the world of madness.Along the way, Jon meets psychopaths, those whose lives have been touched by madness and those whose job it is to diagnose it, including ...Show more