Forbidden Universe by Lynn Picknett
$29.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Were the first scientists hermetic philosophers? What do these occult origins of modern science tell us about the universe today? The Forbidden Universe reveals the secret brotherhood that defined the world, and perhaps discovered the mind of God. All the pioneers of science, from Copernicus to Newton ...Show more
Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever by Christopher Hitchens
$42.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great, a provocative and entertaining guided tour of atheist and agnostic thought through the ages--with never-before-published pieces by Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Christopher Hitchens continues to make the case for a sp ...Show more
Patient H M by Luke Dittrich
$55.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
In the summer of 1953 maverick neurosurgeon William Beecher Scoville performed a groundbreaking operation on a twenty-seven-year-old epileptic patient named Henry Molaison. The operation failed to eliminate Molaison's intractable seizures, but it did have an unintended effect- Henry was left prof ...Show more
The Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life by Helen Czerski
$40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
This book links the little things - the unexpected pinkness of blueberry jam or the way the air smells before it rains - with the big in a book that will alter the way you see the world. Helen Czerski shows how the familiar, from coffee stains to ketchup bottles, can shed light on Antarctic winds, medic ...Show more
Where the Universe Came from: How Einstein's Relativity Unlocks the Past, Present and Future of the Cosmos by New Scientist
$34.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: New Scientist Instant Expert
WHY GENERAL RELATIVITY LEAVES UNFINISHED BUSINESS WITH THE COSMOS A little over a century ago, a young Albert Einstein presented his general theory of relativity to the world and utterly transformed our understanding of the universe. He overturned centuries of thinking about gravity by revealing how it ...Show more
Fluke: The Maths and Myths of Coincidences by Joseph Mazur
$19.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
What are the chances?! This exclamation greets the scarcely believable coincidence - you're picked up by the same taxi driver several years and thousands of miles apart or, in a second-hand bookshop far from home, you find your own childhood copy of Winnie-the-Pooh on the shelf. But the unlikely is more ...Show more
Climate Change (A Ladybird Expert Book) by Tony Juniper; Emily Shuckburgh; HRH The Prince of Wales
$21.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: The Ladybird Expert
Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Climate Change is a clear, simple and enlightening introduction to one of the most important issues facing our world today. From HRH The Prince of Wales, environmentalist Tony Juniper and climate scientist Dr Emily Shuckburgh, it explains the history, dangers and ...Show more
The Aliens Are Coming!: The Exciting and Extraordinary Science Behind Our Search for Life in the Universe by Ben Miller
$27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Actor and bestselling science writer Ben Miller takes readers to the cutting edge of one of the greatest questions of all: Is there life beyond Earth? For millennia, we have looked up at the stars and wondered whether we are alone in the universe, but in the last few years--as our probes begin to esca ...Show more
Careful! by Steve Casner
$37.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The modern world can be a dangerous place, filled with fast cars, smart phones, drugs and extreme sports. Meanwhile, we humans are as fragile as ever. In fact, after a century of decline in injuries and accidental deaths they are on the rise again. The question is - why? Steve Casner has devoted his car ...Show more
Pinpoint: How GPS is Changing Our World by Greg Milner
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Over the last fifty years, humanity has developed an extraordinary global utility which is omnipresent, universal, and available to all: the Global Positioning System (GPS). A network of twenty-four satellites and their monitoring stations on Earth, it makes possible almost all modern technology, from t ...Show more
Caesar's Last Breath by Sam Kean
$40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
It's invisible. It's ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell. In Caesar's Last Breath, New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic table, around the globe, and across time to tell the story of the air we breathe, whic ...Show more
A Life Underwater by Charlie Veron
$40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Hailed by David Attenborough, proclaimed a second Charles Darwin, John 'Charlie' Veron almost didn't become a scientist. Disheartened at school, by chance he won a scholarship to a university where he could indulge his passion for the natural world. It was scuba diving that returned him to his childhood ...Show more