How Do Worms Work?: A Gardener's Collection of Curious Questions and Astonishing Answers by Guy Barter
$27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Ever wondered how worms breathe? Or why exactly trees are so big? This book covers all aspects of gardens and gardening, and will satisfy all your horticultural curiosity. Packed with photographs, vintage engravings and diagrams, this book will answer everything from the practical to the quirky and whim ...Show more
Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry by Christie Wilcox
$27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Wilcox takes us from the coast of Indonesia to the rain forests of Peru in search of the secrets of these mysterious animals. We encounter jellyfish that release microscopic venom-packed darts known to kill humans in just two minutes, a two-inch caterpillar with toxic bristles that trigger hemorrhaging ...Show more
Machines that Think: Everything you need to know about the coming age of artificial intelligence by New Scientist
$34.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: New Scientist Instant Expert
Sometime in the future the intelligence of machines will exceed that of human brain power. So are we on the edge of an AI-pocalypse, with superintelligent devices superseding humanity, as predicted by Stephen Hawking? Or will this herald a kind of Utopia, with machines doing a far better job at complex ...Show more
How the Zebra Got its Stripes: Tales from the Weird and Wonderful World of Evolution by Leo Grasset
$22.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Why do giraffes have such long necks? Why are zebras striped? Why are buffalo herds broadly democratic while elephants prefer dictatorships? What explains the architectural brilliance of the termite mound or the complications of the hyena's sex life? And why have honey-badgers evolved to be one of natur ...Show more
Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
$40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
WINNER of the 2018 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2018 'Finally, a book about the adolescent brain written by someone who actually does the science! Highly readable, ground-breaking' Professor Laurence Steinberg Why does an easy child become a challenging teenager? Why do teenager ...Show more
Schrödinger's Cat: And 49 Other Experiments That Revolutionised Physics by Adam Hart-Davis
$29.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Great Experiments Ser.
From Galileo's stargazing to quantum teleportation, from Newton's experiments with optics to the splitting of the atom, Schrödinger's Cat tells the story of natural science through fifty of its greatest experiments.Featuring engaging writing and clear explanations, Schrödinger's Cat introduces the reade ...Show more
Tamed: Ten Species That Changed Our World by Alice Roberts
$30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
**'A masterpiece of evocative scientific storytelling.' BRIAN COX** **'The best popular book on broad-sweep history since Guns, Germs and Steel.'** Peter Forbes The extraordinary story of the species that became our allies. For hundreds of thousands of years, our ancestors depended on wild plants and an ...Show more
The Spinning Magnet - The Force That Created the Modern World and Could Destroy It by Alanna Mitchell
$38.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
North is north and south is south. Or is it' Without electromagnetism, life on Earth would not be possible. The quest to understand it began with the idea that the magnet was a physical embodiment of the heavens, possessing as it did its own North and South poles. Could the discovery that, every once in ...Show more
In Miniature - How Small Things Illuminate the World by Simon Garfield
$32.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Bestselling, award-winning writer Simon Garfield returns with an enthralling investigation of humans' peculiar fascination with small things-and what small things tell us about our larger world. Simon Garfield writes books that shine a light on aspects of the everyday world in order to reveal the charm ...Show more
The Laser That's Changing the World: The Amazing Stories Behind Lidar from 3D Mapping to Self-Driving Cars by Todd Neff
$37.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Tells the story of a laser technology that will have a big impact on society and the brilliant innovators responsible for its development Lidar--a technology evolved from radar, but using laser light rather than microwaves--has found an astounding range of applications, none more prominent than its cru ...Show more
The Smell of Fresh Rain - The Unexpected Pleasures of Our Most Elusive Sense by Barney Shaw
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Exploring the hidden complexities of our most under-used and misunderstood sense. Smell is the most emotional and evocative of our senses: it can bring back memories faster and with more immediacy than a photograph - so why is it so little understood? Armed with a hungry curiosity and a willingness to s ...Show more
Gunpowder and Geometry: the Life of Charles Hutton, Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel by Benjamin Wardhaugh
$39.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science