Seven Wonders of the Solar System by David Aguilar
$37.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
David Aguilar, creator of Cosmic Catastrophes and former Director of Science Information at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, explores seven extraordinary celestial orbs, from our close neighbour Mars, home to the largest volcano in the solarsystem, to mysterious Planet Nine, an unseen gi ...Show more
What We Cannot Know: From Consciousness to the Cosmos, the Cutting Edge of Science Explained by Marcus du Sautoy
$22.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
'Brilliant and fascinating. No one is better at making the recondite accessible and exciting' Bill Bryson Britain's most famous mathematician takes us to the edge of knowledge to show us what we cannot know. Is the universe infinite? Do we know what happened before the Big Bang? Where is human conscious ...Show more
The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (And Outside) a Bird's Egg by Tim Birkhead
$24.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
'I think that, if required on pain of death to name instantly the most perfect thing in the universe, I should risk my fate on a bird's egg' Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1862 How are eggs of different shapes made, and why are they the shape they are? When does the shell of an egg harden? Why do some eggs ...Show more
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans De Waal
$27.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
What separates your mind from the mind of an animal? Maybe you think it's your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your grasp of past and future - all traits that have helped us define ourselves as the pre-eminent species on Earth. But in recent decades, claims of human superiority have been ...Show more
30-Second Physics The 50 Most Fundamental Concepts in Physics by Brian Clegg
$22.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | Series: 30 Second
The bestselling 30-Second...series takes a revolutionary approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand. Each title selects a popular topic and dissects it into the 50 most significant ideas at its heart. 30-Second Physics tackles the big ideas behind life as we know it, ...Show more
The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - And Us by Richard O. Prum
$55.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
In the great halls of science, dogma holds that Darwin's theory of natural selection explains every branch on the tree of life- which species thrive, which wither away to extinction, and what features each evolves. But can adaptation by natural selection really account for everything we see in nature? Y ...Show more
The Smell of Fresh Rain: The Unexpected Pleasures of our most Elusive Sense by Barney Shaw
$32.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | Reading Level: very good
What do we actually mean when we say that something smells of fresh paint? Or frying bacon? And what does five o clock in the morning smell like? Inspired by an unsettlingly synaesthesic question put to him by his son, Barney Shaw looks into the science of smell: peering behind its sensory nature to dis ...Show more
Assembled: Transform Everyday Objects Into Robots by Eszter Karpati
$45.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
Assembled features 25 contemporary assemblage art projects by international artists through before and afterà shots as well as an additional gallery of inspiring assembled pieces. Each of the 25 projects is shown through the transformation of a group of found objectsà into finished sculpture with acco ...Show more
30 Second Genetics: The 50 most revolutionary discoveries in genetics by Jonathan Weitzman
$32.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | Series: 30 Second
Genetics is the study of heredity, and reveals how the characteristics of living organisms are determined by the genes passed down the generations. The human genome was mapped in 2003, and this enhanced ability to study our genes is transforming medicine, from CRISPR, the gene editing technology that al ...Show more
Blowfish's Oceanopedia: 291 Extraordinary Things You Didn't Know About the Sea by Blowfish
$36.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
The seas of our planet cover more than 70 per cent of the Earth, yet we know less about the ocean depths than the surface of the moon. Join marine biologist and fish-fanatic Tom "the Blowfish" Hird as he lifts the lid on a treasure chest of fascinating facts, to reveal just what we do know about what lu ...Show more
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World by Jeff Goodell
$40.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | Reading Level: very good
A New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2017One of Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2017One of Booklist's Top 10 Science Books of 2017 "An immersive, mildly gonzo and depressingly well-timed book about the drenching effects of global warming, and a powerful reminder that we can bury our ...Show more
30-Second Einstein: The 50 Fundamentals of His Work, Life and Legacy, each Explained in Half a Minute by Brian Clegg
$22.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | Series: 30 Second
Albert Einstein was an unparalleled scientific genius whose ideas and theories were so shockingly revolutionary, he changed the way the Universe was imagined on multiple occasions. A prodigy in his 20s and a Nobel Prize winner, Einstein was not only a brilliant physicist, but also a human rights campa ...Show more