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Humans by Brandon Stanton
$50.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Humans of New York
Brandon Stanton's Humans is a book that connects readers as global citizens at a time when erecting more borders is the order of the day. It shows us the entire world, one story at a time. After five years of travelling the globe, the creator of Humans of New York brings people from all parts of the wor ...Show more
Kingdom of Lies - Adventures in Cybercrime by Kate Fazzini
$25.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Would you say your phone is safe, or your computer? What about your car? Or your bank? There is a global war going on and the next target could be anyone - an international corporation or a randomly selected individual. From cybercrime villages in Romania to intellectual property theft campaigns in Chin ...Show more
Seven Pillars of Science - The Incredible Lightness of Ice, and Other Scientific Surprises by John Gribbin
$35.00 NZD
Category: New Arrivals
The seven fundamental - and surprising - scientific truths of our existence. John Gribbin, author of Six Impossible Things, shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize, presents a tour of seven fundamental scientific truths that underpin our very existence. These 'pillars o ...Show more
Stuff You Should Know: An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things by Josh Clark Josh Clark and Chuck Brya
$38.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
From the duo behind the massively successful and award-winning podcast Stuff You Should Know comes an unexpected look at things you thought you knew.Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant started the podcast Stuff You Should Know back in 2008 because they were curious - curious about the world around them, curious ...Show more
Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain by David Eagleman
$37.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
How can a blind person learn to see with her tongue or a deaf person learn to hear with his skin? What does a baby born without a nose tell us about our sensory machinery? Might we someday control a robot with our thoughts? And what does any of this have to do with why we dream?The answers to these ques ...Show more
Unfit for Purpose by Adam Hart
$33.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Stress, obesity, poor mental health, drug addiction, bowel diseases, violence and fake news; a stark checklist of modern world problems and every one of them is an echo of our evolutionary past. In Unfit for Purpose, biologist and broadcaster Adam Hart explores the mismatch between our fundamental biolo ...Show more
Apocalypse Never Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All by Michael Shellenberger
$40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Climate change is real but it's not the end of the world. It is not even our most serious environmental problem. Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades. He helped save the world's last unprotected redwoods. He co-created the predecessor to today's Green New Deal. And h ...Show more
Tales of Two Planets: Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World by John Freeman (Editor)
$37.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Building from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman draws together a group of our greatest writers from around the world to help us see how the environmental crisis is hitting some of the most vulnerable communities where they live. In the past five year ...Show more
Mysteries of the Quantum Universe by Thibault Damour; Mathieu Burniat
$30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The bestselling French graphic novel about the mind-bending world of quantum physics Take an incredible journey through the quantum universe with explorer Bob and his dog Rick, as they travel through a world of wonders, talk to Einstein about atoms, hang out with Heisenberg on Heligoland and eat crepes ...Show more
Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand - Fifty Wonders That Reveal an Extraordinary Universe by Marcus Chown
$23.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A mind-bending journey through some of the most weird and wonderful facts about our universe, vividly illuminating the hidden truths that govern our everyday lives. "The tone is consistently light and breezy...an addictive, intriguing, and entertaining read...a handy guide for anyone yearning to spice ...Show more
The Shallows - How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember by Nicholas Carr
$25.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The 10th-anniversary edition of this landmark investigation into how the Internet is dramatically changing how we think, remember and interact, with a new afterword.
Origins of the Universe - The Cosmic Microwave Background and the Search for Quantum Gravity by Keith Cooper
$23.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Hot Science Ser.
The quest to find a theory of quantum gravity that could potentially explain everything.
