Handmade: A Scientist's Search for Meaning through Making by Anna Ploszajski
$28.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
From atomic structures to theories about magnetic forces, scientific progress has given us a good grasp on the properties of many different materials. However, most scientists cannot measure the temperature of steel just by looking at it, or sculpt stone into all kinds of shapes, or know how it feels to ...Show more
The City of Today Is a Dying Thing - In Search of the Cities of Tomorrow by Des Fitzgerald
$46.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
An unmissable journey into the past, present and future of urban life.
Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
$30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: near fine
From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution--a #1 international bestseller--that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human." One hundred thousand years ago, at least six ...Show more
Entangled Life Illustrated: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
$75.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller now illustrated with over 100 spectacular full-colour images, showcasing this wondrous and wildly various lifeform as never before'. Astonishing ... it seems somehow to tip the natural world upside down' Observer'. Completely mind-blowing ... reads like an adventur ...Show more
Maths Unwrapped - The Easy Way to Understand & Master Mathematics by Mattias Ribbing; Per Sundin
$39.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: very good
Why do so many of us struggle to remember the maths we were taught at school? The answer is that we can successfully memorise things for a short period but we only retain those memories long term if we understand them. Mattias Ribbing is a Grand Master of Memory who will show you how to remember maths t ...Show more
Welcome to the Universe in 3D: A Visual Tour by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, J. Richard Gott, Robert J. Vanderbei
$44.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Journey into the vast depths of the observable universe by visualising the most spectacular images in astronomy in stereoscopic 3D.Welcome to the Universe in 3D takes you on a grand tour of the observable universe, guiding you through the most spectacular sights in the cosmos — in breathtaking 3D. Prese ...Show more
Science Museum: Periodic Table Fridge Magnets by Science Museum
$26.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Part of the periodic table inspired stationery range, this set contains 118 magnetic tiles featuring all the periodic elements plus a handful of helpful punctuation symbols to enable you to spell out a huge number of everyday words. Get a reaction by creating fun messages on your fridge while you're wai ...Show more
Wildflowers of New Zealand by Rob Suisted
$9.99 NZD
$19.99 (50% off)
Category: New Zealand Pictorial
Early botanists were astonished at the wealth of new plants they discovered in New Zealand; many of our flowering plants are found nowhere else in the world. The blue of the giant Chatham Islands forget-me-not, the lush yellow of the kowhai and the startling creamy-white Mt Cook lily are just a few of t ...Show more
Allegorizings by Jan Morris
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'Peerless.' Daily Telegraph'Sprinkled with magic.' Observer'Full of mischief, romance, fun and kindness.' The TimesSoldier, journalist, historian, author of forty books, Jan Morris led an extraordinary life, witnessing such seminal moments as the first ascent of Everest, the Suez Canal Crisis, the Eichm ...Show more
Reading the Clouds - How You Can Forecast the Weather by Oliver Perkins
$26.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Wouldn't it be useful to be able to come up with an accurate weather forecast simply by reading the clouds? Well, with this book, you can!TV forecasts, online predictions and smartphone apps are all based on the same data - a number-crunched overview of how air pressure and temperature affects the weath ...Show more
The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Maths by Manil Suri
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'Who knew numbers could be so charming? ... Suri takes us on a light-hearted journey all the way from nothing (zero) to infinity' Karen Joy Fowler, New York Times bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves Our universe has multiple origin stories, from religious creation myths to the B ...Show more
Yuval Noah Harari Box Set by Yuval Noah Harari
$80.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Officially available for the first time, Yuval Noah Harari's ground-breaking collection in a 3-book box set. A beautiful box set with Yuval Harari's three phenomenal global bestselling titles-Includes-SAPIENSHOMO DEUS21 LESSONS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY These books are must haves for anyone interested in the ...Show more