Guns, Germs and Steel: (Patterns of Life) by Jared Diamond
$30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Patterns of Life Ser.
Read this specially designed new edition of Jared Diamond's Pulitzer-prize winning exploration of what makes us human. Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the c ...Show more
The Art of Logic - How to Make Sense in a World That Doesn't by Eugenia Cheng
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: near fine
For thousands of years, mathematicians have used the timeless art of logic to see the world more clearly. In The Art of Logic, Royal Society Science Book Prize nominee Eugenia Cheng shows how anyone can think like a mathematician - and see, argue and think better.Learn how to simplify complex decisions ...Show more
Being You: A New Science of Consciousness by Anil Seth
$37.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Anil Seth's radical new theory of consciousness challenges our understanding of perception and reality, doing for brain science what Dawkins did for evolutionary biology.
Psychology: From Spirits to Psychotherapy: the Mind through the Ages
$17.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
From Socrates to Carl Jung and Descartes to Daniel Dennett, this illustrated book brings together the threads that have made up psychology, from the musings of the Ancient Greeks to the findings of functional MRI scanning. Explained in a concise and easy-to-understand manner, it explores various key app ...Show more
Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
$39.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The foundational and wildly popular go-to resource for influence and persuasion-a renowned international bestseller, with over 5 million copies sold-now revised adding: new research, new insights, new examples, and online applications.In the new edition of this highly acclaimed bestseller, Robert Cialdi ...Show more
Wilful Blindness - Why We Ignore the Obvious by Margaret Heffernan
$26.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Why, after every major accident and blunder, do we look back and ask, how could we have been so blind? Why do some people see what others don't? And how can we change? Drawing on studies by psychologists and neuroscientists, and from interviews with business leaders, whistleblowers and white collar crim ...Show more
The Maths of Life and Death by Kit Yates
$27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
*SELECTED AS ONE OF THE SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE BOOKS OF THE YEAR* "This is an exquisitely interesting book. It's a deeply serious one too and, for those like me who have little maths, it's delightfully readable" - IAN MCEWAN "An exciting new voice in the world of science communication" - MARCUS DU SAUTO ...Show more
Intention Experiment by Lynne McTaggart
$26.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Ever wondered if your intentions, prayers or wishes have a real, calculable effect on the world? Here, from Lynne McTaggart, groundbreaking author of 'The Field', comes riveting accounts of scientific investigations and real case histories with evidence that we are all connected and our intentions can b ...Show more
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
$31.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: good-very good
The acclaimed bestseller that will change the way you make decisions.In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think and make choices. One system is fast, intuitive, and emotional; the other is slower, more delib ...Show more
Physics: From Natural Philosophy to the Enigma of Dark Matter
$17.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Physics is the science which ties all others together. Aiming to explain the universe, from the smallest subatomic particles to vast galaxies, and the very nature of space-time, it represents human intellectual endeavour at its most ambitious. This illustrated guide traces the development of physics, ...Show more
Breakfast with the Centenarians: The Science of Ageing Well by Daniela Mari; Alberto Locca
$27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: near fine
Learn the art of growing old from the supercentenarians living life to the fullest. It's said that life begins at 40 - but that number is constantly revised upwards as we live longer and longer. With the number of centenarians having quadrupled in the last thirty years, more of us can now hope to reach ...Show more