What's the Use?: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics by Ian Stewart
$27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A bestselling author tries to rehabilitate a much-maligned field.
The Science of Gardening: Discover How Your Garden Really Works by Stuart Farrimond
$48.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The only book to explain the science behind gardening practice in a simple and visually accessible way Exploding myths and providing authoritative take-home advice, this book provides a shortcut to decades of gardening experience by explaining the science behind how a garden grows. Gardening Why does my ...Show more
What We Owe The Future: A Million-Year View by William MacAskill
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Unapologetically optimistic and bracingly realistic, this is the most inspiring book on 'ethical living' I've ever read.' Oliver Burkeman, Guardian 'A monumental event.' Rutger Bregman, author of Humankind 'A book of great daring, clarity, insight and imagination. To be simu ...Show more
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
$28.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The Financial Times Business Book of the Year, this epic account of the decades-long battle to control one of the world's most critical resources--microchip technology--with the United States and China increasingly in fierce competition is "pulse quickening...a nonfiction thriller" (The New York Times). ...Show more
How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology by Philip Ball
$39.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A cutting-edge new vision of biology that will revise our concept of what life itself is, how to enhance it, and what possibilities it offers. Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Several aspects of the standard picture of how life works—the idea of the genome as a blueprint, of g ...Show more
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
$30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: good-very good
THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Sapiens shows us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond - from ove ...Show more
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
$26.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Word Cloud Classics Ser.
These pages include the sixth and final edition of Charles Darwin's groundbreaking work that introduced the theory of evolution by means of natural selection.First published in 1859, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species introduced the scientific theory of evolution by means of natural selection, a ...Show more
Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them: A Journey to the Edge of Physics by Antonio Padilla
$30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A dazzling exploration of the strange and extreme numbers that illuminate the ultimate nature of realityFor particularly brilliant theoretical physicists like James Clerk Maxwell, Paul Dirac or Albert Einstein, the search for mathematical truths - via ever more mind-boggling numbers - led to strange new ...Show more
A Year in Numbers by Kyle D. Evans
$32.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Did you know:-Only around 100 people have ever lived beyond a million hours (that's about 114 years)-Around 7% of everyone who has ever lived is currently alive-The '12 days of Christmas' song, when sung in full, results in 364 gifts being given - one for every day... except ChristmasBroken down into 12 ...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
The Science Museum Stephen Hawking Genius at Work: Explore His Life, Mind and Science Through the Objects in His Study by Roger Highfield
$48.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
An intimate exploratory tour of Stephen Hawking's office, providing a unique insight into the mind of a genius and the things that inspired him A behind-the scenes tour of the inner sanctum of one of the world's most prominent scientific thinkers. In 2021, the Science Museum made a once-in-a-lifetime ac ...Show more
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