The Million Death Quake: The Science of Predicting Earth's Deadliest Natural Disaster by Roger Musson
$32.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Macsci
For centuries, Californians and the Japanese have known that they were at risk of catastrophic earthquakes, and prepared accordingly. But when a violent 7.0 earthquake rocked Haiti in 2010, hardly anyone knew the island nation was even at risk for disaster, and, tragically, no one was prepared. Over 300 ...Show more
Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier by Neil deGrasse Tyson
$30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Neil deGrasse Tyson is a rare breed of astrophysicist, one who can speak as easily and brilliantly with popular audiences as with professional scientists. Now that NASA has put human space flight effectively on hold, Tyson's views on the future of space travel and America's role in that future are espec ...Show more
Subliminal: The Revolution of the New Unconscious and What it Teaches Us About Ourselves by Leonard Mlodinow
$26.00 NZD
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Category: Popular Science
Leonard Mlodinow, the best-selling author of "The Drunkard's Walk" and coauthor of "The Grand Design" (with Stephen Hawking) and "War of the Worldviews" (with Deepak Chopra) here examines how the unconscious mind shapes our experience of the world, and how, for instance, we often misperceive everything ...Show more
Office Politics: How to Thrive in a World of Lying, Backstabbing and Dirty Tricks by Oliver James
$27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The modern working world is a dangerous place, where game-playing, duplicity and sheer malevolence are rife. Do talent and hard work count for nothing? Is politics everything? In this fascinating expose, Oliver James reveals the murky underside of modern office life. With cutting-edge research and eye-o ...Show more
My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread and the Search for Peace of Mind by Scott Stossel
$37.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
As recently as thirty-five years ago, anxiety did not exist as a diagnostic category. Today, it is the most common form of officially classified mental illness. Scott Stossel gracefully guides us across the terrain of an affliction that is pervasive yet too often misunderstood. Drawing on his own long- ...Show more
The Physics Book: 250 Milestones in the History of Physics by Clifford A. Pickover
$49.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
In The Physics Book, bestselling popular science writer Clifford A. Pickover explores 250 milestone discoveries in the field of physics that span a historical timeline extending from 13.7 billion years B.C. to more than 100 trillion years in the future. Written for the layperson in accessible and entert ...Show more
Astronomy Bible by Heather Couper
$29.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Octopus Bible Series
This comprehensive guide to astronomy introduces the basic concepts, explaining what, when, and how to observe space, right through to current theories on everything from black holes to microquasars. It helps you to navigate the night sky, identify the constellations and find planets, comets, galaxies a ...Show more
Growing Older Without Feeling Old: On Vitality and Ageing by Rudi Westendorp
$37.00 NZD
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit
The past century has witnessed a revolution. Less than a hundred years ago the average Western life expectancy was 40; now it is 80. And there is no end in sight: the first person who will reach 135 has already been born. What are the causes of these new developments? Has modern science found the key to ...Show more
Fluke: The Maths and Myths of Coincidences by Joseph Mazur
$19.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
What are the chances?! This exclamation greets the scarcely believable coincidence - you're picked up by the same taxi driver several years and thousands of miles apart or, in a second-hand bookshop far from home, you find your own childhood copy of Winnie-the-Pooh on the shelf. But the unlikely is more ...Show more
The Aliens Are Coming!: The Exciting and Extraordinary Science Behind Our Search for Life in the Universe by Ben Miller
$27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Actor and bestselling science writer Ben Miller takes readers to the cutting edge of one of the greatest questions of all: Is there life beyond Earth? For millennia, we have looked up at the stars and wondered whether we are alone in the universe, but in the last few years--as our probes begin to esca ...Show more
Volt Rush: The Dilemma of Going Electric by Henry Sanderson
$42.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
In the twentieth century, wealth and power was dictated by access to oil. This century will have different kingmakers, perhaps different wars.We depend on a handful of metals and rare earths to power our phones and computers. Increasingly, we rely on them to power our cars and our homes. Whoever control ...Show more
Far from My Hospital Bed - Reflections on Society and the Pandemic by Teresita Cruz-del Rosario
$38.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Far From My Hospital Bed is a collection of non-fiction essays that were cobbled over two years, starting from the author's twenty-five day stay in a Singapore hospital recovering from COVID-19. It is a book that is part story-telling, part autobiography, part meditation, part memory, part history, part ...Show more