Chaotic Fishponds and Mirror Universes: The Strange Maths Behind the Modern World by Dr. Richard Elwes
$27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
What can we learn from fish in a pond? How do social networks connect the world? How can artificial intelligences learn? Why would life be different in a mirror universe? Mathematics is everywhere, whether we are aware of it or not. Exploring the subject through 35 of its often odd and unexpected applic ...Show more
Computing with Quantum Cats - From Colossus to Qubits by John Gribbin
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Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: near fine
The quantum computer is no longer the stuff of science fiction. Pioneering physicists are on the brink of unlocking a new quantum universe which provides a better representation of reality than our everyday experiences and common sense ever could. The birth of quantum computers - which, like Schrodinger ...Show more
50 Human Brain Ideas You Really Need to Know by Moheb Costandi
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
Neuroscience is one of the most fascinating and complex areas of scientific research, with new advances being made every day. In 50 Human Brain Ideas You Really Need to Know, Mo Costandi condenses all we know about the brain and how it works into series of introductions to the most important concepts. ...Show more
Untangling the Web by Aleks Krotoski
$29.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The World Wide Web is the most revolutionary innovation of our time. In the last decade, it has utterly transformed our lives. But what real effects is it having on our social world? What does it mean to be a modern family when dinner table conversations take place over smartphones? What happens to priv ...Show more
Subliminal: The Revolution of the New Unconscious and What it Teaches Us About Ourselves by Leonard Mlodinow
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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
Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
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Category: Popular Science
Have you ever seen something that wasn't really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing? Hallucinations don't belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness, or ...Show more
Cool Maths: 50 Fantastic Facts for Kids of All Ages by Tracie Young
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Inside this mega-jam-packed book are fifty fact-tastic50 ways to advance your maths skills so you'll never be outnumbered by numbers again! From core curriculum techniques such as multiplying multiples to calculating calculus and probability and division, right through to working out tricky statistics, ...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
Think Like A Freak by Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner
$37.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The Freakonomics books have come to stand for challenging conventional wisdom; using data rather than emotion to answer questions. Now Levitt and Dubner have turned what they've learned into a readable and practical toolkit for thinking smarter, harder, and different - thinking, that is, like a Freak. T ...Show more
Inheritance: How Our Genes Change Our Lives, and Our Lives Change Our Genes by Sharon Dr. Moalem
$39.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Inheritance reveals how genetic breakthroughs are transforming our understanding of the world... and of ourselves. Picture yourself breaking free of your genetic destiny. Envision yourself leaving behind any familial baggage of inheritance that puts you at risk for breast cancer or mental illness. Savor ...Show more
My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread and the Search for Peace of Mind by Scott Stossel
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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
One Million Lovely Letters by Jodi Ann Bickley
$37.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
In the summer of 2011, aged only 22, Jodi Ann Bickley contracted a serious brain infection that would change her life forever. Jodi had been performing at Camp Bestival on the Isle of Wight. Returning with pockets full of glitter, and her favourite bands' songs still playing in her head, She thought th ...Show more