Six Capitals - The revolution capitalism has to have - or can accountants save the planet? by Jane Gleeson-White
$39.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: very good
This is the story of a 21st century revolution being led by the most unlikely of rebels: accountants.It is only the second revolution in accounting since double-entry bookkeeping emerged in medieval Italy - and it is of seismic proportions, driven by the 2008 financial crash and the environmental crisis ...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
Good Psychopath's Guide to Success by Andy McNab; Kevin Dutton
$27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
What is a good psychopath? And how can thinking like one help you to be the best that you can be?Professor Kevin Dutton has spent a lifetime studying psychopaths. He first met SAS hero Andy McNab during a research project. What he found surprised him. McNab is a diagnosed psychopath but he is a GOOD PSY ...Show more
End Game - Tipping Point for Planet Earth? by Anthony D Barnosky and Elizabeth A Hadly
$32.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: good
overconsumption / population growth / dwindling natural resources / climate change / disease / contamination / storms / thirst / war ...will the struggle to simply stay alive become humanity's future rather than its past? What happens if population pressures finally hit a threshold that tumbles the domi ...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
Black Sheep : The Hidden Benefits of Being Bad by Dr. Richard Stephens
$37.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
From the man who won the Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize 2014 and married a human statue comes a book of weird and wonderful psychological science from the far-flung corners of human experience. Richard Stephens became the focus of international media attention for his research on the psychological ...Show more
Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance by Steven Kotler
$27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Right now, more people are risking their lives for their sports then ever before in history. As Thomas Pynchon once put it in Gravity's Rainbow, 'it is not often that Death is told so clearly to f@%* off'. Over the past three decades, the bounds of the possible in action and adventure sports - from sky- ...Show more
Algorithms to Live by by Brian Christian; Tom Griffiths
$34.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives. In this dazzlingly interdisciplinary work, acclaimed author Brian Christian and cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths show us how the simple, precise algorithms used by computers can also untangle very human questions ...Show more
The Mysterious World of the Human Genome by Frank Ryan
$26.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
How could a relatively simple chemical code give rise to the complexity of a human being? How could our human genome have evolved? And how does it actually work? Over the past 50 years we have deciphered the inner workings of the human genome. From the basic structure of DNA through to the complete sequ ...Show more
The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time and Beyond by Christophe Galfard
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Imagine if The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy were a real, practical book about the mysteries of the universe...The Universe In Your Hand takes us on a wonder-filled journey to the surface of our dying Sun, shrinks us to the size of an atom and puts us in the deathly grip of distant Black Holes. Along ...Show more
Forbidden Universe by Lynn Picknett
$29.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Were the first scientists hermetic philosophers? What do these occult origins of modern science tell us about the universe today? The Forbidden Universe reveals the secret brotherhood that defined the world, and perhaps discovered the mind of God. All the pioneers of science, from Copernicus to Newton ...Show more