Electrified Sheep by Alex Boese
$29.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Benjamin Franklin was a pioneering scientist, leader of the Enlightenment and founding father of the USA. But perhaps less well known is that he was also the first person to use artificial respiration to revive an electric shock victim. Odder still, it was actually mouth-to-beak resuscitation on a hen t ...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
The Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life by Helen Czerski
$40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
This book links the little things - the unexpected pinkness of blueberry jam or the way the air smells before it rains - with the big in a book that will alter the way you see the world. Helen Czerski shows how the familiar, from coffee stains to ketchup bottles, can shed light on Antarctic winds, medic ...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
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
The Laser That's Changing the World: The Amazing Stories Behind Lidar from 3D Mapping to Self-Driving Cars by Todd Neff
$37.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Tells the story of a laser technology that will have a big impact on society and the brilliant innovators responsible for its development Lidar--a technology evolved from radar, but using laser light rather than microwaves--has found an astounding range of applications, none more prominent than its cru ...Show more
The Smell of Fresh Rain - The Unexpected Pleasures of Our Most Elusive Sense by Barney Shaw
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Exploring the hidden complexities of our most under-used and misunderstood sense. Smell is the most emotional and evocative of our senses: it can bring back memories faster and with more immediacy than a photograph - so why is it so little understood? Armed with a hungry curiosity and a willingness to s ...Show more
Gunpowder and Geometry: the Life of Charles Hutton, Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel by Benjamin Wardhaugh
$39.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Chasing the Sun: How the Science ... by Linda Geddes
$32.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Wellcome Ser.
The full story of how our relationship with the sun shapes our health, productivity and moodOur ancestors constructed vast monuments like Stonehenge and Pyramids of Egypt and Central America to keep track of the sun and celebrate the annual cycle of death and rebirth. The returning sun heralds new begin ...Show more
Climate Change (A Ladybird Expert Book) by Tony Juniper; Emily Shuckburgh; HRH The Prince of Wales
$21.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: The Ladybird Expert
Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Climate Change is a clear, simple and enlightening introduction to one of the most important issues facing our world today. From HRH The Prince of Wales, environmentalist Tony Juniper and climate scientist Dr Emily Shuckburgh, it explains the history, dangers and ...Show more
Caesar's Last Breath by Sam Kean
$40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
It's invisible. It's ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell. In Caesar's Last Breath, New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic table, around the globe, and across time to tell the story of the air we breathe, whic ...Show more
Machines that Think: Everything you need to know about the coming age of artificial intelligence by New Scientist
$34.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: New Scientist Instant Expert
Sometime in the future the intelligence of machines will exceed that of human brain power. So are we on the edge of an AI-pocalypse, with superintelligent devices superseding humanity, as predicted by Stephen Hawking? Or will this herald a kind of Utopia, with machines doing a far better job at complex ...Show more