Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal by Noam Chomsky; Robert Pollin; C. J. Polychroniou (Contribution by)
$32.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Climate change: watershed or endgame? In this compelling new book, Noam Chomsky, the world's leading public intellectual, and Robert Pollin, a renowned progressive economist, map out the catastrophic consequences of unchecked climate change--and present a realistic blueprint for change: the Green New De ...Show more
A History of the Universe in 100 Stars by Florian Freistetter
$44.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
From the Big Bang to the Gaia Mission, this is a very personal history of the universe through the author's favourite 100 stars.Astronomer Florian Freistetter has chosen 100 stars that have almost nothing in common. Some are bright and famous, some shine so feebly you need a huge telescope. There are bi ...Show more
How to Get a Sofa Around a Corner: And 30 Other Everyday Examples of the Appliance of Science by Frary Mark
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The Next Great Migration - The Story of Movement on a Changing Planet by Sonia Shah
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'A dazzlingly original picture of our relentlessly mobile species' NAOMI KLEIN'Fascinating . . . Likely to prove prophetic in the coming months and years' OBSERVER'A dazzling tour through 300 years of scientific history' PROSPECT'A hugely entertaining, life-affirming and hopeful hymn to the glorious ada ...Show more
Sentient: What Animals Reveal About Our Senses by Jackie Higgins
$37.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Sentient assembles a menagerie of zoological creatures – from land, air, sea and all four corners of the globe – to understand what it means to be human. Through their eyes, ears, skins, tongues and noses, the furred, finned and feathered reveal how we sense and make sense of the world, as well as the u ...Show more
The Periodic Table: A Field Guide to the Elements by Paul Parsons & Gail Dixon
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: very good
As one of the most recognizable images in science, the periodic table is ingrained in our culture. First drawn up in 1869 by Dmitri Mendeleev, its 118 elements make up not only everything on our planet but also everything in the entire universe. The Periodic Table looks at the fascinating story and surp ...Show more
Birth of the Pill: How Four Pioneers Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution by Jonathan Eig
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
In the winter of 1950, Margaret Sanger, then seventy-one, and who had campaigned for women's right to control their own fertility for five decades, arrived at a Park Avenue apartment building. She had come to meet a visionary scientist with a dubious reputation more than twenty years her junior. His nam ...Show more
1912: The Year the World Discovered Antarctica by Chris Turney
$45.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The rivalry between Robert Scott and Roald Amundsen is a familiar story; what fewer people know is that, in 1912, five separate teams were exploring beyond the limits of the known world: Scott for Britain, Amundsen for Norway, Mawson for Australasia, Filchner for Germany and Shirase for Japan. The Antar ...Show more
The Weil Conjectures - On Maths and the Pursuit of the Unknown by Karen Olsson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'Beguiling ... Olsson is evocative on curiosity as an appetite of the mind, on the pleasure of glutting oneself on knowledge' New York TimesSimone Weil- philosopher, political activist, mystic o and sister to Andr , one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century. These two extraordi ...Show more
Black and White Thinking: The burden of a binary brain in a complex world by Kevin Dutton
$24.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
From the author of the bestselling The Wisdom of Psychopaths, this is a wake-up call, a groundbreaking and timely explanation of the polarization seen in some of the biggest global news stories of our times.'Essential insights into the character of human choice and decision-making.' ROBERT CIALDINI, aut ...Show more
The Gene - An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
$40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: very good
The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history, from bestselling, prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee. Spanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form ...Show more
The Future Is Faster Than You Think by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
$35.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Exponential Technology Series
During the next decade, we will experience more disruption and create more wealth than we have in the past hundred years. In this insightful and gripping blueprint for our near future, bestselling authors and futurists Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler investigate how wave after wave of exponentially ac ...Show more