How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems from Randall Munroe of xkcd by Randall Munroe
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Randall Munroe is . . .'Nerd royalty' Ben Goldacre 'Totally brilliant' Tim Harford 'Laugh-out-loud funny' Bill Gates 'Wonderful' Neil Gaiman AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever t ...Show more
Letters from an Astrophysicist by Neil deGrasse Tyson
$24.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has attracted one of the world's largest online followings with his fascinating, widely accessible insights into science and our universe. Now, Tyson invites us to go behind the scenes of his public fame by unveiling his candid correspondence with people across the glo ...Show more
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson
$28.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a compelling account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies. When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she c ...Show more
On Pandemics Deadly Diseases from Bubonic Plague to Coronavirus by David Waltner-Towes
$37.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
ritten by a leading epidemiologist, this engrossing book answers our questions about animal diseases that jump to humans - called zoonoses - including why they have become more common in recent history, and what we can do about them. Almost all pandemics and epidemics - including SARS, Ebola and now COV ...Show more
Physics: From Natural Philosophy to the Enigma of Dark Matter
$17.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Physics is the science which ties all others together. Aiming to explain the universe, from the smallest subatomic particles to vast galaxies, and the very nature of space-time, it represents human intellectual endeavour at its most ambitious. This illustrated guide traces the development of physics, ...Show more
Psychology: From Spirits to Psychotherapy: the Mind through the Ages
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Category: Popular Science
From Socrates to Carl Jung and Descartes to Daniel Dennett, this illustrated book brings together the threads that have made up psychology, from the musings of the Ancient Greeks to the findings of functional MRI scanning. Explained in a concise and easy-to-understand manner, it explores various key app ...Show more
Out of Our Minds by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'Immensely learned and ambitious -seam-bursting eclecticism and polymathic brio - This is by any standards a significant book and its author deserves high praise.'Literary ReviewTo imagine to see that which is not there is the startling ability that has fuelled human development and innovation through t ...Show more
The Four Horsemen by Emily Mayhew
$37.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
In lucid and energised prose, Emily Mayhew summons the four horsemen of the apocalypse; the collective threat to humanity bearing the names of war, pestilence, famine and death. From their first appearance in Revelations they have remained in human consciousness ever since, spanning time and space and e ...Show more
Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
$39.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The foundational and wildly popular go-to resource for influence and persuasion-a renowned international bestseller, with over 5 million copies sold-now revised adding: new research, new insights, new examples, and online applications.In the new edition of this highly acclaimed bestseller, Robert Cialdi ...Show more
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
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
$27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ... A Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year ... 'Hugely, highly and happily recommended' Stephen Fry ... 'You should read Humankind. You'll learn a lot (I did) and you'll have good reason to feel better about the human race' Tim Harford ...Show more