Calculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe by Ian Stewart
36.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Ian Stewart's up-to-the-minute guide to the cosmos moves from the earth and the planets to the galaxy and the universe. He describes how galaxies, stars and planets form, why stars implode, how everything began, and how it's going to end. He considers parallel universes, fine-tuning of the cosmos, wheth ...Show more
What a Wonderful World: Life, the Universe and Everything in a Nutshell by Marcus Chown
27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Why do we breathe? What is money? How does the brain work? Why did life invent sex? Does time really exist? How does capitalism work - or not, as the case may be? Where do mountains come from? How do computers work? How did humans get to dominate the Earth? Why is there something rather than nothing? In ...Show more
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
28.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The God Delusioncaused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself branded as either saint or sinner for presenting his hard-hitting, impassioned rebuttal of religion of all types. His argument could hardly be more topical. While E ...Show more
Science But Not as We Know It (Cutting Edge Concepts Made Simple) by Ben Gilliland
26.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Cutting Edge Concepts Made Simple
Cutting-edge concepts made simple - it's not rocket science The media reports on the latest scientific discoveries and breakthroughs can seem like a foreign language, from black holes to dark matter, and exoplanets to leap seconds. Finally get to grips with these difficult concepts by reading Ben Gillil ...Show more
What's Really Happening to Our Planet? by Tony Juniper
37.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
What's Really Happening To Our Planet? is the only book to fully review the current state of the planet and the way in which our unchecked human activity could change the world forever, with a perspective on what we can do to reverse the damage. Wide ranging, heart-stopping research is distilled into on ...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
Easy as Pi: Maths Made Simple by Liz Strachan
34.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
If you're brilliant at everything else, but lack confidence when it comes to maths, join Liz Strachan, a maths teacher with many, many years of experience, on this magical tour through the seeming mysteries of numbers, algebra and geometry. In the same inimitable, entertaining way she did in her previou ...Show more
New Scientist: The Origin of (Almost) Everything: From the Big Bang to Belly-Button Fluff (HB) by New Scientist Magazine Staff; Stephen Hawking; Jennifer Daniel (Illustrator); Graham Lawton
49.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
From what actually happened in the Big Bang to the accidental discovery of post-it notes, the history of science is packed with surprising discoveries. Did you know, for instance, that if you were to get too close to a black hole it would suck you up like a noodle (it's called spaghettification), why yo ...Show more
Boom! 50 Fantastic Science Experiments to Try at Home With Your Kids by Chris Smith
24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Want to know how to create fireworks from a crisp packet? Turn rice into quicksand? Generate a cloud in a lemonade bottle? How about build a toaster-powered hot air balloon, or work out the speed of light using margarine and a microwave? In this book, you'll find these and over 40 more incredible experi ...Show more
Elephants on Acid From Zombie Kittens to Tickling Machines: The Most Outrageous Experiments from the History of Science by Alex Boese
24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Have you ever wondered if a severed head retains consciousness long enough to see what happened to it? Or whether your dog would run to fetch help, if you fell down a disused mineshaft? And what would happen if you were to give an elephant the largest ever single dose of LSD? The chances are that someon ...Show more
E=mc2 by David Bodanis
24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'By the end of the astonishing E=mc2, a dedicated reader will have achieved, if only by osmosis, an understanding of Einstein's theory of relativity and feel quite at ease dining with Nobel Prize winners. It's a lucid, even thrilling study: the very best kind of science journalism. I didn't know I could ...Show more
Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky
35.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Women in Science
It's a scientific fact: Women rock! A charmingly illustrated and educational book, New York Times best seller Women in Science highlights the contributions of fifty notable women to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) from the ancient to the modern world. Full of strik ...Show more