What If?2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
29.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'Nerd royalty' Ben Goldacre'Laugh-out-loud funny' Bill Gates'Totally brilliant' Tim HarfordWHAT IF you still had so many more strange questions about the universe?And WHAT IF Randall Munroe, former NASA roboticist and xkcd creator, were prepared to move mountains, fill the solar system with soup and alt ...Show more
Deck of Stars: A Guide to the Night Sky by Dr Sara Webb
35.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Across human cultures and history, we have looked up to the heavens and discovered the constellations, from Auriga to Cassiopeia and Cygnus to Lyra. Each cluster of stars has its own story, both mythic and scientific. With The Deck of Stars, you can learn about both.With 50 cards, this deck teaches you ...Show more
Handmade: A Scientist's Search for Meaning through Making by Anna Ploszajski
28.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
From atomic structures to theories about magnetic forces, scientific progress has given us a good grasp on the properties of many different materials. However, most scientists cannot measure the temperature of steel just by looking at it, or sculpt stone into all kinds of shapes, or know how it feels to ...Show more
Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge by Erica Gies
27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A journey through time and around the world to uncover water's true nature, and how it can help us adapt to climate change.Trouble with water increasingly frequent, extreme floods and droughts is one of the first obvious signs of climate change. Meanwhile, urban sprawl, industrial agriculture and engine ...Show more
The Essential Difference: Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain by Simon Baron-Cohen
39.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Men and women have always seemed to think in entirely different ways, from conversation and communication to games and gadgets. But are these differences created by society, or do our minds come ready-wired one way or another, with female brains tending towards interaction and male towards organisation? ...Show more
The Story of the Brain in 10½ Cells by Richard Wingate
32.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Peer into a microscopic world - and fall in love with the beauty of the brain There are more than 100 billion brain cells in our heads, and every single one represents a fragment of thought and feeling. And yet each cell is a mystery of beauty, with branching, intricate patterns like shattered glass. Ri ...Show more
Many Things Under a Rock The Mysteries of Octopuses by David Scheel
39.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
"Fascinating... the deepest of octopus books.' Peter Godfrey-Smith 'Mind-blowing and soul-expanding' Sy Montgomery Of all the creatures of the deep blue, none captivates us quite like the octopus. This highly intelligent master of disguise is one of our planet's most intriguing and enigmatic creatures ...Show more
Quantum Physics - From Schrödingers Cat to Antimatter by Sten F. Odenwald
19.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Testosterone: The Story of the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us by Carole Hooven
27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
RECOMMENDED AS ONE OF THE TIMES'' BEST SCIENCE BOOKS OF 2021''With all the talk about testosterone in sex, sports and politics, we need a good explanation of the science and its implications, and this one is outstanding.'' STEVEN PINKER, bestselling author of The Blank Slate''There are whole books writt ...Show more
The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time by Richard Fisher
39.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'A beautifully turned, calmly persuasive but urgent book' IAN MCEWAN'A landmark book that could help to build a much brighter future' DAVID ROBSONA wide-ranging and thought-provoking exploration of the importance of long-term thinking.Humans are unique in our ability to understand time, able to comprehe ...Show more
The Power of Strangers: The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World by Joe Keohane
26.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
An interrogation of why we don't talk to strangers, what happens when we do, and why it affects everything from the rise and fall of nations to personal health and wellbeing, in the tradition of Susan Cain's Quiet and Rutger Bregman's HumankindIn our cities, we barely acknowledge one another on public t ...Show more
Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn't Food ... and Why Can't We Stop? by Chris van Tulleken
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
An eye-opening investigation into the science, economics, history and production of ultra-processed food.It's not you, it's the food.We have entered a new 'age of eating' where most of our calories come from an entirely novel set of substances called Ultra-Processed Food, food which is industrially proc ...Show more