An Elegant Defense - The Extraordinary New Science of The Immune System by Matt Richtel
39.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A grand tour of the human immune system and the secrets of health, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist "One of those rare nonfiction books that transcends the genre. ... Extraordinary." --Douglas Preston A terminal cancer patient rises from the grave. A medical ...Show more
The Fourth Age - Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity by Byron Reese
29.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
"The Fourth Age not only discusses what the rise of A.I. will mean for us, it also forces readers to challenge their preconceptions. And it manages to do all this in a way that is both entertaining and engaging." --The New York Times As we approach a great turning point in history when technology is poi ...Show more
Magicians: Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science by M. CHOWN
32.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The spellbinding story of the 'magicians': scientists whose eureka breakthroughs in modern physics reveal science's mysterious predictive power.
The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors by David George Haskell
26.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The acclaimed author of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Forest Unseen visits with nature's most magnificent networkers - trees.In The Songs of Trees, David George Haskell brings his acute powers of observation to the biological networks that surround all species, including humans. He visits a dozen trees ar ...Show more
Letters from an Astrophysicist by Neil deGrasse Tyson
35.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Astronomy | Reading Level: very good
Join the galactic conversation on the biggest issues in the universe 'Don't fear change. Don't fear failure. The only thing to fear is loss of ambition. But if you've got plenty of that, then you have nothing to fear at all' - Neil deGrasse Tyson Neil deGrasse Tyson is arguably the most influential, acc ...Show more
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
35.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: near fine
# 1 New York Times BestsellerLibraryReads PickSMLWhat is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? Today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. Now Neil deGrasse Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, within sp ...Show more
The Story of More by Hope Jahren
24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Hope Jahren is an award-winning geobiologist, a brilliant writer, an inspiring teacher, and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. In The Story of More, Jahren illuminates the link between human consumption habits and our imperiled planet. In short, highly readable chapters, she ...Show more
Brief Answers to the Big Questions: the final book from Stephen Hawking by Stephen Hawking
27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: very good
THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. 'A beautiful little book by a brilliant mind'- DAILY TELEGRAPH. 'Effortlessly instructive, absorbing, up to the minute and - where it matters - witty'- GUARDIAN. The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final t ...Show more
The Maths of Life and Death by Kit Yates
27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
*SELECTED AS ONE OF THE SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE BOOKS OF THE YEAR* "This is an exquisitely interesting book. It's a deeply serious one too and, for those like me who have little maths, it's delightfully readable" - IAN MCEWAN "An exciting new voice in the world of science communication" - MARCUS DU SAUTO ...Show more
18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics by Bruce Goldfarb
37.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'For most of human history, sudden and unexpected deaths of a suspicious nature, when they were investigated at all, were examined by lay persons without any formal training. People often got away with murder. Modern forensic investigation originates with Frances Glessner Lee - a pivotal figure in polic ...Show more
Wayfinding: How We Find – and Lose – our Way by Michael Bond
37.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The physical world is infinitely complex, yet most of us are able to find our way around it. We can walk through unfamiliar streets while maintaining a sense of direction, take shortcuts along paths we have never used and remember for many years places we have visited only once. These are remarkable ach ...Show more
Darwin Devolves - The New Science about DNA That Challenges Evolution by Michael J. Behe
32.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
The scientist who has been dubbed the "Father of Intelligent Design" and author of the groundbreaking book Darwin's Black Box contends that recent scientific discoveries further disprove Darwinism and strengthen the case for an intelligent creator.In his controversial bestseller Darwin's Black Box, bioc ...Show more