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
The Changing Mind - A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well by Daniel Levitin
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
What if the best was yet to come? Recent studies show that our happiness levels peak at age 82, and that our decision-making skills improve as we age. As more of us live past the age of 80, in this ground-breaking book, Dr Daniel Levitin uses cutting-edge research from neuroscience and psychology to dem ...Show more
Mind Blown by Dan Marshall
32.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Did you know space is only an hour's drive away? Did you know there is a jellyfish that is biologically immortal? Or that of all life that has ever existed on Earth, 99.9% of it is extinct? Dan Marshall's slick new book is packed to the brim with facts that will BLOW YOUR MIND. Delightful illustrations ...Show more
Waters of the World: The Story of the Scientists Who Unravelled the Mysteries of Our Seas, Glaciers, and Atmosphere - and Made the Planet Whole by Sarah Dry
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
How is the climate where you are? And how did it get that way? How does the great complex global interaction of ice, ocean, and atmosphere combine to generate the rain that sustains us? And who figured all its secret processes out?From the glaciers of the Alps to the towering cumulonimbus clouds of the ...Show more
Chasing the Sun - The New Science of Sunlight and How It Shapes Our Bodies and Minds by Linda Geddes
24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Wellcome Collection
The full story of how our relationship with light shapes our health, productivity and mood.'A sparkling and illuminating study, one of those rare books that could genuinely improve your life' Sunday TimesSince the dawn of time, humans have worshipped the sun. And with good reason. Our biology is set up ...Show more
The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths and the Dangerous Illusions That Shape Our World by Ziya Tong
32.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
What are we not seeing?Our naked eyes see only a thin sliver of reality. We are blind in comparison to the x-rays that peer through skin, the mass spectrometers that detect the dead inside the living, or the high-tech surveillance systems that see with artificial intelligence.And we are blind compared t ...Show more
How Good's Australia by Betoota Advocate
34.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
It's been a tough few years. We've had three prime ministers in four years, a scandalous ball-tampering scandal, our own #Metoo moments (Defamation laws apply*) - the Murray-Darling fish kills and, worst of all, the cancellation of both the NRL and AFL footy shows.In this penetrating and incisive book, ...Show more
You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters by Kate Murphy
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
"How well we listen determines how we love, learn, and connect with one another, and in this moment when we need to hear and be heard more than ever, this thought-provoking and engaging book shows us how."- Lori Gottlieb,New York Times bestselling author ofMaybe You Should Talk to Someone At work, we'r ...Show more
In Praise of Walking - The New Science of How We Walk and Why It's Good for Us by Shane O'Mara
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Walking upright on two feet is a uniquely human skill. It defines us as a species.It enabled us to walk out of Africa and to spread as far as Alaska and Australia. It freed our hands and freed our minds. We put one foot in front of the other without thinking - yet how many of us know how we do that, or ...Show more
The Universe Speaks in Numbers - How Modern Maths Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets by Graham Farmelo
45.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
One of the great mysteries of science is that underneath all the complexities of the universe is an underlying harmonious order, whose existence Einstein described as 'a miracle'. No less miraculous, the fundamental laws of the universe can be written in the language of advanced mathematics. Searching f ...Show more
Novacene: Coming Age by James Lovelock
37.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth. He argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale technologies - is, after 300 years, coming to an end. ...Show more