First on the Moon - The Apollo 11 Fiftieth Anniversary Experience by Rod Pyle
69.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
In honor of the 50th anniversary of the groundbreaking Apollo 11 mission, this lavishly illustrated book--featuring stunning photographs, many previously unpublished, and other rarely seen images and documents--tells the incredible story of the first men on the Moon.Acclaimed science author Rod Pyle (Mi ...Show more
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and #1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, David and Goliath, and What the Dog Saw, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers - and why they often go wrong. How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a gen ...Show more
Dark Matter and Dark Energy by Brian Clegg
22.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Hot Science Ser.
All the matter and light we can see in the universe makes up a trivial 5per cent of everything. The rest is hidden. This could be the biggest puzzle that science has everfaced. Since the 1970s,astronomers have been aware that galaxies have far too little matter in them toaccount for the way they spin ar ...Show more
This Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook by Extinction Rebellion
24.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Extinction Rebellion are inspiring a whole generation to take action on climate breakdown. Now you can become part of the movement - and together, we can make history. It's time. This is our last chance to do anything about the global climate and ecological emergency. Our last chance to save the world a ...Show more
Psychedelic Apes: From parallel universes to atomic dinosaurs – the weirdest theories of science and history by Alex Boese
34.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
What if we're living inside a black hole? What if we've already found extraterrestrial life? What if the dinosaurs died in a nuclear war? What if Jesus Christ was actually a mushroom? In Psychedelic Apes, bestselling author Alex Boese will delve into the curious scientific subculture of weird theories. ...Show more
Fundamental: How Quantum Mechanics Explains Absolutely Everything (Except Gravity) by Tim James
37.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: near fine
Fundamental does for physics what Tim's first book, Elemental, does for chemistry: it demystifies the topic in his trademark humorous, engaging style, including the most recent developments in the field. At the start of the twentieth century, science appeared complete and the laws of nature were almost ...Show more
Maths Unwrapped - The Easy Way to Understand & Master Mathematics by Mattias Ribbing; Per Sundin
37.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: very good
Why do so many of us struggle to remember the maths we were taught at school? The answer is that we can successfully memorise things for a short period but we only retain those memories long term if we understand them. Mattias Ribbing is a Grand Master of Memory who will show you how to remember maths t ...Show more
Animal Languages by Eva Meijer
39.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: How animals communicate with each other | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Dolphins and parrots call each other by their names. Fork tailed drongos mimic the calls of other animals to scare them away and then steal their dinner. In the songs of many species of birds, and in skin patterns of squid, we find grammatical structures . . . If you are lucky, you might meet an animal ...Show more
New Scientist: The Origin of (almost) Everything by New Scientist, Stephen Hawking, Graham Lawton
29.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Intro by Stephen Hawking
Introduction by Professor Stephen Hawking. When Edwin Hubble looked into his telescope in the 1920s, he was shocked to find that nearly all of the galaxies he could see through it were flying away from one another. If these galaxies had always been travelling, he reasoned, then they must, at some point ...Show more
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe
34.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Useless Self Help Guide | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling What If? and Thing Explainer 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 try i ...Show more
The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger Hotter Smarter World by Amanda Little
32.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Is the future of food looking bleak - or better than ever? At a time when every day brings news of drought and famine, Amanda Little investigates what it will take to feed a hotter, hungrier, more crowded world. She explores the past along with the present and discovers startling innovations: remote-con ...Show more
The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language by Albert Costa; John W. Schwieter (Translator)
50.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The definitive book on bilingualism and its impact on the brain from a leading expert. What exactly does it mean for two languages to coexist in the same brain? How do babies exposed to different languages differentiate between them? And how does cognitive decline affect the two languages? Bilingua ...Show more