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
Sentience : The Invention of Consciousness by Nicholas Humphrey
41.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The story of a fifty-year quest to uncover the evolutionary history of consciousness from one of the world's leading theoretical psychologists.We feel, therefore we are. Conscious sensations ground our sense of self. They are crucial to our idea of ourselves as psychic beings: present, existent, and mat ...Show more
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: very good
A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener.
The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Maths by Manil Suri
38.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Picture yourself at a starting point before anything exists no matter, no cosmos, not even empty space. Your task is to create the universe, but all you have to work with is, quite literally, "nothing." How do you proceed? This is the thought experiment The Big Bang of Numbers invites you into, as an or ...Show more
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
28.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2017 AND THE ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2017 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Your body is teeming with tens of trillions of microbes. It's an entire world, a colony full of life. In other words, you contain multitudes. They sculpt our o ...Show more
Nine Musings on Time: Science Fiction, Science Fact, and the Truth About Time Travel by John Gribbin
27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Time travel is a familiar theme of science fiction, but is it really possible?
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present, and Future by Vaclav Smil
30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Delightfully contrarian, this is the one book you need to read to understand our modern world. We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperi ...Show more
Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli
30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The instant Sunday Times bestseller -- a dazzling story of rebellion and science. In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, had retreated to the treeless, wind-battered island of Helgoland in the North Sea in order to think. Walking all night, by dawn he had wrest ...Show more
Escape from Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do About It by Erica Thompson
37.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'A brilliant account of how models are so often abused and of how they should be used' John KayHow do mathematical models shape our world - and how can we harness their power for good?Models are at the centre of everything we do. Whether we use them or are simply affected by them, they act as metaphors ...Show more
The Importance of Being Interested by Robin Ince
24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The popular comedian and presenter journeys through science, explaining why it should be for everyone - including enthusiastic amateurs. Comedian Robin Ince quickly abandoned science at school, bored by a fog of dull lessons andintimidated by the barrage of equations. But, twenty years later, he fell in ...Show more
The Hidden Universe: Adventures in Biodiversity by Antonelli Alexandre
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Everything you need to know about biodiversity - what it is, how it works, and why it's the single most important tool to battle climate change - from the Director Science at the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew. We don't know what we've got until it's gone...This brief, lucid book by the Director of Sci ...Show more
The Theory of Everything Else by Dan Schreiber
37.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A collection of the world’s most mind-boggling, thought-provoking and downright hilarious theories – by the co-host of the UK’s most downloaded podcast No Such Thing As A Fish, Dan Schreiber Why are we here? Do ghosts exist? Will we ever travel back in time? Are we being visited by extraterrestrials? Wi ...Show more