What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
34.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
WHAT IF... one man decided to answer all the unanswerable questions, using science. The Sunday Times-bestselling author and xkcd creator, Randall Munroe is here to provide the best answers yet to the important questions you probably never thought to ask. The millions of people around the world who rea ...Show more
Ten Days in Physics that Shook the World: How Physicists Transformed Everyday Life by Brian Clegg
27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The breakthroughs that have had the most transformative practical impacts, from thermodynamics to the Internet.
The Age of Seeds: How Plants Hacked Time and Why Our Future Depends on It by Fiona McMillan-Webster
39.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Plants evolved seeds to hack time. Thanks to seeds they can cast their genes forward into the future, enabling species to endure across seasons, years, and occasionally millennia. When a 2000-year-old extinct date palm seed was discovered, no one expected it to still be alive. But it sprouted a healthy ...Show more
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert
26.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The author of the international bestseller The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: after doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it?CHOSEN BY BILL GATES AND BARACK OBAMA AS A SUMMER READMeet the biologists trying to save the ...Show more
Future Superhuman: Our Transhuman Lives in a Make-or-Break Century by Elise Bohan
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Category: Popular Science
In breathtakingly original prose, Elise Bohan argues that we’re hurtling towards a superhuman future – or, if we blunder, extinction. The only way out of our existential crises, from global warming to the risks posed by nuclear weapons, novel and bioengineered pathogens and unaligned AI, is up. We’ll ne ...Show more
The Expectation Effect - How Your Mindset Can Transform Your Life by David Robson
36.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The scientific solution to influencing your life positively, from the award-winning author of The Intelligence Trap.
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death by Caitlin Doughty
24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
What happens if someone dies on a plane?Can we give Grandma a Viking funeral?Why don't animals dig up all the graves?Will my hair keep growing in my coffin after I'm buried?Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. In this book she offers factual, hilarious an ...Show more
Sticky - The Secret Science of Surfaces by Laurie Winkless
32.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: near fine
You are surrounded by stickiness. With every step you take, air molecules cling to you and slow you down; the effect is harder to ignore in water. When you hit the road, whether powered by pedal or engine, you rely on grip to keep you safe. The Post-it note and glue in your desk drawer. The non-stick pa ...Show more
Flights Of Fancy (HB) by Richard Dawkins
42.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The Wonder of Flight. The Science of Evolution. From both, Richard Dawkins weaves a fascinating and beautifully illustrated account of how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to the skies. Have you ever dreamt you could fly? Or imagined what it would be like to glide ...Show more
The First Astronomers: How Indigenous Elders read the stars by Duane Hamacher
39.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The First Astronomers is the first book to reveal the rich knowledge of the stars and the planets held by First Peoples around the world. Our eyes have been drawn away from the skies to our screens. We no longer look to the stars to forecast the weather, predict the seasons or plant our gardens. Most of ...Show more
The Matter of Everything: Twelve Experiments that Changed Our World by Suzie Sheehy
32.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The astonishing story of twentieth-century physics, told through the twelve experiments that changed our world.How did a piece a gold foil completely change our understanding of atoms? What part did a hot air balloon play in the discovery of cosmic rays?How did the experiments in the run-up to the Large ...Show more
Age Proof: The New Science of Living a Longer and Healthier Life by Rose Anne Kenny
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Category: Popular Science
One of the world's leading scientists on ageing delivers a revealing and enjoyable account of what ageing is and how we can tackle its more serious side effects. We all age. But why do some of us live longer than others? Why do we live twice as long today as our ancestors did 200 years ago? And what do ...Show more