The Future: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know by Richard Watson
$29.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series | Reading Level: very good
What will the world look like in 2020, 2030 or even 2100? How will progress in scientific research affect human life in the areas of health and lifestyle, energy and the environment, politics and conflict, space exploration and even the ultimate questions of existence? This book offers an electrifying t ...Show more
50 Quantum Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know by Joanne Baker
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
Following on from the highly successful 50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know, author Joanne Baker consolidates the foundation concepts of physics and moves on to present clear explanations of the most cutting-edge area of science: quantum physics. With 50 concise chapters covering complex theories a ...Show more
Physics in Minutes: 200 Key Concepts Explained in an Instant by Giles Sparrow
$12.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: in Minutes
Physics in Minutes covers everything you need to know about physics, condensed into 200 key topics. Each idea is explained in clear, accessible language, building from the basics, such as mechanics, waves and particles, to more complex topics, including neutrinos, string theory and dark matter. Based on ...Show more
Molecules: The Elements and the Architecture of Everything (HB) by Theodore Gray
$59.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: very good
In his highly anticipated sequel to The Elements, Theodore Gray demonstrates how the elements of the periodic table combine to form the molecules that make up our world. Everything physical is made up of the elements and the infinite variety of molecules they form when they combine with each other. In M ...Show more
On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein
$24.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
#1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author Naomi Klein makes the case for a Green New Deal in this "keenly argued, well-researched, and impassioned" manifesto (The Washington Post). An instant bestseller, On Fire shows Klein at her most prophetic and philosophical, investigating the clim ...Show more
Empty Planet - The Shock of Global Population Decline by Darrell Bricker; John Ibbitson
$27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
An award-winning journalist and leading international social researcher make the provocative argument that the global population will soon begin to decline, dramatically reshaping the social, political, and economic landscape For half a century, statisticians, pundits, and politicians have warned th ...Show more
The Weather Machine: How We See into the Future by Andrew Blum
$24.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'Revelatory ... convey[s] the technical brilliance and political significance of an achievement that hides in plain sight'TelegraphFrom satellites circling the Earth, to weather stations far out in the ocean, through some of the most ingenious minds and advanced algorithms at work today - In this grippi ...Show more
The Rules of Contagion by Adam Kucharski
$32.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'It is hard to imagine a more timely book ... much of the modern world will make more sense having read it.' The Times'Brilliant and authoritative' - Alex Bellos, author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland A deadly virus suddenly explodes into the population. A political movement gathers pace, and then q ...Show more
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson
$28.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a compelling account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies. When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she c ...Show more
On Pandemics Deadly Diseases from Bubonic Plague to Coronavirus by David Waltner-Towes
$37.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
ritten by a leading epidemiologist, this engrossing book answers our questions about animal diseases that jump to humans - called zoonoses - including why they have become more common in recent history, and what we can do about them. Almost all pandemics and epidemics - including SARS, Ebola and now COV ...Show more
Out of Our Minds by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'Immensely learned and ambitious -seam-bursting eclecticism and polymathic brio - This is by any standards a significant book and its author deserves high praise.'Literary ReviewTo imagine to see that which is not there is the startling ability that has fuelled human development and innovation through t ...Show more
The Four Horsemen by Emily Mayhew
$37.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
In lucid and energised prose, Emily Mayhew summons the four horsemen of the apocalypse; the collective threat to humanity bearing the names of war, pestilence, famine and death. From their first appearance in Revelations they have remained in human consciousness ever since, spanning time and space and e ...Show more