Physical Intelligence - The Science of Thinking Without Thinking by Scott Grafton
$27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'An instant classic' Michael S. Gazzaniga, author of The Consciousness Instinct How do you pick the right moment to cross a busy road? Or decide if you can drive through a storm? What helps you discover a shortcut to a familiar route? The answer is PHYSICAL INTELLIGENCE. Renowned neuroscientist, do ...Show more
Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli
$45.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, retreated to a small, treeless island in the North Sea called Helgoland. It was there that he came up with one of the most transformative scientific concepts- quantum theory. Almost a century later, quantum physics has giv ...Show more
Some Assembly Required by Neil Shubin
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
An exciting and accessible new view of the evolution of human and animal life on Earth. From the author of national bestseller, Your Inner Fish, this extraordinary journey of discovery spans centuries, as explorers and scientists seek to understand the origins of life's immense diversity. "Fossils, DNA, ...Show more
Fully Human: A New Way of Using Your Mind by Steve Biddulph
$39.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A mother of small children avoids a murderer in broad daylight. A young dad is able to grieve for his lost baby - using a song. And it saves his marriage. What if there were parts of our minds which we never use, but if awakened, could make us so much happier, connected and alive? What if awakening thos ...Show more
Why Are We Yelling: The Art of Productive Disagreement by Buster Benson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Why Are We Yelling is the essential book about how to turn arguments into a productive and enjoyable dialogue rather than a bad-natured confrontation.The way we argue is broken - whether we're arguing about immigration, the existence of ghosts, the best burger in the city, or who's allowed to sit in you ...Show more
Testosterone - The Story of the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us by Carole Hooven
$37.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: very good
Through riveting personal stories and the latest research, Harvard evolutionary biologist Carole Hooven shows how testosterone drives the behaviour of the sexes apart and how understanding the science behind this hormone is empowering for all.'With all the talk about testosterone in sex, sports and poli ...Show more
No Shadow of a Doubt - The 1919 Eclipse That Confirmed Einstein's Theory of Relativity by Daniel Kennefick
$37.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The extraordinary story of the scientific expeditions that ushered in the era of relativity In 1919, British scientists led expeditions to Brazil and Africa to test Albert Einstein's new theory of general relativity in what became the century's most celebrated scientific experiment. The result usher ...Show more
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert
$37.00 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? Elizabeth Kolbert has become one of the most important writers on the environment. Now she i ...Show more
Life Is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe by Johnjoe McFadden
$37.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Life is Simple tells the remarkable story of how a thirteenth century monk's search for simplicity led to the emergence of the modern world. We begin in the turbulent times of the medieval friar, William of Occam, who first articulated the principle that the best answer to any problem is the simplest. ...Show more
The Quantum World - The Disturbing Theory at the Heart of Reality by New Scientist
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: New Scientist Instant Ex Ser.
Just how real is reality, anyway?Forget everything you thought you knew about reality.The world is a seriously bizarre place. Things can exist in two places at once and travel backwards and forwards in time. Waves and particles are one and the same, and objects change their behavior according to whether ...Show more
The First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine by Brendan Borrell
$40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
An enthralling real-life thriller that tells the full inside story of the high-stakes race for a lifesaving vaccine to end the COVID-19 pandemicThe global race to find a coronavirus vaccine is the defining story of our times. In The First Shots, award-winning journalist Brendan Borrell brings this high- ...Show more
Spite - And the Upside of Your Dark Side by Simon McCarthy-Jones
$36.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Have you ever done something stupid, dangerous or self-sabotaging just to get one over someone else? Most of us have. Simon McCarthy-Jones draws on psychology, current affairs, literature and genetics to illuminate - whether we admit it or not - our spiteful side. What is that part of us that secretly w ...Show more