The Hidden Life of Trees (Illustrated Edition) by Peter Wohlleben
$55.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
In his international bestseller, The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben opened readers? eyes to the wonders and amazing processes at work in the forest. Now this new, breathtakingly illustrated edition brings those wonders to life like never before. With compelling selections from the original book a ...Show more
The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now by Meg Jay
$39.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Contemporary culture tells us the twenty-something years don't matter. Clinical psychologist Dr Meg Jay argues that this could not be further from the truth.The Defining Decade weaves the latest science of the twenty-something years with real-life stories to show us how work, relationships, identity and ...Show more
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
$30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: good-very good
THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Sapiens shows us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond - from ove ...Show more
Stephen Hawking (Scientists Who Changed the World) by Anita Croy
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Scientists Who Changed the World
Steven Hawking is revered as one of the most influential scientists of our time, and his life and career offer a variety of lessons from which readers can learn and grow. Through an engaging narrative structure, quotes about and from the man himself, and in-depth historical context, high school students ...Show more
What's the Use?: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics by Ian Stewart
$27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A bestselling author tries to rehabilitate a much-maligned field.
The Science of Gardening: Discover How Your Garden Really Works by Stuart Farrimond
$48.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The only book to explain the science behind gardening practice in a simple and visually accessible way Exploding myths and providing authoritative take-home advice, this book provides a shortcut to decades of gardening experience by explaining the science behind how a garden grows. Gardening Why does my ...Show more
What We Owe The Future: A Million-Year View by William MacAskill
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Unapologetically optimistic and bracingly realistic, this is the most inspiring book on 'ethical living' I've ever read.' Oliver Burkeman, Guardian 'A monumental event.' Rutger Bregman, author of Humankind 'A book of great daring, clarity, insight and imagination. To be simu ...Show more
How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology by Philip Ball
$39.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A cutting-edge new vision of biology that will revise our concept of what life itself is, how to enhance it, and what possibilities it offers. Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Several aspects of the standard picture of how life works—the idea of the genome as a blueprint, of g ...Show more
A Year in Numbers by Kyle D. Evans
$32.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Did you know:-Only around 100 people have ever lived beyond a million hours (that's about 114 years)-Around 7% of everyone who has ever lived is currently alive-The '12 days of Christmas' song, when sung in full, results in 364 gifts being given - one for every day... except ChristmasBroken down into 12 ...Show more
The Science Museum Stephen Hawking Genius at Work: Explore His Life, Mind and Science Through the Objects in His Study by Roger Highfield
$48.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
An intimate exploratory tour of Stephen Hawking's office, providing a unique insight into the mind of a genius and the things that inspired him A behind-the scenes tour of the inner sanctum of one of the world's most prominent scientific thinkers. In 2021, the Science Museum made a once-in-a-lifetime ac ...Show more
Handmade: A Scientist's Search for Meaning through Making by Anna Ploszajski
$28.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
From atomic structures to theories about magnetic forces, scientific progress has given us a good grasp on the properties of many different materials. However, most scientists cannot measure the temperature of steel just by looking at it, or sculpt stone into all kinds of shapes, or know how it feels to ...Show more
Toxic at Work: Surviving Your Psychopathic Workmates, From the Dominant Bullies to the Charming Manipulators by David Gillespie
$39.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Most bullies are psychopaths, but not all psychopaths are immediately recognised as bullies. Some blind us with their charm and dazzle us with their success. Some are ferociously talented and startlingly effective (at least in the short term). But they all share a common trait that makes them highly dan ...Show more