A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
$30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Bryson | Reading Level: very good
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him.A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got ...Show more
Reading the Clouds - How You Can Forecast the Weather by Oliver Perkins
$26.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Wouldn't it be useful to be able to come up with an accurate weather forecast simply by reading the clouds? Well, with this book, you can!TV forecasts, online predictions and smartphone apps are all based on the same data - a number-crunched overview of how air pressure and temperature affects the weath ...Show more
The Glass Cage: Who Needs Humans Anyway by Nicholas Carr
$30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
In The Glass Cage, Pulitzer Prize nominee and bestselling author Nicholas Carr shows how the most important decisions of our lives are now being made by machines and the radical effect this is having on our ability to learn and solve problems. In May 2009 an Airbus A330 passenger jet equipped with the l ...Show more
Engines: The Inner Workings of Machines That Move the World by Theodore Gray
$50.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
International bestseller, Theodore Gray, author of How Things Work and The Elements Trilogy, which has sold more than 1.5 million copies, turns his focus here to a visual exploration of the inner workings and functionality of the engines that run our world--from the first steam engines to giant turbines ...Show more
Atlas of Extraterrestrial Zones by Bruno Fuligni; François Moreno (Illustrator)
$69.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Atlas Ser.
A most unusual and fascinating atlas of extraterrestrial encounters--a "map" of the places where portals open up between our world and theirs.Where is the best place to meet kind and peaceful aliens? How do we communicate with intelligent interstellar life forms, socialize with Martians, and avoid unwan ...Show more
Interstellar - The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future Beyond Earth by Avi Loeb
$39.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'LOEB IS AN ASTRONOMICAL SHERLOCK HOLMES' Washington Post'A JOY IN CONJECTURE AND AN OMNIVOROUS SPIRIT OF INQUIRY. . . CARL SAGAN WOULD HAVE LIKED THIS BOOK' The TimesIn 2017, Avi Loeb, Chair of Harvard's Astronomy Department, went public with a theory that shook the scientific community - our solar sys ...Show more
Silver Linings: Kiwi Success Stories in the Time of Covid by David Downs; Joe Davis
$45.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The Covid-19 lockdown in New Zealand caused fear, hardship and loss. Through this time of unprecedented national hardship, however, there emerged incredible stories of hope and optimism. Businesses innovated and found new ways to create value, communities came together in new ways online, and families r ...Show more
How To Raise an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
$45.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
From the author of the bestselling international phenomenon How To Be an Antiracist, a deeply considered and ground-breaking argument about children, racism and how to build the antiracist society of the futureHow do we talk to our children about racism? How do we teach children to be antiracist? How ar ...Show more
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? by Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
$65.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
From the bestselling authors of Soonish, a brilliant and hilarious off-world investigation into space settlement Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away - no climate change, no war, no Twitter - beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp. Or is it ...Show more
The Human Mind A Brief Tour of Everything We Know by Paul Bloom
$40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Paul Bloom is Professor of Psychology at Yale University. He is an internationally recognised expert on the psychology of language, social reasoning, morality and art. His previous books include Just Babies and How Pleasure Works, and he has written for numerous publications, including the New York Time ...Show more
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Simon Winchester
$37.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes—here is award-winning writer Simon Winchester’s brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to change our li ...Show more
Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era by James Barrat
$27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'I wish it was science fiction, but I know it's not.' Jaan Tallinn, co-founder of Skype'If you read just one book that makes you confront scary high-tech realities that we'll soon have no choice but to address, make it this one.' Washington PostCorporations and government agencies around the world have ...Show more