Subliminal: The Revolution of the New Unconscious and What it Teaches Us About Ourselves by Leonard Mlodinow
$26.00 NZD
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Category: Popular Science
Leonard Mlodinow, the best-selling author of "The Drunkard's Walk" and coauthor of "The Grand Design" (with Stephen Hawking) and "War of the Worldviews" (with Deepak Chopra) here examines how the unconscious mind shapes our experience of the world, and how, for instance, we often misperceive everything ...Show more
Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
$29.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Have you ever seen something that wasn't really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing? Hallucinations don't belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness, or ...Show more
Cool Maths: 50 Fantastic Facts for Kids of All Ages by Tracie Young
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Inside this mega-jam-packed book are fifty fact-tastic50 ways to advance your maths skills so you'll never be outnumbered by numbers again! From core curriculum techniques such as multiplying multiples to calculating calculus and probability and division, right through to working out tricky statistics, ...Show more
Office Politics: How to Thrive in a World of Lying, Backstabbing and Dirty Tricks by Oliver James
$27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The modern working world is a dangerous place, where game-playing, duplicity and sheer malevolence are rife. Do talent and hard work count for nothing? Is politics everything? In this fascinating expose, Oliver James reveals the murky underside of modern office life. With cutting-edge research and eye-o ...Show more
Think Like A Freak by Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner
$37.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The Freakonomics books have come to stand for challenging conventional wisdom; using data rather than emotion to answer questions. Now Levitt and Dubner have turned what they've learned into a readable and practical toolkit for thinking smarter, harder, and different - thinking, that is, like a Freak. T ...Show more
Inheritance: How Our Genes Change Our Lives, and Our Lives Change Our Genes by Sharon Dr. Moalem
$39.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Inheritance reveals how genetic breakthroughs are transforming our understanding of the world... and of ourselves. Picture yourself breaking free of your genetic destiny. Envision yourself leaving behind any familial baggage of inheritance that puts you at risk for breast cancer or mental illness. Savor ...Show more
My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread and the Search for Peace of Mind by Scott Stossel
$37.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
As recently as thirty-five years ago, anxiety did not exist as a diagnostic category. Today, it is the most common form of officially classified mental illness. Scott Stossel gracefully guides us across the terrain of an affliction that is pervasive yet too often misunderstood. Drawing on his own long- ...Show more
One Million Lovely Letters by Jodi Ann Bickley
$37.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
In the summer of 2011, aged only 22, Jodi Ann Bickley contracted a serious brain infection that would change her life forever. Jodi had been performing at Camp Bestival on the Isle of Wight. Returning with pockets full of glitter, and her favourite bands' songs still playing in her head, She thought th ...Show more
Six Capitals - The revolution capitalism has to have - or can accountants save the planet? by Jane Gleeson-White
$39.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: very good
This is the story of a 21st century revolution being led by the most unlikely of rebels: accountants.It is only the second revolution in accounting since double-entry bookkeeping emerged in medieval Italy - and it is of seismic proportions, driven by the 2008 financial crash and the environmental crisis ...Show more
The Physics Book: 250 Milestones in the History of Physics by Clifford A. Pickover
$49.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
In The Physics Book, bestselling popular science writer Clifford A. Pickover explores 250 milestone discoveries in the field of physics that span a historical timeline extending from 13.7 billion years B.C. to more than 100 trillion years in the future. Written for the layperson in accessible and entert ...Show more
Astronomy Bible by Heather Couper
$29.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Octopus Bible Series
This comprehensive guide to astronomy introduces the basic concepts, explaining what, when, and how to observe space, right through to current theories on everything from black holes to microquasars. It helps you to navigate the night sky, identify the constellations and find planets, comets, galaxies a ...Show more
Good Psychopath's Guide to Success by Andy McNab; Kevin Dutton
$27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
What is a good psychopath? And how can thinking like one help you to be the best that you can be?Professor Kevin Dutton has spent a lifetime studying psychopaths. He first met SAS hero Andy McNab during a research project. What he found surprised him. McNab is a diagnosed psychopath but he is a GOOD PSY ...Show more