End Game - Tipping Point for Planet Earth? by Anthony D Barnosky and Elizabeth A Hadly
$32.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: good
overconsumption / population growth / dwindling natural resources / climate change / disease / contamination / storms / thirst / war ...will the struggle to simply stay alive become humanity's future rather than its past? What happens if population pressures finally hit a threshold that tumbles the domi ...Show more
Growing Older Without Feeling Old: On Vitality and Ageing by Rudi Westendorp
$37.00 NZD
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit
The past century has witnessed a revolution. Less than a hundred years ago the average Western life expectancy was 40; now it is 80. And there is no end in sight: the first person who will reach 135 has already been born. What are the causes of these new developments? Has modern science found the key to ...Show more
Black Sheep : The Hidden Benefits of Being Bad by Dr. Richard Stephens
$37.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
From the man who won the Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize 2014 and married a human statue comes a book of weird and wonderful psychological science from the far-flung corners of human experience. Richard Stephens became the focus of international media attention for his research on the psychological ...Show more
Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance by Steven Kotler
$27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Right now, more people are risking their lives for their sports then ever before in history. As Thomas Pynchon once put it in Gravity's Rainbow, 'it is not often that Death is told so clearly to f@%* off'. Over the past three decades, the bounds of the possible in action and adventure sports - from sky- ...Show more
Algorithms to Live by by Brian Christian; Tom Griffiths
$34.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives. In this dazzlingly interdisciplinary work, acclaimed author Brian Christian and cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths show us how the simple, precise algorithms used by computers can also untangle very human questions ...Show more
The Mysterious World of the Human Genome by Frank Ryan
$26.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
How could a relatively simple chemical code give rise to the complexity of a human being? How could our human genome have evolved? And how does it actually work? Over the past 50 years we have deciphered the inner workings of the human genome. From the basic structure of DNA through to the complete sequ ...Show more
The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time and Beyond by Christophe Galfard
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Imagine if The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy were a real, practical book about the mysteries of the universe...The Universe In Your Hand takes us on a wonder-filled journey to the surface of our dying Sun, shrinks us to the size of an atom and puts us in the deathly grip of distant Black Holes. Along ...Show more
Forbidden Universe by Lynn Picknett
$29.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Were the first scientists hermetic philosophers? What do these occult origins of modern science tell us about the universe today? The Forbidden Universe reveals the secret brotherhood that defined the world, and perhaps discovered the mind of God. All the pioneers of science, from Copernicus to Newton ...Show more
Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever by Christopher Hitchens
$42.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great, a provocative and entertaining guided tour of atheist and agnostic thought through the ages--with never-before-published pieces by Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Christopher Hitchens continues to make the case for a sp ...Show more
Patient H M by Luke Dittrich
$55.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
In the summer of 1953 maverick neurosurgeon William Beecher Scoville performed a groundbreaking operation on a twenty-seven-year-old epileptic patient named Henry Molaison. The operation failed to eliminate Molaison's intractable seizures, but it did have an unintended effect- Henry was left prof ...Show more
The Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life by Helen Czerski
$40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
This book links the little things - the unexpected pinkness of blueberry jam or the way the air smells before it rains - with the big in a book that will alter the way you see the world. Helen Czerski shows how the familiar, from coffee stains to ketchup bottles, can shed light on Antarctic winds, medic ...Show more
Where the Universe Came from: How Einstein's Relativity Unlocks the Past, Present and Future of the Cosmos by New Scientist
$34.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: New Scientist Instant Expert
WHY GENERAL RELATIVITY LEAVES UNFINISHED BUSINESS WITH THE COSMOS A little over a century ago, a young Albert Einstein presented his general theory of relativity to the world and utterly transformed our understanding of the universe. He overturned centuries of thinking about gravity by revealing how it ...Show more