The Universe Within: A Scientific Adventure by Neil Shubin
$55.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
In "The Universe Within", Neil Shubin, one of the world's leading experts, reveals to us the extraordinary cosmic and evolutionary adventure of our own bodies. During the past 13.7 billion years (or so) since the Big Bang, our universe has evolved, stars have formed and died and our planet congealed fro ...Show more
Si-Cology 1: Tales and Wisdom from Duck Dynasty's Favorite Uncle by Si Robertson
$30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
As you read this book, there are a few things you have to understand: 95 percent of my stories are truthful. Every member of the Robertson family has the God- given gift of storytelling. Hey, when you've sat in a duck blind for more than half of your life, you have to figure out some way to pass the tim ...Show more
A Down to Earth Guide to the Cosmos by Mark Thompson
$27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
To the beginner, the star-filled night sky can seem mysterious and unfathomable. But with this book as a guide the awesome nature of the Cosmos is brought down to Earth. Over the course of twelve chapters Mark Thompson, one of the presenters on BBC One's Stargazing Live and the resident astronomer on IT ...Show more
A Down to Earth Guide to the Cosmos by Mark Thompson
$19.99 NZD
$27.99 (28% off)
Category: Popular Science
To the beginner, the star-filled night sky can seem mysterious and unfathomable. But with this book as a guide the awesome nature of the Cosmos is brought down to Earth. Over the course of twelve chapters Mark Thompson, one of the presenters on BBC One's Stargazing Live and the resident astronomer on IT ...Show more
Power Systems - Conversations with David Barsamian on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire by Noam Chomsky
$30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Power Systems is the latest collection of searing insights from intellectual superstar Noam Chomsky. In this new collection of conversations, conducted from 2010 to 2012, Noam Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent concerns: the future of democracy in the Arab world, the implications of the Fuku ...Show more
The Quantum Age: How the Physics of the Very Small has Transformed Our Lives by Brian Clegg
$36.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The stone age, the iron age, the steam and electrical ages all saw the reach of humankind transformed by new technology. Now we are living in the quantum age, a revolution in everyday life led by our understanding of the very, very small. Today, technologies based on quantum physics account for 30 per c ...Show more
Art of Creative Thinking by Rod Judkins
$29.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A scuba diving company faces bankruptcy because sharks have infested the area. Solution? Open the world's first extreme diving school. The Art of Creative Thinking reveals how we can transform ourselves, our businesses and our society through a deeper understanding of human creativity. Rod Judkins, of t ...Show more
Black Holes: A Very Short Introduction by Katherine Blundell
$20.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Very Short Introductions
Black holes are a source of wide fascination. In this Very Short Introduction, Katherine Blundell addresses a variety of questions, including what a black hole actually is, how they are characterised and discovered, to what happens if you get too close to one. Explaining how black holes form and grow ac ...Show more
Spooky Action at a Distance by George Musser
$44.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
What is space? It isn't a question that most of us normally stop to ask. Space is the venue of physics; it's where things exist, where they move and take shape. Yet over the past few decades, physicists have discovered a phenomenon that operates outside the confines of space and time. The phenomenon, th ...Show more
Buddhist Art Coloring Book 2 by Robert Beer
$35.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Sacred art presented as coloring templates for contemplation and creativity stunning and detailed artwork from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Drawing on his brush paintings in "The Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and Motifs" and other works, Robert Beer has selected 50 images meant to be used as templa ...Show more
The Boy Who Played with Fusion: Extreme Science, Extreme Parenting and How to Make a Star by Tom Clynes
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
By the age of nine, Taylor had mastered the science of rocket propulsion. At eleven, his grandmother's cancer diagnosis inspired him to seek new ways to produce medical isotopes. And by fourteen, Taylor had built a reactor which produces temperatures hotter than the sun, becoming the youngest person i ...Show more
The Prodigy's Cousin by Joanne Ruthsatz; Kimberly Stephens
$40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'(AN) IMPORTANT BOOK' TEMPLE GRANDINOver the course of her career, psychologist Joanne Ruthsatz has assembled the largest-ever research sample of child prodigies. Their accomplishments are epic. One could reproduce radio tunes by ear on a toy guitar at two years old. Another was a thirteen-year-old cook ...Show more