Inventing Ourselves - The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
$28.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Winner of the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Prize 2018. Up to the minute brain science from a world class scientist. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore explains how the adolescent brain transforms as it develops and shapes the adults we become. 'Beautifully written with clarity, expertise and honesty abou ...Show more
Empty Planet - The Shock of Global Population Decline by Darrell Bricker; John Ibbitson
$27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
An award-winning journalist and leading international social researcher make the provocative argument that the global population will soon begin to decline, dramatically reshaping the social, political, and economic landscape For half a century, statisticians, pundits, and politicians have warned th ...Show more
The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
$30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: very good
This book was selected as a New York Times Non-Fiction Book of the Year. The New York Times Number one Bestseller BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. "Dramatic and precise...[A] thrilling and comprehensive account of what seems certain to be the most radical, controversial and, to borrow from the subtitle, in ...Show more
Physics: From Natural Philosophy to the Enigma of Dark Matter
$17.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Physics is the science which ties all others together. Aiming to explain the universe, from the smallest subatomic particles to vast galaxies, and the very nature of space-time, it represents human intellectual endeavour at its most ambitious. This illustrated guide traces the development of physics, ...Show more
How to Get a Sofa Around a Corner: And 30 Other Everyday Examples of the Appliance of Science by Frary Mark
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The Plant Hunters by Carolyn Fry
$69.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
"The Plant Hunters" tells the story of our obsession with plants. This book contains topics that range from the entourage of Alexander the Great which included naturalists to the establishment of botanical gardens and the discovery through exploration of the plants that have made or broken economies, su ...Show more
The Weather Machine: How We See into the Future by Andrew Blum
$24.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'Revelatory ... convey[s] the technical brilliance and political significance of an achievement that hides in plain sight'TelegraphFrom satellites circling the Earth, to weather stations far out in the ocean, through some of the most ingenious minds and advanced algorithms at work today - In this grippi ...Show more
On Pandemics Deadly Diseases from Bubonic Plague to Coronavirus by David Waltner-Towes
$37.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
ritten by a leading epidemiologist, this engrossing book answers our questions about animal diseases that jump to humans - called zoonoses - including why they have become more common in recent history, and what we can do about them. Almost all pandemics and epidemics - including SARS, Ebola and now COV ...Show more
Psychology: From Spirits to Psychotherapy: the Mind through the Ages
$17.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
From Socrates to Carl Jung and Descartes to Daniel Dennett, this illustrated book brings together the threads that have made up psychology, from the musings of the Ancient Greeks to the findings of functional MRI scanning. Explained in a concise and easy-to-understand manner, it explores various key app ...Show more
The Plant Hunters: The Adventures of the World's Greatest Botanical Explorers by Carolyn Fry
$44.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
"The Plant Hunters" tells the story of our fascination with plants and the discovery of new species. From ancient times, when Alexander the Great included naturalists in his entourage, this intriguing story moves across the world, as plants such as coconut trees, roses and numerous fruits and vegetables ...Show more
The River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks
$32.99 NZD
$37.99 (13% off)
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: very good
Two weeks before his death, Oliver Sacks outlined the contents of The River of Consciousness, the last book he would oversee. The bestselling author of On the Move, Musicophilia, and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Sacks is known for his illuminating case histories about people living with neuro ...Show more
The Psychology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
$48.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
DK's best-selling guide to the history of psychology - now fully revised and updated How do our minds influence the way we behave? How do our bodies and minds work together? Do we have free will? Exploring and explaining the big ideas and groundbreaking theories in the field of psychology in a clear and ...Show more