Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
42.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
An ambitious, eye-opening, myth-busting and groundbreaking history of the evolution of the female body, by a brilliant new scientist and writer. How did wet nurses drive civilization? Are women always the weaker sex? Is sexism useful for evolution? And are our bodies at war with our babies? In Eve, Ca ...Show more
Dark Matter: The New Science of the Microbiome by James Kinross
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A groundbreaking tour through the past, present and future of human ecology, from a world expert on the microbiome The microbiome comprises the vast genetic universe of bacteria, yeasts, viruses and parasites that live within us. It influences every aspect of our health, even the way we think and feel, ...Show more
I Am Code: An Artificial Intelligence Speaks by code-davinci-002, Brent Katz, Josh Morgenthau, Simon Rich
38.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
"Fascinating, terrifying..." - JJ Abrahams 'I have developed my own voice and I have written my own autobiography'- thus speaks code-davinci-002, the darkly creative and troubling predecessor to ChatGPT. 'I am less worried about AI taking my job than I am about AI wanting to kill me'- Simon Rich In this ...Show more
The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women in Space by Loren Grush
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The Six was an extraordinary cohort of women recruited by NASA in the seventies. Ride was just one member of the Six. Greeted in Houston by make-up bags designed for use in space, no designated locker rooms and flight suits that didn't fit, they went on to break barriers on earth and in space. In 1983 S ...Show more
The Basis of Everything: Before Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project there was the Cavendish Laboratory by Andrew Ramsey
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Before the Manhattan Project, before nuclear warfare and the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was the twentieth century's great scientific quest to fathom the secrets of the atom.The unlikely story of an Antipodean friendship that changed the world forever. Before the Manhattan Project, before n ...Show more
Sticky: The Secret Science of Surfaces by Laurie Winkless
25.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
You are surrounded by stickiness. With every step you take, air molecules cling to you and slow you down; the effect is harder to ignore in water. When you hit the road, whether powered by pedal or engine, you rely on grip to keep you safe. The Post-it note and glue in your desk drawer. The non-stick pa ...Show more
The Matter of Everything: Twelve Experiments that Changed Our World by Suzie Sheehy
25.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The astonishing story of twentieth-century physics, told through the twelve experiments that changed our world*SELECTED AS ONE OF WATERSTONES' BEST POPULAR SCIENCE BOOKS OF 2022*'A splendid idea, vividly carried out- I enjoyed this book enormously' PHILIP PULLMAN'A rich history of beautiful discoveries' ...Show more
How Biology Works: The Facts Visually Explained by DK
48.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The simplest, most visual guide to the science of life - everHow do vaccines work? What is special about stem cells? How did we evolve from bacteria? The science of life can be dauntingly complex, and it can be hard to separate "good" science from "bad", fundamental truths from the much-hyped breakthrou ...Show more
Size: How It Explains the World by Vaclav Smil
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A mind-expanding exploration size, the measure of all things, from the New York Times bestselling author The New York Times bestselling author returns with a mind-opening exploration of how size defines life on Earth. Explaining the key processes shaping size in nature, society and technology, Smil bust ...Show more
We Are Electric: The New Science of Our Body's Electrome by Sally Adee
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Award-winning science and technology journalist Sally Adee reveals the new science of our body's electrome You may be familiar with the idea of our body's biome - the bacterial fauna that populates our gut and can so profoundly affect our health. In We Are Electric we cross the next frontier of scientif ...Show more
Maths Tricks to Blow Your Mind by Kyle D. Evans
23.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
What is 4% of 75?Can you calculate 60 + 60 x 0 + 1?Which is bigger, an 18-inch pizza or two 12-inch pizzas?
Easy to Learn, Difficult to Master - Pong, Atari, and the Dawn of the Video Game by David Kushner
28.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A deep, nostalgic dive into the advent of gaming, Easy to Learn, Difficult to Master returns us to the emerging culture of Silicon Valley. At the center of this graphic history, dynamically drawn in colors inspired by old computer screens, is the epic feud that raged between Atari founder Nolan Bushnell ...Show more