Stuff You Should Know: An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things by Josh Clark, Chuck Bryant
38.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
From the duo behind the massively successful and award-winning podcast Stuff You Should Know comes an unexpected look at things you thought you knew.Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant started the podcast Stuff You Should Know back in 2008 because they were curious - curious about the world around them, curious ...Show more
Cats vs Dogs - 99 Scientific Answers to Weird and Wonderful Questions about Animals by New Scientist
30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Informative, surprising and hilarious, New Scientist tackles questions about the animal kingdom from readers in the magazine's popular 'Last Word' column. This book brings together the best of the bunch:Why do millipedes have so many legs?Will we ever speak dolphin?Do geese always fly in a V formation?A ...Show more
Seven Pillars of Science: The Incredible Lightness of Ice, and Other Scientific Surprises by John Gribbin
35.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The seven fundamental - and surprising - scientific truths of our existence. John Gribbin, author of Six Impossible Things, shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize, presents a tour of seven fundamental scientific truths that underpin our very existence. These 'pillars o ...Show more
Symphony in C - Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything by Robert Hazen
28.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
An enchanting biography of the most resonant - and most necessary - chemical element on Earth. Carbon. It is the building block of every cell that makes up every living thing. It is the essential component of the food we eat, the fuel we burn, the wood we use and the air we breathe. It is worth billion ...Show more
Lost Connections: Why You're Depressed and How to Find Hope by Johann Hari
25.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Depression and anxiety are now at epidemic levels. Why? Across the world, scientists have uncovered evidence for nine different causes. Some are in our biology, but most are in the way we are living today. Lost Connections offers a radical new way of thinking about this cris ...Show more
Numbercrunch: 12 Ways Numbers Make Sense of the World by Professor Oliver Johnson
28.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
This is a mathematician's toolkit for cutting through wall-to-wall information overload and making sense of our modern world.
Bullsh*t Comparisons: A field guide to thinking critically in a world of difference by Andrew Brooks
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Bullshit Comparisons will challenge the way you think about rankings, charts and other marketing and political tools designed to create odious and dangerous comparisons. Is Boris Johnson really like Winston Churchill? Are electric cars actually greener than petrol ones? Which is the world's most success ...Show more
The Natural History of Crime: Case studies in death and the clues nature leaves behind by Patricia Wiltshire
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Working at the interface of where the criminal and natural world interact, Patricia will show us how she finds the answers to some of the worst crimes imaginable. 'I love puzzles, and finding answers is the only truly enjoyable part of what I do.' This is because Professor Patricia Wiltshire is a forens ...Show more
White Holes: Inside the Horizon by Carlo Rovelli
30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A mesmerizing trip to the strange new world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics Let us journey, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli, into the heart of a black hole. Let us slip beyond its boundary, the horizon, and tumble - on and on - down this crack in the uni ...Show more
Love Triangle: The Life-changing Magic of Trigonometry by Matt Parker
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Explore the life-changing magic of trigonometry with Matt Parker, stand-up mathematician and No. 1 bestselling author of Humble Pi Why do mobile phones work when you're on a train? What happens when you pull a pop song apart into pure sine waves and play it back on a piano? And what did mathematicians ...Show more
Wise Animals: How Technology Has Made Us What We Are by Tom Chatfield
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Combining compelling storytelling with erudite, compassionate and often profound insight about the human condition, this book will transform how you navigate the world.' - Richard Fisher, author of The Long ViewWise Animals explores the history of our relationship with technology, and our deep involveme ...Show more