The Eerie Silence : Searching for Ourselves in the Universe by Paul Davies
30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
If aliens ever contact us, it will be perhaps the single most significant event in human history. And Paul Davies will be responsible for saying something back. For fifty years, the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence has been scanning the skies. Now Davies, head of SETI's Post Detection Task Grou ...Show more
The Essential Einstein : His greatest works by Albert Einstein
32.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Albert Einstein changed the way physicists view the universe - and transformed the way we all see the world. Just over one hundred years ago, his Theory of Relativity stunned scientists, but today it is integral to modern thought as the most important scientific discovery of the twentieth century. In th ...Show more
Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel by Michio Kaku
30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'A brilliant, provocative, freewheeling tour around the exotic shores of physics'IndependentFrom cyborgs, starships,UFOs, aliens and antimatter to telepathy, invisibility, psychokinesis and precognitionAccording to Albert Einstein, 'If at first an idea does not sound absurd, there is not hope for it.' P ...Show more
The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
31.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
From the author of The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins' The Blind Watchmaker has been acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution in the last hundred years. In 1802 the Rev. William Paley's argued in Natural Theology that just as finding a watch would lead you to conclude that a watchmaker must ex ...Show more
Doomsday Men by P.D. Smith
32.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
It was the weapon to end all weapons: the doomsday device. A huge nuclear bomb so powerful that it could envelop the entire planet in a cloud of radioactive dust, and bring about instant extinction. This is the untold story of the Cold War's most insane plan, the men behind it and how it nearly happened ...Show more
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software by Steven Johnson
26.95 NZD
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Category: Popular Science
This work argues that it is fast becoming clear that our lives revolve around the powers of "emergence". Order arrives from the bottom-up, not top-down. Complexity is resolved through simplicity. Everywhere the same laws are obeyed, the same swarm logic is at work. Emergence looks at the cities we inhab ...Show more
Science - A History 1543-2001 by John Gribbin
30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
This text tells the story of the people who made science and the turbulent times they live in. As well as famous figures such as Copernicus, Darwin and Einstein, there are also the obscure, the eccentric and even the mad. This diverse cast includes, among others: Andreas Vesalius, anatomist and secret g ...Show more
Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth by Trevor Norton
29.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
"Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth" is a hilarious celebration of the great eccentrics who have performed dangerous experiments on themselves for the benefit of humankind, written with all the wit, humour and eye for the beauties of nature - and machinery and scientific equipment - that have gained Trevo ...Show more
The Origin of Species: and The Voyage of the Beagle (Vintage Classics) by Charles Darwin; Ruth Padel (Introduction by)
24.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
"WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DARWIN'S GREAT-GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER, RUTH PADEL When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board the H.M.S Beagle in 1836, he brought with him the notes and evidence which would form the basis of his landmark theory of evolution of species by a proc ...Show more
Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour by Philip Ball
35.00 NZD
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Category: Popular Science
Colour in art - as in life - is both inspiring and uplifting, but where does it come from? How have artists found new hues, and how have these influenced their work? Beginning with the ancients - when just a handful of pigments made up the artist's palette - and charting the discoveries and developments ...Show more
Hawking and Black Holes (The Big Idea) by Paul Strathern
19.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Big Idea
At a moment of great discovery, one Big Idea can change the world...Black holes have long been a topic of fascination, from pop culture to science fiction. Stephen Hawking's discoveries and research on black holes and cosmology have made him an academic celebrity and perhaps the best-known scientist of ...Show more
Flotsametrics and the Floating World by Curtis Ebbesmeyer
26.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Curtis Ebbesmeyer is no ordinary scientist. He's been a consulting oceanographer for multinational firms and a lead scientist on international research expeditions, but he's never held a conventional academic appointment. He seized the world's imagination as no ordinary scientist could when he and his w ...Show more