The Sacred Balance: Discovering Our Place in Nature by David T. Suzuki
33.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
This special 10th anniversary edition of the David Suzuki classic, re-examines our place in the natural world in light of sweeping environmental changes and recent advances in scientific knowledge.
Little Book of Maths, Theorems, Theories and Things
20.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A unique collection of mathematical ideas, theories, theorems, conjectures, rules, facts, equations, formulas, paradoxes, fallacies and puzzles with short, simple and witty explanations that require no background in mathematics.
Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History by Penny Le Couteur & Jay Burreson
34.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Though many factors have been proposed to explain the failure of Napoleon's 1812 Russian campaign, it has also been linked to something as small as a button, a tin button, the kind that fastened everything from the greatcoats of Napoleon's officers to the trousers of his foot soldiers. When temperature ...Show more
Journey of Souls by Michael Newton
39.00 NZD
45.00 (13% off)
Category: Popular Science | Series: Michael Newton's Journey of Souls Ser.
This remarkable book uncovers--for the first time--the mystery of life in the spirit world after death on earth. Dr. Michael Newton, a hypnotherapist in private practice, has developed his own hypnosis technique to reach his subjects' hidden memories of the hereafter. The resulting narrative acts as a p ...Show more
Golden Ratio by Mario Livio
47.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The first book for the layperson on a mathematical relationship that has obsessed mathematicians, philosophers, scientists, and artists since ancient Greece--an omnipresent number considered to be "divine."
What We Believe But Cannot Prove : Today's leading thinkers on science in the age of certainty by John Brockman
30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
"What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?" This was the question posed by John Brockman to a group of leading scientists and thinkers via his Edge.org website. The subsequent answers created a media storm and prompted a fiery debate about all aspects of science, technology and even t ...Show more
Chasing the Sun : The Epic Story of the Star That Gives Us Life by Richard Cohen
30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The Sun is so powerful, so much bigger than us, that it is a terrifying subject. Yet though we depend on it, we take it for granted. Amazingly the first book of its kind, CHASING THE SUN is a cultural and scientific history of our relationship with the star that gives us life. Richard Cohen, applying th ...Show more
Genetic Roulette by Jeffrey M. Smith
43.00 NZD
78.00 (44% off)
Category: Popular Science
In this powerful sequel to "Seeds of Deception", Jeffrey Smith shatters the biotech industry's claim that genetically modified (GM) foods are safe. Nearly forty health risks of the foods that Americans eat every day are presented in easy-to-read two-page spreads. The left page is designed for the quick ...Show more
North Pole, South Pole - The Epic Quest to Solve the Mystery of Earth's Magnetism by Gillian Turner
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Awa Science Ser.
Publication delayed, now due November 2009. In Roman legend, a shepherd named Magnes, climbing a rocky hillside, was shocked to find that he could hardly move: his iron-studded boots and iron-tipped rod kept sticking to the rocks. Thus was recorded a mysterious natural phenomenon - magnetism - that woul ...Show more
Words of Wisdom: Inspiring Insights of the Great Philosophers by Gareth Southwell
37.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Words of Wisdom is an anthology of history's most memorable, uplifting or thought-provoking quotations from the greatest philosophers who have ever lived. Each of the 350 quotations is accompanied by a brief essay that tells the story of the speaker or explains the circumstances that gave rise to the qu ...Show more
50 Universe Ideas You Really Need to Know by Joanne Baker
29.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
For millennia humanity has gazed in wonder at the night sky, tracked the motions of the planets and attempted to explain our place in the Universe. But only in our own time has the true scale, the astonishing variety and the remarkable strangeness of the cosmos come clearly into focus. The pace and soph ...Show more
The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean
39.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputuation? And why did tellurium (Te, 52) lead to the most bizarre gold rush in history? The periodic table is one of our crowning scientific ...Show more