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
Climate Files by Fred Pearce
33.00 NZD
37.00 (10% off)
Category: Popular Science
It is the biggest scandal to hit global warming science in years. In November 2009 it emerged that thousands of documents and emails had been stolen from one of the top climate science centres in the world. The emails appeared to reveal that scientists had twisted research in order to strengthen the cas ...Show more
Einstein: Stubbornly Persistent Illusion by Albert Einstein
60.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
From the work that "made" modern scientific thought and his important discoveries, to his later musings on his landmark findings and his philosophical essays on Zionism and other important issues of the 20th Century, "Einstein" is the most extensive anthology of the scientist, and the only one to provid ...Show more
The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work by Shawn Achor
36.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Most people want to be successful in life. And of course, everyone wants to be happy. When it comes to the pursuit of success and happiness, most people assume the same formula: if you work hard, you will become successful, and once you become successful, then you'll be happy. The only problem is that a ...Show more
Massive: The Hunt for the God Particle by Ian Sample
45.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Now fully updated -- this is the dramatic and gripping account of the greatest scientific discovery of our time. In the early 1960s, three groups of physicists, working independently in different countries, stumbled upon an idea that would change physics and fuel the imagination of scientists for d ...Show more
Massive: The Hunt for the God Particle by Ian Sample
30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
In the early 1960s, three groups of physicists, working independently in different countries, stumbled upon an idea that would change physics and fuel one of the greatest races science has ever seen. That idea was the 'God particle', or Higgs boson - to find it would be to finally understand the origins ...Show more
Electrified Sheep by Alex Boese
31.00 NZD
33.00 (6% off)
Category: Popular Science
Benjamin Franklin was a pioneering scientist, leader of the Enlightenment and founding father of the USA. But perhaps less well known is that he was also the first person to use artificial respiration to revive an electric shock victim. Odder still, it was actually mouth-to-beak resuscitation on a hen t ...Show more
The Most Human Human: A Defence of Humanity in the Age of the Computer by Brian Christian
42.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
For the first time in history, we are interacting with computer programmes so sophisticated that we think they're human beings . . . This is a remarkable feat of human ingenuity, but what does it say about our humanity? Are we really no better at being human than the machines we've created? In this br ...Show more
Getting More: How You Can Negotiate to Succeed in Work & Life by Stuart Diamond
42.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
You're always negotiating. Whether making a business deal, talking to friends or booking a holiday, negotiation is going on. And most of us are terrible at it. Experts tell us to negotiate as if we live in a rational world. But people can be angry, fearful and irrational. To achieve your goals you have ...Show more
We Need to Talk About Kelvin: What Everyday Things Tell Us About the Universe by Marcus Chown
30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Look around you. The reflection of your face in a window tells you that the universe is orchestrated by chance. The iron in a spot of blood on your finger tells you that somewhere out in space there is furnace at a temperature of 4.5 billion degrees. Your TV tells you that the universe had a beginning. ...Show more
The Common Sense of Science by Jacob Bronowski
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Jacob Bronowski was, with Kenneth Clarke, the greatest popularizer of serious ideas in Britain between the mid 1950s and the early 1970s. Trained as a mathematician, he was equally at home with painting and physics, and wrote a series of brilliant books that tried to break down the barriers between 'the ...Show more
The Finger Book : sex, behaviour and disease reveled in the fingers by John Manning
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
This book is about a simple measurement of the human hand: the 'finger ratio', or the length of the ring finger relative to the index finger. John Manning uses a tiny difference between the sexes - that men tend to have a greater finger ratio than women - to examine a dizzying group of questions about h ...Show more