The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table by Sam Kean
30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Fascinating and hilarious true stories from the Periodic Table - Longlisted for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2011 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 reputatio ...Show more
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
28.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener.
Trick or Treatment?: Alternative Medicine on Trial by Simon Singh
30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Welcome to the world of alternative medicine. Prince Charles is a staunch defender and millions of people swear by it; most UK doctors consider it to be little more than superstition and a waste of money. But how do you know which treatments really heal and which are potentially harmful?Now at last you ...Show more
Reinventing the Sacred. A New View of Science, Reason and Religion by Stuart A. Kauffman
50.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Consider the woven integrated complexity of a living cell after 3. 8 billion years of evolution. Is it more awe-inspiring to suppose that a transcendent God fashioned the cell, or to consider that the living organism was created by the evolving biosphere? As the eminent complexity theorist Stuart Kauffm ...Show more
Weather Whys: Facts, Myths, and Oddities by Paul Yeager
26.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The myths, history, wives-tales, oddities, and wonders of a subject that comes up every day: the weather. Weather enthusiasts (or just the weather-curious) will discover surprising facts, myths, and oddities in this fascinating book of useful (and sometimes useless) information. With his expertise as a ...Show more
Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science by Carol Kaesuk Yoon
33.00 NZD
47.99 (31% off)
Category: Popular Science
Biologist Carol Kaesuk Yoon explores the historical tension between evolutionary biology and taxonomy. Carl Linnaeus struggled in the eighteenth century to define species in light of their mutability while still relying on intuitive, visual judgments. As taxonomy modernized, it moved into labs, yielding ...Show more
Plan B 4.0 by Lester R. Brown
27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
As fossil fuel prices rise, oil insecurity deepens, and concerns about climate change cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new energy economy is emerging. Wind, solar, and geothermal energy are replacing oil, coal, and natural gas, at a pace and on a scale we could not have imagined even a year ago. ...Show more
Pythagoras Trousers by M Wertheim
45.00 NZD
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Here is a fresh, astute social and cultural history of physics, from ancient Greece to our own time. From its inception, Margaret Wertheim shows, physics has been an overwhelmingly male-dominated activity; she argues that gender inequity in physics is a result of the religious origins of the enterprise. ...Show more
The Cloud Collector's Handbook by Gavin Pretor-Pinney
30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The perfect incentive for keeping your head in the clouds, The Cloud Collector's Handbook is a whimsical guide to the wonders of the sky. Throughout, author and cloud expert Gavin Pretor-Pinney catalogs a variety of clouds and gives readers points for spotting them and recording their finds. This fun an ...Show more
Terra: Tales of the Earth by Richard Hamblyn
30.00 NZD
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Blending history, science and eye-witness accounts, and arranged in chapters corresponding to the four elements (earth, air, fire and water), "Terra" explores the relationship between the planet and the humans who inhabit its surfaces. Through four case histories - the Lisbon earthquake of 1755; the wea ...Show more
The Numerati : How they'll get my number and yours by Stephen Baker
38.00 NZD
39.99 (4% off)
Category: Popular Science
In a world teeming with data, we ourselves become the math nerds' most prized specimens. In "The Numerati" Stephen Baker, a "Business Week" senior writer, takes us on a guided tour (no maths required) through an unprecedented new era, in which mathematicians are starting to map individual human behaviou ...Show more