Sticky: The Secret Science of Surfaces by Laurie Winkless
$25.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
You are surrounded by stickiness. With every step you take, air molecules cling to you and slow you down; the effect is harder to ignore in water. When you hit the road, whether powered by pedal or engine, you rely on grip to keep you safe. The Post-it note and glue in your desk drawer. The non-stick pa ...Show more
The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics by Heinrich Pas
$45.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A particle physicist makes the scientific case for an ancient idea about thenature of the universe: that all is One.
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia MD
$40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
This is the ultimate manual for longevity.For all its successes, mainstream medicine has failed to make much progress against the diseases of ageing that kill most people- heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and type 2 diabetes. Too often, it intervenes with treatments too late, prolonging lifes ...Show more
This Way to the Universe: A Journey into Physics by Michael Dine
$30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Everything you need to know about physics, written in language anyone can follow by one of the greatest living physicistsThis Way to the Universe is a celebration of the astounding, ongoing scientific investigations that have revealed the nature of reality at its smallest, at its largest, and at the sca ...Show more
Apocalypse Ready: A manual of manuals; a century of panic prevention by Taras Young
$55.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
An expertly curated compilation of officially published step-by-step guides on how to deal with every kind of disaster imaginable, drawn from government archives all around the world from the 1910s to today. Organized into four broad disaster-themed scenarios - Pandemics, Natural Disasters, Nuclear War ...Show more
The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us If We Let Them by Peter Wohlleben
$40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The follow-up to the international bestseller The Hidden Life of Trees, offering compelling insights into the lungs of our planet and the fragility of our intertwined futures. Trees can survive without humans, but we can't live without trees. Even if human-caused climate change devastates our plant, tr ...Show more
Sensational: A New Story of our Senses by Ashley Ward
$45.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Why do women have a better sense of smell than men?Has the iPhone changed how we touch? Does the Danube really look blue when you're in love?Our senses are at the heart of how we navigate the world. They help us recognise the expressions on a loved one's face, know whether fruit is ripe by its smell, or ...Show more
An Illustrated History of UFOs by Adam Allsuch Boardman
$45.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A deep dive into the world of Ufology--the study and search for extraterrestrial life--with a fun, informative, humorous look at the history of this strange world of conspiracy. Throughout history people have witnessed a dizzying show of mysterious lights in the sky. Whether they are the devices of alie ...Show more
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
$46.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
"A glorious book . . . A spirited defense of science . . . From the first page to the last, this book is a manifesto for clear thought." ; *Los Angeles Times "POWERFUL . . . A stirring defense of informed rationality. . . Rich in surprising information and beautiful writing." ; *The Washington Post Book ...Show more
What If? 2 - Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (HB) by Randall Munroe
$50.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of What If? and How To answers more of the weirdest questions you never thought to ask The millions of people around the world who read and loved What If? still have questions, and those questions are getting stranger. Thank goodness xkcd creator Randall Munroe i ...Show more
Anaximander: And the Nature of Science by Carlo Rovelli
$40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics tells the thrilling story of one of the greatest intellectual leaps of all time Over two millennia ago, a Greek philosopher had a number of wondrous insights that paved the way to cosmology, physics, geography, meteorology and biology, setting in ...Show more
On the Origin of Species (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Oliver (AFT) Charles; Francis Darwin
$20.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to lo ...Show more