The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing by Richard Dawkins
$38.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Oxford Landmark Science Ser.
Selected and introduced by Richard Dawkins, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing is a celebration of the finest writing by scientists for a wider audience - revealing that many of the best scientists have displayed as much imagination and skill with the pen as they have in the laboratory. This is a ...Show more
Ways of Being - Animals, Plants, Machines - The Search for a Planetary Intelligence by James Bridle
$32.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle's Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence--plant, animal, human, artificial--and how they transform our understanding of humans' place in the cosmos. What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something uni ...Show more
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (2023 Royal Science Society Book Prize) by Ed Yong
$30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
**SUNDAY TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**A NEW YORK TIMES, GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST, SPECTATOR, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT and NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARThe Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed withi ...Show more
The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Maths by Manil Suri
$25.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'Who knew numbers could be so charming? ... Suri takes us on a light-hearted journey all the way from nothing (zero) to infinity' Karen Joy Fowler, New York Times bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves Our universe has multiple origin stories, from religious creation myths to the B ...Show more
The Encyclopedia of the Weird and Wonderful: Curious and Incredible Facts that Will Blow Your Mind by Milo Rossi
$40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Discover a plethora of intriguing and entertaining facts from archaeology and history-brought to life with clever illustrations and full-color and design. In The Encyclopedia of the Weird and Wonderful, TikTok educator and Youtuber Milo Rossi presents an assortment of funny and detailed anecdotes of som ...Show more
Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
$42.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
An ambitious, eye-opening, myth-busting and groundbreaking history of the evolution of the female body, by a brilliant new scientist and writer. How did wet nurses drive civilization? Are women always the weaker sex? Is sexism useful for evolution? And are our bodies at war with our babies? In Eve, Ca ...Show more
The Skeptics' Guide to the Future by Steven Novella
$40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Pre-order now: the new book from the bestselling authors and hosts of the wildy popular 'The Skeptics Guide to the Universe'__________Our predictions of the future are a wild fantasy, inextricably linked to our present hopes and fears, biases and ignorance. Whether they be the outlandish leaps predicted ...Show more
White Holes: Inside the Horizon by Carlo Rovelli
$40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A mesmerizing trip to the strange new world of white holes, from Carlo Rovelli, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics. Let us journey, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli, into the heart of a black hole. Let us slip beyond its boundary, the horizon, and tumble - on and on - down thi ...Show more
Seven and a Half Lessons about the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
$30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'"I thought it might be fun for people to be able to a read a neuroscience book on the beach," Barrett explains. But be warned: you may find your world turned upside down before it is time for cocktails.' - Guardian'Each lesson will enlighten and unsettle you. It's like lifting up the hood of a car to s ...Show more
Allergic: How Our Immune System reacts to a Changing World by Theresa MacPhail
$60.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
An eye-opening investigation - combining reporting, history and cutting-edge science - into allergies and their rise in recent decadesHay fever. Peanut allergies. Eczema. Billions of people worldwide have some form of allergy; millions have one severe enough to seriously endanger their health. And over ...Show more
Machines Behaving Badly: The Morality of AI by Toby Walsh
$37.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Can we build moral machines? Toby Walsh, AI expert, examines the ethical issues we face in a future dominated by artificial intelligence.Artificial intelligence is an essential part of our lives - for better or worse. It can be used to influence what we buy, who gets shortlisted for a job and even how w ...Show more
Food for Life by Tim Spector
$40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
From the bestselling author of Spoon-Fed and The Diet Myth, a comprehensive guide to the new science of nutrition, drawing on Tim Spector's cutting-edge research.Food is our greatest ally for good health, but the question of what to eat has never seemed so complicated. In his new book, Tim Spector creat ...Show more