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Kay's Anatomy: A Complete (and Completely Disgusting) Guide to the Human Body by Adam Kay
$35.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Do you ever think about your body and how it all works? Like really properly think about it? The human body is extraordinary and fascinating and, well... pretty weird. Yours is weird, mine is weird, your maths teacher's is even weirder. This book is going to tell you what's actually going on in there, a ...Show more
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
$35.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Abacus Science Greats Ser.
Narrado con la proverbial habilidad que tenía Sagan para conseguir que las ideas científicas fuesen comprensibles y apasionantes, Cosmos trata de la ciencia en su contexto humano más amplio y explica cómo la ciencia y la civilización se desarrollan conjuntamente. La obra aborda también el tema de las mi ...Show more
Prisoners of Geography - Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall
$28.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Yes, to follow world events you need to understand people, ideas and movements - but if you don't know geography, you'll never have the full picture. If you've ever wondered why Putin is so obses ...Show more
The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread and Why They Stop by Adam Kucharski; Francesca Barrie (Editor)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Wellcome Collection
The new science of contagion, and the surprising ways it shapes our lives and behaviour.
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
$30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
From the best-selling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos comes his most expansive and accessible book to date--a book that takes on the grandest question: Is ours the only universe? There was a time when "universe" meant all there is. Everything. Yet, in recent years discoverie ...Show more
Origin Story by David Christian
$29.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
How did we get from the Big Bang to today's staggering complexity, in which seven billion humans are connected into networks powerful enough to transform the planet? And why, in comparison, are our closest primate relatives reduced to near-extinction? Big History creator David Christian gives the answe ...Show more
Seven Pillars of Science - The Incredible Lightness of Ice, and Other Scientific Surprises by John Gribbin
$35.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The seven fundamental - and surprising - scientific truths of our existence. John Gribbin, author of Six Impossible Things, shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize, presents a tour of seven fundamental scientific truths that underpin our very existence. These 'pillars o ...Show more
The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield by Brian Deer
$40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Award-winning investigative reporter Brian Deer reveals the shocking truth behind the rise of Andrew Wakefield the so-called father of the anti-vaccine movement. In February 1998, a then-unknown British doctor, Andrew Wakefield, published an explosive scientific paper in a top medical journal, The Lan ...Show more
Human Body (Pocket Eyewitness) by DK
$13.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Pocket Eyewitness
Find out about bones, breathing, blood, and the brain in this brilliant mini book about how the human body works. Pocket Eyewitness Human Bodyis the perfect guide for curious children who want to know everything about the body and its inner-workings. Bite-sized chunks of information, amazing images, an ...Show more
Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking
$29.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. 'A beautiful little book by a brilliant mind'- DAILY TELEGRAPH. 'Effortlessly instructive, absorbing, up to the minute and - where it matters - witty'- GUARDIAN. The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final ...Show more
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
$18.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
In this mind-bending introduction to modern physics, Carlo Rovelli explains Einstein's theory of general relativity, quantum mechanics, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, elementary particles, gravity, and the nature of the mind.Everything you need to know about modern physics, the u ...Show more
Beneath the Night by Stuart Clark
$33.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
From Stone Age to space age, people have looked up at the stars and been inspired by their beauty, their patterns, and their majesty. Beneath the Night is a history of humanity, told through our relationship with the night sky. From prehistoric cave art and Ancient Egyptian zodiacs to the modern era of ...Show more
