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Small Gases, Big Effect: the Climate Change by David Nelles; Christian Serrer
$18.81 NZD
Category: Popular Science
When students David Nelles and Christian Serrer struggled to find a book that explained the nuts and bolts of climate change in a way that was comprehensive, concise and enjoyable to read, they decided to write it themselves. With meticulous research corroborated by over 100 scientists, Small Gases, Bi ...Show more
The Better Half - On the Genetic Superiority of Women by Sharon Moalem
$26.00 NZD
Category: Feminism
A Guardian Book of the Week Longlisted for the PEN / E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award An award-winning physician and scientist makes the game-changing case that genetic females are stronger than males at every stage of life Here are some facts: Women live longer than men. They have stronger ...Show more
The Precipice by Toby Ord
$25.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'Splendid . . . The Precipice is a powerful book, written with a philosopher's eye . . . Ord's love for humanity and hope for its future is infectious' Spectator. We live during the most important era of human history. In the twentieth century, we developed the means to destroy ourselves without develop ...Show more
Six Impossible Things by John Gribbin
$22.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A short guide to the six theories that try to explain the wild world of the quantum.
Letters of Note: Space by Shaun Usher (Compiled by)
$16.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A compulsive collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and powerful letters with space at their heart, curated by the founder of the global phenomenon lettersofnote.com
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack
$48.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
We know the universe had a beginning. But what happens at the end of the story? With lively wit and wry humour, astrophysicist Katie Mack takes us on a mind-bending tour through each of the cosmos' possible finales: the Big Crunch, Heat Death, Vacuum Decay, the Big Rip and the Bounce. Guiding us throug ...Show more
Metazoa - Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind by Peter Godfrey-Smith
$48.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
"Enthralling . . . breathtaking . . . Metazoa brings an extraordinary and astute look at our own mind's essential link to the animal world." --The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) "A great book . . . [Godfrey-Smith is] brilliant at describing just what he sees, the patterns of behaviour of ...Show more
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
$34.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most revered writers takes us on a mind-altering journey to the frontiers of human consciousness. 'It's as if we made entering gothic cathedrals illegal, or museums, or sunsets!' When LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it seemed to res ...Show more
10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness (PB) by Alanna Collen
$25.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Obesity, autism, mental health problems, IBS, allergies, auto-immunity, cancer. Does the answer to the modern epidemic of 'Western' diseases lie in our gut? You are 10% human. For every one of your cells, there are nine impostors hitching a ride. You are not just flesh and bone, but also bacteria and fu ...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.
Bird Way by Jennifer Ackerman
$40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds -- how they live and how they think. 'There is the mammal way and there is the bird way.' Thi ...Show more
How to Be Animal - A New History of What It Means to Be Human by Melanie Challenger
$33.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Combining popular science, history and moral philosophy, this is a wide-ranging and radical new take on the human story and what it means for us today.
