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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
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor
$40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
300,000 years ago, Homo sapienshad bigger skulls. Cooked food meant our heads shrunk; alongside a growing brain, our airways got narrower. Urbanisation then led us to breathe less deeply and less healthily. And so today more than 90% of us breathe incorrectly. So we might have been breathing all our lif ...Show more
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
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
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
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
Unlocking the Universe by Stephen Hawking; Lucy Hawking
$30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Have you ever wondered how the universe began? Or what it takes to put humans on the moon - or even on Mars? What would you do if you could travel through space and time? Embark on the adventure of a lifetime in this beautiful collection of up-to-the-minute essays by the world's leading scientists incl ...Show more
How Zoologists Organize Things - The Art of Classification by David Bainbridge
$45.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Discover how categorisation has shaped our view of the natural world with How Zoologists Organize Things. The book unveils wild truths and even wilder myths about animals, as perpetuated by zoologists - revealing how much more there is to learn, and unlearn.
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
Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Revised Edition 2006) by Steven D. Levitt; Stephen J. Dubner
$30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime? These may not sound like typical question ...Show more
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
$26.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us.' Bill Bryson sets off to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable a ...Show more
Letters from an Astrophysicist by Neil deGrasse Tyson
$36.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Join the galactic conversation on the biggest issues in the universe 'Don't fear change. Don't fear failure. The only thing to fear is loss of ambition. But if you've got plenty of that, then you have nothing to fear at all' - Neil deGrasse Tyson Neil deGrasse Tyson is arguably the most influential, ac ...Show more
