The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
$27.00 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 ab ...Show more
Hope in Hell - Confronting the Climate Emergency by Jonathon Porritt
$38.00 NZD
Category: Environment
'Brave and unflinching in setting out the reality of the hell towards which we're headed, but even more urgent, passionate and compelling about the grounds for hope if we change course fast enough, Hope in Hell is a powerful call to arms from one of Britain's most eloquent and trusted campaigners.' Caro ...Show more
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
Pandemic Century - A History of Contagion From The Spanish Flu To Covid 19 by Mark Honigsbaum
$26.00 NZD
Category: History
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year The most timely and informative history book you will read this year, tracing a century of pandemics, with a new chapter on COVID-19. Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disea ...Show more
The Secret Life of Trees - How They Live and Why They Matter by Colin Tudge
$35.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing | Series: Penguin Press Science
'Everyone interested in the natural world will enjoy The Secret Life of Trees. I found myself reading out whole chunks to friends' The Times, Books of the YearWhat is a tree? As this celebration of the trees shows, they are our countryside; our ancestors descended from them; they gave us air to breathe. ...Show more
The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change by Tim Flannery
$30.00 NZD
Category: Environment
What does climate change mean? How will global warming affect our lives? Is it the cause of wilder storms and more frequent droughts? Are these events inevitable? Tim Flannery makes this urgent issue completely accessible. He tells the fascinating story of climate change over millions of years to help u ...Show more
Caesar's Last Breath by Sam Kean
$28.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
It's invisible. It's ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell. In Caesar's Last Breath, New York Timesbestselling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic table, around the globe, and across time to tell the story of the air we breathe, whic ...Show more
Prisoners of Geography 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
Origin Story: A Big History Of Everything by David Christian
$29.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Australian
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 answers ...Show more
Unlocking the Universe by Lucy and Stephen 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 includ ...Show more
Brief Answers to the Big Questions: the final book from Stephen Hawking 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 t ...Show more
Cosmos: The Story of Cosmic Evolution, Science and Civilisation by Carl Sagan
$30.00 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