The Periodic Table Flash Cards (Our World in Pictures) by .
$26.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Get to grips with the periodic table through playing fun games.The periodic table sets out the humble ingredients of everything in the Universe, but with 118 elements, that's a lot of ingredients to remember! This is where DK's Periodic Table Flash Cards come in.Each element has its very own beautifully ...Show more
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson
$29.00 NZD
Category: Futurism
The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a compelling account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolution that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies. When Jennifer Doudna was in sixth grade, she c ...Show more
Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis by James Davies
$28.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A provocative and shocking look at how western society is misunderstanding and mistreating mental illness. In Britain alone, more than 20% of the adult population take a psychiatric drug in any one year. This is an increase of over 500% since 1980 and the numbers continue to grow. Yet, despite this pres ...Show more
Sticky - The Secret Science of Surfaces by Laurie Winkless
$33.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
You are surrounded by stickiness. With every step you take, air molecules cling to you and slow you down; the effect is harder to ignore in water. When you hit the road, whether powered by pedal or engine, you rely on grip to keep you safe. The Post-it note and glue in your desk drawer. The non-stick pa ...Show more
Geopedia: A Brief Compendium of Geologic Curiosities by Marcia Bjornerud
$35.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Pedia Bks.
A garden of geologic delights for all Earthlings Geopedia is a trove of geologic wonders and the evocative terms that humans have devised to describe them. Featuring dozens of entries — from Acasta gneiss to Zircon — this illustrated compendium is brimming with lapidary and lexical insights that will de ...Show more
Welcome to the Universe in 3D: A Visual Tour by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, J. Richard Gott, Robert J. Vanderbei
$45.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Journey into the vast depths of the observable universe by visualising the most spectacular images in astronomy in stereoscopic 3D.Welcome to the Universe in 3D takes you on a grand tour of the observable universe, guiding you through the most spectacular sights in the cosmos — in breathtaking 3D. Prese ...Show more
The Future is Fungi: How Fungi Can Feed Us, Heal Us, Free Us and Save Our World by Michael Lim, Yun Shu
$54.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
The kingdom of fungi has survived all five major extinction events. They are the architects of the natural world, integral to all life. They sustain critical ecosystems, recycling nutrients and connecting plants across vast areas, and help to produce many staples of modern life, such as wine, chocolate, ...Show more
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World by Tim Marshall
$27.00 NZD
Category: Geography
Tim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation's choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then, the geography hasn't changed. But the world has.In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in a ...Show more
At Sixes and Sevens: How to Understand Numbers and Make Maths Easy by Rachel Riley
$33.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
An engaging, accessible introduction into how numbers work and why we shouldn’t be afraid of them, from maths expert Rachel Riley. Do you know your fractions from your percentages? Your adjacent to your hypotenuse? And who really knows how to do long division, anyway? Puzzled already? Don’t blame you… ...Show more
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow
$30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'Pacey and potentially revolutionary' Sunday Times 'Iconoclastic and irreverent ... an exhilarating read' The Guardian 'This is not a book. This is an intellectual feast' Nassim Nicholas Taleb For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thu ...Show more
Mystery - A Seduction, a Strategy, a Solution by Jonah Lehrer
$50.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Why does mystery create a mental itch that must be scratched? New York Times bestselling author Jonah Lehrer unlocks the secrets of mystery's allure, putting together recent discoveries in the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and anthropology and shining a new light on everything from the formulas of ...Show more
Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality by Frank Wilczek
$26.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The Nobel Prize-winning physicist offers ten insights that illuminate all you need to know about the UniverseOne of our great contemporary scientists reveals the ten profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical worldIn Fundamentals, Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek offers t ...Show more