The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean
39.99 NZD
Category: Science
Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputuation? And why did tellurium (Te, 52) lead to the most bizarre gold rush in history? The periodic table is one of our crowning scientific ...Show more
50 Universe Ideas You Really Need to Know by Joanne Baker
29.99 NZD
Category: Science | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
For millennia humanity has gazed in wonder at the night sky, tracked the motions of the planets and attempted to explain our place in the Universe. But only in our own time has the true scale, the astonishing variety and the remarkable strangeness of the cosmos come clearly into focus. The pace and soph ...Show more
A Many-colored Glass by Freeman J. Dyson
36.99 NZD
60.69 (39% off)
Category: Science | Series: Page-Barbour Lectures
Freeman Dyson's latest book does not attempt to bring together all of the celebrated physicist's thoughts on science and technology into a unified theory. The emphasis is, instead, on the myriad ways in which the universe presents itself to us - and how, as observers and participants in its processes, w ...Show more
Conceptual Physics by Ellen Wood
122.99 NZD
138.99 (11% off)
Category: Science
In the tenth edition of 'Conceptual Physics', Paul Hewitt helps students connect physics to their everyday experiences and the world around them with additional help on solving more mathematical problems. The text engages students with analogies and imagery from real-world situations and has exercises a ...Show more
Ruler & Compass: Practical Geometric Constructions by Andrew Sutton
21.99 NZD
23.00 (4% off)
Category: Science | Series: Wooden Books
An introduction to geometry without measurements. Since the earliest times, mankind has employed the simple geometric forms of straight line and circle, in art, architecture, and mathematics. Originally marked out by eye and later using a stretched cord, in time these came to be made with the simple too ...Show more
Perspective and Other Optical Illusions by Phoebe McNaughton
21.99 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Wooden Books
A thinking person's guide to reality. "" The science of perspective has informed the representational and decorative arts since their inception, and its gradual perfection during the Renaissance was as important an event as any of the other mathematical and scientific developments of the time. Beginning ...Show more
Symmetry: The Ordering Principle by David Wade
21.90 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Wooden Books
Symmetry underlies almost every aspect of nature and our experience of the world, from the subatomic realms of quantum mechanics to the equations of physics, in art, architecture and our concepts of morality and justice. In this little book Welsh writer and artist David Wade paints a picture of one of t ...Show more
The Golden Section : Nature's Greatest Secret by Scott Olsen
21.99 NZD
25.00 (12% off)
Category: Science | Series: Wooden Books
The Golden Section - otherwise known as phi, the golden mean, or golden ratio - is one of the most elegant and beautiful ratios in the universe. Defined as a line segment divided into two unequal parts, such that the ratio of the shorter portion to the longer portion is the same as the longer portion to ...Show more
"National Geographic" Encyclopedia of Space by Linda K. Glover
49.99 NZD
87.99 (43% off)
Category: Science
The National Geographic Encyclopedia of Space offers clear and concise explanations of the planets; telescopes; manned space flight; satellites; the origin of the universe; the contributions of Nicolaus Copernicus, Edwin Hubble, and Stephen Hawking; and much more. The Encyclopedia of Space answers such ...Show more
Statistics Workbook for Dummies by Deborah Rumsey
24.99 NZD
27.99 (10% off)
Category: Science
A friendly, hands-on guide to the dreaded field of statistics Competence in and understanding statistics is important to success in such fields as business and science, and is often a requirement for college students in a variety of programs. This handy guide complements author Deborah Rumsey's Statisti ...Show more