Manthropology: The Secret Science of Modern Male Inadequacy by Peter McAllister
39.99 NZD
Category: Science
Drawing from archaeology, anthropology and evolutionary psychology, the author confirms the awful truth: every man in history, back to the dawn of the species, did everything better, faster, stronger and smarter than any man today. Highlights include a biomechanical analysis proving that a Neanderthal w ...Show more
A Book of Scientific Curiosities: A Book of Scientific Curiosities : Facts and Feats by Cyril Aydon
29.99 NZD
Category: Science
A selection of nearly 200 famous scientists, and their discoveries. This work pulls together elements of mystery and intrigue, with accounts that bring science to life.
Hung Like an Argentine Duck : A Journey Back in Time to the Origins of Sexual Intimacy by John A. Long
36.99 NZD
Category: Science
No doubt about it, sex sells. From homosexual penguins, lesbian ostriches to necrophiliac snakes and fellating fruitbats, it's all here in this unusual little book. Dr John Long discovered the Gogo Fish. What's that you say? It's a 380-million-year-old fossilised armoured shark-like fish replete with a ...Show more
Can Kissing Make You Live Longer? by Stephen Juan
9.99 NZD
Category: Science
Filled with curious and strange facts and information about our fascinating bodies, there will be something in this book to interest everyone - and everybody. If you want to know if there is a limit to how many times the human body can almost die, the necessity of morning sickness, or if robots are like ...Show more
Please Explain by Karl Kruszelnicki
29.99 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
This is the latest in Dr. Karl's mega-selling science series. Australia's favourite scientist answers more curly questions on life, the universe and everything. No-one conveys the excitement and wonder of science quite like Dr. Karl, and this takes us on another thoroughly entertaining exploration of th ...Show more
Simplexity: The Simple Rules of a Complex World by Jeffrey Kluger
39.99 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: good
Why does kicking the TV work? What can the US military learn from the lowly bacterium? Why are the instruction manuals for cell phones incomprehensible? How does a spark of a single virus trigger an epidemic that claims millions? In recent years, cutting-edge studies in fields such as economics, genetic ...Show more
Simplexity by Jeffrey Kluger
29.99 NZD
Category: Science
Why does kicking the TV work? What can the US military learn from the lowly bacterium? Why are the instruction manuals for cell phones incomprehensible? How does a spark of a single virus trigger an epidemic that claims millions?In recent years, cutting-edge studies in fields such as economics, genetics ...Show more
Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics: A Math-Free Exploration of the Science That Made Our World by James Kakalios
34.99 NZD
Category: Science
In the pulp magazines and comics of the 1950s, it was predicted that the future would be one of gleaming utopias, with flying cars, jetpacks, and robotic personal assistants. Obviously, things didn't turn out that way. But the world we do have is actually more fantastic than the most outlandish predicti ...Show more
Hubble by Robin Kerrod
49.99 NZD
Category: Science
High above the Earth's hazy atmosphere, the Hubble Space Telescope has literally opened up a new window on the Universe, as its creators planned, and is returning images and data that are amazing and astounding astronomers. It is showing in unprecedented detail stars being born and in their final death ...Show more
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
60.00 NZD
Category: Science
In this exhilarating new book, Brian Greene explores our most current understanding of the universe, its deepest laws of nature, and our continuing quest to know more. "The Hidden Reality" reveals how major developments in different branches of fundamental theoretical physics - relativistic, quantum, co ...Show more
Homo Britannicus by Chris Stringer
79.95 NZD
Category: Science
"Homo Britannicus" tells the epic history of life in Britain, from man's very first footsteps to the present day. Drawing on all the latest evidence and techniques of investigation, Chris Stringer describes times when Britain was so tropical that man lived alongside hippos and sabre tooth tiger, times s ...Show more