Science by Pete Moore
19.99 NZD
Category: Science
This book contains the information about the 50 most influential scientists and scientific breakthroughs that shaped our world. Spanning four thousand years of civilisation, the "Little Book of Big Ideas: Science" gives you the stories behind the brilliance, brainstorming, set backs, and formulae from c ...Show more
Fireballs, Skyquakes and Hums : Probing the Mysteries of Light and Sound by Anthony Milne
74.99 NZD
Category: Science
This book guarantees a grand tour of the 'fireball' mystery and covers all aspects of science to help the reader understand the wide range of natural objects and unexplained phenomena that can be seen so often in our skies. It includes a discussion of comets, ball lightning, anti-matter explosions, disc ...Show more
The Brain and the Meaning of Life by Paul Thagard
66.00 NZD
Category: Science
Why is life worth living? What makes actions right or wrong? What is reality and how do we know it? "The Brain and the Meaning of Life" draws on research in philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience to answer some of the most pressing questions about life's nature and value. Paul Thagard argues that evid ...Show more
A Mathematical Nature Walk by John A. Adam
55.95 NZD
Category: Science
How tall is that tree? How far away is that cloud, and how heavy is it? Why are the droplets on that spider web spaced apart so evenly? If you have ever asked questions like these while outdoors, and wondered how you might figure out the answers, this is a book for you. An entertaining and informative c ...Show more
Guesstimation by Lawrence Weinstein
46.95 NZD
Category: Science
"Guesstimation" is a book that unlocks the power of approximation - it's popular mathematics rounded to the nearest power of ten! The ability to estimate is an important skill in daily life. More and more leading businesses today use estimation questions in interviews to test applicants' abilities to th ...Show more
The Mathematical Century by Piergiorgio Odifreddi
49.99 NZD
64.99 (23% off)
Category: Science
The twentieth century was a time of unprecedented development in mathematics, as well as in all sciences: more theorems were proved and results found in a hundred years than in all of previous history. In "The Mathematical Century", Piergiorgio Odifreddi distills this unwieldy mass of knowledge into a f ...Show more
An Imaginary Tale by Paul J. Nahin
38.95 NZD
Category: Science
Today complex numbers have such widespread practical use - from electrical engineering to aeronautics - that few people would expect the story behind their derivation to be filled with adventure and enigma. In "An Imaginary Tale", Paul Nahin tells the 2000-year-old history of one of mathematics' most el ...Show more
Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
22.95 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Princeton Science Library
By imagining the contact of beings from different dimensions, the author exploited the power of the analogy between the limitations of humans and those of his 2D characters. He points out that there is no better way to begin exploring the problem of understanding higher-dimensional slicing phenomena tha ...Show more
How Mathematicians Think by William Byers
72.00 NZD
Category: Science
To many outsiders, mathematicians appear to think like computers, grimly grinding away with a strict formal logic and moving methodically - even algorithmically - from one black-and-white deduction to another. Yet mathematicians often describe their most important breakthroughs as creative, intuitive re ...Show more
Reading in the Brain by Stanislas Dehaene
54.99 NZD
70.00 (21% off)
Category: Science
A renowned cognitive neuroscientist's fascinating and highly informative account of how the brain acquires reading How can a few black marks on a white page evoke an entire universe of sounds and meanings? In this riveting investigation, Stanislas Dehaene provides an accessible account of the brain circ ...Show more
Cosmic Jackpot by Paul Davies
51.99 NZD
Category: Science
People have long gazed in wonder at the universe and asked, Why are we here? Until recently, the answer has been the province of priests and philosophers, but now scientists are starting to weigh in with ideas that are both surprising and deeply controversial. In his new book, physicist Paul Davies show ...Show more