Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences by Cordelia Fine
36.99 NZD
Category: Science
Sex discrimination is supposedly a distant memory. Yet popular books, magazines and even scientific articles defend inequalities by citing immutable biological differences between the male and female brain. Why are there so few women in science and engineering, so few men in the laundry room? Well, they ...Show more
Pythagoras: His Lives and the Legacy of a Rational Universe by Kitty Ferguson
35.00 NZD
Category: Science
The enthralling story of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans, whose insight transformed the ancient world and still inspire the realms of science, mathematics, philosophy and the arts. Einstein said that the most incredible thing about our universe was that it was comprehensible at all. As Kitty Ferguson ex ...Show more
The Genius in All of Us : A new science of talent and human potential by David Shenk
39.99 NZD
Category: Science
This title offers a dazzling look at the new science of genetics and the frontiers of human potential. Integrating cutting edge research from a wide swath of disciplines, Shenk portrays a highly-optimistic new view of human potential. The problem isn't our inadequate genetic assets, but our inability, s ...Show more
Quantum : Einstein, Bohr and the great debate about the nature of reality by Manjit Kumar
59.99 NZD
Category: Science
This is the dramatic, powerful and superbly-written history of the most important and challenging scientific revolution of the 20th-century - and the ferocious debate at its heart.Without quantum theory our world would not exist. Yet for sixty years most physicists believed that quantum theory denied th ...Show more
100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know by John Barrow
32.99 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
'If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is' - John von Neumann. Mathematics can tell you things about the world that can't be learned in any other way. This hugely informative and wonderfully entertaining little book answers one h ...Show more
Voyage Across the Cosmos by Giles Sparrow
35.00 NZD
Category: Science
Starting at Planet Earth, you will travel over 130-billion-trillion kilometres across the solar system and milky way, through deep space to the very outer edge of the universe. Along the way you will encounter raging planets and their deadly atmospheres, icy moons that could support life, and immense, s ...Show more
The Story of Astronomy by Peter Aughton
49.99 NZD
55.00 (9% off)
Category: Science
Covers topics from the ancient origins of astronomy to the Copernican revolution, and from Galileo to Hawking's research into black holes. This book charts the discoveries of some of the greatest minds in human history, and their attempts to unveil the secrets of the stars.
The Making of the Fittest - DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution by Sean B. Caroll
25.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
The Making of the Fittest delves deep into the DNA record to reveal not just how the fittest survive but also how they are made.
The Making of the Fittest by Sean B. Carroll
59.99 NZD
Category: Science
DNA evidence not only solves crimes - if you know how to read it, it can also reveal the history of life on earth. This fast-paced book guides the general reader on a tour of the DNA record left by three billion years of evolution to see how the fittest were made. And what a eye-opening tour it is - one ...Show more
Farmer Buckley's Exploding Trousers: And Other Odd Events on the Way to Scientific Discovery by Stephanie Pain
35.00 NZD
Category: Science
In August 1931, New Zealand farmer Richard Buckley hit the local headlines - or rather his trousers did. One minute they were drying in front of the fire; the next there was a huge blast and a ball of flames. Farmer Buckley's trousers had exploded. The culprit? A popular pesticide of the day, which when ...Show more