Sleights of Mind : Surprising Insights from the New Science of Neuro-magic by Sandra Blakeslee
39.99 NZD
Category: Science
This is a unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain, and everyday life. What can magic tell us about ourselves and how we communicate in our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject during an uncomfortable conversation, did you know you're using attentional 'misdirect ...Show more
Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures: Another Drawer from the Cabinet of Curiosities by Ian Stewart
35.00 NZD
Category: Science
This is a new trove of entrancing numbers and delightful mathematical nibbles for adventurous minds. Ian Stewart, author of the bestselling "Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities", presents a new and magical mix of games, puzzles, paradoxes, brainteasers, and riddles. He mingles these ...Show more
Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures by Ian Stewart
29.99 NZD
Category: Science
Ian Stewart, author of the bestselling Professor Stewart's "Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities", presents a new and magical mix of games, puzzles, paradoxes, brainteasers, and riddles. He mingles these with forays into ancient and modern mathematical thought, appallingly hilarious mathematical jokes, a ...Show more
An Optimist's Tour of the Future by Mark Stevenson
39.99 NZD
Category: Science
Mark Stevenson has been to the future a few years ahead of the rest of us - and reckons it has a lot going for it. His voyage of discovery takes him to Oxford to meet Transhumanists (they intend to live forever), to Boston where he confronts a robot with mood swings, to an underwater cabinet meeting in ...Show more
How to Make a Tornado: The Strange and Wonderful Things That Happen When Scientists Break Free by NEW SCIENTIST
24.99 NZD
Category: Science | Series: New Scientist Ser.
This is the newest title in the brilliant and bestselling "New Scientist" series. Science tells us grand things about the universe: how fast light travels, and why stones fall to earth. But scientific endeavor goes far beyond these obvious foundations. There are some fields we don't often hear about bec ...Show more
What Darwin Got Wrong by Jerry Fodor & Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini
59.99 NZD
Category: Science
This is a groundbreaking attack on the most influential scientific orthodoxy of the last 150 years. Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini, a distinguished philosopher and scientist working in tandem, reveal major flaws at the heart of Darwinian evolutionary theory. They do not deny Darwin's status ...Show more
Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?: And 101 Other Intriguing Science Questions by Mark O'Hare (ed)
24.99 NZD
Category: Science
"Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?" is the third compilation of readers' answers to the questions in the 'Last Word' column of "New Scientist", the world's best-selling science weekly. Following the phenomenal success of "Does Anything Eat Wasps?" (2005) and the even more spectacularly successful "Why Don't Pe ...Show more
Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities by Ian Stewart
35.00 NZD
Category: Science
School maths is not the interesting part. The real fun is elsewhere. Like a magpie, Ian Stewart has collected the most enlightening, entertaining and vexing 'curiosities' of maths over the years...Now, the private collection is displayed in his cabinet. There are some hidden gems of logic, geometry and ...Show more
King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry by Siobhan Roberts
39.99 NZD
Category: Science
The word geometry makes one think of circles, triangles, protractors and Pythagoras. By the middle of the 20th Century, it all looked dead, as the excitement in maths had moved to computers and chaos theory. But one man - Donald Coxeter - kept the torch burning, showing how geometry is at the core of al ...Show more
The Lightness of Being: Big Questions, Real Answers by Frank Wilczek
45.00 NZD
Category: Science
What's the meaning of it all? Or rather: what exactly is 'it?'. Here Frank Wilczek, Nobel Prize-winning physicist and legend, examines the very nature of reality itself, showing how almost everything we think we know about 'it' is wrong. "The Lightness of Being" is an engaging tour de force, revealing a ...Show more
On the Origin of Species (Penguin Classic Hardback) by Charles Darwin (Damien Hirst (Illus) ; Natalie Ramm & William Bynum (Eds)
70.00 NZD
Category: Science
This exciting anniversary edition has a new introduction and scholarly references by William Bynum, and the cover design is by Damien Hirst. It replaces our existing 1968 edition. "The Origin of Species" is one of the most important and influential books of its time and remains one of the most significa ...Show more
Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science by Jim Al-Khalili
65.00 NZD
Category: Science
For over 700 years the international language of science was Arabic. In "Pathfinders", Jim al-Khalili celebrates the forgotten pioneers who helped shape our understanding of the world. All scientists have stood on the shoulders of giants. But most historical accounts today suggest that the achievements ...Show more