Just Six Numbers by Martin J. Rees
24.99 NZD
Category: Science
How did a single 'genesis event' create billions of galaxies, black holes, stars and planets? How did atoms assemble -- here on Earth, and perhaps on other worlds -- into living beings intricate enough to ponder their origins? This book describes the recent avalanche of discoveries about the universe's ...Show more
The Watchman's Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction by Rebecca Costa
38.99 NZD
Category: Science
Why does it feel as if our most challenging problems today- the worldwide recession, global warming, fast-spreading viruses, terrorism and poverty- aren't getting solved? What if our brain has limits that prevent it from solving such complex problems? If ancient civilisations collapsed because they, too ...Show more
Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behaviour by Ori Brafman & Rom Brafman
27.99 NZD
34.00 (17% off)
Category: Science
Why are we more likely to fall in love when we feel in danger? Why would an experienced pilot disregard his training and the rules of the aviation industry, leading to the deadliest airline crash in history? Why do we find it near-impossible to re-evaluate our first impressions of a person or situation, ...Show more
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
45.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
'On the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - or houses, that is. Cleans them right off the face of the earth. They all go.'Alan Weisman looks to the future to discover what the world might be like, and how it would change, if humans disappeared right now, ...Show more
Just Another Day by Adam Hart-Davis
59.99 NZD
Category: Science
In his brilliantly idiosyncratic style, Adam Hart-Davis takes the reader through his day and shows just how much science and technology surrounds us all the time, from the alarm clock that wakes us up to the duvet we go to sleep in. We learn not just about how a modern, radio controlled alarm clock work ...Show more
Rocks and Minerals - OUT OF PRINT
39.99 NZD
41.00 (2% off)
Category: Science | Series: DK Handbooks
"The Dorling Kindersley Handbook of Rocks and Minerals" is packed with 600 full-colour photographs of more than 500 specimens. Authoritative text clear photographs and a systematic approach help you to cut through the complicated identification process and recognize a specimen easily. Each entry combine ...Show more
Can Cows Walk Down Stairs? by Paul Heiney
34.99 NZD
Category: Science
What is ear wax for? Do bacteria have sex? How do they put stripes in toothpaste? Does your nose run in space? What are stars made of? This book answers those tantalising or perplexing questions for which you thought you'd never find an answer. A book for the naturally curious, as well as those seekers ...Show more
2012 by Daniel Pinchbeck
49.99 NZD
Category: Science
In tracing the meaning of the prophetic Mayan 'end date' of 2012 to our present society, Daniel Pinchbeck draws together alien abductions, psychedelic visions, the current ecological crisis and other peculiar aspects of 21st century life into a new vision for our time. "2012" heralds the end of one way ...Show more
The Eye: A Natural History by Simon Ings
32.99 NZD
Category: Science
* We spend about one-tenth of our waking hours completely blind * Only one per cent of what we see is in focus at any one time * You don't need eyes to see - blind volunteers have been taught to see through their chests Through a spellbinding mix of scientific research, mathematics, philosophy, history, ...Show more
An Ocean of Air: A Natural History of the Atmosphere by Gabrielle Walker
32.99 NZD
Category: Science
'I never knew air could be so interesting'- Bill BrysonWe not only live in the air, we live because of it. At ground level air transforms miraculously; it wraps our planet in a blanket of warmth, while the outer layer of our atmosphere soaks up violent flares from the sun. In this fascinating celebratio ...Show more
Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gives Us Life - SIGNED by Richard Cohen
55.00 NZD
Category: Science
The Sun is so powerful, so much bigger than us, that it is a terrifying subject. Yet though we depend on it, we take it for granted. Amazingly the first book of its kind, CHASING THE SUN is a cultural and scientific history of our relationship with the star that gives us life. Richard Cohen, applying th ...Show more