We Need to Talk About Kelvin: What Everyday Things Tell Us About the Universe by Marcus Chown
29.99 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
Look around you. The reflection of your face in a window tells you that the universe is orchestrated by chance. The iron in a spot of blood on your finger tells you that somewhere out in space there is furnace at a temperature of 4.5 billion degrees. Your TV tells you that the universe had a beginning. ...Show more
How We Live and Why We Die: The Secret Lives of Cells by Lewis Wolpert
28.99 NZD
Category: Science
Cells are the basis of all life in the universe. Our bodies are made up of billions of them: an incredibly complex society that governs everything, from movement to memory and imagination. When we age, it is because our cells slow down; when we get ill, it is because our cells mutate or stop working. In ...Show more
The Human Touch : Our Part in the Creation of a Universe by Michael Frayn
35.00 NZD
Category: Science
What would the universe be like if human beings were not here to observe it? Would there still be numbers, or scientific laws? Would the universe even be vast, without our tininess to give it scale? The author of award-winning novels (such as "Spies"), plays ("Copenhagen" and "Noises Off") and films ("C ...Show more
The Human Touch: Our part in the creation of a universe by Michael Frayn
69.99 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: good
'Imaginative, funny and dazzlingly clever.' John Carey, Sunday Times Mankind, scientists agree, is a tiny and insignificant anomaly in the impersonal vastness of the universe. But what would that universe be like if we were not here to say something about it? Would it even be so vast, without the fact ...Show more
The Never-ending Days of Being Dead: Dispatches from the Front Line of Science by Marcus Chown
29.99 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
In Chown's most ambitious book to date he sets out to answer some of the most provocative questions of today: Where did we come from? What the hell are we doing here? Is Elvis alive and kicking in another space domain? What's beyond the edge of the Universe? Did aliens build the stars? Can we live forev ...Show more
Bad Ideas? An Arresting History of Our Inventions by Robert Winston
29.99 NZD
Category: Science
From the axe to the internet - the hidden dangers of man's impulse to invent. We are born with the instinct to create and invent. Indeed, our ability to do so is what separates us from the rest of the animal world. But have our creative ideas always produced desirable results? And have they always serv ...Show more
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
25.99 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
In the ten years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than nine million copies in forty languages sold worldwide. That edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the origins and nature of the univers ...Show more
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
27.99 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener.
The Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes
29.99 NZD
Category: Science
In 1994 Professor Bryan Sykes, a leading world authority on DNA and human evolution, was called in to examine the frozen remains of a man trapped in glacial ice in northern Italy. News of the discovery of the Ice Man and his age, which was put at over five thousand years old, fascinated the world. But w ...Show more
Adam's Curse_ A Future without Men by Bryan Sykes
27.99 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: Science | Reading Level: good-very good
Genetically speaking, the only difference between men and women is that where women have two X chromosomes, men have one X and one Y. It is surprising that one chromosome difference out of our total of forty-six can have such an important consequence, but it does. Is this relatively small genetic varian ...Show more
Lucy Long Ago: Uncovering the Mystery of Where We Came from by Catherine Thimmesh
32.99 NZD
Category: Science
Illustrated in full color throughout with stunning compuer-generated artwork and with rare paleo photography, this story of scientific sleuthing invites us to wonder what our ancestors were like. From the discovery of Lucy's bones in Hadar, Ethiopia, to the process of recovering and interpreting them (a ...Show more
Philip's Guide to Fossils by Edited by Joanna Potts
29.99 NZD
Category: Science
A practical guide to identifying, collecting and understanding all types of fossil. The introduction describes how fossils form and the history of ancient life, and the classification and distribution of fossils are described, giving essential background information for collectors. Paperback