Symphony in C - Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything by Robert Hazen
$27.99 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
An enchanting biography of the most resonant - and most necessary - chemical element on Earth. Carbon. It is the building block of every cell that makes up every living thing. It is the essential component of the food we eat, the fuel we burn, the wood we use and the air we breathe. It is worth billion ...Show more
On Time and Water by Andri Snær Magnason
$40.00 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
A unique approach to climate change that recalls W. G. Sebald.
Elephants on Acid From Zombie Kittens to Tickling Machines: The Most Outrageous Experiments from the History of Science by Alex Boese
$24.99 NZD
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Have you ever wondered if a severed head retains consciousness long enough to see what happened to it? Or whether your dog would run to fetch help, if you fell down a disused mineshaft? And what would happen if you were to give an elephant the largest ever single dose of LSD? The chances are that someon ...Show more
Inferior: The True Power of Women and the Science That Shows It by Angela Saini
$26.99 NZD
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From intelligence to emotion, for centuries science has told us that men and women are fundamentally different. But this is not the whole story.Shedding light on controversial research and investigating the ferocious gender wars in biology, psychology and anthropology, Angela Saini takes readers on an e ...Show more
Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini
$27.99 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
Financial Times Book of the Year Telegraph Top 50 Books of the Year Guardian Book of the Year New Statesman Book of the Year ''Roundly debunks racism''s core lie - that inequality is to do with genetics, rather than political power'' Reni Eddo-Lodge For millennia, dominant societies have had the habit o ...Show more
Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini
$35.00 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
'We can draw lines across the world any way we choose, and in the history of race science, people have. What matters isn't where the lines are drawn, but what they mean.' Modern science is pivotal in our understanding of race - not because of the lines that thinkers through the centuries have chosen to ...Show more
Galileo: And the Science Deniers by Mario Livio
$29.99 NZD
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A fresh interpretation of the life of Galileo Galilei, one of history's greatest and most fascinating scientists, that sheds new light on his discoveries and how he was challenged by science deniers. "We really need this story now, because we're living through the next chapter of science denial" (Bill M ...Show more
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer
$26.00 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
In We Are the Weather, New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Safran Foer explores the central global dilemma of our time in a surprising, deeply personal, and urgent new way. Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. B ...Show more
Why Do Buses Come in Threes? - The Hidden Mathematics of Everyday Life by Rob Eastaway; Jeremy Wyndham
$22.99 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
A fascinating look at how mathematics is relevant to our everyday livesWhy is it better to buy a lottery ticket on a Friday? Why are showers always too hot or too cold? And which classic puzzle was destroyed by Allied bombing in the war? These and many other questions are answered in this entertaining a ...Show more
The Demon in the Machine by Paul Davies
$40.00 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
How does life create order from chaos? And just what is life, anyway? Leading physicist Paul Davies argues that to find the answers, we must first answer a deeper question- 'What is information?' To understand the origins and nature of life, Davies proposes a radical vision of biology which sees the un ...Show more
Tools and Weapons: Promise and Peril in the Digital Age by Brad Smith; Carol Ann Browne
$34.99 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
"A clear, compelling guide to some of the most pressing debates in technology today." - Bill Gates, from the foreword From Microsoft's President and one of the tech industry's wisest thinkers, a frank and thoughtful reckoning with how to balance enormous promise and existential risk as the digitization ...Show more