A Brief History of Black Holes: And Why Nearly Everything You Know About Them Is Wrong by Dr Becky Smethurst
$39.99 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
The Moon goes around the Earth, the Earth goes around the Sun, the Sun goes around the centre of the Milky Way: a supermassive black hole. As you read this you are currently orbiting a black hole. Money might make the world go round, but black holes make the universe go round. Black holes are not just a ...Show more
How To Speak Whale: A Voyage Into The Future Of Animal Communication by Tom Mustill
$36.99 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
A thrilling investigation into whale science and animal communication, and a poignant look at how science may change our relationship with animals forever. In 2015, wildlife filmmaker Tom Mustill was whale watching when a humpback breached onto his kayak and nearly killed him. A video clip of the event ...Show more
Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes by Elizabeth Lesser
$35.00 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
What story would Eve have told about picking the apple Why is Pandora blamed for opening the box And what about the fate of Cassandra who was blessed with knowing the future but cursed so that no one believed her What if women had been the storytellers Elizabeth Lesser believes that if women's voices ...Show more
The Matter of Everything: Twelve Experiments that Changed Our World by Suzie Sheehy
$34.00 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
The astonishing story of twentieth-century physics, told through the twelve experiments that changed our world.How did a piece a gold foil completely change our understanding of atoms? What part did a hot air balloon play in the discovery of cosmic rays?How did the experiments in the run-up to the Large ...Show more
The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds by Jessica Nordell
$36.99 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
Discover how we can all work to end one of the most corrosive issues of our time: unconscious bias.
100 Things to Know About Numbers, Computers & Coding by Various
$22.99 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT | Series: 100 Things to Know
When was the webcam invented and why? Do imaginary numbers exist? What is fuzzy logic? Find the answers these questions about the amazing world of numbers, computers and coding, along with loads of other curious, amazing and mind-boggling facts, in this eye-catching book that is absolutely bursting with ...Show more
The Importance of Being Interested - Adventures in Scientific Curiosity by Robin Ince
$36.99 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
The popular comedian and presenter journeys through science, explaining why it should be for everyone - including enthusiastic amateurs. Comedian Robin Ince quickly abandoned science at school, bored by a fog of dull lessons and intimidated by the barrage of equations. But, twenty years later, he fell ...Show more
A Brief Welcome to the Universe: A Pocket-Sized Tour by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, J. Richard Gott
$29.99 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
A pocket-style edition based on the New York Times bestseller A Brief Welcome to the Universe offers a breathtaking tour of the cosmos, from planets, stars, and galaxies to black holes and time loops. Bestselling authors and acclaimed astrophysicists Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richa ...Show more
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
$26.00 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi provide a key to understanding the p ...Show more
The Science of our Changing Planet: From Global Warming to Sustainable Development by Tony Juniper
$21.56 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
Understand the science that explains what pressure our planet is under and how to take action. Using powerful, easy-to-grasp graphics, this book cuts through the noise and gets straight to the most up-to-date facts on climate change, overpopulation, pollution, over-consumption, pandemics, and much more. ...Show more
100 Science Discoveries That Changed the World by Colin Salter
$35.00 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
An accessible compendium of the world's greatest scientists and the stories behind their dramatic breakthroughs From the early Greek mathematicians Euclid and Archimedes through to present-day Nobel Prize winners, this collection charts the great breakthroughs in scientific understanding. Each entry des ...Show more
The Science of Can and Can't: A Physicist's Journey Through the Land of Counterfactuals by Chiara Marletto
$50.00 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
From a young British scientist, a groundbreaking exploration of a radically different approach to physics There is a vast class of things that science has so far almost entirely neglected. They are central to the understanding of physical reality both at an everyday level and at the level of the most fu ...Show more