Climate Aotearoa: What's Happening and What We Can Do About It by Helen Clark
$37.00 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
The science on climate change in Aotearoa New Zealand now and in the future, and what changes we all need to make. Contributions from a range of climate scientists and commentators Rob Bell, Jason Boberg, Adelia Hallett, Sophie Handford, Rhys Jones, Haylee Koroi, Matt McGlone, Jamie Morton, Rod Oram, Ji ...Show more
Digital Minimalism: On Living Better with Less Technology by Cal Newport
$26.00 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
Learn how to combat screen addiction and get your technology use in check The urge to pick up our phones every few minutes has become a nervous twitch that shatters our time into shards too small to be present. Our addiction to tech leaves us feeling exhausted and overwhelmed. But it doesn't have to be ...Show more
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
$26.00 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
'We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us.' Bill Bryson sets off to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ab ...Show more
The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda
$37.00 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT | Series: Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life Ser.
Ten laws of simplicity for business, technology, and design that teach us how to need less but get more.Finally, we are learning that simplicity equals sanity. We're rebelling against technology that's too complicated, DVD players with too many menus, and software accompanied by 75-megabyte "read me" ma ...Show more
A Human's Guide to the Future by Dr Jordan Nguyen
$40.00 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
TECHNOLOGY IS EVOLVING AT THE FASTEST RATE WE'VE EVER SEEN, BUT IT MAY BE THE SLOWEST RATE WE'LL EVER SEE AGAIN! What does this mean for the future of the human race? Do we resist these changes or embrace them?Australian biomedical engineer, inventor and visionary Dr Jordan Nguyen has lived a life of cu ...Show more
Delusions of Gender : The Real Science Behind Sex Differences by Cordelia Fine
$28.99 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
THE BRILLIANT AND HUGELY INFLUENTIAL BOOK BY THE WINNER OF THE 2017 ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOKS PRIZE'Fun, droll yet deeply serious.'New Scientist'A brilliant feminist critic of theneurosciences ... Read her, enjoy and learn.'Hilary Rose, THES'A witty and meticulously researchedexposé ...Show more
Don't Be Evil: The Case Against Big Tech by Rana Foroohar
$26.00 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
Google and Facebook receive 90% of the world's news advertising spend. Amazon takes half of all e-commerce in the US. Google and Apple operating systems run on all but 1% of cell phones globally. And 80% of corporate wealth is now held by 10% of companies - the digital titans. How did these once-idealis ...Show more
Chernobyl - History of A Tragedy by Serhii Plokhy
$28.00 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
*WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2018* 'As moving as it is painstakingly researched. . . a cracking read' Viv Groskop, Observer On 26 April 1986 at 1.23am a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine exploded. While the authorities scrambled to understand what was ...Show more
What We Need to Do Now - A Green Deal to Ensure a Habitable Earth by Chris Goodall
$28.00 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
What We Need To Do Now sets out a comprehensive programme of action to counter the threats to our environment. The book emphasises the importance, and relative simplicity, of decarbonising our energy supply but also stresses that this is a small part of the switch to a sustainable planet. Among many oth ...Show more
The Periodic Table: Popular Penguins by Primo Levi
$15.99 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi's transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew. It recounts, in clear, precise, unfailingly beautiful prose, the story of the Piedmontese Jewish community from which Levi came, of ...Show more
A History of the Universe in 21 Stars - (and Three Imposters) by Giles Sparrow
$32.99 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
Expert science writer Giles Sparrow guides you through 21 stars you can see in the night sky and what they can teach us about our universe. On a clear evening, if you look up you can see thousands of stars shining in the dark sky, each with a story of their own. Taking 21 stars (and three imposters, th ...Show more
Calling Bullshit - The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World by Carl T Bergstrom; Jevin D West
$37.00 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
The world is awash in bullshit, and we're drowning in it. Politicians are unconstrained by facts. Science is conducted by press release. Startup culture elevates bullshit to high art. These days, calling bullshit is a noble act. Based on their popular, eponymous, course at the University of Washington, ...Show more