A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes by Stephen Hawking
$25.00 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
From the Big Bang to the theory of relativity, Stephen W. Hawking will challenge your imagination and expand your grasp of the cosmos. This is the classic revelatory science book of the last century. Here is a landmark book written for those of us who prefer words to equations. Told by an extraordinary ...Show more
Infinite Powers: The Story of Calculus - The Language of the Universe by Steven Strogatz
$24.99 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
A magisterial history of calculus (and the people behind it) from one of the world's foremost mathematicians.Praise for Infinite Powers:Simple, lucid, amusing, informative, and a pleasure to read. If you want to know where calculus came from, how it works, what it's good for, and where it's going next, ...Show more
When Galaxies Collide by Lisa Harvey-Smith
$24.00 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
In 2018, Lisa Harvey-Smith was appointed as the inaugural Australian Women in STEM Ambassador by the Australian Federal Government. Why is the Milky Way blue? Why isn't a black hole dark? How many stars can you see with your naked eye?* How much hotter are blue stars than red ones?** Humans are the on ...Show more
On Natural Selection: Popular Penguins by Charles Darwin
$13.99 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves--and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives--and destroyed them. Now, Penguin brings you th ...Show more
The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek
$40.00 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
TheNew York Times-bestselling author ofStart With Why, Leaders Eat Last, and Together Is Betteroffers a bold new approach to business strategy by asking one question- are you playing the finite game or the infinite game?In The Infinite Game, Sinek applies game theory to explore how great businesses achi ...Show more
Wayfinding: How We Find – and Lose – our Way by Michael Bond
$37.99 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
The physical world is infinitely complex, yet most of us are able to find our way around it. We can walk through unfamiliar streets while maintaining a sense of direction, take shortcuts along paths we have never used and remember for many years places we have visited only once. These are remarkable ach ...Show more
Three Kiwi Tales: More fabulous fix-it stories from Wildbase Hospital by Janet Hunt
$18.00 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
Wildbase Hospital in Palmerston North is a very special hospital for very special animals, and in this follow-up to the hugely successful How to Mend a Kea, author Janet Hunt focuses on the tales of three kiwi who have been treated there. The stories are fascinating and touching accounts of their differ ...Show more
No One is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
$9.99 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
'Everything needs to change. And it has to start today.'In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day. Her actions ended up sparking a global movement for action against the climate crisis, inspiring millions of pupils to go on strike for our planet, ...Show more
Living On Shaky Ground - The science and story behind New Zealand’s earthquakes by Matthew Wright
$39.99 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
What makes our isles so shaky? Why was Christchurch not the first of our big quakes? Any why won’t it be our last? This book investigates our turbulent tectonics. It tells us how earthquakes are measured and described, and how scientists predict future shakes. It details New Zealand’s lesser-known quake ...Show more