Future of Humanity by Michio Kaku
$14.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology
Human civilization is on the verge of spreading beyond Earth. More than a possibility, it is becoming a necessity- whether our hand is forced by climate change and resource depletion or whether future catastrophes compel us to abandon Earth, one day we will make our homes among the stars.World-renowned ...Show more
The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems ... and Create More by Luke Dormehl
$12.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology
What if everything in life could be reduced to a simple formula? What if numbers were able to tell us which partners we were best matched with - not just in terms of attractiveness, but for a long-term committed marriage? Or if they could say which films would be the biggest hits at the box office, and ...Show more
Leviathan by Philip Hoare
$12.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology
The story of a man's obsession with whales, which takes him on a personal, historical and biographical journey - from his childhood to his fascination with Moby-Dick and his excursions whale-watching. All his life, Philip Hoare has been obsessed by whales, from the gigantic skeletons in London's Natura ...Show more
Inferior: The True Power of Women and the Science That Shows It by Angela Saini
$12.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology
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
The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy and Our Health - and How We Must Adapt by Sinan Aral
$18.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology
In this brilliant smart-thinking book about the power and influence of social media, Professor Sinan Aral shows how ‘hyper-socialization' has profoundly changed us. Why does fake news spread faster than the truth? Do products and ideas become popular because they are good or because they are rated high ...Show more
Karl Kruszelnicki's New Moments in Science: (#1) Pigeon Poo, the Universe and Car Paint by Karl Kruszelnicki
$12.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology | Series: New moments in science
The first in a new Karl Kruszelnicki series, this book contains 40 bizarre and funny stories about the latest discoveries in science, from sex and forgetting, to the moon and green cheese.
Friendship: The Evolution, Biology and Extraordinary Power of Life's Fundamental Bond by Lydia Denworth
$16.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology
The phenomenon of friendship is universal. Friends, after all, are the family we choose. But what makes these bonds not just pleasant but essential, and how do they affect our bodies and our minds? In Friendship, science journalist Lydia Denworth takes us in search of the biological, psychological, and ...Show more
Empire of Pain - The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
$15.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology | Reading Level: very good
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. From the prize-winning and bestselling author ...Show more
A Universe from Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss
$15.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology
Internationally known theoretical physicist and bestselling author Lawrence Krauss offers provocative, revelatory answers to the most basic philosophical questions: Where did our universe come from? Why is there something rather than nothing? And how is it all going to end? Why is there something rather ...Show more
Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins
$14.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology | Series: Penguin Press Science S.
Keats accused Newton of destroying the poetry of the rainbow by explaining the origin of its colours. Dawkins argures that Keats could not have been more mistaken, and shows how an understanding of science enhances our wonder at the world around us. This is a "hymn of praise" to the scientific attitude, ...Show more
Empire of Pain -The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
$16.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology | Reading Level: very good
The highly-anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, bestselling author of Say Nothing. The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions - Harvard; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Oxford; the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the w ...Show more
Through a Window by Jane Goodall
$8.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology
"Through a Window" is the dramatic saga of thirty years in the life of an intimately intertwined community one that reads like a novel, but is one of the most important scientific works ever published.The community is Gombe, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, where the principal residents are chimpanzees ...Show more