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
T. rex and the Crater of Doom by Walter Alvarez
$8.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology | Series: Penguin Science Ser.
How was Tyrannosaurus rex toppled from the apex of creation? In a gripping work that is both a scientific detective story and a convincing account of one terrible day in the history of the Earth, Alvarez makes his case for the mysterious, catastrophic theory of dinosaur extinction. in color.
The Substance of Style by Virginia Postrel
$12.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology
Whether it’s sleek leather pants, a shiny new Apple computer, or a designer toaster, we make important decisions as consumers every day based on our sensory experience. Sensory appeals are everywhere, and they are intensifying, radically changing how Americans live and work. The twenty-first century has ...Show more
The Science of Living: 219 Reasons to Rethink Your Daily Routine by Stuart Farrimond
$18.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology
Explore the science behind your daily living habits and make your day healthier, happier, and more productive. Many of the activities we take for granted are in fact contrary to a healthy lifestyle. In this groundbreaking book, long-held beliefs are exploded by new science: drinking eight glasses a day ...Show more
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World by Simon Garfield
$8.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology
An artificial dye, mauve, was discovered by a 19th-century chemist called William Perkin while searching for a synthetic alternative to natural quinine. This book examines how the different worlds of fashion, industry, business, chemistry and medicine were transformed by a single colour.
The Road Ahead by Bill Gates
$8.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology
In The Road Ahead, Gates lays out his vision of an interconnected world built around the Internet. The fundamental premise of this book is that life will be transformed by the convergence of inexpensive computing and inexpensive communications. It is Gates's belief that the implications of this transfor ...Show more
Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19 by Alina Chan; Matt Ridley
$12.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology
It's the greatest whodunnit mystery of the century: how did the first detected outbreak of Covid-19 start in Wuhan city? We know that the natural reservoir of SARS-related coronaviruses is in bats, but we do not how, where, and when SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for Covid-19, acquired the ability to ...Show more
Darwin's Proof - The Triumph of Religion over Science by Cornelius G. Hunter
$14.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology
Do similar features found among different animal species prove a common ancestry? Is evolution purely science, as evolutionists claim, or are there other factors involved? How can we account for the evil in the world? In Darwin's Proof Cornelius Hunter tackles these questions head on, revealing evolutio ...Show more
THE EDGE OF EVOLUTION by BEHE MICHAEL J.
$16.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology
When Michael J. Behe's first book, "Darwin's Black Box," was published in 1996, it launched the intelligent design movement. Critics howled, yet hundreds of thousands of readers -- and a growing number of scientists -- were intrigued by Behe's claim that Darwinism could not explain the complex machinery ...Show more
Darwin Strikes Back : Defining the Science of Intelligent Design by Thomas Woodward
$16.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology
The debate between proponents of Darwinism and those of Intelligent Design has reached the status of a full-scale public battle. With stories of qualifying statements about evolution in public school textbooks and the recent 70th anniversary of the Scopes Monkey trial in the news, the question about our ...Show more
Don't Sell Your Coat - Surprising Truths about Climate Change by Harold Ambler
$14.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology
Not very long ago, scientists, politicians, and journalists were seemingly unanimous: Global warming had already damaged nature, and things were only going to get worse. Snow was rapidly becoming a thing of the past; summers were becoming hotter; storms were becoming more violent; droughts and floods we ...Show more