The Design Revolution - Answering the Toughest Questions about Intelligent Design by William A. Dembski
$16.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology
As the Intelligent Design movement has gained momentum over recent years, questions have naturally arisen to challenge its provocative claims. With clarity and concision, William Dembski responds to the most vexing questions and objections raised by experts and non-experts.
Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything by Philip Ball
$12.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology
There was a time when curiosity was condemned. Through curiosity, our innocence was said to be lost. Ye this hasn't deterred us. Today we spend vast sums trying to recreate the first instants of creation in particle accelerators, out of pure desire to know. There seems now to be no question too vast or ...Show more
Accidental Inventions by Birgit Krols
$20.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology
Did you know that the popsicle was invented by an eleven-year old who had left his soda water mixture on the porch on a cold winter night? Or that LSD was discovered while trying to produce a drug that would help ease the pain of childbirth. Call them accidents. Call them mistakes. Even serendipity. The ...Show more
Dawn of the New Everything - Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality by Jaron Lanier
$16.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology
'The father of Virtual Reality . a high-tech genius' (Sunday Times) explains why virtual reality presents the ultimate test for humanity Named a Best Book of the Year by the Economist, Wall Street Journal & Vox 'The father of virtual reality' (Sunday Times) explains why virtual reality presents the ...Show more
Autonomy - The Quest to Build the Driverless Car--And How It Will Reshape Our World by Lawrence D. Burns; Christopher Shulgan
$20.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology
An automotive and tech world insider investigates the quest to develop and perfect the driverless car--an innovation that promises to be the most disruptive change to our way of life since the smartphone We stand on the brink of a technological revolution. Soon, few of us will own our own automobiles a ...Show more
Goldilocks and the Water Bears : The Search for Life in the Universe by Louisa Preston
$15.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology
'Highly recommended' Financial Times Today we know of only a single planet that hosts life: the Earth. But across a Universe of at least 100 billion possibly habitable worlds, surely our planet isn't the only one that, like the porridge Goldilocks sought, is just right for life? Astrobiologists search t ...Show more
The Last Giants: The Rise and Fall of the African Elephant by Levison Wood
$20.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology
This book comes at a critical time. Fifty years ago, Africa was home to just over 1.3 million elephants, but by 1990 the number had halved. Meanwhile in the span of a lifetime, the human population has more than doubled. In Levison Wood's The Last Giants, he explores the rapid decline of one of the wor ...Show more
The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths and the Dangerous Illusions That Shape Our World by Ziya Tong
$20.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology
What are we not seeing?Our naked eyes see only a thin sliver of reality. We are blind in comparison to the x-rays that peer through skin, the mass spectrometers that detect the dead inside the living, or the high-tech surveillance systems that see with artificial intelligence.And we are blind compared t ...Show more
The Birth of the Pill - How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution by Jonathan Eig
$30.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology
We know it simply as "the pill," yet its genesis was anything but simple. Jonathan Eig's masterful narrative revolves around four principal characters: the fiery feminist Margaret Sanger, who was a champion of birth control in her campaign for the rights of women but neglected her own children in pursui ...Show more
DNA;Is You! - The Marvelous Science Behind Your Individually Awesome You-Ness by Katie McKissick
$20.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology
Learn all about how your DNA makes you who you are--an awesome, unique individual--in this fun and simple illustrated guide Did you know your sense of purpose is determined by your genes? And that DNA determines your reaction to poison ivy, and maybe even your sex drive? In DNA Is You , the author behi ...Show more
Alex & Me by Irene M Pepperberg
$8.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology
On September 6, 2007, an African Grey parrot named Alex died prematurely at age thirty-one. His last words to his owner, Irene Pepperberg, were "You be good. I love you."What would normally be a quiet, very private event was, in Alex's case, headline news. Over the thirty years they had worked together, ...Show more
Fentanyl, Inc by Ben Westhoff
$15.00 NZD
Category: Science and Technology | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
A new crop of chemicals is radically changing the recreational-drug landscape. Known as Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS), these chemicals include replacements for known drugs like cocaine, ecstasy, marijuana, and heroin. They are synthetic, made in a laboratory, and are much more potent than traditio ...Show more