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The Body: A Guide for Occupants (HB) by Bill Bryson
$55.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the science of our world both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the globe. Now he turns his attention inwards to explore the human body, how it functi ...Show more
How to Survive a Pandemic by Michael Greger
$40.00 NZD
Category: Health
A vital, timely text on the viruses that cause pandemics and how to face them, by theNew York Times bestselling author ofHow Not to Die. From tuberculosis to bird flu and HIV to coronavirus, these infectious diseases share a common origin story: human interaction with animals. Otherwise known as zoonot ...Show more
Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
$28.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Ben Goldacre's wise and witty bestseller, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, lifts the lid on quack doctors, flaky statistics, scaremongering journalists and evil pharmaceutical corporations. Since 2003 Dr Ben Goldacre has been exposing dodgy medical data in his popular Guardian column. In this e ...Show more
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
$28.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What ...Show more
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor
$40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
300,000 years ago, Homo sapienshad bigger skulls. Cooked food meant our heads shrunk; alongside a growing brain, our airways got narrower. Urbanisation then led us to breathe less deeply and less healthily. And so today more than 90% of us breathe incorrectly. So we might have been breathing all our lif ...Show more
A Small Illustrated Guide to the Universe by Ella Frances Sanders
$28.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A beautifully illustrated exploration of the principles, laws, and wonders that rule our universe, our world, and our daily lives, from the New York Times bestselling creator of Lost in Translation.
Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking
$28.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: near fine
THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. 'A beautiful little book by a brilliant mind'- DAILY TELEGRAPH. 'Effortlessly instructive, absorbing, up to the minute and - where it matters - witty'- GUARDIAN. The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final ...Show more
#NoFly: Walking the Talk on Climate Change (BWB Texts) by Shaun Hendy
$15.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
What happens when a leading New Zealand scientist (and frequent traveler) rules out flying for a year? From overnight buses to epic train journeys, Shaun Hendy's experiences speak to our desire to do something ¿ anything ¿ in the face of growing climate anxiety. #NoFly confronts the hard questions of on ...Show more
Space 2069 - After Apollo: Back to the Moon, to Mars, and Beyond by David Whitehouse
$40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
From the author of the acclaimed Apollo 11: The Inside Story - our next fifty years of space exploration.
How To by Randall Munroe
$25.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Randall Munroe is . . .'Nerd royalty' Ben Goldacre 'Totally brilliant' Tim Harford 'Laugh-out-loud funny' Bill Gates 'Wonderful' Neil Gaiman AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever t ...Show more
Galileo: And the Science Deniers by Mario Livio
$30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A fresh interpretation of the life of Galileo Galilei, one of history's greatest and most fascinating scientists, that sheds new light on his discoveries and how he was challenged by science deniers. "We really need this story now, because we're living through the next chapter of science denial" (Bill M ...Show more
How to Think Like Stephen Hawking by Daniel Smith
$23.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: How to Think Like Ser.
A unique insight into one of science's greatest minds of the last half-century. Undoubtedly the most famous name in science and the very face of physics over the last half-century, Stephen Hawking was remarkable for many reasons. Not least because he continued to strive to achieve so much while being h ...Show more