Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy by Kashmir Hill
$39.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
‘The dystopian future portrayed in some science-fiction movies is already upon us. Kashmir Hill’s fascinating book brings home the scary implications of this new reality’ JOHN CARREYROU, author of Bad Blood When Kashmir Hill stumbled upon Clearview AI, a mysterious startup selling an app that claimed i ...Show more
Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us by Susan Magsamen, Ivy Ross
$45.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A life-altering journey through the science of neuroaesthetics, which offers proof for how our brains and bodies transform when we participate in the arts - and how this knowledge can improve our health, enable us to flourish, and build stronger communities. Many of us think of the arts as entertainmen ...Show more
Wonderdog: How the Science of Dogs Changed the Science of Life by Jules Howard
$37.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
How dogs defied science and changed the way we think about animals. What do dogs really think of us? What do dogs know and understand of the world? Do their emotions feel like our own? Do they love like we do? Driven by his own love of dogs, Charles Darwin was nagged by questions like these. To root ou ...Show more
The Pocket Atlas of Human Anatomy, Revised Edition: A Reference for Students of Physical Therapy, Medicine, Sports, and Bodywork by Chris Jarmey
$37.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Revised and updated- a user-friendly illustrated guide to human anatomy, written for students and practitioners.This concise, pocket-sized guide is a full-color on-the-go reference for students and practitioners of anatomy, massage, physical therapy, chiropractics, medicine, nursing, and physiotherapy. ...Show more
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (10th Anniversay Edition) by Iain McGilchrist
$41.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A new edition of the bestselling classic - published with a special introduction to mark its 10th anniversaryThis pioneering account sets out to understand the structure of the human brain - the place where mind meets matter. Until recently, the left hemisphere of our brain has been seen as the 'rationa ...Show more
The Astronomers' Library: The Books that Unlocked the Mysteries of the Universe by Karen Masters
$65.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Liber Historica Ser.
Indulge in this collection of the best astronomy books from the past 800 years. The Astronomers' Library is a rich history of astronomy (and astrology) publishing across Europe. This is a carefully selected arrangement of publications from all over the continent - Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, ...Show more
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Maté
$30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
We tend to believe that normality equals health. Yet what is the norm in the Western world? Mental illness is on an unstoppable rise. Some 45% of Europeans suffer high blood pressure, and nearly 70% of Americans take at least one prescription drug. Illness and trauma are defining how we live. In his new ...Show more
To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Lindsey N. Walker
$65.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Linked to a special mini season of the award-winning StarTalk podcast, this enlightening illustrated narrative by the world's most celebrated astrophysicist explains the universe from the solar system to the farthest reaches of space with authority and humor. No one can make the mysteries of the univers ...Show more
The Genetic Age - Our Perilous Quest to Edit Life by Matthew Cobb
$37.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
How fifty years of genetic engineering have brought us to the brink of a profound and disturbing future, from Baillie Gifford-shortlisted scientist Matthew Cobb
Benny the Blue Whale - A Descent into Story, Language and the Madness of ChatGPT by Andy Stanton
$45.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A bestselling author and AI team up to write a novel. Chaos ensues.AI is changing the world at frightening speed. A bestselling author decides to find out more...Is ChatGPT the end of creative industries as we know them? An ethical quagmire from which there is no return? A threat to all our jobs, as we ...Show more
Who Owns the Moon? : In Defence of Humanity's Common Interests in Space by A. C. Grayling
$39.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Silicon for microchips; manganese for batteries; titanium for missiles. The moon contains a wealth of natural resources. So, as the Earth's supplies have begun to dwindle, it is no surprise that the world's superpowers and wealthiest corporations have turned their eyes to the stars. As this new Space Ra ...Show more
Walking the Bones of Britain: A 3 Billion Year Journey from the Outer Hebrides to the Thames Estuary by Christopher Somerville
$65.00 NZD
Category: History
Blows the dust off geology to tell the incredibly dramatic story of all the upheavals, volcanic explosions, sea inundations and violent quakes that have shaped our landscape, human history and our everyday lives. Travelling a thousand miles and across three billion years, Christopher Somerville (walkin ...Show more