Tremors in the Blood by Amit Katwala
$25.00 NZD
Category: Science & Maths
'A wonderful book' - GuardianTruth, murder and the birth of the lie detectorHenry Wilkens burst through the doors of the emergency room covered in his wife's blood. But was he a grieving husband, or a ruthless killer who'd conspired with bandits to have her murdered?To find out, the San Francisco police ...Show more
Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature by Sarah Hart
$43.00 NZD
Category: Science & Maths
"An exuberant enthusiasm for mathematics (and life in general) shines through Dr. Hart." --The New York Times "An absolute joy to read!" --Steven Levitt, New York Times bestselling author of Freakonomics For fans of Seven Brief Lessons in Physics, an exploration of the many ways mathematics can tran ...Show more
Endless Forms - Why We Should Love Wasps by Seirian Sumner
$25.00 NZD
Category: Nature Writing
'A funny and beautifully written welcome to the enigmatic, weird and wonderful world of wasps' DAVE GOULSON, author of SILENT EARTH There may be no insect with a worse reputation than the wasp, and none guarding so many undiscovered wonders. Where bees and ants have long been the darlings of the insec ...Show more
Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles by Samuel Graydon
$40.00 NZD
Category: Science & Maths
DROPOUT. PACIFIST. PHYSICIST. CASANOVA. REFUGEE. REBEL. GENIUS.THINK YOU KNOW EINSTEIN? THINK AGAIN. His face is instantly recognisable. His name is shorthand for genius. Today, he's a figurehead as much as a man, symbolic of things larger than himself: of scientific progress, of the human mind, even o ...Show more
Numbercrunch by Oliver Johnson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Science & Maths
This is a mathematician's toolkit for cutting through wall-to-wall informationoverload and making sense of our modern world. In our hyper-modern world we are bombarded with more facts, stats and information than ever before. Often these statistics can seem contradictory and say wildly different things d ...Show more
Anaximander: And the Nature of Science by Carlo Rovelli
$40.00 NZD
Category: Science & Maths
The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics tells the thrilling story of one of the greatest intellectual leaps of all time Over two millennia ago, a Greek philosopher had a number of wondrous insights that paved the way to cosmology, physics, geography, meteorology and biology, setting in ...Show more
Sweat: A History of Exercise by Bill Hayes
$28.00 NZD
Category: Science & Maths
A New Yorker Best Book of the yearAn Esquire Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 From Insomniac City author Bill Hayes, "who can tackle just about any subject in book form, and make you glad he did" (SF Chronicle)-a cultural, scientific, literary, and personal history of exercise, now in paperback. Exercis ...Show more
Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli
$30.00 NZD
Category: Science & Maths
The instant Sunday Times bestseller -- a dazzling story of rebellion and science. In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, had retreated to the treeless, wind-battered island of Helgoland in the North Sea in order to think. Walking all night, by dawn he had wrest ...Show more
Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe by Professor Brian Cox
$38.00 NZD
Category: Science & Maths
A brilliant exploration of the most exotic objects in the universe by Professor Brian Cox and Professor Jeff Forshaw. Lying at the centre of every galaxy are the strangest objects in the Universe: black holes. Of extraordinary density and huge gravitational pull, no matter or even light can escape their ...Show more
The Science of Can and Can't: A Physicist's Journey Through the Land of Counterfactuals by Chiara Marletto
$26.00 NZD
Category: Science & Maths
A young theoretical physicist's guide to how the radical new science of counterfactuals can reveal the full scope of our universe. There is a vast class of properties that science has so far almost entirely neglected. These properties are central to an understanding of physical reality both at an every ...Show more
How Numbers Work: Discover the strange and beautiful world of mathematics by New Scientist
$28.00 NZD
Category: Science & Maths | Series: Instant Expert Ser.
Discover the incredible connection between numbers and reality itself!Think of a number between one and ten...No, hang on, let's make this interesting. Between zero and infinity. Even if you stick to the whole numbers, there are a lot to choose from - an infinite number in fact. Throw in decimal fractio ...Show more
The Hidden Universe: Adventures in Biodiversity by Antonelli Alexandre
$40.00 NZD
Category: Science & Maths
Everything you need to know about biodiversity - what it is, how it works, and why it's the single most important tool to battle climate change - from the Director Science at the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew. We don't know what we've got until it's gone...This brief, lucid book by the Director of Sci ...Show more