The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us by James Ball
$33.00 NZD
Category: Science & nature
The internet is a network of physical cables and connections, a web of wires enmeshing the world, linking huge data centres to one another and eventually to us. All are owned by someone, financed by someone, regulated by someone. We refer to the internet as abstract from reality. By doing so, we obscure ...Show more
The Moon: A History for the Future by Oliver Morton
$25.00 NZD
Category: Science & nature
An intimate portrait of the Earth's closest neighbor--the Moon--that explores the history and future of humankind's relationship with it Every generation has looked towards the heavens and wondered at the beauty of the Moon. Fifty years ago, a few Americans became the first to do the reverse--and sh ...Show more
The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Maths Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets by Graham Farmelo
$25.00 NZD
Category: Science & nature
'A superbly written, riveting book.' Martin ReesSearching for the fundamental laws of the universe, physicists have found themselves developing ambitious mathematical ideas. But without observation and experiment as their guide, are they now doing 'fairy-tale physics' as their detractors claim? In The ...Show more
Nodding Off - The Science of Sleep from Cradle to Grave by Alice Gregory
$25.00 NZD
Category: Science & nature
The science of our slumber, from the different stages of sleep and how our sleeping patterns change throughout our lives, to what happens when things go wrong. Nodding Off leads you on a fascinating journey through the science of sleep as it evolves throughout our lives; from babies to teenagers, fr ...Show more
The Age of Ageing Better? - A Manifesto for Our Future by Anna Dixon
$33.00 NZD
Category: Science & nature
'Dr Anna Dixon has written a must-read for anyone interested in the future of ageing. Learn from one of the best informed about an issue, and opportunity, that is facing us all.'Andy Briggs, Head of FTSE 100 life insurer Phoenix Group'A very important book'Sir Muir GrayThe Age of Ageing Better? takes a ...Show more
Unfit for Purpose by Adam Hart
$33.00 NZD
Category: Science & nature
Stress, obesity, poor mental health, drug addiction, bowel diseases, violence and fake news; a stark checklist of modern world problems and every one of them is an echo of our evolutionary past. In Unfit for Purpose, biologist and broadcaster Adam Hart explores the mismatch between our fundamental biolo ...Show more
X +Y - A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender by Eugenia Cheng
$40.00 NZD
Category: Science & nature
From imaginary numbers to the fourth dimension and beyond, mathematics has always been about imagining impossible things. In x+y, Eugenia Cheng draws on the insights of higher-dimensional mathematics to reveal a transformative new way of talking about the patriarchy, mansplaining and sexism: a way that ...Show more
Stories We Tell Ourselves - Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe by Richard Holloway
$33.00 NZD
Category: Science & nature
An examination of how we make sense of the world, from the Sunday Times bestselling author.
A Life on Our Planet - My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough
$45.00 NZD
Category: Science & nature
See the world. Then make it better. 'I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us ...Show more
The Comedy of Error: Why Evolution Made Us Laugh by Jonathan Silvertown
$37.00 NZD
Category: Science & nature
What is humour? Why do we laugh? And why is the root of a good joke almost always error? Good jokes, bad jokes, clever jokes, dad jokes -- the desire to laugh is universal. But why do we find some gags hilarious, whilst others fall flat? Why does explaining a joke make it less amusing rather than more s ...Show more
Cosmological Koans - A Journey to the Heart of Physics by Anthony Aguirre
$26.00 NZD
Category: Science & nature
Could there be a civilization on a mote of dust? How much of your fate have you made? Using pleasingly paradoxical vignettes, known as Koans, that follow the ancient Zen tradition and have a flair for explaining complex science, physicist Anthony Aguirre tackles cosmic questions from the meaning of quan ...Show more
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl by Jonathan Slaght
$48.00 NZD
Category: Science & nature
When wildlife researcher Jonathan Slaght was a young Peace Corps volunteer in the Russian Far East, he caught a brief glimpse of a Blakiston's fish owl. It was the furthest south the species had been documented in over a hundred years, and a chance encounter that would change his life. In Owls of the E ...Show more