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The Irrational Ape: Why Flawed Logic Puts Us All at Risk and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World by David Robert Grimes
$26.99 NZD
Category: Science
THE IRISH TIMES TOP FIVE BESTSELLER 'An unstoppable page-turner. If our leaders were forced to read this book, the world would be a safer place' Richard Dawkins 'A beautifully reasoned book about our own unreasonableness' Robin Ince Why did revolutionary China consider the sparrow an 'animal of capital ...Show more
Simply Quantum Physics by DK
$24.00 NZD
Category: Science
Discovering quantum physics has never been easier. Combining bold graphics with easy-to-understand text, Simply Quantum Physics is an essential introduction to the subject for those who are short of time but hungry for knowledge. It is a perfect beginner's guide to the strange and fascinating world of ...Show more
Simply Philosophy by DK
$24.00 NZD
Category: Science
Understanding philosophy has never been easier. Combining bold, elegant graphics with easy-to-understand text, Simply Philosophy is the perfect introduction to the subject for those who are short of time but hungry for knowledge. Artfully simple, it covers more than 90 key philosophical ideas, organiz ...Show more
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
$40.00 NZD
Category: Science
"Think Again is a must-read for anyone who wants to create a culture of learning and exploration, whether at home, at work, or at school... In an increasingly divided world, the lessons in this book are more important than ever." --Bill and Melinda Gates The bestselling author of Give and Take and Orig ...Show more
Cubed by Ernö Rubik
$39.99 NZD
Category: Science
In CUBED, Rubik covers more than just his journey to inventing his eponymous cube. He makes a case for the importance of being an amateur - as he has always considered himself. He discusses the inevitability of problems during any act of invention. He reveals what it was like to experience the astonishi ...Show more
Anti-Vaxxers: How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement by Jonathan M. Berman
$40.00 NZD
Category: Science
A history of the anti-vaccination movement, from its nineteenth-century antecedents to today's anti-vax activism, offering strategies for refuting its claims. Vaccines are a documented success story, one of the most successful public health interventions in history. Yet there is a vocal anti-vaccinatio ...Show more
Numbers Don't Lie - 73 Things about the World You Need to Know by Vaclav Smil
$40.00 NZD
Category: Science
Is flying dangerous? How much do the world's cows weigh? And what makes people happy? From earth's nations and inhabitants, through the fuels and foods that energize them, to the transportation and inventions of our modern world - and how all of this affects the planet itself - in Numbers Don't Lie, Pr ...Show more
Apollo's Arrow - The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live by Nicholas A. Christakis
$44.99 NZD
Category: Science
A piercing and scientifically grounded look at the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic and how it will change the way we live -- "this year's must-must-read." (Daniel Gilbert) Apollo's Arrow offers a riveting account of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic as it swept through American society in 202 ...Show more
Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain by David Eagleman
$36.99 NZD
Category: Science
How can a blind person learn to see with her tongue or a deaf person learn to hear with his skin? What does a baby born without a nose tell us about our sensory machinery? Might we someday control a robot with our thoughts? And what does any of this have to do with why we dream?The answers to these ques ...Show more
Subterranea by Chris Fitch
$60.00 NZD
Category: Science
If you were to peel back the Earth's surface like an orange, then take a sly peek underneath, what extraordinary things would you see? Subterranea is where the world's remaining mysteries are yet to be found. For millennia, across nations and cultures, it has been a hotbed of fantastical stories. It's w ...Show more
Space 2069 - After Apollo: Back to the Moon, to Mars, and Beyond by David Whitehouse
$39.99 NZD
Category: Science
Half a century after Apollo 11 we have still not returned to the Moon, but that is about to change. The thirteenth person to walk on the Moon could soon be part of a crew establishing a base on the lip of a crater at the lunar south pole.The discovery of ice in the eternal shadows of the polar regions t ...Show more
Metazoa : the Evolution of Animals, Minds, Consciousness and Sleep by Peter Godfrey-Smith
$37.99 NZD
Category: Science
From the human being to the octopus, the shark to the humble sea squirt, all animals are physical beings made up entirely of cells. And yet they can think, to varying degrees. How did this come to be? How did a mind first grow from the matter that is the body? And at what stage did that clump of cells b ...Show more