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No One is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
$10.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'Everything needs to change. And it has to start today.' In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day. Her actions ended up sparking a global movement for action against the climate crisis, inspiring millions of pupils to go on strike for our plane ...Show more
The Big Book of Mars - From Ancient Egypt to the Martian, a Deep-Space Dive into Our Obsession with the Red Planet by Marc Hartzman
$48.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Mars has been a source of fascination and speculation ever since the Ancient Sumerians observed its blood-red hue and named it for their god of war and plague. But it wasn't until 1877, when "canals" were observed on the surface of the Red Planet, suggesting the presence of water, that scientists, novel ...Show more
Unfit for Purpose by Adam Hart
$33.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
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
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
$35.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A Guardian Book to Look Out For in 2020 'Humankind challenged me and made me see humanity from a fresh perspective' Yuval Noah Harari From 'the folk hero of Davos', Fox News antagonist and author of the international bestseller Utopia for Realists comes a radical history of our innate capacity for kin ...Show more
This Book is a Planetarium - And Other Extraordinary Pop-Up Contraptions by Kelli Anderson
$80.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Never has humble paper had such radical ambitions. Defying every expectation of what a book can be, this pop-up extravaganza transforms into six fully functional tools: a real working planetarium projecting the constellations, a musical instrument complete with strings for strumming, a geometric drawing ...Show more
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen
$30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
First, a horse in Brisbane falls ill: fever, swelling, bloody froth. Then thirteen others drop dead. The foreman at the stables becomes ill and the trainer dies. What is going on? As globalization spreads and as we destroy the ancient ecosystems, we encounter strange and dangerous infections that origin ...Show more
The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us by James Ball
$33.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
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
Inferior - The True Power of Women and the Science That Shows It by Angela Saini
$27.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
From intelligence to emotion, for centuries science has told us that men and women are fundamentally different. But this is not the whole story.Shedding light on controversial research and investigating the ferocious gender wars in biology, psychology and anthropology, Angela Saini takes readers on an e ...Show more
Power of Bad by John Tierney; Roy F. Baumeister
$40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Why does a bad impression last longer than a good one? Why does losing money affect us more than gaining it? What makes phobias so hard to shake? The answer is the negativity bias - or in other words, the power of bad. As John Tierney and Roy F. Baumeister show, we are wired to react to bad over good. ...Show more
Art of Rest; How to Find Respite ... by Claudia Hammond
$33.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Today busyness has become a badge of honour. We want to say we're busy, yet at the same time we feel exhausted. Instead we should start taking rest seriously as a method of self-care and this book can help us to work out how. The Art of Rest draws on ground-breaking research Claudia Hammond collaborat ...Show more
Meteorite: How Stones from Outer Space Made Our World - How Stones from Outer Space Made Our World by Tim Gregory
$38.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'Drawing on his deep technical education and boundless curiosity, Tim Gregory brings a childlike wonder of discovery to everything he sees. He shows an uncanny ability to swiftly understand, to clearly explain, and to be joyful in the process. His scientific delight is contagious' Chris Hadfield Every ...Show more
Lost Connections: Why You're Depressed and How to Find Hope by Johann Hari
$25.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: 4 non fiction
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Depression and anxiety are now at epidemic levels. Why? Across the world, scientists have uncovered evidence for nine different causes. Some are in our biology, but most are in the way we are living today. Lost Connections offers a radical new way of thinking about this cri ...Show more
