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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
Tales of Two Planets: Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World by John Freeman (Editor)
$37.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Building from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman draws together a group of our greatest writers from around the world to help us see how the environmental crisis is hitting some of the most vulnerable communities where they live. In the past five year ...Show more
Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors by Matt Parker
$28.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
What makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? How do billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? How does a building rock when its resonant frequency matches a gym class leaping to Snap's 1990 hit I've Got The Power? The answer is maths. Or, to be precise, what happens when maths goes wr ...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
Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand - Fifty Wonders That Reveal an Extraordinary Universe by Marcus Chown
$23.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A mind-bending journey through some of the most weird and wonderful facts about our universe, vividly illuminating the hidden truths that govern our everyday lives. "The tone is consistently light and breezy...an addictive, intriguing, and entertaining read...a handy guide for anyone yearning to spice ...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
Working with Nature: Saving and Using the World's Wild Places by Jeremy Purseglove
$25.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
From cocoa farming in Ghana to the orchards of Kent and the desert badlands of Pakistan, taking a practical approach to sustaining the landscape can mean the difference between prosperity and ruin. Working with Nature is the story of a lifetime of work, often in extreme environments, to harvest nature a ...Show more
Origins - How the Earth Shaped Human History by Lewis Dartnell
$28.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The Sunday Timesbestseller that reveals the Earth's awesome impact on the shape of human civilizations. 'Stands comparison with Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens... A thrilling piece of Big History' Sunday Times 'A sweeping, brilliant overview of the history not only of our species but of the world' Peter F ...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
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
Written in Bone by Sue Black
$37.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Our bones are the silent witnesses to the lives we lead. Our stories are marbled into their marrow. Drawing upon her years of research and a wealth of remarkable experience, the world-renowned forensic anthropologist Dame Sue Black takes us on a journey of revelation. From skull to feet, via the face, ...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
