Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
From one of the New Yorker's most exciting young writers: a brilliant breakdown of how algorithms have shaped our physical and artistic worlds. The early promise of a free Internet is long gone. Now, rather than allowing us a meaningful relationship with a range of content of our choosing, algorithms ha ...Show more
Moons: The Mysteries and Marvels of our Solar System by Kate Howells
50.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
ALMOST EVERY PLANET IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM HAS ONE, SO WHY DO WE KNOW SO LITTLE ABOUT MOONS? Join astronomer Kate Howells on an interplanetary voyage to explore the mind-boggling moons of our solar system, from the volcanic hellscape of Io to the ice mountains and methane seas of Titan. Beautifully illustr ...Show more
Machines A Visual History: Dom Chinea Celebrates the Essential Machines Used by Artisans for Centuries by Dominic Chinea
65.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The Repair Shop's Dom Chinea takes you on an exploration of more than 120 essential machines found in the workshops and studios of the world's finest artisans and heritage craftspeople. Having covered tools in his first book, Dominic Chinea turns his attention to machines. Featuring more than 120 machin ...Show more
The Physics of Climate Change by Lawrence M. Krauss
25.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'Brilliant and fundamental, this is the necessary book about our prime global emergency' Ian McEwan The news is full of hotly debated and divergent claims about the impacts and risks of climate change. Lawrence Krauss, one of the world's most respected physicists and science popularizers, cuts through t ...Show more
A Housefly Buzzes in the Key of F: Hilarious and fascinating facts on all things flora and fauna from BBC Radio 4's award-winning series Nature Table by Simon Nicholls, Simon Nicholls
37.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Based on the smash BBC Radio 4 popular science and comedy series Nature Table and written by same team. FROM THE TEAM BEHIND BBC RADIO 4'S AWARD-WINNING NATURE AND COMEDY SERIES NATURE TABLE Did You Know That... A housefly buzzes in the key of F? A cockroach can live for a week without its head, before ...Show more
Our Moon: A Human History by Rebecca Boyle
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'I learned more about the Moon by reading this book than after a lifetime of study'CHRIS HADFIELD, author of An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth'Boyle's writing shines, shifting through time and space, science and sentiment; a luminous read'REBECCA WRAGG SYKES, author of Kindred'A riveting feat of sci ...Show more
Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters by Brian Klaas
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A provocative new vision of how our world really works - and why chance determines everything. In Fluke, myth-shattering social scientist Brian Klaas deep-dives into the phenomenon of randomness, unpicking our neat and tidy storybook version of events to reveal a reality far wilder and more fascinating ...Show more
How Infrastructure Works: The Systems That Run Our World - and How We Fix Them by Deb Chachra
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'Pulsing with wisdom and humanity, How Infrastructure Works is a masterpiece' Ed Yong. 'You won't see the world the same after reading this book!' Austin Kleon. Every day, we are granted the power to travel at high speeds, fly, see in the dark, summon water from distant mountains and electricity from t ...Show more
Math with Bad Drawings: Illuminating the Ideas That Shape Our Reality by Ben Orlin
38.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A hilarious and bestselling reintroduction to mathematics, illustrating the ideas with stories, humor, and stick figures. In Math with Bad Drawings, Ben Orlin reveals what math is all about. His tools are unorthodox: jokes, cartoons, strange-but-true stories, and beneath it all, the empathy of a veter ...Show more
Impossible, Possible, and Improbable: Science Stranger Than Fiction by John Gribbin
28.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'Gribbin has inspired generations with his popular science writing' Jim Al-KhaliliA scintillating collection of short essays that really does cover 'life, the Universe, and everything'.From the mysteries of the subatomic world to the curious property of water that makes our planet inhabitable, master of ...Show more
A Brief History of Intelligence: Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of AI by Max Bennett
38.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A Brief History of Brains bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the evolutionary story of how the brain came to be. The entirety of the human brain's 4-billion-year story can be summarised as the culmination of five evolutionary breakthroughs, starting from the very first brains, all t ...Show more
Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them: A Journey to the Edge of Physics by Antonio Padilla
30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A dazzling exploration of the strange and extreme numbers that illuminate the ultimate nature of realityFor particularly brilliant theoretical physicists like James Clerk Maxwell, Paul Dirac or Albert Einstein, the search for mathematical truths - via ever more mind-boggling numbers - led to strange new ...Show more