Video Game of the Year: A Year-by-Year Guide to the Best, Boldest, and Most Bizarre Games from Every Year Since 1977 by Jordan Minor
45.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Pong. The Legend of Zelda. Final Fantasy VII. Rock Band. Fortnite. Animal Crossing: New Horizons. For each of the 40 years of video game history, there is a defining game, a game that captured the zeitgeist and left a legacy for all games that followed. Through a series of entertaining, informative, a ...Show more
The Good Virus: The Untold Story of Phages by Tom Ireland
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
At every moment, within your body and all around you, trillions of microscopic combatants are fighting an invisible war. Countless times per second, 'good' viruses known as phages are infecting and destroying bacteria. These phages are the most abundant life form on the planet and have an incredible pow ...Show more
Eight Improbable Possibilities by John Gribbin
25.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A mind-warping excursion into the wildly improbable truths of science.
Tomorrow's People: The Future of Humanity in Ten Numbers by Paul Morland
28.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'Morland predicts the future of humanity in 10 illuminating statistics (could the Japanese and Italians now go the way of the dodo?) and looks back to how ebbs and flows of population have shaped history, such as the Soviet Union's plummeting birth rate in the 1960s, which hastened the end of the Cold W ...Show more
The NASA Archives. 40th Ed. by Piers Bizony, Andrew Chaikin, Roger Launius
55.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: 40th Edition Ser.
On October 1, 1958, the world's first civilian space agency opened for business as an emergency response to the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik a year earlier. Within a decade, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, universally known as NASA, had evolved from modest research teams experimen ...Show more
How the Mind Changed A Human History of Our Evolving Brain by Joseph Jebelli
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The extraordinary story of how the human brain evolved... and is still evolving.We've come a long way. The earliest human had a brain as small as a child's fist; ours are four times bigger, with spectacular abilities and potential we are only just beginning to understand.This is How the Mind Changed, a ...Show more
Elixir - A Story of Perfume, Science and the Search for the Secret of Life by Theresa Levitt
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'Dizzying and fragrant, elegant and riveting . . . truly a captivating achievement!' Aimee Nezhukumatathil'If you read this book you will be changed . . . this book feels like an actual elixir. Absolutely stunning' Kiese LaymonTwo friends in a Parisian perfume shop make a discovery that will transform o ...Show more
Hands of Time - A Watchmaker's History of Time by Rebecca Struthers
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
An intricate and personal history of watches and time from an extraordinary watchmaker and historian A watchmaker's world is not much bigger than a thumbnail. I spend whole days working on mechanisms which can contain hundreds of tiny components. Each of them has a specific task to perform. Every mornin ...Show more
The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us If We Let Them by Peter Wohlleben
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The follow-up to the international bestseller The Hidden Life of Trees, offering compelling insights into the lungs of our planet and the fragility of our intertwined futures. Trees can survive without humans, but we can't live without trees. Even if human-caused climate change devastates our plant, tr ...Show more
Chromorama: How Colour Changed Our Way of Seeing by Riccardo Falcinelli
55.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The Italian colour bible- a gorgeously illustrated exploration of colour and the modern gaze, from an award-winning designerHave you ever wondered why so many pencils are yellow? Why black is the colour of mourning? Or why carrots are orange?In Chromorama, acclaimed graphic designer Riccardo Falcinelli ...Show more
Pathogenesis - How infectious diseases shaped human history by Jonathan Kennedy
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Humans did not make history - we played host. This book is Guns, Germs and Steel without the guns and steel, Sapiens for the pandemic era. A major new history of the world. This humbling and revelatory book shows how infectious disease has shaped humanity at every stage, from the first success of Homo s ...Show more
Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli
30.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
What are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? And what exactly is reality? Scientist Carlo Rovelli has spent his life exploring these questions and pushing the boundaries of what we know. Here he explains how our image of the world has changed throughout centuries. From Aristotle to Albe ...Show more