Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles by Samuel Graydon
39.99 NZD
Category: General Science
DROPOUT. PACIFIST. PHYSICIST. CASANOVA. REFUGEE. REBEL. GENIUS.THINK YOU KNOW EINSTEIN? THINK AGAIN. His face is instantly recognisable. His name is shorthand for genius. Today, he's a figurehead as much as a man, symbolic of things larger than himself: of scientific progress, of the human mind, even o ...Show more
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters by Andrew H. Knoll
36.99 NZD
Category: General Science
Harvard's acclaimed geologist "charts Earth's history in accessible style" (AP) "A sublime chronicle of our planet." -Booklist, STARRED review How well do you know the ground beneath your feet? Odds are, where you're standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of i ...Show more
White Holes: Inside the Horizon by Carlo Rovelli
40.00 NZD
Category: General Science
A mesmerizing trip to the strange new world of white holes, from Carlo Rovelli, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics. Let us journey, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli, into the heart of a black hole. Let us slip beyond its boundary, the horizon, and tumble - on and on - down thi ...Show more
Hothouse Earth by Bill McGuire
27.99 NZD
Category: General Science
We inhabit a planet in peril. Our once temperate world is locked on course to become a hothouse entirely of our own making.
The Last Drop: Solving the World's Water Crisis by Tim Smedley
39.99 NZD
Category: General Science
A gripping, thought-provoking and ultimately optimistic investigation into the world's next great climate crisis - the scarcity of water. Water scarcity is the next big climate crisis. Water stress - not just scarcity, but also water-quality issues caused by pollution - is already driving the first wave ...Show more
What Your Food Ate - How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health (Hardback) by David R. Montgomery; Anne Bikle
56.99 NZD
Category: General Science
Are you really what you eat? David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé take us far beyond the well-worn adage to deliver a new truth: the roots of good health start on farms. What Your Food Ate marshals evidence from recent and forgotten science to illustrate how the health of the soil ripples through to that ...Show more
Grounded: How soil shapes the games we play, the lives we make and the graves we lie in by Alisa Bryce
40.00 NZD
Category: General Science
An Aussie scientist digs up some dirt about the history and science of soilLife on land could not exist without soil. Almost everything we need can be traced to the soil- food, fibre, medicines - even oxygen produced by plants. What would we be without it? Certainly not a planet worthy of the name Earth ...Show more
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement by James Vincent
36.99 NZD
Category: General Science
A revelatory and vibrant story of measurement which will make you look at the world around you anew. We measure rainfall and radiation, the depths of space and the emptiness of atoms, calories and steps, happiness and fear. If we could not measure then we could not observe the world around us; we could ...Show more
This Is Your Mind On Plants: Opium-Caffeine-Mescaline by Michael Pollan
26.00 NZD
Category: General Science
The instant New York Times bestseller A Washington Post Notable Book One of NPR's Best Books of the Year "Expert storytelling . . . [Pollan] masterfully elevates a series of big questions about drugs, plants and humans that are likely to leave readers thinking in new ways."--New York Times Book Review. ...Show more
Geopedia: A Brief Compendium of Geologic Curiosities by Marcia Bjornerud
34.99 NZD
Category: General Science | Series: Pedia Bks.
A garden of geologic delights for all Earthlings Geopedia is a trove of geologic wonders and the evocative terms that humans have devised to describe them. Featuring dozens of entries — from Acasta gneiss to Zircon — this illustrated compendium is brimming with lapidary and lexical insights that will de ...Show more
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World by Marcia Bjornerud
34.99 NZD
Category: General Science
Why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survival Few of us have any conception of the enormous timescales of our planet's long history, and this narrow perspective underlies many of the environmental problems we are creating. The lifespan of Earth can seem unfathomable ...Show more
The Chemistry Book (Big Ideas Simply Explained) by .
48.00 NZD
Category: General Science
An accessible guide to more than 95 of the most important discoveries and theories in the history of chemistryDiscover and understand the key ideas that underpin the core science of chemistry and learn about the great minds who uncovered them Written in plain English, The Chemistry Book is packed with s ...Show more