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How Evolution Explains Everything About Life : From Darwin's Brilliant Idea to Today's Epic Theory ( New Scientist Instant Expert) by New Scientist Staff
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Category: Non Fiction General | Series: New Scientist Instant Expert
How did we get here? All cultures have a creation story, but a little over 150 years ago Charles Darwin introduced a revolutionary new one. We, and all living things, exist because of the action of evolution on the first simple life form and its descendants. We now know that it has taken 3.8 billions o ...Show more
How Long is Now?: Fascinating Answers to 191 Mind-Boggling Questions by New Scientist Magazine Staff; New Scientist Staff
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Category: Popular Science
A Sunday Times bestseller How long is 'now'? The short answer is 'somewhere between 2 and 3 seconds'. The long answer involves an incredible journey through neuroscience, our subconscious and the time-bending power of meditation. Living in the present may never feel the same. Ready for some more? Okay ...Show more
How Your Brain Works: Inside the Most Complicated Object in the Universe by New Scientist
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Category: Social Sciences | Series: New Scientist Instant Expert
WHAT MAKES YOU, YOU? The brain has long been a source of fascination. In 1819, the radical thinker and surgeon William Lawrence put it like this: "It is strongly suspected that a Newton or Shakespeare excels other mortals only...by having an extra inch of brain in the right place." Today, many such susp ...Show more
How to be Human : New Scientist by New Scientist Staff
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Category: Social Sciences
If you thought you knew who you were, THINK AGAIN. Did you know that half your DNA isn't human? That somebody, somewhere has exactly the same face? Or that most of your memories are fiction? What about the fact that you are as hairy as a chimpanzee, various parts of your body don't belong to you, or t ...Show more
New Scientist: The Origin of (Almost) Everything: From the Big Bang to Belly-Button Fluff (HB) by New Scientist Magazine Staff; Stephen Hawking; Jennifer Daniel (Illustrator); Graham Lawton
49.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
From what actually happened in the Big Bang to the accidental discovery of post-it notes, the history of science is packed with surprising discoveries. Did you know, for instance, that if you were to get too close to a black hole it would suck you up like a noodle (it's called spaghettification), why yo ...Show more
New Scientist: The Origin of (almost) Everything by New Scientist, Stephen Hawking, Graham Lawton
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Intro by Stephen Hawking
Introduction by Professor Stephen Hawking. When Edwin Hubble looked into his telescope in the 1920s, he was shocked to find that nearly all of the galaxies he could see through it were flying away from one another. If these galaxies had always been travelling, he reasoned, then they must, at some point ...Show more
The End of Money: The Story of Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies and the Blockchain Revolution by New Scientist
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Category: Popular Science | Series: New Scientist Instant Expert
The End of Money is an essential introduction to cryptocurrencies and the blockchain revolution. On this journey you'll discover how this staggering new technology has the potential to enable an ultra-libertarian society beyond government control. Murder for hire. Drug trafficking. Embezzlement. Money l ...Show more
The Quantum World: The Disturbing Theory at the Heart of Reality by New Scientist
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Category: Social Sciences | Series: New Scientist Instant Expert
THE MIND-BENDING WORLD OF QUANTUM THEORY Quantum theory is our very best description of the microscopic world of atoms and their constituents. It has given us lasers, computers and nuclear reactors, and even tells us how the sun shines and why the ground beneath our feet is solid. Yet the quantum world ...Show more
The Universe Next Door: A Journey Through 57 Alternative Realities, Parallel Worlds and Possible Futures (New Scientist) by New Scientist
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Category: Social Sciences
A journey through 55 alternative realities, parallel worlds and possible futures. It's lucky you're here. But for a series of incredible coincidences and roads not taken, your life could be very different. The same goes for reality. We live in just one of many possible worlds. In others, dinosaurs still ...Show more
This Book Could Fix Your Life - The Science of Self Help by New Scientist New Scientist; Helen Thomson
37.99 NZD
Category: Self Help
We all want to be happier, more successful and less stressed, but what really works?From improving creativity to building confidence, self-care to self-esteem, forming better habits and feeling happier, Fix Your Life debunks the fads and explores the real science of self-help.Can you learn to make bette ...Show more
Where the Universe Came from: How Einstein's Relativity Unlocks the Past, Present and Future of the Cosmos by New Scientist
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Category: Popular Science | Series: New Scientist Instant Expert
WHY GENERAL RELATIVITY LEAVES UNFINISHED BUSINESS WITH THE COSMOS A little over a century ago, a young Albert Einstein presented his general theory of relativity to the world and utterly transformed our understanding of the universe. He overturned centuries of thinking about gravity by revealing how it ...Show more
Why the Universe Exists: How Particle Physics Unlocks the Secrets of Everything by New Scientist Staff
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Category: Non Fiction General | Series: New Scientist Instant Expert
As you read this, billions of neutrinos from the sun are passing through your body, antimatter is sprouting from your dinner and the core of your being is a chaotic mess of particles known only as quarks and gluons. If the recent discovery of the Higgs Boson piqued your interest, then Why The Universe ...Show more