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Life's Edge - Searching for What It Means to Be Alive by Carl Zimmer
$40.00 NZD
Category: Sciences
Carl Zimmer investigates one of the biggest questions of all: What is life? The answer seems obvious until you try to seriously answer it. Is the apple sitting on your kitchen counter alive, or is only the apple tree it came from deserving of the word? If we can't answer that question here on earth, how ...Show more
How to Talk to Robots and Why You Should - A Beginner's Handbook to Successfully Navigating a Future Dominated by Artificial Intelligence by Tabitha Goldstaub
$33.00 NZD
Category: Sciences
'…an essential and fascinating manual for every woman who wants to understand equality within an ever-changing, modern world.' Scarlett Curtis‘…[this book] taught me more than any book has ever taught me about AI.' Chris Evans, Virgin Radio How To Talk To Robots, is your girls guide to Artificial Intell ...Show more
Puppy Zen by Mark Vette
$45.00 NZD
Category: Sciences
A comprehensive guide to puppy training by Mark Vette, of Pound Pups to Dog Stars fame. Mark's first book Dog Zen had just 40 pages on puppies - this book goes into full detail about all ages and stages, and how to do the right thing at the right time. Following a quick look at the role of pups within ...Show more
The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge
$36.00 NZD
Category: Sciences | Series: The Neuroplasticity Chronicles
An astonishing new scientific discovery called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the adult human brain is fixed and unchanging. It is, instead, able to change its own structure and function, even into old age. Psychiatrist and researcher Norman Doidge, MD, travelled around th ...Show more
Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science by Ritchie, Stuart
$40.00 NZD
Category: Sciences
So much relies on science. But what if science itself can't be relied on?Medicine, education, psychology, health, parenting - wherever it really matters, we look to science for guidance. Science Fictions reveals the disturbing flaws that undermine our understanding of all of these fields and more.While ...Show more
The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change by Yoram Bauman
$45.00 NZD
Category: Environment & Climate
Climate change is no laughing matter, but maybe it should be. The topic is so critical that everyone, from students to policy-makers to voters, needs a quick and easy guide to the basics. The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change entertains as it educates, delivering a unique and enjoyable presentation ...Show more
Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer The by Charles Graeber
$37.00 NZD
Category: Sciences
One hundred years ago, physicians marvelled at patients with bacterial infections who appeared to have been spontaneously cured of deadly tumours. What was a miraculous mystery then is now hard scientific fact- immunotherapy is the cutting edge of cancer treatment, and a crucial breakthrough in the race ...Show more
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack
$48.00 NZD
Category: Sciences
We know the universe had a beginning. But what happens at the end of the story? With lively wit and wry humour, astrophysicist Katie Mack takes us on a mind-bending tour through each of the cosmos' possible finales: the Big Crunch, Heat Death, Vacuum Decay, the Big Rip and the Bounce. Guiding us throug ...Show more
The Secret Life of Cows by Rosamund Young
$20.00 NZD
Category: Sciences
"Within a day of receiving this book, I had consumed it... Absorbing, moving, and compulsively readable."--Lydia Davis In this affectionate, heart-warming chronicle, Rosamund Young distills a lifetime of organic farming wisdom, describing the surprising personalities of her cows and other animals A ...Show more
Vulgar Wasp by Lester Phil
$30.00 NZD
Category: Sciences
They're ranked one of the world's worst invasive species. They're often described as pure evil. People use petrol bombs, flamethrowers and shotguns on them in acts of vengeance. Wasps are feared and hated by many of us, with good reason - they sting. For anyone who is allergic to their venom, a sting ca ...Show more
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
$26.00 NZD
Category: Sciences
'We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us.' Bill Bryson sets off to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable a ...Show more
Way Through the Woods by Long Litt Woon
$40.00 NZD
Category: Grief & Loss
A grieving widow discovers a most unexpected form of healing - hunting for mushrooms. Long Litt Woon met Eiolf a month after arriving in Norway from Malaysia as an exchange student. They fell in love, married, and settled into domestic bliss. Then Eiolf's unexpected death at fifty-four left Woon strugg ...Show more
