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The Human Cosmos: A Secret History of the Stars by Jo Marchant
$32.99 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
For most of human history, we have led not just an earthly existence but a cosmic one. Celestial cycles drove every aspect of our daily lives. Our innate relationship with the stars shaped who we are - our religious beliefs, power structures, scientific advances and even our biology. But over the last f ...Show more
No One is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
$9.99 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
'Everything needs to change. And it has to start today.' In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day. Her actions ended up sparking a global movement for action against the climate crisis, inspiring millions of pupils to go on strike for our plane ...Show more
The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy and Our Health - and How We Must Adapt by Sinan Aral
$40.00 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
In this brilliant smart-thinking book about the power and influence of social media, Professor Sinan Aral shows how ‘hyper-socialization' has profoundly changed us. Why does fake news spread faster than the truth? Do products and ideas become popular because they are good or because they are rated high ...Show more
What We Need to Do Now - A Green Deal to Ensure a Habitable Earth by Chris Goodall
$28.00 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
What We Need To Do Now sets out a comprehensive programme of action to counter the threats to our environment. The book emphasises the importance, and relative simplicity, of decarbonising our energy supply but also stresses that this is a small part of the switch to a sustainable planet. Among many oth ...Show more
The Periodic Table (Popular Penguin) by Primo Levi
$13.99 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi's transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew. It recounts, in clear, precise, unfailingly beautiful prose, the story of the Piedmontese Jewish community from which Levi came, o ...Show more
On Time and Water by Andri Snær Magnason; Lytton Smith (Translator)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
A unique approach to climate change that recalls W. G. Sebald.
Superior - The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini
$27.99 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
Financial Times Book of the Year Telegraph Top 50 Books of the Year Guardian Book of the Year New Statesman Book of the Year ''Roundly debunks racism''s core lie - that inequality is to do with genetics, rather than political power'' Reni Eddo-Lodge For millennia, dominant societies have had the habit o ...Show more
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer
$26.00 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
In We Are the Weather, New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Safran Foer explores the central global dilemma of our time in a surprising, deeply personal, and urgent new way. Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. B ...Show more
Why Do Buses Come in Threes? - The Hidden Mathematics of Everyday Life by Rob Eastaway; Jeremy Wyndham
$22.99 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
A fascinating look at how mathematics is relevant to our everyday lives Why is it better to buy a lottery ticket on a Friday? Why are showers always too hot or too cold? And which classic puzzle was destroyed by Allied bombing in the war? These and many other questions are answered in this entertaining ...Show more
Ten Women Who Changed Science, and the World by Catherine Whitlock; Rhodri Evans
$37.99 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
Ten Women Who Changed Science tells the moving stories of the physicists, biologists, chemists, astronomers and doctors who helped to shape our world with their extraordinary breakthroughs and inventions, and outlines their remarkable achievements. These scientists overcame significant obstacles, often ...Show more
Reef Life: An Underwater Memoir by Callum Roberts
$39.99 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
How did one of the world's preeminent marine conservation scientists fall in love with coral reefs? We first meet Callum as a young student who had never been abroad, spending a summer helping to map the unknown reefs of Saudi Arabia. From that moment, when Callum first cleared his goggles, he never loo ...Show more
Tools and Weapons: Promise and Peril in the Digital Age by Brad Smith; Carol Ann Browne
$34.99 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
"A clear, compelling guide to some of the most pressing debates in technology today." - Bill Gates, from the foreword From Microsoft's President and one of the tech industry's wisest thinkers, a frank and thoughtful reckoning with how to balance enormous promise and existential risk as the digitization ...Show more