Voyages of Discovery - A visual celebration of ten of the greatest natural history expeditions by Tony Rice
$40.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good
Dop November 2008, Australia Hardcover 200 x 225mm 336 pages colour illus Voyages of Discovery is a mesmerising visual record of ten of the most significant natural history expeditions.Superb artworks and photographs spanning three centuries document advances and watersheds in the field of natural scien ...Show more
The Solar System - A visual exploration of the planets, moons, and other heavenly bodies that orbit our sun by Marcus Chown
$20.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
In this title, bestselling author Marcus Chown leads us on a grand tour through the incredible diversity of planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft that surround the Sun in our cosmic backyard. Illuminating his insightful and surprising text are a wealth of beautiful images and diagrams, print ...Show more
Wainwright in the Valleys of Lakeland by A. Wainwright
$15.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
Aids - Don't Die of Prejudice by Norman Fowler
$14.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: very good
Eighteen million people around the world live with HIV but do not know they are infected. Endangering both themselves and countless others, they represent a public health challenge that affects not only Africa but every part of the world, including Europe and the United States. We stand at a tipping poi ...Show more
This Idea Must Die - Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress by John Brockman (ed.)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Edge Question Series | Reading Level: very good
The bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together 175 of the world’s most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.org’s 2014 question: What scientific idea has become a relic blocking human progress? Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org—”The world’s smartest website” (The Guardian)—c ...Show more
The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets by Simon Singh
$14.00 NZD
Category: Mathematics | Reading Level: very good
Everyone knows that The Simpsons is probably the most successful show in television history. What you might not know is that it contains enough sophisticated mathematics to form a university course, and then some. In the first ever episode, baby Maggie is messing around with some building blocks, which ...Show more
Rock, Paper, Scissors - Game Theory in Everyday Life - Strategies for Co-operation by Len Fisher
$12.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
Game Theory is the study of co-operation and the underlying strategies that shape human behavior. It reveals the decision-making process. This title presents various applications of this science, and the ways we can use its discoveries to find effective means to co-operate in daily life.
The Information - A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick
$16.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
James Gleick, the author of the bestsellers Chaos and Genius, brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become the modern era's defining quality--the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike ou ...Show more
A Sense of Place - The gardens of Andrew Pfeiffer by Andrew Pfeiffer
$20.00 NZD
Category: Gardening | Reading Level: very good
The gardens of Andrew Pfeiffer are inspired by a deep respect for their natural environments. Whether informal gardens that appear to have sprung naturally from their original landscape or striking, thematic walled gardens deliberately detached from the wilderness beyond, the magnificent gardens in this ...Show more
Errornomics - Why We Make Mistakes and What We Can Do to Avoid Them by Joseph T Hallinan
$10.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: good-very good
How did security staff at LA International Airport miss 75 per cent of bomb-making materials that went through screening? Which way should you turn before joining a supermarket queue? Why should a woman hope it was a man who witnessed her bag being snatched? And what possessed Burt Reynolds to punch a g ...Show more
Injured Brains of Medical Minds by Narinder Kapur (ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: very good
This book provides a unique perspective on what it is like to be brain-damaged, seen through the eyes of doctors or neurosurgeons who have themselves suffered a brain injury or brain illness. Each of the personal accounts, written over the past 120 years, is accompanied by a commentary written by the au ...Show more
Spikes - Exploring the Neural Code by Fred Rieke; David Warland; Rob De Ruyter Van Steveninck; William Bialek
$85.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Series: Computational Neuroscience | Reading Level: very good
What does it mean to say that a certain set of spikes is the right answer to a computational problem? In what sense does a spike train convey information about the sensory world? Spikes begins by providing precise formulations of these and related questions about the representation of sensory signals in ...Show more