Start at the End: How Reverse-Engineering Can Lead to Success by Dan Bigham
$32.99 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
In Start at the End, Dan uses his own story as a cycling champion as well as wider examples and case studies from the worlds of business, personal development and other sports to demonstrate how this approach can help you succeed in any walk of life. An inspiring and thought-provoking new book that expl ...Show more
Explaining Humans - What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love and Relationships by Camilla Pang
$38.00 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder at the age of eight, Dr Camilla Pang struggled to understand the world around her. Desperate for a solution, Camilla asked her mother if there was an instruction manual for humans that she could consult. But, without the blueprint to life she was hoping for, Camil ...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
The Human Swarm - How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall by Mark W. Moffett
$27.99 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
The epic story and ultimate big history of how human society evolved from intimate chimp communities into the sprawling civilizations of a world-dominating species If a chimpanzee ventures into the territory of a different group, it will almost certainly be killed. But a New Yorker can fly to Los Angel ...Show more
Sitopia - How food can save the world by Carolyn Steel
$40.00 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
From our foraging hunter-gatherer ancestors to the enormous appetites of modern cities, food has shaped our bodies and homes, our politics and trade, and our climate. Whether it's the daily decision of what to eat, or the monopoly of industrial food production, food touches every part of our world. But ...Show more
Ten Women Who Changed Science, and the World by Catherine Whitlock; Rhodri Evans
$39.99 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
2040: A Handbook for the Regeneration by Damon Gameau
$39.99 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
'You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.' Buckminster Fuller Like most of us, Damon Gameau has spent most of his adult years overwhelmed into inaction by the problem of climate change and its devastating ef ...Show more
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
$30.00 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT | Series: Bryson
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him.A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got ...Show more
Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors by Matt Parker
$28.00 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
What makes a bridge wobble when it's not meant to? How do billions of dollars mysteriously vanish into thin air? How does a building rock when its resonant frequency matches a gym class leaping to Snap's 1990 hit I've Got The Power? The answer is maths. Or, to be precise, what happens when maths goes wr ...Show more
Into the Raging Sea - Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm and the Sinking of El Faro by Rachel Slade
$25.00 NZD
Category: Technology, Science, IT
In the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air, Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea is a nail-biting account of the sinking of the container ship El Faro, the crew of thirty-three who perished onboard, and the destructive forces of globalisation that put the ship in harm's way. On October 1, 201 ...Show more