Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars by Andrew Rader
$26.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
From brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader--an MIT-credentialed scientist, popular podcast host, and SpaceX mission manager--an "engaging" (Tim Marshall, New York Times bestselling author) chronicle showcasing our human desire to continually explore new and uncharted territory, from civilization's earli ...Show more
The Mission: a True Story by David W. Brown
$39.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
A masterful, genre-defying narrative of the most ambitious science project ever conceived: NASA's deep-space mission to Europa--the Jovian moon where might swim the first known alien life in our solar system--powered by a motley team of obsessives and eccentrics.When scientists discovered the first ocea ...Show more
A Short History of Humanity: How Migration Made Us Who We Are by Johannes Krause; Thomas Trappe
$40.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
Humanity has often found itself on the precipice. We've survived and thrived because we've never stopped moving...In this eye-opening book, Johannes Krause, Chair of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Humanity, offers a new way of understanding our past, present and future.Marshalling unique in ...Show more
One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon by Fishman, Charles
$35.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
The remarkable story of the trailblazers and the ordinary Americans on the front lines of the epic mission to reach the moon. President John F. Kennedy astonished the world on May 25, 1961, when he announced to Congress that the United States should land a man on the Moon by 1970. No group was more ...Show more
Symphony in C - Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything by Robert Hazen
$27.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
An enchanting biography of the most resonant - and most necessary - chemical element on Earth. Carbon. It is the building block of every cell that makes up every living thing. It is the essential component of the food we eat, the fuel we burn, the wood we use and the air we breathe. It is worth billion ...Show more
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
$26.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections of the human and the natural realms. In Underland, he delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, ...Show more
Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini
$27.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
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
Origin Story: A Big History Of Everything by David Christian
$28.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | Series: Australian
How did we get from the Big Bang to today's staggering complexity, in which seven billion humans are connected into networks powerful enough to transform the planet? And why, in comparison, are our closest primate relatives reduced to near-extinction?Big History creator David Christian gives the answers ...Show more
Chasing the Moon: An Epic Rivalry, A Monumental Challenge, The Race to be First by Robert Stone; Alan Andres (As told to)
$36.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | Reading Level: near fine
This companion to the six-hour "American Experience" documentary airing on PBS goes beyond the series to reveal the stories of the visionaries who helped America complete the 1961 vision of President John F. Kennedy, with the first lunar landing in 1969.
Frank Whittle: Invention of the Jet by Andrew Nahum
$24.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | Series: Icon Science Ser.
Frank Whittle always maintained that he was held back by a lack of government support. At the very moment in 1943 when his invention was unveiled to the world, his company, Power Jets, was forcibly nationalised. Yet, as Andrew Nahum shows in this brilliantly researched book, Whittle's innovative brillia ...Show more
Elon Musk: A Mission to Save the World by Anna Crowley Redding
$34.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
A riveting and beautifully designed YA biography that shows how a once-bullied school boy became an iconic visionary who the New York Times described as "arguably the most important and successful entrepreneur in the world." Elon Musk is the visionary behind SpaceX and CEO of the electric car company Te ...Show more
And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Portrait of Oliver Sacks by Lawrence Weschler
$44.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
Lawrence Weschler began spending time with Oliver Sacks in the early 1980s, when he set out to profile him for The New Yorker. Almost a decade earlier, Dr. Sacks had published his masterpiece Awakenings but the book had hardly been an immediate success, and the rumpled clinician was still largely unknow ...Show more