Molecular Biology of the Cell by Bruce Alberts; Keith Roberts; Peter Walter; Rebecca Heald; Alexander D. Johnson; David Morgan; Martin Raff
149.95 NZD
Category: General Science
For more than four decades, Molecular Biology of the Cell has distilled the vast amount of scientific knowledge to illuminate basic principles, enduring concepts, and cutting-edge research. The Seventh Edition has been extensively revised and updated with the latest research, and has been thoroughly vet ...Show more
Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began by Guido Tonelli
24.99 NZD
Category: General Science
A breakout bestseller in Italy, Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began is a short, humanistic tour of the origins of the universe, Earth, and life--drawing on the latest discoveries in physics to explain the seven most significant moments in the creation of the cosmos. Curiosity and wonderment a ...Show more
Moonshot: Inside Pfizer's Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible by Albert Bourla
36.99 NZD
Category: General Science
The exclusive, first-hand, behind-the-scenes story of how Pfizer raced to create the first Covid-19 vaccine, told by Pfizer’s CEO Dr. Albert Bourla A riveting, fast-paced, inside look at one of the most incredible private sector achievements in history, Moonshot recounts the intensive nine months in 202 ...Show more
Slime: A Natural History by Susanne Wedlich
45.00 NZD
Category: General Science
An original and revelatory exploration of the hidden world of slime - the substance upon which we and our world depend. Slime is an ambiguous thing. It exists somewhere between a solid and liquid. It inspires revulsion even while it compels our fascination. It is a both a vehicle for pathogens and the ...Show more
The Herd: How Sweden Chose its own Path Through the Worst Pandemic in 100 Years by Johan Anderberg
37.00 NZD
Category: General Science
In the spring of 2020, as a new and deadly virus rapidly spread across the globe, the world shut down. But a small country in Northern Europe remained open. The Swedish COVID-19 strategy has been alternately lauded and held up as a cautionary tale by international governments and journalists alike -- w ...Show more
The Science of Everything - How Things Work in Our World by National Geographic Staff; David Pogue (Foreword by)
95.00 NZD
Category: General Science
National Geographic answers all the questions about how things work--the science, technology, biology, chemistry, physics, and mechanics--in an indispensible book that reveals the science behind virtually everything. How does the voice of a distant radio announcer make it through your alarm clock in the ...Show more
Our Biggest Experiment - The Scientists, Inventors and Activists Who Made, Discovered and Challenged the Climate Crisis by Alice Bell
34.99 NZD
Category: General Science
It was Eunice Newton Foote, an American scientist and women's rights campaigner living in Seneca Falls, New York, who first warned the world that an atmosphere heavy with carbon dioxide could send temperatures here on Earth soaring. This was back in 1856. At the time, no one paid much attention.Our Bigg ...Show more
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh
39.99 NZD
Category: General Science
'Do not miss this book' NAOMI KLEIN, author of This Changes EverythingThe history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation - of both human life and the natural environment - and the origin of our contemporary climate crisis.Tracing the threats to our future to the discovery of the New World and ...Show more
The Little Book of the Elements: A Pocket Guide to the Periodic Table by Jack Challoner
14.99 NZD
Category: General Science | Series: The\Little Book Of... Ser.
Everything in the universe is made up of the elements - including us. Forged in the Big Bang, the elements and their resulting compounds created the solar system, planet Earth, the air we breathe, the water we rely on and the proteins that would become life. In fact, everything in the known Universe is ...Show more
Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters by Steven E. Koonin
48.00 NZD
Category: General Science
"Surging sea levels are inundating the coasts." "Hurricanes and tornadoes are becoming fiercer and more frequent." "Climate change will be an economic disaster." You've heard all this presented as fact. But according to science, all of these statements are profoundly misleading. When it comes to c ...Show more
The Invention of Surgery by David Schneider
27.99 NZD
Category: General Science
"Bold and compelling... Uniformly excellent, and often wryly amusing."" - The Wall Street Journal"A globetrotting historical adventure, told from the inside of the operating room... Medical writing at its most exhilarating." - Michael Paul Mason"Comprehensively researched, deftly told, and radiating bot ...Show more
Soil: The Incredible Story of What Keeps the Earth, and Us, Healthy by Matthew Evans
37.99 NZD
Category: General Science | Reading Level: very good
'A love letter to Mother Earth and entertaining must-read that goes to the heart of our survival' Charles Massy, author of Call of the Reed Warbler. What we do to the soil, we do to ourselves. Soil is the unlikely story of our most maligned resource as swashbuckling hero. A saga of bombs, ice ages and c ...Show more