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Deep Simplicity: Chaos Complexity and the Emergence of Life by John Gribbin
28.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
In this brilliantly enlightening book John Gribbin, the man who made quantum theory clear with In Search of Schrodinger's Cat shows that complexity is simple, and explains how life has emerged from simple systems. Deep Simplicity is the first book to synthesize all the various ideas about chaos and comp ...Show more
Euclid's Window by Leonard Mlodinow
26.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
This text leads us on a journey through five revolutions in geometry, via biographical stories, from the Greek concept of parallel lines to contemporary notions of hyperspace. It reveals simple questions that have been the hidden engines of major achievements in science and technology.
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
26.95 NZD
29.95 (10% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"Presented with extraordinary lucidity, cogency and panache...Powerful and gripping...To have read [the book] is to have consulted a first draft of the structural plan of the human psyche...a glittering tour de force" - "Spectator". "Why do memories fade? Why do we lose our tempers? Why do fools fall in ...Show more
Project Orion by George Dyson
26.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Press Science S.
In 1957 a small group of scientists launched a madcap scheme to send a nuclear-bomb-propelled spaceship to Mars. It became known as Project Orion, and is one of the most fantastic 'what if' stories ever told. Orion was to weigh 4,000 tons, carry 2,600 bombs and transport fifty passengers on a voyage a ...Show more
Some Time with Feynman by Leonard Mlodinow
25.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Press Science S.
Some Time With Feynman is the memoir of a young man trying to find his place in life, and an inspirational portrait of the remarkable person whose wisdom helped him along the way. Who had the greatest influence on your life? Was it a parent, a teacher, a friend? For Leonard Mlodinow it was his colleg ...Show more
Stardust by John Gribbin
24.95 NZD
27.00 (7% off)
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
Life begins with the process of star formation. Except for hydrogen, every single atom of every single element in our bodies has been manufactured inside stars and then scattered across the universe in great stellar explosions known as supernovas, only then to be recycled as part of us. The hydrogen is ...Show more
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order by Steven H. Strogatz
29.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
Why do crickets harmonize together in choruses on a summer night? What makes the moon spin precisely in sync with its orbit? Why do audiences clap simultaneously? What made the Millennium Bridge wobble? The answer in sync. The tendency to synchronize is one of the most far-reaching drives in the univers ...Show more
The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
29.95 NZD
31.00 (3% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser. | Reading Level: very good
From Brian Greene, one of the world's leading physicists, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way. Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time have a dir ...Show more
The Red Queen by Matt Ridley
28.00 NZD
29.00 (3% off)
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
Sex is as fascinating to scientists as it is to the rest of us. A vast pool of knowledge, therefore, has been gleaned from research into the nature of sex, from the contentious problem of why the wasteful reproductive process exists at all, to how individuals choose their mates and what traits they find ...Show more
The Secret Life of Trees - How They Live and Why They Matter by Colin Tudge
31.00 NZD
Category: Environment | Series: Penguin Press Science | Reading Level: good-very good
'Everyone interested in the natural world will enjoy The Secret Life of Trees. I found myself reading out whole chunks to friends' The Times, Books of the YearWhat is a tree? As this celebration of the trees shows, they are our countryside; our ancestors descended from them; they gave us air to breathe. ...Show more
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