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13 Things That Don't Make Sense : The Most Intriguing Scientific Mysteries of Our Time by Michael Brooks
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
Science starts to get interesting when things don't make sense. Even today there are experimental results that the most brilliant scientists can neither explain nor dismiss. In the past, similar anomalies have revolutionised our world: in the sixteenth century, a set of celestial irregularities led Cope ...Show more
13 Things That Don't Make Sense : The most intriguing scientific mysteries of our time by Michael Brooks
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Will we ever find the ninety-six percent of the universe that is missing? Will tomorrow bring an answer to the scientific mysteries of today? While taking readers on an entertaining tour d'horizon of today's strangest scientific findings, Michael Brooks argues that the things we don't understand are the ...Show more
At the Edge of Uncertainty: 11 Discoveries Taking Science by Surprise by Michael Brooks
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
The atom. The Big Bang. DNA. Natural selection. All ideas that have revolutionised science - and that were dismissed out of hand when they first appeared. The surprises haven't stopped: here, Michael Brooks, bestselling author of 13 Things that Don't Make Sense, investigates the new wave of unexpected i ...Show more
Can We Travel Through Time? The 20 Big Questions in Physics by Michael Brooks
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
Can We Travel Through Time? addresses 20 of the most fundamental and frequently asked questions in physics. What is the God particle? Does chaos theory spell disaster? Am I unique in the universe? What is light? Each 3,000 word essay examines these eternally perplexing questions in a way that is compr ...Show more
Hollywood Wants to Kill You - The Peculiar Science of Death in the Movies by Michael Brooks; Rick Edwards
$26.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
The hilarious new popular science book from the bestselling authors of the Sunday Times Book of the Year Science(ish). With wit, intelligence and irreverence, Rick Edwards and Dr Michael Brooks explore the science of death and mass destruction through some of our best-loved Hollywood blockbusters. From ...Show more
Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation by Michael Chabon; Ayelet Waldman ; Colum Mccann ; Colm Toibin ; Dave Eggers ; Geraldine Brooks ; Jacqueline Woodson ; Mario Vargas Llosa
$33.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Published to coincide the with 50th anniversary of the Israel occupation of the West Bank, an anthology that explores the human cost of the conflict there as witnessed by such notable writers as Colum McCann, Colm Toibin, Dave Eggers, Madeleine Thien, Eimear McBride, Taiye Selasi and editors Michael Cha ...Show more
Science(ish) - The Peculiar Science Behind the Movies by Rick Edwards & Dr. Michael Brooks
$23.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
In Science(ish), Rick Edwards and Dr Michael Brooks confront all the questions that your favourite movies provoke. Inspired by their award-winning podcast, this popular (hopefully) science (definitely) book dedicates each chapter to a different sci-fi classic, and wittily explores the fascinating issues ...Show more
The Big Questions: Physics by Michael Brooks
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
The Big Questions series is designed to let renowned experts address the 20 most fundamental and frequently asked questions of a major branch of science or philosophy. Each 3000-word essay simply and concisely examines a question that has eternally perplexed enquiring minds, and provides answers from hi ...Show more
The Quantum Astrologer's Handbook by Michael Brooks
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
This is a landmark in science writing. It resurrects from the vaults of neglect the polymath Jerome Cardano, a Milanese of the sixteenth century. Who is he? A gambler and blasphemer, inventor and chancer, plagued by demons and anxieties, astrologer to kings, emperors and popes. This stubborn and unworld ...Show more
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