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Deep Simplicity: Chaos Complexity and the Emergence of Life by John Gribbin
$28.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | 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: Popular Science | 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
$29.95 NZD
Category: Popular Science | 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
Q.E.D.: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard P. Feynman
$29.95 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
Quantum electrodynamics - or QED, for short - is the revolutionary theory that explains how light and electrons interact. Thanks to richard Feynman and his colleagues, who won the Nobel Prize for their ground-breaking work in this area, it is also one of the rare parts of physics that is known for sure, ...Show more
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order by Steven H. Strogatz
$29.95 NZD
Category: Popular Science | 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
$31.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | 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 Origins of Virtue by Matt Ridley
$27.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Penguin Press Science Ser.
Why are people nice to each other? What are the reasons for altruism? Matt Ridley explains how the human mind has evolved a special instinct for social exchange, offering a lucid and persuasive argument about the paradox of human benevolence.
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