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Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX

by Eric Berger ...

‘Just read it.’ Elon MuskThe dramatic inside story of SpaceX ― the world's leading edge rocket company, whose charismatic and controversial founder now advises the White HouseSpaceX has enjoyed a miraculous decade. Less than 20 years after its founding, it boasts the largest constellation of commercial satellites in orbit, has pioneered reusable rockets, and in 2020 became the first private ... Read more

$14.99 NZD

‘Just read it.’ Elon MuskThe dramatic inside story of SpaceX ― the world's leading edge rocket company, whose charismatic and controversial founder now advises the White HouseSpaceX has enjoyed a miraculous decade. Less than 20 years after its founding, it boasts the largest constellation of commercial satellites in orbit, has pioneered reusable rockets, and in 2020 became the first private
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The Tale of the Duelling Neurosurgeons

The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery

by Sam Kean ...

For centuries, scientists had only one way to study the brain: wait for misfortune to strike - strokes, seizures, infections, lobotomies, horrendous accidents, phantom limbs, Siamese twins - and see how the victims changed afterwards. In many cases their survival was miraculous, and observers marvelled at the transformations that took place when different parts of the brain were destroyed. Parents ... Read more

$20.99 NZD

For centuries, scientists had only one way to study the brain: wait for misfortune to strike - strokes, seizures, infections, lobotomies, horrendous accidents, phantom limbs, Siamese twins - and see how the victims changed afterwards. In many cases their survival was miraculous, and observers marvelled at the transformations that took place when different parts of the brain were destroyed. Parents
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Storm in a Teacup

The Physics of Everyday Life

by Helen Czerski ...

'A quite delightful book on the joys, and universality, of physics. Czerski's enthusiasm is infectious because she brings our humdrum everyday world to life, showing us that it is just as fascinating as anything that can be seen by the Hubble Telescope or created at the Large Hadron Collider.' - Jim Al-KhaliliOur world is full of patterns. If you pour milk into your tea and give it a stir, you'll ... Read more

$18.99 NZD

'A quite delightful book on the joys, and universality, of physics. Czerski's enthusiasm is infectious because she brings our humdrum everyday world to life, showing us that it is just as fascinating as anything that can be seen by the Hubble Telescope or created at the Large Hadron Collider.' - Jim Al-KhaliliOur world is full of patterns. If you pour milk into your tea and give it a stir, you'll
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Caesar's Last Breath

The Epic Story of The Air Around Us

by Sam Kean ...

** GUARDIAN SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 **‘Popular science at its best’Mail on Sunday‘Eminently accessible and enjoyable’ObserverWith every breath, you literally inhale the history of the world. On the ides of March, 44 BC, Julius Caesar died of stab wounds in the Roman Senate, but the story of his last breath is still unfolding. In fact, you're probably inhaling some of it now. Of the ... Read more

$20.99 NZD

** GUARDIAN SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 **‘Popular science at its best’Mail on Sunday‘Eminently accessible and enjoyable’ObserverWith every breath, you literally inhale the history of the world. On the ides of March, 44 BC, Julius Caesar died of stab wounds in the Roman Senate, but the story of his last breath is still unfolding. In fact, you're probably inhaling some of it now. Of the
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Your Flying Car Awaits

Robot Butlers, Lunar Vacations, and Other Dead-Wrong Predictions of the Twentieth Century

by Paul Milo ...

A delightful mixture of science fiction, utopian vision, and just plain crazy ideas, Your Flying Car Awaits is a hilarious and insightful compendium of the most outrageous and completely ridiculous predictions of the 20th Century. Award-winning journalist Paul Milo’s collection of “Robot Butlers, Lunar Vacations, and Other Dead-Wrong Predictions of the Twentieth Century” is true history on the ... Read more

$8.99 NZD

A delightful mixture of science fiction, utopian vision, and just plain crazy ideas, Your Flying Car Awaits is a hilarious and insightful compendium of the most outrageous and completely ridiculous predictions of the 20th Century. Award-winning journalist Paul Milo’s collection of “Robot Butlers, Lunar Vacations, and Other Dead-Wrong Predictions of the Twentieth Century” is true history on the
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Why Nobody Understands Quantum Physics

The Story of the Science That Shapes Our World

by Frank Verstraete, Céline Broeckaert ...

The International Bestseller'Entertaining, unorthodox and highly readable' – Professor Ian Stewart FRS, bestselling co-author of The Science of Discworld'A physics book unlike any other. The scope, depth and artistry are breathtaking' – John Preskill, theoretical physicist and Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at CaltechQuantum physics is the cornerstone of our world. Yet, at the same time, ... Read more

$14.99 NZD

The International Bestseller'Entertaining, unorthodox and highly readable' – Professor Ian Stewart FRS, bestselling co-author of The Science of Discworld'A physics book unlike any other. The scope, depth and artistry are breathtaking' – John Preskill, theoretical physicist and Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at CaltechQuantum physics is the cornerstone of our world. Yet, at the same time,
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Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction

Make mayhem from your stationery with 35 models to build yourself

by John Austin ...

Series series Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction
We've come a long way from the Peashooter Era: with the advent of modern household products and office supplies - foldback clips, clothespins, rubber bands, ballpoint pens, toothpicks, paper clips and plastic utensils - the everyday junk drawer can hold all the materials needed to create pocket-sized weaponry.Whether you're slowing dying of boredom in a stuffy office, plotting revenge on your ... Read more

$13.99 NZD

We've come a long way from the Peashooter Era: with the advent of modern household products and office supplies - foldback clips, clothespins, rubber bands, ballpoint pens, toothpicks, paper clips and plastic utensils - the everyday junk drawer can hold all the materials needed to create pocket-sized weaponry.Whether you're slowing dying of boredom in a stuffy office, plotting revenge on your
... Read more
Einstein’s Fridge

The Science of Fire, Ice and the Universe

by Paul Sen ...

‘Hugely readable and entertaining’ JIM AL-KHALILI‘An accessible and crystal-clear portrait of this discipline’s breadth, largely told through its history’ PHIL BALL, PHYSICS WORLDEinstein’s Fridge tells the story of how scientists uncovered the least known and yet most consequential of all the sciences, and learned to harness the power of heat and ice.The laws of thermodynamics govern everything ... Read more

$16.99 NZD

‘Hugely readable and entertaining’ JIM AL-KHALILI‘An accessible and crystal-clear portrait of this discipline’s breadth, largely told through its history’ PHIL BALL, PHYSICS WORLDEinstein’s Fridge tells the story of how scientists uncovered the least known and yet most consequential of all the sciences, and learned to harness the power of heat and ice.The laws of thermodynamics govern everything
... Read more
Charles Darwin: On the Origin of Species & On the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties

by Charles Darwin ...

Charles Darwin's groundbreaking work 'On the Origin of Species & On the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties' is a foundational text in the field of evolutionary biology. This literary masterpiece not only presents Darwin's theory of natural selection, but also provides a detailed account of the evidence supporting his revolutionary ideas. Darwin's writing style is clear and concise, making ... Read more

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Charles Darwin's groundbreaking work 'On the Origin of Species & On the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties' is a foundational text in the field of evolutionary biology. This literary masterpiece not only presents Darwin's theory of natural selection, but also provides a detailed account of the evidence supporting his revolutionary ideas. Darwin's writing style is clear and concise, making
... Read more
CERN and the Higgs Boson

The Global Quest for the Building Blocks of Reality

by James Gillies ...

Series series Hot Science
The Higgs boson is the rock star of fundamental particles, catapulting CERN, the laboratory where it was found, into the global spotlight. But what is it, why does it matter, and what exactly is CERN?In the late 1940s, a handful of visionaries were working to steer Europe towards a more peaceful future through science, and CERN, the European particle physics laboratory, was duly born. James ... Read more

$9.51 NZD

The Higgs boson is the rock star of fundamental particles, catapulting CERN, the laboratory where it was found, into the global spotlight. But what is it, why does it matter, and what exactly is CERN?In the late 1940s, a handful of visionaries were working to steer Europe towards a more peaceful future through science, and CERN, the European particle physics laboratory, was duly born. James
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The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments

by George Johnson ...

George Johnson tells the stories of ten beautiful experiments which changed the world. From Galileo singing to mark time as he measured the pull of gravity and Newton carefully inserting a needle behind his own eye, to Joule packing a thermometer on his honeymoon to take the temperature of waterfalls and Michelson recovering from a dark depression to discover that light moves at the same speed in ... Read more

$20.99 NZD

George Johnson tells the stories of ten beautiful experiments which changed the world. From Galileo singing to mark time as he measured the pull of gravity and Newton carefully inserting a needle behind his own eye, to Joule packing a thermometer on his honeymoon to take the temperature of waterfalls and Michelson recovering from a dark depression to discover that light moves at the same speed in
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The Wuhan Cover-Up

And the Terrifying Bioweapons Arms Race

by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ...

Series series Children’s Health Defense
“RFK Jr. exposes the decades of lies.”—Luc Montagnier, Nobel laureateFrom the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of The Real Anthony Fauci comes an explosive exposé of the cover-up behind the true origins of COVID-19.“Gain-of-function” experiments are often conducted to deliberately develop highly virulent, easily transmissible pathogens for t. ... Read more

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“RFK Jr. exposes the decades of lies.”—Luc Montagnier, Nobel laureateFrom the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of The Real Anthony Fauci comes an explosive exposé of the cover-up behind the true origins of COVID-19.“Gain-of-function” experiments are often conducted to deliberately develop highly virulent, easily transmissible pathogens for t.
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Physics From The Edge: A New Cosmological Model For Inertia

by Michael Edward Mcculloch ...

The fundamental and very important property of inertia has never been well understood. This book shows how inertia has puzzled many scientists such as Galileo and Mach, and then presents a new theory that explains inertia for the first time, and also predicts galaxy rotation without dark matter, cosmic acceleration and some other anomalies. Further evidence for, and tests of, the theory are ... Read more

$40.15 NZD

The fundamental and very important property of inertia has never been well understood. This book shows how inertia has puzzled many scientists such as Galileo and Mach, and then presents a new theory that explains inertia for the first time, and also predicts galaxy rotation without dark matter, cosmic acceleration and some other anomalies. Further evidence for, and tests of, the theory are
... Read more
Adventures from the Technology Underground

Catapults, Pulsejets, Rail Guns, Flamethrowers, Tesla Coils, Air Cannons, and the Garage Warriors Who Love Them

by William Gurstelle ...

The technology underground is a thriving, humming, and often literally scintillating subculture of amateur inventors and scientific envelope-pushers who dream up, design, and build machines that whoosh, rumble, fly—and occasionally hurl pumpkins across enormous distances. In the process they astonish us with what is possible when human imagination and ingenuity meet nature’s forces and materials. ... Read more

$10.03 NZD

The technology underground is a thriving, humming, and often literally scintillating subculture of amateur inventors and scientific envelope-pushers who dream up, design, and build machines that whoosh, rumble, fly—and occasionally hurl pumpkins across enormous distances. In the process they astonish us with what is possible when human imagination and ingenuity meet nature’s forces and materials.
... Read more
The TAB Guide to Vacuum Tube Audio: Understanding and Building Tube Amps

by Jerry C. Whitaker ...

Series series TAB Electronics
Incorporate the "tube sound" into your home audio systemLearn how to work with vacuum tubes and construct high-quality audio amplifiers on your workbench with help from this hands-on, do-it-yourself resource. The TAB Guide to Vacuum Tube Audio: Understanding and Building Tube Amps explains tube theory and construction practices for the hobbyist.Seven ready-to-build projects feature step-by-step ... Read more

$56.19 NZD

Incorporate the "tube sound" into your home audio systemLearn how to work with vacuum tubes and construct high-quality audio amplifiers on your workbench with help from this hands-on, do-it-yourself resource. The TAB Guide to Vacuum Tube Audio: Understanding and Building Tube Amps explains tube theory and construction practices for the hobbyist.Seven ready-to-build projects feature step-by-step
... Read more
ENSAIO SOBRE A UBERIZAÇÃO E A DEGRADAÇÃO DO TRABALHO NO BRASIL

por uma construção coletiva da parametrização algorítmica

by GILBERTO MOREIRA MENEZES NETO ...

A Quarta Revolução Industrial ou Revolução 4.0 trouxe novidades tecnológicas capazes de alterar a forma como se produz e se presta serviço, influenciando de forma direta o mundo do trabalho. Os aplicativos permitem com que as empresas estabeleçam um canal de contato direto tanto com seus clientes, quanto com seus trabalhadores, tornando o celular um instrumento primordial para execução das tarefas ... Read more

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A Quarta Revolução Industrial ou Revolução 4.0 trouxe novidades tecnológicas capazes de alterar a forma como se produz e se presta serviço, influenciando de forma direta o mundo do trabalho. Os aplicativos permitem com que as empresas estabeleçam um canal de contato direto tanto com seus clientes, quanto com seus trabalhadores, tornando o celular um instrumento primordial para execução das tarefas
... Read more
Massive Neutrinos: Flavor Mixing Of Leptons And Neutrino Oscillations

by Harald Fritzsch ...

Series Book 25 - Advanced Series On Directions In High Energy Physics
Since the discovery of neutrino oscillations neutrino physics has become an interesting field of research in physics. They imply that neutrino must have a small mass and that the neutrinos, coupled to the charged leptons, are mixtures of the mass eigenstates, analogous to the flavor mixing of the quarks. The mixing angles for the quarks are small, but for the leptons two of the mixing angles are ... Read more

$44.08 NZD

Since the discovery of neutrino oscillations neutrino physics has become an interesting field of research in physics. They imply that neutrino must have a small mass and that the neutrinos, coupled to the charged leptons, are mixtures of the mass eigenstates, analogous to the flavor mixing of the quarks. The mixing angles for the quarks are small, but for the leptons two of the mixing angles are
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The Secret Life of Fungi

Discoveries From a Hidden World

by Aliya Whiteley ...

**_____Fungi are not like us - they are entirely, magically, something else.‘A lyrical, fascinating exploration of this weird organism’** Scottish Field‘A memoir oozing with wonder’ Waterstones.comWelcome to the astonishing secret world of fungi_____Fungi can appear anywhere, from desert dunes to frozen tundra. They can invade our bodies and thoughts; live between our toes or our floorboards; they ... Read more

$15.00 NZD

**_____Fungi are not like us - they are entirely, magically, something else.‘A lyrical, fascinating exploration of this weird organism’** Scottish Field‘A memoir oozing with wonder’ Waterstones.comWelcome to the astonishing secret world of fungi_____Fungi can appear anywhere, from desert dunes to frozen tundra. They can invade our bodies and thoughts; live between our toes or our floorboards; they
... Read more
Experiments And Demonstrations In Physics: Bar-ilan Physics Laboratory (2nd Edition)

by Yaakov Kraftmakher ...

A laboratory manual for high schools, colleges, and universities. The second edition contains more than 140 experiments and demonstrations presented in ten chapters: Introductory Experiments (30), Mechanics (11), Molecular Physics (11), Electricity and Magnetism (13), Optics and Atomic Physics (12), Condensed Matter Physics (11), Semiconductors (10), Applied Physics (11), Nobel Prize Experiments ... Read more

$153.69 NZD

A laboratory manual for high schools, colleges, and universities. The second edition contains more than 140 experiments and demonstrations presented in ten chapters: Introductory Experiments (30), Mechanics (11), Molecular Physics (11), Electricity and Magnetism (13), Optics and Atomic Physics (12), Condensed Matter Physics (11), Semiconductors (10), Applied Physics (11), Nobel Prize Experiments
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The Art of Careful Experimentation : Long-Term Investigations | The Scientific Method Grade 4 | Children's Science Education Books

by Baby Professor ...

The scientific method was created to challenge beliefs and prove them as true. It is composed of several steps, each of which bearing a specific set of criteria that must be followed. This book will take you through the steps of careful and long-term investigation. Ready your notes because there’s a lot to learn from the pages of this book. Good luck! ... Read more

$6.51 NZD

The scientific method was created to challenge beliefs and prove them as true. It is composed of several steps, each of which bearing a specific set of criteria that must be followed. This book will take you through the steps of careful and long-term investigation. Ready your notes because there’s a lot to learn from the pages of this book. Good luck!
... Read more
Psychiatrie phénoménologique

Préface Dominique PRINGUEY et Jeanne TATOSSIAN

by Arthur TATOSSIAN ...

Series series psychopathologie fondamentale
Arthur Tatossian est une grande figure dans la psychiatrie phénoménologique contem poraine française. Sa connaissance des langues lui a permis de lire les textes fondateurs de la phénoménologie dans l’original. Ce recueil de textes, épuisé depuis quinze ans, constitue un ensemble précieux pour différentes raisons. D’abord, il est très rare d’avoir accès à une description de cas longue, et, de ... Read more

$13.66 NZD

Arthur Tatossian est une grande figure dans la psychiatrie phénoménologique contem poraine française. Sa connaissance des langues lui a permis de lire les textes fondateurs de la phénoménologie dans l’original. Ce recueil de textes, épuisé depuis quinze ans, constitue un ensemble précieux pour différentes raisons. D’abord, il est très rare d’avoir accès à une description de cas longue, et, de
... Read more
Organisms

Fifth Grade Science Experiments

by Thomas Bell ...

$4.32 NZD
Explosive Science Experiments for Little Chemists - Science Project | Children's Science Experiment Books

by Baby Professor ...

You have to assist your little chemists when conducting the experiments listed in this book. Experiments are powerful learning tools that help to define your child’s love for acquiring information hands-on. Anything learned with the senses involved will be a lot more difficult to forget than those learned simply by reading. Good luck on these experiments! ... Read more

$5.58 NZD

You have to assist your little chemists when conducting the experiments listed in this book. Experiments are powerful learning tools that help to define your child’s love for acquiring information hands-on. Anything learned with the senses involved will be a lot more difficult to forget than those learned simply by reading. Good luck on these experiments!
... Read more
Science Alive 3

Practical Experiments for Grade 3

by Saroja Sundararajan ...

Series Book 3 - Science Alive
Science Alive (1-5) is a completely new 5-year course specially designed to make the teaching and learning of science a meaningful and truly 'aliVe' experience. The series is planned around the philosophy that science can be learnt only if the child acquires a scientific temperament — there must be curiosity and a kindling of the child's imagination; the joy of discovery and satisfaction of ... Read more

$2.87 NZD

Science Alive (1-5) is a completely new 5-year course specially designed to make the teaching and learning of science a meaningful and truly 'aliVe' experience. The series is planned around the philosophy that science can be learnt only if the child acquires a scientific temperament — there must be curiosity and a kindling of the child's imagination; the joy of discovery and satisfaction of
... Read more

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