The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets by Simon Singh
$14.00 NZD
Category: Mathematics | Reading Level: very good
Everyone knows that The Simpsons is probably the most successful show in television history. What you might not know is that it contains enough sophisticated mathematics to form a university course, and then some. In the first ever episode, baby Maggie is messing around with some building blocks, which ...Show more
Rock, Paper, Scissors - Game Theory in Everyday Life - Strategies for Co-operation by Len Fisher
$12.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
Game Theory is the study of co-operation and the underlying strategies that shape human behavior. It reveals the decision-making process. This title presents various applications of this science, and the ways we can use its discoveries to find effective means to co-operate in daily life.
The Information - A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick
$16.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
James Gleick, the author of the bestsellers Chaos and Genius, brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become the modern era's defining quality--the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike ou ...Show more
A Sense of Place - The gardens of Andrew Pfeiffer by Andrew Pfeiffer
$20.00 NZD
Category: Gardening | Reading Level: very good
The gardens of Andrew Pfeiffer are inspired by a deep respect for their natural environments. Whether informal gardens that appear to have sprung naturally from their original landscape or striking, thematic walled gardens deliberately detached from the wilderness beyond, the magnificent gardens in this ...Show more
Errornomics - Why We Make Mistakes and What We Can Do to Avoid Them by Joseph T Hallinan
$10.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: good-very good
How did security staff at LA International Airport miss 75 per cent of bomb-making materials that went through screening? Which way should you turn before joining a supermarket queue? Why should a woman hope it was a man who witnessed her bag being snatched? And what possessed Burt Reynolds to punch a g ...Show more
Injured Brains of Medical Minds by Narinder Kapur (ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: very good
This book provides a unique perspective on what it is like to be brain-damaged, seen through the eyes of doctors or neurosurgeons who have themselves suffered a brain injury or brain illness. Each of the personal accounts, written over the past 120 years, is accompanied by a commentary written by the au ...Show more
Spikes - Exploring the Neural Code by Fred Rieke; David Warland; Rob De Ruyter Van Steveninck; William Bialek
$85.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Series: Computational Neuroscience | Reading Level: very good
What does it mean to say that a certain set of spikes is the right answer to a computational problem? In what sense does a spike train convey information about the sensory world? Spikes begins by providing precise formulations of these and related questions about the representation of sensory signals in ...Show more
The Orbitofrontal Cortex by David H Zald; Scott L Rauch
$65.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: very good
The orbitofrontal cortex comprises the ventral surface of the frontal lobe, and is critical for functions ranging from olfaction and emotion to learning and behavioral flexibility. Since the time of Phineas Gage, this enigmatic brain region has intrigued clinicians due to its association with personalit ...Show more
The Ape and the Sushi Master - Cultural reflections by a primatologist by Frans de Waal
$15.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good
The Longman Literary Companion to Science by Walter Gratzer (ed.)
$18.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
From So Simple a Beginning - The Four Great Books of Charles Darwin by Charles Darwin; Edward O. Wilson (ed.)
$55.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: near fine
Never before have the four great works of Charles Darwin Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle (1845), The Origin of Species (1859), The Descent of Man (1871), and The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) been collected under one cover. Undertaking this challenging endeavor 123 years after Darwin's de ...Show more
Leonardo da Vinci - The Mechanics of Man by Martin Clayton; Ron Philo
$30.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good