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50 Biology Ideas You Really Need to Know by J. V. Chamary
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
50 Biology Ideas You Really Need to Know is your guide to the most significant and stimulating questions in the study of life. Why do species evolve? Can characteristics be inherited without DNA? Are all organisms made of cells? What makes us human? This book provides succinct answers to all these quest ...Show more
50 Chemistry Ideas You Really Need to Know by Hayley Birch
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
Chemistry is at the cutting ege of our lives. How does a silicon chip work? How can we harness natural products to combat human disease? And is it possible to create artificial muscles? Providing answers to these questions and many more, 50 Chemistry Ideas You Really Need to Know is an engaging guide to ...Show more
50 Genetics Ideas You Really Need to Know by Mark Henderson
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
In recent years knowledge of our genetic code has changed our understanding of life on Earth. New genetic technologies are transforming the way we live and promise treatments for otherwise incurable diseases. But these advances are also generating controversy, particularly surrounding issues such as clo ...Show more
50 Human Brain Ideas You Really Need to Know by Moheb Costandi
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
Neuroscience is one of the most fascinating and complex areas of scientific research, with new advances being made every day. In 50 Human Brain Ideas You Really Need to Know, Mo Costandi condenses all we know about the brain and how it works into series of introductions to the most important concepts. ...Show more
50 Ideas You Really Need to Know: Economics by Edmund Conway
$28.00 NZD
Category: Business | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series | Reading Level: very good
What exactly is a credit crunch? Why do footballers earn so much more than the rest of us? Which country is likely to be the world's leading economy in 10 years' time? Daily Telegraph economics editor Edmund Conway introduces and explains the central ideas of economics in a series of fifty essays. B ...Show more
50 Ideas You Really Need to Know: Management by Edward Russell-Walling
$28.00 NZD
Category: Business | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
In 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know: Management Edward Russell-Walling demystifies the management concepts that any budding entrepreneur needs to grasp. In fifty bite-sized topics he expounds the wisdom of well-known business gurus, from Peters and Porter to Welch and Gates. Helpful theories and tools s ...Show more
50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know by John Sutherland
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
Literature suffers from appearing both deceptively easy and dauntingly difficult. We all like to think we can read a novel and understand what 'genre', 'style' and 'narrative' mean, but do we really understand them fully and how they can enrich our reading experience? How should we approach the works of ...Show more
50 Management Ideas You Really Need to Know by Edward Russell-Walling
$30.00 NZD
Category: Business | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
The fourth title in the Quercus Ideas You Really Need to Know series demystifies the management concepts that any budding entrepreneur would want to grasp. The 50 bite-sized topics expound the wisdom of the well-known business gurus (from Peters and Porter to Welch and Gates), explain helpful theories a ...Show more
50 Philosophy of Science Ideas You Really Need to Know by Gareth Southwell
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
Science first began as a branch of philosophy, but it has since grown up and moved out of the family home, and its successes have put its parent in the shade. Thanks to scientific knowledge we have walked on the Moon, cured once-fatal illnesses, and even identified the very building blocks of life and t ...Show more
50 Quantum Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know by Joanne Baker
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
Following on from the highly successful 50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know, author Joanne Baker consolidates the foundation concepts of physics and moves on to present clear explanations of the most cutting-edge area of science: quantum physics. With 50 concise chapters covering complex theories a ...Show more
50 Religious Ideas You Really Need to Know by Peter Stanford
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
Despite frequent prognostications regarding the death of God' and the triumph of secular materialism, religion remains a central component in the lives of most people around the world. There are currently thought to be 2 billion Christians, 1.2 billion Muslims, 800 million Hindus, along with some 700 mi ...Show more
50 Universe Ideas You Really Need to Know by Joanne Baker
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
For millennia humanity has gazed in wonder at the night sky, tracked the motions of the planets and attempted to explain our place in the Universe. But only in our own time has the true scale, the astonishing variety and the remarkable strangeness of the cosmos come clearly into focus. The pace and soph ...Show more