Fen, Bog and Swamp - A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis by Annie Proulx
28.99 NZD
Category: Science
*Named a Best Book of the Year byThe New Yorker and Literary Hub!* A Finalist for the 2022 NBCC Awards in Nonfiction, the 2023 Phillip D. Reed Environmental Writing Award, and the NEIBA 2023 New England Book Award*From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx, this riveting deep dive into the history of our w ...Show more
Mind Blown by Dan Marshall
32.99 NZD
Category: Science
Did you know space is only an hour's drive away? Did you know there is a jellyfish that is biologically immortal? Or that of all life that has ever existed on Earth, 99.9% of it is extinct? Dan Marshall's slick new book is packed to the brim with facts that will BLOW YOUR MIND. Delightful illustrations ...Show more
Why We Die: The New Science of Ageing and the Quest for Immortality by Venki Ramakrishnan
39.99 NZD
Category: Science
The knowledge of death is so terrifying that we live most of our lives in denial of it. Our fear of death has underpinned our religions, inspired our cultures, and also driven our science. Today we are living through a revolution in biology. Giant strides are being made in our understanding of why we a ...Show more
50 Universe Ideas You Really Need to Know by Joanne Baker
24.99 NZD
Category: Science | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Ser.
In a series of 50 accessible essays, Jo Baker introduces and explains all of the essential concepts, major discoveries and the very latest thinking in astrophysics. From heliocentrism to Newton's theory of optics, the theory of relativity to supermassive black holes, 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know: U ...Show more
Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
41.99 NZD
Category: Science
An ambitious, eye-opening, myth-busting and groundbreaking history of the evolution of the female body, by a brilliant new scientist and writer. How did wet nurses drive civilization? Are women always the weaker sex? Is sexism useful for evolution? And are our bodies at war with our babies? In Eve, Ca ...Show more
Elusive by Frank Close
31.99 NZD
Category: Science
The story of the Higgs boson - the so-called 'God particle' - and the man who thought of it In the summer of 1964, a reclusive young professor at the University of Edinburgh wrote two scientific papers which have come to change our understanding of the most fundamental building blocks of matter and the ...Show more
2024 Guide to the Night Sky Southern Hemisphere: A Month-by-Month Guide to Exploring the Skies Above Australia, New Zealand and South Africa by Storm Dunlop, Wil Tirion, Collins Astronomy
22.99 NZD
Category: Science
The ideal gift for all amateur and seasoned astronomers. A comprehensive handbook to the planets, stars and constellations visible from the southern hemisphere. 6 pages for each month covering January–December 2024. Diagrams drawn for the latitude of southern Australia, but including events visible from ...Show more
Around the Ocean in 80 Fish and other Sea Life by Helen Scales
59.99 NZD
Category: Science
This is an inspiring tour of the world's oceans and 80 of its most notable inhabitants. Beautifully illustrated, the book includes fascinating stories of the fish, shellfish and other sea life that have somehow impacted human life - whether in our medicine, culture or folklore - in often surprising and ...Show more
The Sloth Lemur's Song - Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Present by Alison Richard
24.99 NZD
Category: Science
A moving account of Madagascar told by a researcher who has spent over fifty years investigating the mysteries of this remarkable island. Madagascar is a place of change. A biodiversity hotspot and the fourth largest island on the planet, it has been home to a spectacular parade of animals, from giant ...Show more
Otherlands: A World in the Making by Thomas Halliday
29.99 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: near fine
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERShortlisted for the Wainright Prize'The best book on the history of life on Earth I have ever read' Tom Holland'Epically cinematic... A book of almost unimaginable riches' Sunday TimesThis is the past as we've never seen it before.Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating jour ...Show more
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
25.99 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
'We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us.' Bill Bryson sets off to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ab ...Show more
Pathogenesis by Jonathan Kennedy
29.99 NZD
Category: Science
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK A TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR A SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Powerfully argued... Fascinating and pacy' Sunday Times, Book of the Week 'Superbly written... sure to please readers of Yuval Noah Harari or Rutger Bregman' The Times 'Full of amazing facts' Observ ...Show more