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Apache at War : Inside the cockpit of the world's deadliest combat helicopter by Steve Jones
39.99 NZD
Category: Military
Billed as 'the ultimate fighting machine', the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter is a US-designed close-support aircraft in service with US forces and, in the UK, with the Army Air Corps (AAC). This is a senior AAC pilot's vivid account of flying this and other combat helicopters in action.
Cheese from Dimension Pong by Gareth P. Jones; Steve May (Illustrator)
15.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Pet Defenders Ser.
The Pet Defenders Code: 1. The safety of Planet Earth depends on you. 2. Humans MUST NOT know the truth. GOOD LUCK - you'll need it... A mysterious cheese has appeared in Nothington-on-Sea and it smells so bad it's knocking people out! Biskit and Mitzy discover some alien cheeses determined to live on ...Show more
Coral: A Pessimist in Paradise by Steve Jones
39.99 NZD
Category: Environment | Reading Level: very good
While writing this book, Steve Jones had beside him the coral brooch that his sea captain grandfather brought back across the Indian Ocean as a gift for his wife. This simple object is a starting point for a dazzling narrative that touches on a number of the most important issues facing us today. Follow ...Show more
Coral : A Pessimist in Paradise by Steve Jones
29.99 NZD
35.00 (14% off)
Category: Environment
While writing this book, Steve Jones had beside him the coral brooch that his sea captain grandfather brought back across the Indian Ocean. This simple object is a starting point for a dazzling narrative that touches on a number of the most important issues facing us today. Following in the footsteps of ...Show more
Escape from Planet Bogey ( Pet Defenders ) by Steve (ILT) Gareth P.; May Jones
15.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Pet Defenders
The Pet Defenders Code: 1. The safety of Planet Earth depends on you. 2. Humans MUST NOT know the truth. GOOD LUCK - you'll need it... Animals are disappearing from Nothington-on-Sea and the Pet Defenders suspect alien activity. Secret agents Biskit and Mitzy find themselves caught up in the Planet Boge ...Show more
Evolution (The Ladybird Expert) by Steve Jones
21.00 NZD
Category: Science | Series: The Ladybird Expert
** AN IDEAL GIFT FOR A YOUNG PERSON WITH AN OPEN AND ENQUIRING MIND. ** Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Evolution is a clear, simple and entertaining introduction to Charles Darwin's pioneering and revolutionary theory of how all life changes through natural selection. Written by broadcaster, pr ...Show more
In the Blood by Steve Jones (Galton Professor of Genetics, University College, London)
29.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
Invasion of the Giant Nits by Gareth P. Jones; Steve May (Illustrator)
15.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Pet Defenders Ser.
The Pet Defenders Code: 1. The safety of Planet Earth depends on you. 2. Humans MUST NOT know the truth. GOOD LUCK - you'll need it... Biskit and Mitzy are confronted by a large alien spider who plans to destroy the planet. Worse, she has an army of nits that she can enlarge with a blast from her own ...Show more
No Need for Geniuses: Revolutionary Science in the Age of the Guillotine by Professor Steve Jones
39.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine20
Paris at the time of the French Revolution was the world capital of science. Its scholars laid the foundations of today's physics, chemistry and biology. They were true revolutionaries: agents of an upheaval both of understanding and of politics. Many had an astonishing breadth of talents. The Minister ...Show more
No Need for Geniuses : Revolutionary Science in the Age of the Guillotine by Steve Jones
29.99 NZD
Category: History
Paris at the time of the French Revolution was the world capital of science. Its scholars laid the foundations of today's physics, chemistry and biology. They were true revolutionaries: agents of an upheaval both of understanding and of politics.Many had an astonishing breadth of talents. The Minister o ...Show more
The Serpent's Promise: The Bible Retold as Science by Professor Steve Jones
29.99 NZD
Category: Science
The Bible was the first scientific textbook of all; and it got some things right (and plenty more wrong). Steve Jones' new book rewrites it in the light of modern science. Are we all descended from a single couple, a real-life Adam and Eve? Was the Bible's great flood really a memory of the end of the I ...Show more
The Single Helix: A Turn Around the World of Science by Steve Jones
32.99 NZD
Category: Science
THE SINGLE HELIX is a miscellany of a hundred easy pieces about science. It brings to life a vast diversity of subjects, united under the banner of scientific truth - the universal solvent that brings clarity to almost all the mysteries of the world we live in. Scientists are trained to know ever more a ...Show more