The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
$37.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | Series: GREEN JOHN
A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fiction from #1 internationally bestselling author John GreenThe Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable sy ...Show more
Impossible, Possible, and Improbable: Science Stranger Than Fiction by John Gribbin
$55.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
A scintillating collection of short essays that really does cover 'life, the Universe, and everything'.
The Arbornaut by Meg LOWMAN
$36.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
Nicknamed the 'Real-Life Lorax' by National Geographic, the botanist and conservationist Meg Lowman takes us on an adventure into the eighth continent of the world's treetops, along her journey as a scientist, and into climate action. One of the world's first tree-top scientists, Meg Lowman is as innov ...Show more
Boom, Bust, Boom: A Story about Copper, the Metal That Runs the World by Bill Carter
$35.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
A sweeping account of civilization's complete dependence on copper that "is the best sort of journalism: beautifully written, rich in detail, and impossible to ignore" (Sebastian Junger). For most of recorded history, copper has proven invaluable: not only did the ancient Romans build their empire on m ...Show more
The Tasman - Biography of an Ocean by Neville Peat
$62.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | Reading Level: Very Good
"I had the ambition to not only go as far as anyone had been before, but as far as it was possible for man to go." - Lieutenant James Cook, 1771. The mighty Tasman Sea casts a spell on all who venture into it. Here, for the first time, is a book that tells its remarkable life story, from its early origi ...Show more
Plastic Ocean : How a Sea Captain's Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans by Capt Charles Moore
$26.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
A prominent seafaring environmentalist and researcher shares his shocking discovery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and inspires a fundamental rethinking of the Plastic Age. In the summer of 1997, Charles Moore set sail from Honolulu returning home after competing in a trans-Pacific race. To get to ...Show more
The Vital Question: Why Is Life the Way It Is? by Nick Lane
$59.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
Why is life the way it is? Bacteria evolved into complex life just once in four billion years of life on earth - and all complex life shares many strange properties, from sex to ageing and death. If life evolved on other planets, would it be the same or completely different?In The Vital Question, Nick L ...Show more
Simply Climate Change: Facts Made Fast by DK
$24.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
The clearest, simplest guide to climate change ever publishedExploring the science behind climate change has never been easier Combining bold graphics with easy-to-understand text, Simply Climate Change is an essential introduction to the subject for those who are short of time but hungry for knowledge. ...Show more
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words (PB) by Randall Munroe
$34.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
From the No. 1 bestselling author of What If? - the man who created xkcd and explained the laws of science with cartoons - comes a series of brilliantly simple diagrams ('blueprints' if you want to be complicated about it) that show how important things work: from the nuclear bomb to the biro.It's good ...Show more
Science : A History in 100 Experiments by Mary Gribbin
$59.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
A history of science distilled into 100 notable experiments - epic moments that have fuelled our understanding of Earth and the Universe beyond. The history of science is a fascinating and long one, covering thousands of years of history. The development of scientific experiments involves some of the mo ...Show more
Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks by Juliet Eilperin
$49.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
A group of traders huddles around a pile of dried shark fins on a gleaming white floor in Hong Kong. A Papua New Guinean elder shoves off in his hand-carved canoe, ready to summon a shark with ancient magic. A scientist finds a rare shark in Indonesia and forges a deal with villagers so it and other spe ...Show more
Bird Brain: an Exploration of Avian Intelligence by Nathan Emery
$45.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
An absorbing study of how birds think, revealing how science is exploding the myth of our feathered friends being ‘bird brained’, and how recent discoveries may call for us to re-evaluate how we identify and classify intelligence in other animals. Bird Brain will start by looking at the structures and ...Show more