Lifetime in Galapagos, A by Tui De Roy
$59.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
Tui De Roy was a year old in 1955 when her family left Europe aboard a banana boat, bound for the Pacific to lead a different sort of life on Galapagos, one of self-sufficiency and living close to nature. She grew up on the islands and returned to them often over the next five decades. Discovering photo ...Show more
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant
$39.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
A stunning account of this century's most intense urban fire, and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind In May 2016, Fort McMurray, Alberta, the hub of Canada's oil industry, was overrun by wildfire. The multi-billion-dollar disaster turned entire neigh ...Show more
Off-Grid Getaways: Organic Architecture by Anna Minguet
$49.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
The multiple signals coming from all corners of the planet, represents a new warning for the awareness of the need to promote global policies that protect the environment in all areas. In this sense, the responsibility of architecture with society acquires a special protagonism. The projects presented i ...Show more
The Life of Birds by David Attenborough
$36.99 NZD
$42.99 (13% off)
Category: Science & Nature
A fully updated new edition of David Attenborough's bestselling classic. BIRDS. Over 9,000 species, the most widespread of all animals: on icebergs, in the Sahara or under the sea, at home in our gardens or flying for over a year at a time. Earthbound, we can only look and listen, enjoying their lightn ...Show more
Dinosaurs Rediscovered - The Scientific Revolution in Paleontology by Michael J. Benton
$24.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
Over the past twenty years, the study of dinosaurs has transformed into a true scientific discipline. New technologies have revealed secrets locked in prehistoric bones that no one could have previously predicted. We can now work out the color of dinosaurs, the force of their bite, their top speeds, and ...Show more
Big Meg: The Story of the Largest and Most Mysterious Predator that Ever Lived by Tim Flannery, Emma Flannery
$40.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | Reading Level: near fine
Big Meg charts the evolution of megalodon, its super-predator status for about fifteen million years and its decline and extinction. It delves into the fossil record to answer questions about its behaviour and role in shaping marine ecosystems as well as its impact on the human psyche. It contains stori ...Show more
The End of the Ocean by Maja Lunde
$37.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | Reading Level: very good
From the author of the number one international bestseller The History of Bees, a captivating new novel about the threat of a worldwide water shortage as seen through the eyes of a father and daughter. In 2019, seventy-year-old Signe sets out on a hazardous voyage to cross an entire ocean in only a sail ...Show more
What Tree is That? by Stirling Macoboy
$69.99 NZD
Category: Gardening & Garden Design
Now in its third edition, this classic reference book for gardeners, by the late, best-selling author Stirling Macoboy, has been in print for almost 30 years. The completely revised edition, with existing entries updated and new ones added.
Tuatara by Alison Cree
$39.99 NZD
$89.99 (55% off)
Category: Science & Nature | Reading Level: near fine
Pick up virtually any textbook on vertebrate evolution and you will find mention of the curious reptile known as tuatara (Sphenodon). The special evolutionary status of tuatara as the last of the rhynchocephalians - one of the four orders of living reptiles - is unquestioned. Wild members of the sole li ...Show more
The Curious World of Science: A visual miscelllany of stories, theories, discoveries & curiosities by Simon Flynn
$45.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
To some, science is simply a means to an end; to others it is an almost spiritual meditation on theories and formulae. The Curious World of Science embraces both views and much more besides. Focusing onthe human endeavours at the heart of science, it presents a miscellany of essentialclassifications, in ...Show more
How to Read a Tree: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Tristan Gooley
$60.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
'An important book and a pleasure to read.' - Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path'You will never look at a tree in the same way again after reading this mesmerising book. Gooley drops learning as lightly as blossom falls in spring.' - John Lewis-Stempel'Tristan Gooley has done trees the greatest servic ...Show more
Rewilding - The Illustrated Edition: The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery by Paul Jepson, Cain Blythe
$45.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
A dazzling illustrated edition of a 'hugely useful and fascinating resume of rewilding' (Isabella Tree, author of Wilding). 'Compelling ... succinct and objective' - Financial Times Rewilding reveals the ways in which ecologists are restoring the lost interactions between animals, plants, and natural di ...Show more