Ocean Renegades! (Earth Before Us #2) - Journey Through the Paleozoic Era by Abby Howard
$15.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | Series: Earth Before Us Ser.
An informative and funny nonfiction graphic-novel series that explores the flora and fauna of prehistoric Earth When Ronnie's parents go on a business trip and leave her with Miss Lernin--their neighbor and a retired paleontologist--for the week, Ronnie is sure she's in for dinosaur-sized adventure. Af ...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
2040: A Handbook for the Regeneration by Damon Gameau
$39.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
'You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.' Buckminster Fuller Like most of us, Damon Gameau has spent most of his adult years overwhelmed into inaction by the problem of climate change and its devastating ef ...Show more
100 Science Discoveries That Changed the World by Colin Salter
$34.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
An accessible compendium of the world's greatest scientists and the stories behind their dramatic breakthroughs From the early Greek mathematicians Euclid and Archimedes through to present-day Nobel Prize winners, this collection charts the great breakthroughs in scientific understanding. Each entry des ...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
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
Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions by Sabine Hossenfelder
$36.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
"Stimulating . . . encourage[s] readers to push past well-trod assumptions [...] and have fun doing so." --Science Magazine"Hossenfelder is a rare gem. There are other theoretical physicists out there who can write for a popular audience, but very few of them are able to do so in such a no-nonsense way. ...Show more
Off-Grid Getaways: Organic Architecture by MONSA PUBLICATIONS
$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
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
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