Everest: Earth's Incredible Places by Sangma Francis
$28.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
It is the highest spot on planet Earth, known to many as the roof of the world and the ultimate challenge for mountain-climbing adventurers. Welcome to Mount Everest. Mount Everest is undoubtedly the most famous mountain on Earth. Hundreds of people clamber to its summit every year, following in Edmund ...Show more
Anatomy: Exploring the Human Body by Editors Phaidon
$100.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
A stunning tribute to our eternal fascination with the human body - and the latest in the bestselling 'Explorer' Collection Anatomy: Exploring the Human Body is a visually compelling survey of more than 5,000 years of image-making. Through 300 remarkable works, selected and curated by an international ...Show more
Under the Stars: Astrophysics for Bedtime by Lisa Harvey-Smith
$50.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
Under the Stars- Bedtime Astrophysics transports curious kids and inquisitive adults on an incredible journey through the night sky.Explore our solar system from the comfort of your cosy bedroom. Find out why the sky is blue. Fly around a black hole and peer inside! Learn why Jupiter has stripes.When as ...Show more
Moonshot: Inside Pfizer's Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible by Albert Bourla
$36.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
The exclusive, first-hand, behind-the-scenes story of how Pfizer raced to create the first Covid-19 vaccine, told by Pfizer’s CEO Dr. Albert Bourla A riveting, fast-paced, inside look at one of the most incredible private sector achievements in history, Moonshot recounts the intensive nine months in 202 ...Show more
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates
$45.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | Reading Level: very good
Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions. Bill Gates explains why he cares so deeply about clim ...Show more
Space 2069: After Apollo: Back to the Moon, to Mars, and Beyond by David Whitehouse
$24.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
A hundred years on from the first Moon landing, where will space exploration have taken us? Nearing half a century since the last Apollo mission, mankind has yet to return to the Moon, but that is about to change. With NASA's Artemis program scheduled for this decade, astronomer David Whitehouse takes a ...Show more
The Book of the Earthworm by Sally Coulthard
$24.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
'I thought I knew quite a bit about earthworms - until I picked up this charming little book ... This is an easily digestible compendium of everything earthworm' Nick Baker, TV presenter and naturalist The author of The Hedgehog Handbook reveals the miraculous world of the earthworm. Without these lit ...Show more
2023 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
$22.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
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 2023. Diagrams drawn for the latitude of southern Australia, but including events visible from ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World by Steve Brusatte
$37.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | Reading Level: very good
"THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY," hails Scientific American: A thrilling new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists. Now a New York Times bestseller! "This is scientific storytelling at its most visceral, striding with the beasts through their Triassic dawn, Jurassic d ...Show more
Molecules: The Elements and the Architecture of Everything by Theodore Gray; Nick Mann (Photographer)
$34.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
Molecules is the second book in the million-copy bestselling Elements trilogy. In Molecules, Theodore Gray takes the next step in the story that began with the periodic table in his best-selling book, The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe (2015) and culminated with the ...Show more
Out of the Shadow of a Giant by John Gribbin; Mary Gribbin
$27.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
What if Isaac Newton had never lived? Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley, whose place in history has been overshadowed by the giant figure of Newton, were pioneering scientists within their own right, and instrumental in establishing the Royal Society. Whilst Newton is widely regarded as one of the greatest ...Show more
The Hedgehog Handbook by Sally Coulthard
$24.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
Hedgehogs, with their quiet determination and bristling, bumbling ways, are seen by many of one of life's most enduring symbols of the countryside and town gardens. This shy, snuffling, enigmatic animal has captured the imagination of children and adults for centuries--from Beatrix Potter's Mrs. Tiggywi ...Show more