2071: The World We'll Leave Our Grandchildren by Chris Rapley
$19.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | Reading Level: very good
How has the climate changed in the past? How is it changing now? How do we know? And what kind of a future do we want to create?
Numbers: Their Tales, Types and Treasures by Alfred S. Posamentier
$40.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
Did you grow up thinking math is boring? It s time to reconsider. This book will teach you everything you ever wondered about numbers and more. How and why did human beings first start using numbers at the dawn of history? Would numbers exist if we "Homo sapiens" weren t around to discover them? What s ...Show more
Burning Answer: A User's Guide to the Solar Revolution by Keith Barnham
$27.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
Our civilisation stands on the brink of catastrophe. Our thirst for energy has led to threats from global warming, nuclear disaster and conflict in oil-rich countries. We are running out of options. Solar power, Keith Barnham argues, is the answer. In this eye-opening book, he shows how a solar revoluti ...Show more
Luna: New Moon by Ian McDonald
$37.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
The Moon wants to kill you. She has a thousand ways to do it. The bitter cold of vaccum. The lethal sheet of radiation. Choking dust as old as the Earth. Your weakening bones ...Or you could run out of money for water. Or air. Or simply run foul of one of the Five Dragons: the corporations that rule ...Show more
Into the Black by Rowland White
$38.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
On 12th April 1981 a revolutionary new spacecraft blasted off from Florida on her maiden flight. NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia was the most advanced flying machine ever built - the high watermark of post-war aviation development. A direct descendant of the record-breaking X-planes the likes of which Chu ...Show more
Solar System: A Visual Exploration of the Planets, Moons, and Other Heavenly Bodies That Orbit Our Sun by Marcus Chown
$39.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
Never before have the wonders of our solar system been so immediately accessible to readers of all ages. This beautiful book presents a new and fascinating way to experience our planetary neighborhood. With hundreds of stunning photographs and graphics, as well as fascinating text by the award-winning w ...Show more
Dispatches From Continent Seven by Rebecca Priestley (ed)
$55.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | Reading Level: near fine
Since British explorer James Cook first circumnavigated Antarctica in the late 18th century, the white continent has exerted a powerful attraction. There is no permanent human habitation, and no mercy from the raw, relentless elements, yet for nearly 200 years explorers and scientists have been drawn to ...Show more
Seeds: Safeguarding Our Future by Carolyn Fry
$45.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
At a time when the world faces increasing pressures from climate change and biodiversity loss, seeds have never been more important. Highly complex, they have evolved in myriad ways to adapt to their environments. In this book we explore how seed-bearing plants evolved, and unravel the science behind th ...Show more
Tide The Science and Lore of the Greatest Force on Earth by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
$40.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
From Cnut to D-Day: the history and science of the ever-powerful tide explored for the first time Half of the world's population today lives in coastal regions lapped by tidal waters. On our little island, we live surrounded by water and love to be beside the seaside. But it rises and falls according to ...Show more
Atmosphere of Hope : Seaching for the Solutions to the Climate Crisis by Tim Flannery
$30.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
"A decade after his internationally bestselling The Weather Makers, acclaimed scientist and author Tim Flannery argues that Earth's climate system is approaching a crisis. Catastrophe is not inevitable, but time is fast running out. Atmosphere of Hope provides both a snapshot of the trouble we are in an ...Show more
Easy as Pi: Maths Made Simple by Liz Strachan
$34.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
If you're brilliant at everything else, but lack confidence when it comes to maths, join Liz Strachan, a maths teacher with many, many years of experience, on this magical tour through the seeming mysteries of numbers, algebra and geometry. In the same inimitable, entertaining way she did in her previou ...Show more
Population Wars by Greg Graffin
$29.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
From the very beginning, life on Earth has been defined by war. Today, those first wars continue to be fought around and literally inside us, influencing our individual behavior and that of civilization as a whole. War between populations-whether between different species or between rival groups of huma ...Show more