Move!: The New Science of Body Over Mind by Caroline Williams
$24.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
Exercise changes the brain. But which exercises have what effect? Time to get up to speed with the cutting-edge science of the mind-body connection and discover how just a little bit of movement could shift your own head to a better place. Did you know that walking can improve your cognitive skills? T ...Show more
Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began by Guido Tonelli
$24.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
A breakout bestseller in Italy, Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began is a short, humanistic tour of the origins of the universe, Earth, and life--drawing on the latest discoveries in physics to explain the seven most significant moments in the creation of the cosmos. Curiosity and wonderment a ...Show more
The Star Builders: Nuclear Fusion and the Race to Power the Planet by Arthur Turrell
$27.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
From a young, award-winning scientist, a "thoughtful and illuminating" (Nature) look at one of the most compelling and historic turning points of our time--the race to harness the power of the stars and produce controlled fusion, creating a practically unlimited supply of clean energy. The most impo ...Show more
Across the Airless Wilds - The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings by Earl Swift
$34.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
"THRILLING. ... Up-end[s] the Apollo narrative entirely." --The Times (London) A "brilliantly observed" (Newsweek) and "endlessly fascinating" (WSJ) rediscovery of the final Apollo moon landings, revealing why these extraordinary yet overshadowed missions--distinguished by the use of the revolutionary ...Show more
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee
$40.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
This book is the story of the cell - past, present and future. Since the discovery of the cell in the 1660s and the discovery in the 1850s that most diseases can be traced back to our cells, human beings have been understood as an ecosystem of units that produce exponentially complex structures and effe ...Show more
Wild Edens by Chris Gardner, Toby Musgrave
$95.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
Ornamental plants are the cornerstone of our gardens and we are spoiled for choice with literally tens of thousands of hardy beauties from which to select. But we take them absolutely for granted, not for a moment realising that every plant has a fascinating tale to tell. Wild Edens sets the record stra ...Show more
The Hidden World - How Insects Sustain Life on Earth Today and Will Shape Our Lives Tomorrow by George McGavin
$36.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
Insects conquered the Earth long before we did and will remain here long after we're gone. They outnumber us in the billions and are essential to many of the natural processes that keep us alive and that we take for granted. Yet, despite this, very few of us know much about the hidden world of insects ...Show more
The Hidden Kingdom of Fungi: Exploring the microscopic world around us by Keith Seifert
$37.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
An enthralling look at our relationship with fungi, from an author who has spent more than forty years studying them on five continents.Fungi are essential to all life on Earth and yet fungal diseases lead to over one million deaths each year. How can we strike a better balance with our microbial cousin ...Show more
The Body Illustrated: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
$75.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
A new, beautifully illustrated edition of the Number One Bestseller and Sunday Times Science Book of the Year, which takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. A directory of wonders' - Guardian 'Jaw-dropping' -The Times 'It is a feat of narrative skill to bake so many facts in ...Show more
On the Origin of Species (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Oliver (AFT) Charles; Francis Darwin
$14.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to lo ...Show more
Our House Is on Fire - Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis by Greta Thunberg; Malena Ernman; Beata Ernman; Svante Thunberg
$35.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
This is the story of a family led to confront a crisis they had never foreseen. Aged eleven, their eldest daughter has stopped eating and speaking. Alongside diagnoses of autism and selective mutism, her parents slowly become aware of another source for her distress- her imperilled future on a rapidly h ...Show more
H is for Hawk: A BBC2 Between the Covers pick by Helen Macdonald
$26.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | Reading Level: very good
As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. Years later, when her father died, she became obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She bought Mabel for £800 on a Scottish quayside and took her home to Cambridge, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to ...Show more