Google It by Anna Crowley Redding
$27.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
In Google It, award-winning investigative reporter Anna Crowley Redding shares an inspiring story of innovation, personal and intellectual bravery, and most importantly, of shooting for the moon in order to change the world. Think. Invent. Organize. Share. Don't be evil. And change the world. Larry Page ...Show more
The Last Winter: A Search for Snow and the End of Winter by Porter Fox
$37.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
As the planet warms due to greenhouse gas emissions, winter as we know it is disappearing. In the last fifty years, the Northern Hemisphere lost a million square miles of spring snowpack and in the US alone, snow cover has been reduced by 15-30%. On average, winter has shrunk by a month in most northern ...Show more
The Universe by Andrew Cohen, Professor Brian Cox
$45.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | Series: Professor Brian Cox
THE UNIVERSE The biggest character of them all…the universe itself. Infinite in scale, and eternal, we tackle it’s biggest mysteries – where did it all come from and how did it begin? The answers lie at the Big Bang. STARS There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every planet in the s ...Show more
Fire and Ice: The Volcanoes of the Solar System by Natalie Starkey
$36.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
The volcano among the most familiar and perhaps the most terrifying of all geological phenomena. However, Earth isn't the only planet to harbour volcanoes. In fact, the Solar System, and probably the entire Universe, is littered with them. Our own Moon, which is now a dormant piece of rock, had lava flo ...Show more
A Curious Boy - The Making of a Scientist by Richard Fortey
$27.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
'Truth and courage are what memoirs need and this one has them both in spades ... The unforgotten boy: that is what makes this a book a revelation' ADAM NICOLSON 'Wonderful, absolutely beguiling ... I learnt a lot and really loved it' RICHARD HOLMES 'Gloriously evocative' DAILY MAIL What makes a scie ...Show more
Unvaxxed: Trust, Truth and the Rise of Vaccine Outrage by Dyani Lewis
$24.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | Series: The\Crikey Read Ser.
Unvaxxed is a nuanced, timely look at vaccine hesitancy and how uncertainty and misinformation have influenced the Australian experience of the COVID-19 pandemic. Written by award-winning science journalist Dyani Lewis, this is the second book in The Crikey Read series by Crikey and Hardie Grant Books. ...Show more
Fire and Flood: A People's History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present by Eugene Linden
$50.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
The definitive history of the modern climate change era, from an award-winning writer who has been at the centre of the fight for more than thirty years In 1979, President Jimmy Carter was presented with the findings of scientists who had been investigating whether human activities might change the clim ...Show more
The Short Story of Science: A Pocket Guide to Key Histories, Experiments, Theories, Instruments and Methods by Tom Jackson, Mark Fletcher
$37.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | Series: The\Short Story Of Ser.
The Short Story of Science is a new introduction to the complete subject of science. Covering 60 key experiments, from Archimedes' investigations of buoyancy to the discovery of dark matter, and then linking these to the history of science, as well as to the key theories and methods, the book simplifies ...Show more
Grounded: How soil shapes the games we play, the lives we make and the graves we lie in by Alisa Bryce
$40.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
An Aussie scientist digs up some dirt about the history and science of soilLife on land could not exist without soil. Almost everything we need can be traced to the soil- food, fibre, medicines - even oxygen produced by plants. What would we be without it? Certainly not a planet worthy of the name Earth ...Show more
What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
$34.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
WHAT IF... one man decided to answer all the unanswerable questions, using science. The Sunday Times-bestselling author and xkcd creator, Randall Munroe is here to provide the best answers yet to the important questions you probably never thought to ask. The millions of people around the world who rea ...Show more
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe 1: Spacetime and Motion by Sean Carroll
$47.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
From a prize-winning scientist and communicator, a landmark project in popular science publishing.To understand black holes, you need to understand general relativity, which means you need to understand tensor calculus, which means you need to understand vector calculus, not to mention the basics of alg ...Show more
Masters of the Lost Land - The Untold Story of the Fight to Own the Amazon by Heriberto Araújo
$36.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
The gripping true story of the fight for human, economic and environmental justice raging in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. 'An essential book' - Joe Jackson, author of The Thief at the End of the WorldDeep in the heart of the Amazon, an entire region has lived under the control of one notorious l ...Show more