Different: What Apes Can Teach Us About Gender by Frans de Waal
28.00 NZD
Category: Animals/Agriculture
A ground-breaking look at gender and sex from the world's leading primatologist and New York Times bestselling author of ARE WE SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW HOW SMART ANIMALS ARE? A ground-breaking look at gender and sex from the world's leading primatologist and New York Times bestselling author of Are We Smar ...Show more
Weird and Wonderful Nature: Tales of More Than 100 Unique Animals, Plants, and Phenomena by Hoare, Ben
48.00 NZD
Category: Animals/Agriculture
This third installment of the DK Treasure's series explores the weird and wonderful side of the natural world. Discover the stories of more than 100 striking, rare, and unusual species and objects, all told by author Ben Hoare.Why do Mexican jumping beans jump? How do sea cucumbers defend themselves? Wh ...Show more
Origins of the Universe - The Cosmic Microwave Background and the Search for Quantum Gravity by Keith Cooper
23.00 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Hot Science Ser.
The quest to find a theory of quantum gravity that could potentially explain everything.
Micro Eco-farming by Barbara Berst Adams
30.00 NZD
Category: Animals/Agriculture
Micro eco-farmers across the nation are producing from small acreages to small-town backyards. Their livelihoods restore the planet while creating an abundance of healthy products produced in very small spaces. Here's how they succeed, how they start with nothing, what traits they share and what secrets ...Show more
The Golden Mole: and Other Vanishing Treasure by Katherine Rundell
28.00 NZD
Category: Animals/Agriculture
A gloriously illustrated and fascinating bestiary of the world's most extraordinary endangered animals. The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. 'Rare and magical book.' - Bill Bryson 'A witty, intoxicating paean to Earth's most wondrous creatures.' ...Show more
Shark: the World's Most Misunderstood Predator by Paul de Gelder
28.00 NZD
Category: Animals/Agriculture
From shark attack survivor to the shark's biggest advocate, Paul de Gelder tells us just why these majestic diverse animals need our help as much as we need them.Something happens to you the first time you dive with sharks...We have a perennial fascination with sharks. Portrayed in the media and popular ...Show more
The Fragile Earth - Writing from the New Yorker on Climate Change by David Remnick (Editor); Henry Finder (Editor)
25.00 NZD
Category: Science
A classic collection of the New Yorker's most urgent and groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of the climate emergencyIn 1989, just one year after climatologist James Hansen first came before a Senate committee and testified that the earth was now warmer than it had ever been in recorded histor ...Show more
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present, and Future by Vaclav Smil
30.00 NZD
Category: Science
Delightfully contrarian, this is the one book you need to read to understand our modern world. We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperi ...Show more
Why We Die: The New Science of Ageing and the Quest for Immortality by Venki Ramakrishnan
40.00 NZD
Category: Science
The knowledge of death is so terrifying that we live most of our lives in denial of it. Our fear of death has underpinned our religions, inspired our cultures, and also driven our science. Today we are living through a revolution in biology. Giant strides are being made in our understanding of why we a ...Show more
The Lost Rainforests of Britain by Guy Shrubsole
28.00 NZD
Category: Science
AS SEEN ON COUNTRYFILE The Sunday Times Science Book of the Year 'If anyone was born to save Britain's rainforests, it was Guy Shrubsole' Sunday Times Shortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Society Literary Prize Temperate rainforest may once have covered up to one-fifth of Britain, inspiring Celtic ...Show more
Awe: The Transformative Power of Everyday Wonder by Dacher Keltner
30.00 NZD
Category: Science
From a foremost expert on the science of emotions, a ground-breaking exploration into the history, psychology and meaning of aweSocial psychologist Dacher Keltner has spent his career speaking to different groups of people, from schoolchildren to prisoners to healthcare workers, about the good life. The ...Show more
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
30.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: good-very good
THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Sapiens shows us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond - from ove ...Show more