Evolution: The Whole Life on Earth Story by Glenn Murphy
5.00 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Science Sorted
What is a selfish gene? What are the kingdoms of life? Why are there no car-sized bugs and beetles? Glenn Murphy, author of Why is Snot Green?, answers these and a lot of other brilliant questions in this funny and informative book. Packed with doodles and information about all sorts of incredible thing ...Show more
The Brilliance of Birds: A New Zealand Adventure by Skye Wishart; Edin Whitehead
50.00 NZD
Category: Animals/Agriculture
Who knew that the morepork, our forest-dwelling owl, can turn its head 270 degrees? Or that the eastern bar-tailed godwit doubles its body weight before undertaking an epic and continuous migration of 11,000 kilometres? Or that the tui has a specially placed voicebox, enabling it to duet with itself, so ...Show more
Soil: The Incredible Story of What Keeps the Earth, and Us, Healthy by Matthew Evans
38.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
'A love letter to Mother Earth and entertaining must-read that goes to the heart of our survival' Charles Massy, author of Call of the Reed Warbler. What we do to the soil, we do to ourselves. Soil is the unlikely story of our most maligned resource as swashbuckling hero. A saga of bombs, ice ages and c ...Show more
Endless Forms - Why We Should Love Wasps by Seirian Sumner
25.00 NZD
Category: Animals/Agriculture
'A funny and beautifully written welcome to the enigmatic, weird and wonderful world of wasps' DAVE GOULSON, author of SILENT EARTH There may be no insect with a worse reputation than the wasp, and none guarding so many undiscovered wonders. Where bees and ants have long been the darlings of the insec ...Show more
Mind Blown by Dan Marshall
33.00 NZD
Category: Science
Did you know space is only an hour's drive away? Did you know there is a jellyfish that is biologically immortal? Or that of all life that has ever existed on Earth, 99.9% of it is extinct? Dan Marshall's slick new book is packed to the brim with facts that will BLOW YOUR MIND. Delightful illustrations ...Show more
New Zealand Bird Calls [Listen with a QR Code] by Lynette Moon
30.00 NZD
Category: Animals/Agriculture
New Zealand is known for its birds, and the melodic quality of their song. Here is a selection of 60 of the most popular, important or interesting birds. In New Zealand Bird Calls, each bird entry includes information about habitat, distribution, appearance and behaviour of the bird, along with a descri ...Show more
An Anthology of Our Extraordinary Earth by Cally Oldershaw
48.00 NZD
Category: Science
A celebration of the beauty and majesty of planet Earth with more than 100 incredible stories and images. From molten-hot rock and smoldering volcanoes to icy glaciers and bubbling springs, this stunning compendium unlocks the mysteries of our living, breathing planet Earth. The latest title in the hu ...Show more
A Brief History of Intelligence: Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of AI by Max Bennett
38.00 NZD
Category: Science
A Brief History of Brains bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the evolutionary story of how the brain came to be. The entirety of the human brain's 4-billion-year story can be summarised as the culmination of five evolutionary breakthroughs, starting from the very first brains, all t ...Show more
Night Sky Almanac 2024: A Stargazer's Guide by Storm Dunlop, Wil Tirion, Royal Observatory Greenwich, Collins Astronomy
25.00 NZD
Category: Science
A beautiful gift for anyone interested in the night sky. Follow the progress of constellations throughout the seasons with this beautiful companion to the night sky from Astronomy experts Collins. With the aid of easy-to-understand monthly calendars and maps, you will chart the rhythm of the lunar phase ...Show more
The Brain: Everything You Need to Know by New Scientist
28.00 NZD
Category: Science
CAN YOU BOOST YOUR IQ? WHAT IF YOU COULDN'T FORGET ANYTHING? WHAT HAPPENS IN YOUR BRAIN WHEN YOU GET AN IDEA? COULD YOU BE A PSYCHOPATH? . . . NEW SCIENTIST HAS ALL THE ANSWERSFrom the strange ways to distort what we think of as 'reality' to the brain hacks that can improve memory, The Brain takes you o ...Show more
Chicken Keeping Pure and Simple - A Fun, Friendly Guide to Backyard Chicken Keeping by Nikki Husted
50.00 NZD
Category: Animals/Agriculture
In Chicken Keeping Pure and Simple, author Nikki Husted (@purelychickens) provides a fun and friendly guide for chicken keepers of all ages.
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (2023 Royal Science Society Book Prize) by Ed Yong
30.00 NZD
Category: Animals/Agriculture
**SUNDAY TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**A NEW YORK TIMES, GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST, SPECTATOR, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT and NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARThe Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed withi ...Show more