Hothouse Earth by Bill McGuire
27.99 NZD
Category: General Science
We inhabit a planet in peril. Our once temperate world is locked on course to become a hothouse entirely of our own making.
The Last Drop: Solving the World's Water Crisis by Tim Smedley
39.99 NZD
Category: General Science
A gripping, thought-provoking and ultimately optimistic investigation into the world's next great climate crisis - the scarcity of water. Water scarcity is the next big climate crisis. Water stress - not just scarcity, but also water-quality issues caused by pollution - is already driving the first wave ...Show more
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh
29.99 NZD
Category: General Science
In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism's violent exploitation of human life and the natural environment.A powerful work of history, essay, testimony, and polemic, Amitav Ghosh's new b ...Show more
What Your Food Ate - How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health (Hardback) by David R. Montgomery; Anne Bikle
56.99 NZD
Category: General Science
Are you really what you eat? David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé take us far beyond the well-worn adage to deliver a new truth: the roots of good health start on farms. What Your Food Ate marshals evidence from recent and forgotten science to illustrate how the health of the soil ripples through to that ...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: General Science
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
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement by James Vincent
36.99 NZD
Category: General Science
A revelatory and vibrant story of measurement which will make you look at the world around you anew. We measure rainfall and radiation, the depths of space and the emptiness of atoms, calories and steps, happiness and fear. If we could not measure then we could not observe the world around us; we could ...Show more
This Is Your Mind On Plants: Opium-Caffeine-Mescaline by Michael Pollan
26.00 NZD
Category: General Science
The instant New York Times bestseller A Washington Post Notable Book One of NPR's Best Books of the Year "Expert storytelling . . . [Pollan] masterfully elevates a series of big questions about drugs, plants and humans that are likely to leave readers thinking in new ways."--New York Times Book Review. ...Show more
Geopedia: A Brief Compendium of Geologic Curiosities by Marcia Bjornerud
34.99 NZD
Category: General Science | Series: Pedia Bks.
A garden of geologic delights for all Earthlings Geopedia is a trove of geologic wonders and the evocative terms that humans have devised to describe them. Featuring dozens of entries — from Acasta gneiss to Zircon — this illustrated compendium is brimming with lapidary and lexical insights that will de ...Show more
Reading the Rocks by BJONERUD Marcia
30.99 NZD
Category: General Science
To many of us, the Earth’s crust is a relic of ancient, unknowable history. But to a geologist, stones are richly illustrated narratives, telling gothic tales of cataclysm and reincarnation. For more than four billion years, in beach sand, granite, and garnet schists, the planet has kept a rich and idio ...Show more
Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World by Marcia Bjornerud
34.99 NZD
Category: General Science
Why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survival Few of us have any conception of the enormous timescales of our planet's long history, and this narrow perspective underlies many of the environmental problems we are creating. The lifespan of Earth can seem unfathomable ...Show more
The Chemistry Book (Big Ideas Simply Explained) by .
48.00 NZD
Category: General Science
An accessible guide to more than 95 of the most important discoveries and theories in the history of chemistryDiscover and understand the key ideas that underpin the core science of chemistry and learn about the great minds who uncovered them Written in plain English, The Chemistry Book is packed with s ...Show more
Nanobiotechnology for Sustainable Bioenergy and Biofuel Production by Madan L. Verma
153.00 NZD
Category: General Science
Nanobiotechnology for Sustainable Bioenergy and Biofuel Production provides insights into the most recent innovations, trends, concerns and challenges in the production of biofuels. This book highlights a number of key research topics and practical applications of modern nanomaterials and nanocomposite- ...Show more