Breakthrough by Marcus Chown
24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The spellbinding stories of the scientists whose eureka! breakthroughs in modern physics reveal science's astonishing predictive power. 'Marcus Chown rocks!' - Brian May How does it feel to know something about the universe that no one has ever known before? And why is mathematics so good at revealing n ...Show more
Ten Days in Physics that Shook the World: How Physicists Changed Everyday Life by Brian Clegg
27.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
The breakthroughs that have had the most transformative practical impacts, from thermodynamics to the Internet. Physics informs our understanding of how the world works - but more than that, key breakthroughs in physics have transformed everyday life. We journey back to ten separate days in history to u ...Show more
The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man by Peter Tompkins
32.99 NZD
Category: Natural World | Reading Level: good
Explore the inner world of plants and its fascinating relation to mankind, as uncovered by the latest discoveries of science. In this truly revolutionary and beloved work, drawn from remarkable research, Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird cast light on the rich psychic universe of plants. Now available ...Show more
Otherlands: A World in the Making by Thomas Halliday
40.00 NZD
Category: Natural World
From a dazzling young palaeontologist and prodigiously talented writer comes the Earth as we've never seen it before. What would it be like to experience the ancient landscapes of the past as we experience the reality of nature today? To actually visit the Jurassic or Cambrian worlds, to wander among t ...Show more
How the World Really Works - A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present, and Future by Vaclav Smil
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: near fine
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 prosperit ...Show more
Wild Souls - Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World by Emma Marris
42.99 NZD
Category: Natural World | Reading Level: very good
From an acclaimed environmental writer, a groundbreaking and provocative new vision for our relationships with--and responsibilities toward--the planet's wild animals. Protecting wild animals and preserving the environment are two ideals so seemingly compatible as to be almost inseparable. But in fact, ...Show more
The First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine by Brendan Borrell
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
An enthralling real-life thriller that tells the full inside story of the high-stakes race for a lifesaving vaccine to end the COVID-19 pandemicThe global race to find a coronavirus vaccine is the defining story of our times. In The First Shots, award-winning journalist Brendan Borrell brings this high- ...Show more
Frequently Asked Questions about the Universe by Daniel Whiteson; Jorge Cham
37.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
You've got questions: about space, time, gravity, and the odds of meeting your older self inside a wormhole. All the answers you need are right here.As a species, we may not agree on much, but one thing brings us all together: a need to know. We all wonder, and deep down we all have the same big questio ...Show more
Bird: Exploring the Winged World by Phaidon Editors, Katrina Grouw, Jen Lobo
90.00 NZD
Category: Natural World
Let your imagination take flight and celebrate the beauty and diversity of birds throughout art, science, history, and culture Bird: Exploring the Winged World presents a visually stunning survey of birds, chronicling their scientific and popular appeal throughout the ages and around the world. Showcas ...Show more
Our Biggest Experiment - The Scientists, Inventors and Activists Who Made, Discovered and Challenged the Climate Crisis by Alice Bell
34.99 NZD
Category: General Science
It was Eunice Newton Foote, an American scientist and women's rights campaigner living in Seneca Falls, New York, who first warned the world that an atmosphere heavy with carbon dioxide could send temperatures here on Earth soaring. This was back in 1856. At the time, no one paid much attention.Our Bigg ...Show more
Rewilding - The Illustrated Edition: The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery by Paul Jepson, Cain Blythe
45.00 NZD
Category: Natural World
A dazzling illustrated edition of a 'hugely useful and fascinating resume of rewilding' (Isabella Tree, author of Wilding). 'Compelling ... succinct and objective' - Financial Times Rewilding reveals the ways in which ecologists are restoring the lost interactions between animals, plants, and natural di ...Show more
The Unseen Body - A Doctor's Journey Through the Hidden Wonders of Human Anatomy by Jonathan Reisman
37.99 NZD
Category: Evolution / Biology
In his beautifully written prose, Dr Jonathan Reisman - physician, adventure traveller and naturalist - allows readers to navigate their insides like an explorer discovering a new world.Through his offbeat adventures in healthcare and travel, Reisman discovers new perspectives on the body: a trip to the ...Show more