The Seaweed Collector's Handbook - From Purple Laver to Peacock's Tail by Miek Zwamborn; Michele Hutchison (Translator)
24.99 NZD
Category: Natural World
A beautifully illustrated little book that will open your eyes. Seaweed is so familiar and yet its names - pepper dulse, sea lettuce, bladderwrack - are largely unknown to us.In this short, exquisitely illustrated portrait, the Dutch poet and artist Miek Zwamborn shares her discoveries of its history, c ...Show more
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh
39.99 NZD
Category: General Science
'Do not miss this book' NAOMI KLEIN, author of This Changes EverythingThe history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation - of both human life and the natural environment - and the origin of our contemporary climate crisis.Tracing the threats to our future to the discovery of the New World and ...Show more
A Field Guide to Larking by Lara Maiklem
32.99 NZD
Category: Natural World
A Field Guide to Larking is a practical, interactive and inspiring guide to 'larking' from the bestselling author of Mudlarking. To lark is to get out and about, to explore the world around us and to discover the little treasures hiding in plain sight. We think, of course, of mudlarking but there is als ...Show more
The Stubborn Light of Things: A Nature Diary by Melissa Harrison
24.99 NZD
Category: Natural World
A SUNDAY TIMES NATURE BOOK OF THE YEAR A nature diary by award-winning novelist, nature writer and hit podcaster Melissa Harrison, following her journey from urban south London to the rural Suffolk countryside. 'A writer of great gifts.' Robert Macfarlane 'The journal of a writer to compare to Thomas Ha ...Show more
Fossils by DK
24.00 NZD
Category: Natural World
An extensive guide to over 500 fossils, with a detailed entry on each specimen featuring vivid photography and precise text The clearest and sharpest recognition guide to over 500 invertebrate, vertebrate, and plant fossils from around the world. This comprehensive pocket guide is the perfect introducti ...Show more
The Little Book of the Elements: A Pocket Guide to the Periodic Table by Jack Challoner
14.99 NZD
Category: General Science | Series: The\Little Book Of... Ser.
Everything in the universe is made up of the elements - including us. Forged in the Big Bang, the elements and their resulting compounds created the solar system, planet Earth, the air we breathe, the water we rely on and the proteins that would become life. In fact, everything in the known Universe is ...Show more
2022 Guide to the Night Sky: Southern Hemisphere by Storm Dunlop
22.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
A comprehensive handbook to the planets, stars and constellations visible from the southern hemisphere. 6 pages for each month covering January–December 2022. Diagrams drawn for the latitude of southern Australia, but including events visible from New Zealand and South Africa. Written and illustrated by ...Show more
The Sea is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides by Adam Nicolson
39.99 NZD
Category: Natural World
From Adam Nicolson, winner of the Wainwright Prize 2018 Few places are as familiar as the shore – and few as full of mystery and surprise. How do sandhoppers inherit an inbuilt compass from their parents? How do crabs understand the tides? How can the death of one winkle guarantee the lives of its comp ...Show more
The Universe by Andrew Cohen, Professor Brian Cox
45.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | 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
Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters by Steven E. Koonin
48.00 NZD
Category: General Science
"Surging sea levels are inundating the coasts." "Hurricanes and tornadoes are becoming fiercer and more frequent." "Climate change will be an economic disaster." You've heard all this presented as fact. But according to science, all of these statements are profoundly misleading. When it comes to c ...Show more
Living Planet by David Attenborough
39.99 NZD
Category: Natural World
A new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough's seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet. Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants and animals thrive or survive within every extreme of climate and habitat that it offers. Single species, and often whole communities adapt t ...Show more
Small Bodies of Water by Nina Mingya Powles
32.99 NZD
Category: Natural World | Reading Level: very good
'A remarkable book' Robert Macfarlane 'A distinctive new voice: attentive and tender' Amy Liptrot 'Elegant, understated, urgent and nourishing' Jessica J. Lee Home is many people and places and languages, some separated by oceans. Nina Mingya Powles first learned to swim in Borneo - where her mother was ...Show more