2024 Guide to the Night Sky Southern Hemisphere: A Month-by-Month Guide to Exploring the Skies Above Australia, New Zealand and South Africa by Storm Dunlop, Wil Tirion, Collins Astronomy
$22.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
The ideal gift for all amateur and seasoned astronomers. A comprehensive handbook to the planets, stars and constellations visible from the southern hemisphere. 6 pages for each month covering January–December 2024. Diagrams drawn for the latitude of southern Australia, but including events visible from ...Show more
The Matter of Everything: Twelve Experiments that Changed Our World by Suzie Sheehy
$24.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
The astonishing story of twentieth-century physics, told through the twelve experiments that changed our world*SELECTED AS ONE OF WATERSTONES' BEST POPULAR SCIENCE BOOKS OF 2022*'A splendid idea, vividly carried out- I enjoyed this book enormously' PHILIP PULLMAN'A rich history of beautiful discoveries' ...Show more
Climate Capitalism: Winning the Global Race to Zero Emissions by Akshat Rathi
$39.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
What if the solution to the climate crisis is . . . capitalism? Our age will be defined by the climate emergency. But contrary to the doomist narrative that's taken hold, the world has already begun deploying the solutions needed to deal with it. On a journey across five continents, Climate Capitalism ...Show more
An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family by Alison Bashford
$35.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
In his early twenties, poor, depressed, stranded in the Coral Sea on the seemingly endless survey mission of HMS Rattlesnake, hopelessly in love with the young Englishwoman Henrietta Heathorn, Thomas Henry Huxley was a nobody. And yet together he and Henrietta would return to London and go on to found o ...Show more
Beachcombing: A guide to seashores of the Southern Hemisphere by Ceridwen Fraser
$30.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
If you've ever walked along a beach or rocky shore and peered, poked or wondered at the things cast upon it by the waves, this book is for you. Sea foam, ambergris, giant squid, stranded whales, seaweed, shells, plastic, dead birds, shoes and pieces of planes or rockets ... Beaches are our windows to th ...Show more
30-Second Biochemistry: The 50 vital processes in and around living organisms, each explained in half a minute by Stephen Contakes
$32.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | Series: 30 Second Ser.
30-Second Biochemistry presents the subjects 50 most important ideas, breaking down the proteins, carbohydrates and more to explain the science of living organisms. 30-Second Biochemistry takes 50 of the most significant ideas relating to the study of the chemical processes connected to living organisms ...Show more
Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge by Erica Gies
$27.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
A journey through time and around the world to uncover water's true nature, and how it can help us adapt to climate change.Trouble with water increasingly frequent, extreme floods and droughts is one of the first obvious signs of climate change. Meanwhile, urban sprawl, industrial agriculture and engine ...Show more
Regenesis: How to Feed the World Without Devouring the Planet by George Monbiot
$30.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
Winner of the 2022 Orwell Prize for Journalism / A Sunday Times (London) Bestseller / Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation "George Monbiot is one of the most fearless and important voices in the global climate movement today." --Greta Thunberg For the first time in millen ...Show more
The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy - What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens - and Ourselves by Arik Kershenbaum
$26.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
We are unprepared for the greatest discovery of modern science. Scientists are confident that there is alien life across the universe yet we have not moved beyond our perception of 'aliens' as Hollywood stereotypes. The time has come to abandon our fixation on alien monsters and place our expectations o ...Show more
The Known Unknowns: The Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos by Lawrence M. Krauss
$44.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
Internationally known theoretical physicist and bestselling popular science writer Lawrence Krauss explores cosmology's greatest unanswered questions.Three of the most important words in science are 'I don't know'. Not knowing implies a universe of opportunities - the possibility of discovery and surpri ...Show more
A Field Guide to the Native Edible Plants of New Zealand by Andrew Crowe
$32.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | Reading Level: near fine
A go-to, illustrated field guide of edible native New Zealand plants, including a section on poisonous plants. In this useful and attractive book, over 190 trees, shrubs, herbs, ferns, mushrooms, lichens and seaweeds are described in detail with information on which part is edible and when, how plants h ...Show more
The Universe: The Book of the BBC TV Series Presented by Professor Brian Cox by Andrew Cohen, Professor Brian Cox
$27.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
Every night, above our heads, a drama of epic proportions is playing out. Diamond planets, zombie stars, black holes heavier than a billion Suns. The cast of characters is extraordinary, and each one has its own incredible story to tell. We once thought of our Earth as unique, but we have now discovere ...Show more