The Drunken Botanist by Amy Stewart
$39.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
Every great drink starts with a plant. Sake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley. Gin was born from a conifer shrub when medieval physicians boiled juniper berries with wine to treat stomach pain. The Drunken Botanist uncovers the surprising botanical history and fascinating science an ...Show more
Poisoned Planet by Julian Cribb
$36.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
From morning to night, we are surrounded by man-made chemicals, most of them untested, many of them toxic. It's the price we pay for convenient, cheap products. The effects on our health are just now becoming known. We want things to be cheap, convenient and useful. Our food arrives contaminated with pe ...Show more
Human Universe by Andrew Cohen; Brian Cox
$22.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
Where are we? Are we alone? Who are we? Why are we here? What is our future? Human Universe tackles some of the greatest questions that humans have asked to try and understand the very nature of ourselves and the Universe in which we live. Through the endless leaps of human minds, it explores the extr ...Show more
Isis Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State by William McCants
$44.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
The Islamic State is one of the most lethal and successful jihadist groups in modern history, surpassing even al-Qaeda. Thousands of its followers have marched across Syria and Iraq, subjugating millions, enslaving women, beheading captives, and daring anyone to stop them. Thousands more have spread ter ...Show more
The Biology Book: From the Origin of Life to Epigenics, 250 Milestones in the History of Biology by Michael C. Gerald
$29.99 NZD
$49.99 (40% off)
Category: Science & Nature | Series: Sterling Milestones
Authors Michael and Gloria Gerald explore 250 of the most significant and interesting biology milestones from roughly 4 million BCE to modern times, such thought-provoking questions as Are animals altruistic? Why does the heart beat? What do the smallest microbe and the largest mammal have in common? Ke ...Show more
Inventions: Leonardo Da Vinci by Lawrence & Hawcoc
$19.99 NZD
$39.99 (50% off)
Category: Science & Nature | Series: Inventions
When We are No More: How Digital Memory is Shaping Our Future by Abby Smith Rumsey
$36.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
Our memory gives the human species a unique evolutionary advantage. Our stories, ideas, and innovations--in a word, our "culture"--can be recorded and passed on to future generations. Our enduring culture and restless curiosity have enabled us to invent powerful information technologies that give us inv ...Show more
Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky
$35.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | Series: Women in Science
It's a scientific fact: Women rock! A charmingly illustrated and educational book, New York Times best seller Women in Science highlights the contributions of fifty notable women to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) from the ancient to the modern world. Full of strik ...Show more
The Virago Book Of Women Gardeners by Deborah Kellaway
$39.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | Reading Level: very good
From diggers and weeders, to artists and colourists, writers and dreamers to trend-setters, plantswomen to landscape designers, women have contributed to the world of gardening and gardens. Here Deborah Kellaway, author of The Making of an English Country Garden and Favourite Flowers , has collected ext ...Show more
Riding Home: The Power of Horses to Heal by Tim Hayes
$27.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
Throughout history, people have loved, owned, and ridden horses. They fascinate us, and we are drawn to books like The Horse Whisperer , events like The Kentucky Derby, and movies like Steven Spielberg's War Horse. Owners and non-horse owners alike have also discovered the amazing abilities of horses to ...Show more
Beasts in My Belfry by Gerald Durrell
$24.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | Series: Pan Heritage Classics Ser.
"A loving chronicle of jitter-bugging gnus, singing duets with a bear, stealing eggs to feed the Arctic foxes, practising tiger sniffs . . . Highly entertaining and informative" The TimesOver a year at Whipsnade Zoo we encounter a typically absurd cast - including Albert the lion, who's a dab hand at ve ...Show more
Color Atlas of Pathophysiology by Stefan Silbernagl
$0.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
Understanding pathophysiology is the first step toward clinical medicine. This book presents the most important mechanisms of how disease develops in nearly 200 vivid color plates accompanied by clear text. Every double page, with text on the left and pictures on the right, gives a rapid and comp ...Show more