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Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
$26.00 NZD
Category: Science & Environment
Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections of the human and the natural realms. In Underland, he delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, ...Show more
Einstein's War by Stanley, Matthew
$26.00 NZD
Category: Science & Environment
'Deeply researched and profoundly absorbing . . . Matthew Stanley traces one of the greatest epics of scientific history . . . An amazing story' Michael Frayn, author of Tony Award-winning Copenhagen In 1916, Arthur Eddington, a war-weary British astronomer, opened a letter written by an obscure German ...Show more
Around the World in 80 Trees by Jonathan Drori; Lucille Clerc (Illustrator)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Science & Environment
Trees are one of humanity's most constant and most varied companions. From India's sacred banyan tree to the fragrant cedar of Lebanon, they offer us sanctuary and inspiration - not to mention the raw materials for everything from aspirin to maple syrup. In Around the World in 80 Trees, expert Jonathan ...Show more
Zero Waste Life by Anita Vandyke
$25.00 NZD
Category: Science & Environment
Anita Vandyke wants to show you that by living zero waste, you actually gain more - more time, more money and more life.A Zero Waste Lifeis the ultimate guide to radically reducing your waste, without losing your lifestyle. In her thirty-day challenge, Anita provides you with the rules, tips and tricks ...Show more
A Zero Waste Family In Thirty Days by Anita Vandyke
$24.00 NZD
Category: Science & Environment
Trying to live a zero waste life while simultaneously raising a family can feel almost impossible at times, but Anita Vandyke, bestselling author of A Zero Waste Life, is here to help. A Zero Waste Family is a gentle thirty-day guide highlighting the lessons Anita learned during her first year navigat ...Show more
From Tiny Seeds by Èmilie Vast
$35.00 NZD
Category: Science & Environment
From exploding violets to swimming water lilies, from bouncing conkers to hitch-hiking burdock, plants go on amazing journeys! Discover the many wonderful ways that seeds can travel and watch as they grow into brand new plants.
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates
$45.00 NZD
Category: Science & Environment
Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions. Bill Gates explains why he cares so deeply about cli ...Show more
The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet by Michael E. Mann
$40.00 NZD
Category: Science & Environment
A world-leading expert exposes how fossil-fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to blame individuals for climate change while taking no responsibility themselves, and offers guidance on what we must do now to reverse global warming. Recycle. Fly less. Eat less meat. These are some of the way ...Show more
The Weather Machine: How We See into the Future by Andrew Blum
$24.00 NZD
Category: Science & Environment
'Revelatory ... convey[s] the technical brilliance and political significance of an achievement that hides in plain sight' Telegraph From satellites circling the Earth, to weather stations far out in the ocean, through some of the most ingenious minds and advanced algorithms at work today - In this gri ...Show more
Living with the Climate Crisis: Voices from Aotearoa (BWB Texts) by Tom Doig (editor)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Science & Environment | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: near fine
If much of the world can work together to beat a deadly pandemic, imagine what might happen if we turned our collective energy to tackling the climate crisis. The devastating summer of Australian bush fi res underlined the terrifying sense of a world pushed to the brink. Then came Covid-19, and with it ...Show more
Nature Stilled by Jane Ussher
$70.00 NZD
Category: Science & Environment
Award-winning photographer Jane Ussher had unprecedented access to Te Papa's natural history collection to shoot this outstanding book, and the result is a true treasure. Beautifully packaged, and stunningly photographed, it is a must-have for any book lover's collection and a perfect gift.
Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything by Robert Hazen
$40.00 NZD
Category: Science & Environment | Reading Level: 4 Science
An enchanting biography of the most resonant – and most necessary – chemical element on Earth. Carbon. It's in the fibres in your hair, the timbers in your walls, the food that you eat and the air that you breathe. It's worth billions as a luxury and half a trillion as a necessity, but there are still m ...Show more
