Astroquizzical - The Illustrated Edition: Solving the Cosmic Puzzles of our Planets, Stars, and Galaxies by JILLIAN SCUDDER
$45.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
A beautifully illustrated, enlightening edition of astronomer Jillan Scudder's exploration of our universe. Looking up at the night sky, it is almost impossible to imagine that we can trace our common ancestry with the distant stars and galaxies back over 13.8 billion years. Astroquizzical explores this ...Show more
The Nocturnal Brain Tales of Nightmares and Neuroscience by Guy Leschziner
$37.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | Reading Level: 7
What happens to our brain at night? Are we really fully asleep and if so how is it that some individuals end up doing what they do? Or can it be the case that perhaps the brain never fully goes to sleep and that in some individuals there is a disconnect between the sleeping part of their brain and the a ...Show more
Exploring Nature's Pattern Magic by Dee Pigneguy
$24.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
"Nature displays an endless variety of eye-catching patterns in a variety of form, colour and texture. Patterns help us understand how energy flows through nature's network of complex systems. Patterns show us how nature's organisms survive, how they make things and how life is organized and connected o ...Show more
The Road to Gondwana - In search of the lost supercontinent by Bill Morris
$39.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | Reading Level: near fine
The Road to Gondwana traces the steps science took to find Gondwana, and the journey Gondwana itself took through 500 million years of Earth history. The road to Gondwana took western science many hundreds of years to travel. And like Scott's epic haul across the ice of Antarctica, it was a journey jagg ...Show more
2023 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
$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 2023. Diagrams drawn for the latitude of southern Australia, but including events visible from ...Show more
Infinite Life: A Revolutionary Story of Eggs, Evolution and Life on Earth by Jules Howard
$39.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
If you think of an egg, what do you see in your mind’s eye? A chicken egg, hardboiled? A slimy mass of frogspawn? Perhaps you see a human egg cell, prepared on a microscope slide in a laboratory? Every egg there has ever been, is an emblem of survival. Yet the evolution of the animal egg is the dramatic ...Show more
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
$28.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | Reading Level: very good
In her instant, multi-month New York Times bestseller, Angela Duckworth shows anyone striving to succeed that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent, but a special blend of passion and persistence she calls "grit." "Inspiration for non-geniuses everywhere" (People). The daughter of a scient ...Show more
Southern Nights - The story of New Zealand's night sky by Naomi Arnold
$65.00 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | Reading Level: near fine
Meet the night sky, down under Aotearoa New Zealand was founded on stargazing. It was celestial navigation that brought the first people here, and it was tatai arorangi, Maori astronomy, that helped people survive once they arrived. There is no better place on Earth to view the brilliance of other worl ...Show more
Fossil Capital - The Rise of Steam-Power and the Roots of Global Warming by Andreas Malm
$32.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | Reading Level: good-very good
The more we debate about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels we continue to burn. How did we get caught up in this mess? In this masterful new history, Malm claims that it all began in Britain with the rise of steam-power. So why did manufacturers turn from traditional ...Show more
E=mc2 by David Bodanis
$24.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature
'By the end of the astonishing E=mc2, a dedicated reader will have achieved, if only by osmosis, an understanding of Einstein's theory of relativity and feel quite at ease dining with Nobel Prize winners. It's a lucid, even thrilling study: the very best kind of science journalism. I didn't know I could ...Show more
Lonely Planet Kids The Amazing Night Sky Atlas by Nancy Dickmann, Nancy Dickmann
$29.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | Series: .
Lonely Planet Kids’ Amazing Night Sky Atlas looks upwards to the skies for a fun- and fact-packed guide to astronomy. Featuring a mix of photography and illustration, this book covers topics that range from the science of stargazing to the practicalities of how to use a telescope and the stories that di ...Show more