What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
$40.00 NZD
Category: Science & Environment
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a brilliant scientific exploration of owls, the most elusive group of birds, and an investigation into why these remarkable and yet mysterious animals exert such a hold on human imagination.For centuries, owls have capti ...Show more
The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger
$39.00 NZD
Category: Science & Environment
A narrative investigation into the new science of plant intelligence and sentience, from National Association of Science Writers Award winner and Livingston Award finalist Zoe Schlanger'. Look at the green organism across the room or through the window: the potted plant, or the grass, or a tree. Think h ...Show more
Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
$42.00 NZD
Category: Science & Environment
An ambitious, eye-opening, myth-busting and groundbreaking history of the evolution of the female body, by a brilliant new scientist and writer. How did wet nurses drive civilization? Are women always the weaker sex? Is sexism useful for evolution? And are our bodies at war with our babies? In Eve, Ca ...Show more
Empire of Pain - The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
$25.00 NZD
Category: Science & Environment | Reading Level: very good
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. From the prize-winning and bestselling author ...Show more
That Little Voice In Your Head: Adjust the Code that Runs Your Brain by Mo Gawdat
$30.00 NZD
Category: Science & Environment
'Everything he writes is an enlightening education in how to be human.' - Elizabeth DayThat Little Voice in Your Head is the practical guide to retraining your brain for optimal joy by Mo Gawdat, the internationally bestselling author of Solve for Happy. Mo reveals how by beating negative self-talk, we ...Show more
Vaxxers: A Pioneering Moment in Scientific History by Sarah Gilbert, Catherine Green
$29.99 NZD
Category: Science & Environment
Chosen as a Book of the Year 2021 by the Financial Times, Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Prospect, Guardian and The Times.'Vaxxers is so good that the book will be read for long after the pandemic is over'Financial Times'One of the most epic and pioneering moments in human history'Sir Jeremy Farrar__________ ...Show more
Regenesis: How to Feed the World Without Devouring the Planet by George Monbiot
$30.00 NZD
Category: Science & Environment
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
Volt Rush - The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green by Henry Sanderson
$25.00 NZD
Category: Science & Environment
In the twentieth century, wealth and power was dictated by access to oil. This century will have different kingmakers, perhaps different wars. 'A remarkably hopeful and useful book...The climate crisis leaves us no choice but to build a new world and as Sanderson makes clear, we are capable of making it ...Show more
Fire, Storm And Flood: The Violence Of Climate Change by James Dyke
$55.00 NZD
Category: Science & Environment
An unflinching photographic record of the epic effects of a violent climate, from the earliest extinction events to the present. An unflinching photographic record of the epic effects of a violent climate, from the earliest extinction events to the present. Violent geologic events have ravaged the Earth ...Show more
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX by Eric Berger
$38.00 NZD
Category: Science & Environment
The dramatic inside story of the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX-and Elon Musk-from a shaky startup into the world's leading edge rocket company. In 2006, SpaceX-a brand-new venture with fewer than 200 employees-rolled its first, single-engine rocket onto a launch pad at Kwajalein Atoll ...Show more
Around the World in 80 Games - A Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the Greatest Games by Marcus du Sautoy
$38.00 NZD
Category: Science & Environment
Why do some games seem to be universal while others have a particular connection to the culture of the people playing them? Around the World in 80 Games is about the mathematics of chance, game theory, gamification, gaming strategies and computer games. Traversing the globe, Marcus du Sautoy looks at t ...Show more
The Rare Metals War The dark side of clean energy and digital technologies by Guillaume Pitron
$45.00 NZD
Category: Science & Environment
The resources race is on. Powering our digital lives and green technologies are some of the Earth's most precious metals - but they are running out. And what will happen when they do? The green-tech revolution has been lauded as the silver bullet to a new world. One that is at last free of oil, pollutio ...Show more