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Healthy Bee Sick Bee by Phil Lester
$30.00 NZD
Category: Science
Phil Lester's first book, The Vulgar Wasp, was about one of the world's most hated insects. His second is about just the opposite the honey bee, arguably one of our best-loved six-legged creatures. People have revered honey bees for centuries. Today we celebrate them with toys, postage stamps and camp ...Show more
The Seaweed Collector's Handbook - From Purple Laver to Peacock's Tail by Miek Zwamborn; Michele Hutchison (Translator)
$27.99 NZD
Category: Science
A beautifully illustrated little book that will open your eyes at the seaside.
Metazoa : the Evolution of Animals, Minds, Consciousness and Sleep by Peter Godfrey-Smith
$37.99 NZD
Category: Science
From the human being to the octopus, the shark to the humble sea squirt, all animals are physical beings made up entirely of cells. And yet they can think, to varying degrees. How did this come to be? How did a mind first grow from the matter that is the body? And at what stage did that clump of cells b ...Show more
A Series of Fortunate Events - Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You by Sean B. Carroll
$29.99 NZD
Category: Science
Fascinating and exhilarating--Sean B. Carroll at his very best.--Bill Bryson, author of The Body: A Guide for OccupantsFrom acclaimed writer and biologist Sean B. Carroll, a rollicking, awe-inspiring story of the surprising power of chance in our lives and the world Why is the world the way it is? How d ...Show more
Human Body Posters by GALLAGHER, BELINDA
$12.99 NZD
$30.00 (56% off)
Category: Science
First Light - Switching on Stars at the Dawn of Time by Emma Chapman
$32.99 NZD
Category: Science
Astronomers have successfully observed a great deal of the Universe's history, from recording the afterglow of the Big Bang to imaging thousands of galaxies, and even to visualising an actual black hole. There's a lot for astronomers to be smug about. But when it comes to understanding how the Universe ...Show more
Blockchain Chicken Farm - And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside by Xiaowei Wang
$29.99 NZD
Category: Science | Series: FSG Originals X Logic Ser.
In Blockchain Chicken Farm, the technologist and writer Xiaowei Wang explores the political and social entanglements of technology in rural China. Their discoveries force them to challenge the standard idea that rural culture and people are backward, conservative, and intolerant. Instead, they find that ...Show more
Kew - Rare Plants - Forty of the World's Rarest and Most Endangered Plants by Ed Ikin
$79.99 NZD
Category: Science
Rare Plants explores what makes the world's rarest plants so exceptional, and by what means they have become so scarce, telling the story of 40 rare and endangered species through exquisite botanical artworks sourced from the archives of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accompanied by illuminating and au ...Show more
The Irrational Ape: Why Flawed Logic Puts Us All at Risk and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World by David Robert Grimes
$26.99 NZD
Category: Science
THE IRISH TIMES TOP FIVE BESTSELLER 'An unstoppable page-turner. If our leaders were forced to read this book, the world would be a safer place' Richard Dawkins 'A beautifully reasoned book about our own unreasonableness' Robin Ince Why did revolutionary China consider the sparrow an 'animal of capital ...Show more
Reactions: An Illustrated Exploration of Elements, Molecules, and Change in the Universe by Theodore Gray
$34.99 NZD
Category: Science
The third book in Theodore Gray's bestselling Elements Trilogy, Reactions continues the journey through the world of chemistry that began with his two previous bestselling books The Elements and Molecules. With The Elements, Gray gave us a never-before-seen, mesmerizing photographic view of the 118 ele ...Show more
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems (XKCD) by Randall Munroe
$24.99 NZD
Category: Science
Randall Munroe is . . .'Nerd royalty' Ben Goldacre 'Totally brilliant' Tim Harford 'Laugh-out-loud funny' Bill Gates 'Wonderful' Neil Gaiman AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever t ...Show more
One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon by Fishman, Charles
$35.00 NZD
Category: Science
The remarkable story of the trailblazers and the ordinary Americans on the front lines of the epic mission to reach the moon. President John F. Kennedy astonished the world on May 25, 1961, when he announced to Congress that the United States should land a man on the Moon by 1970. No group was more ...Show more