Amphibious Soul: Finding the wild in a tame world by Craig Foster
$39.99 NZD
Category: Science
An awe-inspiring narrative about the power of nature and our place within it, from the creator of My Octopus Teacher, filmmaker Craig Foster Amphibious Soul is the long-awaited book from naturalist, adventurer, and scientific explorer Craig Foster. This is a raw and personal memoir (told here for the f ...Show more
Good Dogs by Helen Cook, Gavin Cook
$45.00 NZD
Category: Science
Ready for a dog but not sure on the best next steps? Or do you already have a dog of your own and want to give them their best life? Gavin and Helen Cook run Country Retreat Animal Sanctuary and are experts at making sure prospective dog owners get the dog they need rather than the dog they think they w ...Show more
The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger
$39.00 NZD
Category: Science
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
Blue Machine - How the Ocean Shapes Our World by Helen Czerski
$30.00 NZD
Category: Science
FINANCIAL TIMES 2023 HIGHLIGHT'Helen Czerski weaves together physics and biology, history and science, in a beautifully poetic way.'Professor Alice Roberts'In Helen Czerski's hands, the mechanical becomes magical. An instant classic.'Tristan Gooley, author of How to Read Water'Blue Machine is quite simp ...Show more
A Radically Different World: Preparing for Climate Change (BWB Text) by Jonathan Boston
$17.99 NZD
Category: Science | Series: BWB Texts
In A Radically Different World: Preparing for Climate Change, Jonathan Boston provides an urgent exploration of our future in the face of climate change. Focusing on the challenges of adaptation, Boston’s insightful analysis assesses the scale of impact on communities, the need for robust policy for rel ...Show more
Animal Liberation Now by Peter Singer
$30.00 NZD
Category: Science
The definitive case for radically rethinking humanity's relationship with other animals - for the good of us all.'The book that had the most impact on me' JANE GOODALL'Probably the single most influential document in the history of ... animal welfare' GUARDIANIn 1975, Animal Liberation started a global ...Show more
Breakthrough - How to Think Like a Scientist, Learn How to Fail and Embrace the Unknown by Camilla Pang
$50.00 NZD
Category: Science
A scientist's journey from observation to discovery is anything but straightforward. It is littered with failure, unexpected diversions and joyous realisations. Science helps us to understand ourselves in a world where we often feel like strangers - but what we know about the world around us, what has a ...Show more
The Internet of Animals: Discovering the Collective Intelligence of Life on Earth by Martin Wikelski
$45.00 NZD
Category: Science
For readers of An Immense World, this thrilling book unveils a new scientific technology that tracks animal movements from space and 'could fundamentally reshape the way we understand the role of mobility on our changing planet'. -The New York Times Animal senses are finely tuned to their environments. ...Show more
The Criminal Mind by Duncan Harding
$40.00 NZD
Category: Science
The edge-of-your-seat journey into the darkest depths of the human mind from forensic psychiatrist Dr Duncan Harding- A likeable young girl who's burnt her family home to the ground- A man with no memory of the night he killed his wife- A teenager whose visions and voices have had murderous effectOne qu ...Show more
Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World by Tom Chivers
$39.99 NZD
Category: Science
Thomas Bayes was an eighteenth-century Presbyterian minister and amateur mathematician whose obscure life belied the profound impact of his work. Like most research into probability at the time, his theorem was mainly seen as relevant to games of chance, like dice and cards. But its implications soon be ...Show more
Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
$32.00 NZD
Category: Science
The definitive guide to the Female Body, Eve is the book women all over the world have been waiting for. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FOYLE'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 LONGLISTED FOR BLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 A GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH and PROSPECT BEST BOOK OF 2023 How did wet nur ...Show more
The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI by Ray Kurzweil
$40.00 NZD
Category: Science
'Ray Kurzweil is the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence' BILL GATESThis is what our future looks like- in the next decade, AI will be able to convince us that it's human. During the 2030s, it will become 'superintelligent', vastly outstripping our capabilities by almo ...Show more