Life on our Planet by Dr Tom Fletcher
70.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Accompanying an 8-part Netflix series from Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment and George Lucas's Industrial Light and Magic, a new 'Walking with Dinosaurs' that offers a stunning re-examination of prehistoric life on Planet Earth. Today there are 20 million species on our planet. Yet what we see is ...Show more
The Mind of a Bee by Lars Chittka
40.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Most of us are aware of the hive mind--the power of bees as an amazing collective. But do we know how uniquely intelligent bees are as individuals? In The Mind of a Bee, Lars Chittka draws from decades of research, including his own pioneering work, to argue that bees have remarkable cognitive abilities ...Show more
Migration: Exploring the Remarkable Journeys of Birds by Melissa Mayntz
27.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Flight has fascinated humans since we first looked into the sky and saw birds on the wing, and no flights are more fascinating than the extraordinary migrations birds make every day, week, month, and season of the year. Migration explores how birds make these incredible expeditions. From first prepari ...Show more
Fledgling by Hannah Bourne-Taylor
40.00 NZD
Category: Travel - Narratives
Fledgling tells the story of a woman rediscovering herself through connecting with nature after starting a whole new life in a different continent Read the powerful account of one woman's struggle to reshape her identity when all normality has fallen away. When lifelong bird-lover Hannah Bourne-Taylor m ...Show more
The Seaweed Collector's Handbook - From Purple Laver to Peacock's Tail by Miek Zwamborn; Michele Hutchison (Translator)
25.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
A beautifully illustrated little book that will open your eyes. Seaweed is so familiar and yet its names - pepper dulse, sea lettuce, bladderwrack - are largely unknown to us.In this short, exquisitely illustrated portrait, the Dutch poet and artist Miek Zwamborn shares her discoveries of its history, c ...Show more
The Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination by Richard Mabey
28.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
In Richard Mabey's characteristically lyrical and informative tone, The Cabaret of Plants explores plant species which have challenged our imaginations, awoken that cliched but real human emotion of wonder, and upturned our ideas about history, science, beauty and belief. Picked from every walk of life ...Show more
The Wolf by Nate Blakeslee
25.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
A New Statesman Book of the Year All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. ' Margaret Atwood The wolf stands at the forefront of the debate about our impact on the natural world. In one of the most celebrated successes of modern conservation, it has ...Show more
Extraordinary Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Life Visual Encyclopedia by .
37.00 NZD
Category: No Category
Whether browsing for fun or just looking up that key fact, children will be drawn in and mesmerised by the hundreds of exciting images and surprising information in these dinosaur profiles.Dinosaur reconstructions and the latest fossil finds bring back to life the bone-crunching teeth of the Tyrannosaur ...Show more
The History of the World in 100 Plants by Simon Barnes
60.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
From the author of The History of the World in 100 Animals, a BBC Radio Four Book of the Week, comes an inspirational new book that looks at the 100 plants that have had the greatest impact on humanity, stunningly illustrated throughout. As humans, we hold the planet in the palms of our hands. But we s ...Show more
Slime: A Natural History by Susanne Wedlich
25.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
An original and revelatory journey through the three-billion-year history of slime - a substance upon which we and our world depend. Slime is an ambiguous thing. It exists somewhere between a solid and liquid. It inspires revulsion even while it compels our fascination. It is a both a vehicle for pathog ...Show more
How to Read a Tree: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Tristan Gooley
60.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
'An important book and a pleasure to read.' - Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path'You will never look at a tree in the same way again after reading this mesmerising book. Gooley drops learning as lightly as blossom falls in spring.' - John Lewis-Stempel'Tristan Gooley has done trees the greatest servic ...Show more
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee
35.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene, the stunning odyssey of the cell - the key to life and ourselves**A NEW YORK TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, ECONOMIST, MAIL ON SUNDAY and GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR**'Will leave you in awe' GuardianFrom the dawn of ...Show more