Man on the Moon - The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts by Andrew Chaikin
$32.00 NZD
Category: Science & nature
'Impressive and illuminating' -Tom Hanks The race to the moon was won spectacularly by Apollo 11 on 20 July 1969. When astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their 'giant leap for mankind' across a ghostly lunar landscape, they were watched by some 600 million people on Earth 240,000 miles away ...Show more
Undrowned - Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs; adrienne maree brown (Foreword by)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Science & nature | Series: Emergent Strategy Ser.
Undrowned is a book-length meditation for social movements and our whole species based on the subversive and transformative guidance of marine mammals. Our aquatic cousins are queer, fierce, protective of each other, complex, shaped by conflict, and struggling to survive the extractive and militarized c ...Show more
The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe by Jeremy Lent
$28.00 NZD
Category: Science & nature
A profound personal meditation on human existence and a tour-de-force weaving together of historic and contemporary thought on the deepest question of all: why are we here? -- Gabor Maté M.D. , author, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts As our civilization careens toward climate breakdown, ecological destruc ...Show more
Life in the Shallows - The Wetlands of Aotearoa New Zealand by Karen Denyer; Monica Peters
$65.00 NZD
Category: Science & nature
Rich and diverse but often unloved, Aotearoa's wetlands are the most vulnerable of our ecosystems. Only a tiny fraction of their original extent remains, and we continue to lose this vital habitat. The race is on to discover more about them while we still can. This highly illustrated and absorbing book ...Show more
Future Stories: A user's guide to the future by David Christian
$40.00 NZD
Category: Science & nature
'I have long been a fan of David Christian' - Bill Gates A user's guide to the future from the algorithms in DNA to why time is like a cocktail glass, interstellar migrations, transhumanism, the fate of the galaxy, and the last black hole Every second of our lives - whether we're looking both ways befor ...Show more
Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them: A Cosmic Quest from Zero to Infinity by Antonio Padilla
$40.00 NZD
Category: Science & nature
A dazzling exploration of the strange and extreme numbers that illuminate the ultimate nature of reality. For particularly brilliant theoretical physicists like James Clerk Maxwell, Paul Dirac or Albert Einstein, the search for mathematical truths - via ever more mind-boggling numbers - led to strange ...Show more
This Is Your Mind On Plants: Opium-Caffeine-Mescaline by Michael Pollan
$26.00 NZD
Category: Science & nature
The instant New York Times bestseller A Washington Post Notable Book One of NPR's Best Books of the Year "Expert storytelling . . . [Pollan] masterfully elevates a series of big questions about drugs, plants and humans that are likely to leave readers thinking in new ways."--New York Times Book Review. ...Show more
The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins by Tom Higham
$30.00 NZD
Category: Science & nature
The story of us, told for the first time with its full cast of characters. 50,000 years ago, we were not the only species of human in the world. There were at least four others, including the Neanderthals, Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonesis and the Denisovans. At the forefront of the latter's ground-bre ...Show more
The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything by Michio Kaku
$26.00 NZD
Category: Science & nature
'A majestic story' David Bodanis, Financial TimesFrom the international bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible and Physics of the FutureThis is the story of a quest: to find a Theory of Everything. Einstein dedicated his life to seeking this elusive Holy Grail, a single, revolutionary 'god equa ...Show more
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us by Steve Brusatte
$40.00 NZD
Category: Science & nature
The passing of the age of the dinosaurs allowed mammals to become ascendant. But mammals have a much deeper history. They - or, more precisely, we - originated around the same time as the dinosaurs, over 200 million years ago; mammal roots lie even further back, some 325 million years.Over these immense ...Show more
Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and its Role in the Climate Crisis by Annie Proulx
$33.00 NZD
Category: Science & nature
From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx – whose novels are infused with her knowledge and deep concern for the earth – comes a riveting, revelatory history of our wetlands, their ecological role, and what their systematic destruction means for the planet. A lifelong environmentalist, Annie Proulx brings ...Show more
How To Speak Whale: A Voyage Into The Future Of Animal Communication by Tom Mustill
$38.00 NZD
Category: Science & nature
A thrilling investigation into whale science and animal communication, and a poignant look at how science may change our relationship with animals forever. In 2015, wildlife filmmaker Tom Mustill was whale watching when a humpback breached onto his kayak and nearly killed him. A video clip of the event ...Show more