The Future is Fungi: How Fungi Can Feed Us, Heal Us, Free Us and Save Our World by Michael Lim, Yun Shu
55.00 NZD
Category: Natural World
The kingdom of fungi has survived all five major extinction events. They are the architects of the natural world, integral to all life. They sustain critical ecosystems, recycling nutrients and connecting plants across vast areas, and help to produce many staples of modern life, such as wine, chocolate, ...Show more
Living Planet: the Web of Life on Earth by David Attenborough
49.99 NZD
Category: Natural World
A new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough's seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet. Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants and animals thrive or survive within every extreme of climate and habitat that it offers. Single species, and often whole communities adapt to ...Show more
The Nation of Plants by Stefano Mancuso
27.99 NZD
Category: Natural World
This playful manifesto - presented for the plant nation by a leading neurobiologist - is an international bestseller. As plants see it, humans are not the masters of the Earth but only one of its most unpleasant and irksome residents. They have been on the planet for only about 300,000 years (nothing co ...Show more
Liquid Gold - Bees and the Pursuit of Midlife Honey by Roger Morgan-Grenville
24.99 NZD
Category: Natural World
Two men decide to become beekeepers, learning about nature and about themselves in the process
Tree Sense - Ways of Thinking about Trees by Susette Goldsmith (Editor)
37.00 NZD
Category: Natural World | Reading Level: near fine
At a moment when the planet is so clearly in peril, the trees stand as both guardians and messengers. They have words for us - if only we would listen. As climate change imposes significant challenges on the natural world we are being encouraged to plant trees. At the same time, urban intensification an ...Show more
Clearing the Air by Tim Smedley
24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Read this book and join the effort to terminate air pollution.--Arnold Schwarzenegger, 38th Governor of California The story of what's happened to the air we breathe, the impact it has had on our health and what we can do to fight back. Clearing the Air tells the full story of what's happened to ...Show more
Ice - Tales from a Disappearing Continent by Marco Tedesco; Alberto Flores D'Arcais (As told to)
34.99 NZD
Category: Natural World
One of the least inhabited and most mysterious parts of the world, Greenland is a singular place on Earth from which to look for the future of our planet and question its history.Polar scientist Marco Tedesco, a world-leading expert on ice and on climate change, takes us along as he and his fellow resea ...Show more
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
26.00 NZD
Category: Natural World | Reading Level: very good
Called the work of "a mesmerizing storyteller with deep compassion and memorable prose" (Publishers Weekly) and the book that, "anyone interested in natural history, botany, protecting nature, or Native American culture will love," by Library Journal, Braiding Sweetgrass is poised to be a classic of nat ...Show more
How Things Work - The Inner Life of Everyday Machines (HB) by Theodore Gray; Nick Mann (Photographer)
50.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
Million-copy bestselling author of The Elements, Molecules, and Reactions Theodore Gray applies his trademark mix of engaging stories, real-time experiments, and stunning photography to the inner workings of machines, big and small, revealing the extraordinary science, beauty, and rich history of everyd ...Show more
Hope in Hell - Confronting the Climate Emergency by Jonathon Porritt
37.99 NZD
Category: General Science
'Brave and unflinching in setting out the reality of the hell towards which we're headed, but even more urgent, passionate and compelling about the grounds for hope if we change course fast enough, Hope in Hell is a powerful call to arms from one of Britain's most eloquent and trusted campaigners.' Caro ...Show more
Fifteen Million Years in Antarctica by Rebecca Priestley
40.00 NZD
Category: Natural World | Reading Level: very good
Rebecca Priestley longs to be in Antarctica. But it is also the last place on Earth she wants to go. In 2011 Priestley visited the wide white continent for the first time, on a trip that coincided with the centenary of Robert Falcon Scott's fateful trek to the South Pole. For Priestley, 2011 was the ful ...Show more
The Meaning of Trees - The History and Use of New Zealand's Native Plants by Robert Vennell
55.00 NZD
Category: Natural World | Reading Level: very good
A guide and gift book in equal measure, this treasure of a book pays homage to New Zealand's native plant species. The Meaning of Trees tells the story of plants and people in Aotearoa New Zealand. Beautifully illustrated with botanical drawings, paintings and photographs, it shows us how a globally uni ...Show more