Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
26.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi provide a key to understanding the p ...Show more
A Sky Full of Birds by Matt Merritt
40.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Britain is a nation of bird-lovers. However, few of us fully appreciate the sheer scale, variety and drama of our avian life. From city-centre hunters to vast flocks straight out of the Arctic wilderness, much-loved dawn songsters to the exotic invaders of supermarket car parks, a host of remarkable wil ...Show more
Innovation the Swedish Way by Henrik Berggren; Eva Krutmeijer; Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien (Sweden) Staff (Contribution by)
55.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Every year, Sweden ranks near the top of the list of the world's most innovative countries in terms of the number of historically epoch-making innovations, patents granted per capita and innovation start-up companies. The most common reason cited for Sweden's strength in innovation has been its strong t ...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
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