Furry Logic: The Physics of Animal Life by Matin Durrani
22.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
The animal world is full of mysteries. Why do dogs slurp from their drinking bowls while cats lap up water with a delicate flick of the tongue? How does a tiny turtle hatchling from Florida circle the entire northern Atlantic before returning to the very beach where it hatched? And how can a Komodo drag ...Show more
Walking the Bones of Britain: A 3 Billion Year Journey from the Outer Hebrides to the Thames Estuary by Christopher Somerville
65.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Blows the dust off geology to tell the incredibly dramatic story of all the upheavals, volcanic explosions, sea inundations and violent quakes that have shaped our landscape, human history and our everyday lives. Travelling a thousand miles and across three billion years, Christopher Somerville (walkin ...Show more
The Big Book of Bugs by Yuval Zommer
35.00 NZD
Category: Children - Reference | Series: The Big Book
In the first pages, children learn that bugs live nearly everywhere on the planet and gain tips on how to become a young bug spotter. As the book continues, the scenic compositions on each page are dedicated to key groups of bugs, including beetles, moths, butterflies, bees, snails, crickets, grasshoppe ...Show more
The Life of Birds by David Attenborough
43.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
A fully updated new edition of David Attenborough's bestselling classic. BIRDS. Over 9,000 species, the most widespread of all animals: on icebergs, in the Sahara or under the sea, at home in our gardens or flying for over a year at a time. Earthbound, we can only look and listen, enjoying their lightn ...Show more
Arboretum by Katie Scott, Tony Kirkham, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
55.00 NZD
Category: Children - Reference
This next instalment in the bestselling Welcome to the Museum collection in collaboration with the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, is about the incredible life of trees. Trees are some of nature's most majestic and beguiling life forms. Arboretum is a beautifully illustrated celebration of trees from around ...Show more
Life Through Time: The 700-Million-Year Story of Life on Earth by John Woodward
35.00 NZD
Category: Children - Reference
Explore astonishing landscapes teeming with giant insects, dinosaurs, and giant mammals, and see the extraordinary creatures that lived in ancient seas, to discover life from ancient animals to early humans. In a series of stunning panoramic illustrations and lively, engaging text, this book tells the s ...Show more
Many Things under a Rock - The Mysteries of Octopuses by David Scheel
30.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
A riveting new exploration of the octopus from the world-leading scientific expert. For fans of Netflix's 'My Octopus Teacher' and Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith.'Enchanting.' MAIL ON SUNDAY'Abounds with wonders.' KATHLEEN JAMIE, NEW STATESMAN'Brings the world of the octopus vividly alive... a sense ...Show more
Bird: Exploring the Winged World by Phaidon Editors, Katrina Grouw, Jen Lobo
100.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Let your imagination take flight and celebrate the beauty and diversity of birds throughout art, science, history, and culture Bird: Exploring the Winged World presents a visually stunning survey of birds, chronicling their scientific and popular appeal throughout the ages and around the world. Showcas ...Show more
Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
24.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
*A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, INDEPENDENT, BBC SCIENCE FOCUS MAGAZINE AND TIME MAGAZINE**A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*Animals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what w ...Show more
The Complete Language of Trees: A Definitive and Illustrated History by S. Theresa Dietz
50.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Series: Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia Ser.
The Complete Language of Trees is a comprehensive encyclopedia providing the meanings, powers, facts, and folklore for over 400 types of trees. The Complete Language of Trees is a comprehensive and neatly organized dictionary of over 400 types of trees that recognizes each species' name, characteristics ...Show more
Earth! (Knowledge Encyclopedia) by .
48.00 NZD
Category: Children - Reference
Discover our planet - its place in space, its volcanoes, wild landscapes, deserts and oceans, hurricanes and earthquakes. Find out how the rock cycle shapes land and the water cycle fills rivers and seas.What's inside Earth, and why is it so hot under the surface? How did our planet come about, and what ...Show more
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (2023 Royal Science Society Book Prize) by Ed Yong
30.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
**SUNDAY TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**A NEW YORK TIMES, GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST, SPECTATOR, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT and NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARThe Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed withi ...Show more