This Is Your Mind On Plants: Opium-Caffeine-Mescaline by Michael Pollan
40.00 NZD
Category: General Science | Reading Level: very good
Of all the many things humans rely on plants for, surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness- to stimulate, calm, or completely alter, the qualities of our mental experience. In This Is Your Mind On Plants, Michael Pollan explores three very different drugs - opium, caffeine, and ...Show more
The Concise Human Body Book: An illustrated guide to its structure, function and disorders by DK
30.00 NZD
Category: General Science
Discover all there is to know about human anatomy in DK's latest concise visual guide to the human body. Fully updated to reflect the latest medical information, The Concise Human Body Book is illustrated throughout with colourful and comprehensive diagrams, photographs, scans, and 3D artworks, which ta ...Show more
The Gospel of the Eels: A Father, a Son and the World's Most Enigmatic Fish by Patrik Svensson
24.99 NZD
Category: General Science
Shortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Society and White Horse Book Shop Literary Prize'This is one of those special books . . . Even if it were only a book about eels, it would be wonderful.' Sunday Times'What a joy! Patrick Svensson's sinuous weaving of natural history, philosophy, psychology and autob ...Show more
Fox & I: an uncommon friendship by Catherine Raven
38.00 NZD
Category: General Science | Reading Level: very good
A solitary woman's inspiring, moving, surprising, and often funny memoir about the transformative power of her unusual friendship with a wild fox. Catherine Raven left home at 15, fleeing an abusive father and an indifferent mother. Drawn to the natural world, she worked as a ranger in national parks, a ...Show more
Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir of Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea by Edith Widder
40.00 NZD
Category: General Science
An exhilarating underwater exploration for readers wanting to recapture their sense of wonder Edith Widder grew up wanting to become a marine biologist. But after complications from surgery caused her to go temporarily blind while at university, she became fascinated by light, and her focus turned to bi ...Show more
Holographic Universe (PB) by Michael Talbot
21.99 NZD
Category: General Science
Despite its apparent materiality, the universe is actually a kind of 3-D projection and is ultimately no more real than a hologram. Using this theory, the author presents his idea of reality. This includes not only reality as we know it, but also an explanation of paranormal phenomena.
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert
37.00 NZD
Category: General Science
The author of the international bestseller The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking- After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? Elizabeth Kolbert has become one of the most important writers on the environment. Now she i ...Show more
GRAYS ANATOMY
24.99 NZD
Category: General Science
The definitive professional guide to the human body, valued by medical practitioners, students and laypeople alike for its accuracy.
Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old by Andrew Steele
32.99 NZD
Category: General Science
Ageing is the biggest cause of disease in our society. Cancer, heart disease, dementia, flu: the risk of all increase staggeringly rapidly as we near the end of life. What if we could slow down the process - or even stop it? Ageless introduces us to the cutting-edge research that is paving the way for a ...Show more
Reactions: An Illustrated Exploration of Elements, Molecules, and Change in the Universe by Theodore Gray
34.99 NZD
Category: General Science
The third book in Theodore Gray's bestselling Elements Trilogy, Reactions continues the journey through the world of chemistry that began with his two previous bestselling books The Elements and Molecules.With The Elements, Gray gave us a never-before-seen, mesmerizing photographic view of the 118 eleme ...Show more