Megafauna -Giant Beasts of Pleistocene South America by Richard A. Farina; Sergio F Vizcaino; Gerry De Iuliis
$60.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good
More than 10,000 years ago spectacularly large mammals roamed the pampas and jungles of South America. This book tells the story of these great beasts during and just after the Pleistocene, the geological epoch marked by the great ice ages. Megafauna describes the history and way of life of these animal ...Show more
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals are? by Frans De Waal
$14.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good
What separates your mind from an animal's? Maybe you think it's your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your grasp of past and future; all traits that have helped us define ourselves as the preeminent species on Earth. But in recent decades, these claims have been eroded, or disproven outri ...Show more
Gardening with New Zealand Plants, Shrubs & Trees by Muriel Fisher; E Satchell; Janet Watkins
$30.00 NZD
Category: Gardening | Reading Level: very good
Creepiest Crawly Critters by Tim Flannery; Emma Flannery
$20.00 NZD
Category: Children Non-fiction | Series: Explore Your World | Reading Level: near fine
Get ready to get up close and personal with the creepiest crawly critters with real-life explorer and scientist, Professor Tim Flannery. You may think you know all that's around you, but look closer and dig deeper -you'll discover a cast of the scariest (but very cool!) background characters in your lif ...Show more
Aspects of Darwin - A Bicentennial Celebration (2009 : Dunedin, N.Z.) Aspects of Darwin : a New Zealand celebration by David Galloway (ed.); John Timmins (ed.)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
A collection of essays celebrating aspects of the life, thought and influence of Charles Darwin from a New Zealand perspective. Aspects of Darwin: A New Zealand Celebration brings together notable New Zealand scholars in the fields of Philosophy, Theology, Science, History and Medicine, and records pres ...Show more
Better - A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande
$12.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: good-very good
The struggle to perform well is universal, but nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine. In his new book, Atul Gawande explores grippingly how doctors strive to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of obstacles that sometimes seem insurmountabl ...Show more
Snake Oil Science - The truth about complementary and alternative medicine by R Barker Bausell
$16.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: very good
Every year millions of people flock to complementary and alternative therapists offering a vast array of treatments ranging from acupuncture to biofeedback to urine injections. Millions more purchase over-the-counter alternative medications, such as glucosamine, herbs, and homeopathic remedies. While co ...Show more
Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel - Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages by Frances Geis; Joseph Geis
$14.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Within Reason - Rationality and Human Behavior by Donald B Calne
$12.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: good-very good
It has long been a central conviction of western humanistic thought that reason is the most godlike of human traits, and that it makes us unique among animals. Yet if reason directs what we do, why is human behavior so often violent, irrational and disastrous? In Within Reason, leading neurologist Donal ...Show more
The Good Doctor - What patients want by Ron Paterson
$14.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: very good
What makes a good doctor? Are there really bad doctors out there? If so, how can we patients protect ourselves? Can more information, more trust and more assured competence be injected into the medical system to solve these problems? Drawing on his years of dealing with patient concerns, former Health a ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of National Women’s Hospital : a history by Linda Bryder
$25.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
A history of National Women’s Hospital that also tells a wider story of reproduction, motherhood and women’s health in twentieth-century New Zealand. Natural childbirth and rooming in; artificial insemination and in vitro fertilisation; sterilisation and abortion: women’s health and reproduction went th ...Show more
The Evolution of Everything - How New Ideas Emerge by Matt Ridley
$14.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: good-very good
We are taught that the world is a top-down place. Acclaimed author, Matt Ridley, shows just how wrong this is in his compelling new book. We are taught that the world is a top-down place. Generals win battles; politicians run countries; scientists discover truths; artists create genres; inventors make b ...Show more