Plant Form - An Illustrated Guide to Flowering Plant Morphology by Adrian D Bell
$55.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good
Describes and illustrates major plant structures that can be seen with the naked eye or a hand lens. This book focuses on how plants grow. It includes information on plant morphology, more than 1000 line drawings, and various photographs. It is intended for students of botany and horticulture, enthusias ...Show more
The Archimedes Codex - How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist by Reviel Netz; William Noel
$25.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good
At a Christie's auction in October 1998, a battered medieval manuscript sold for two million dollars to an anonymous bidder, who then turned it over to the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore for further study. The manuscript was a palimpsest-a book made from an earlier codex whose script had been scraped o ...Show more
In the Rainforest by Catherine Caufield
$8.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good-very good
Dry Store Room No. 1 - The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum by Richard Fortey
$10.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: good-very good
'Dry Store Room No. 1' is an intimate biography of the Natural History Museum, celebrating the eccentric personalities who have peopled it and capturing the wonders of scientific endeavour, academic rigour and imagination. Behind the public facade of any great museum there lies a secret domain: one of u ...Show more
In Code: A Mathematical Journey by Sarah Flannery
$8.00 NZD
Category: Mathematics | Reading Level: good
Sarah Flannery is a cryptographer and mathematician. She is also a sport-loving Co. Cork teenager who takes her Leaving Certificate next year. In this book, written with her father, her first maths teacher, she writes about her life, mathematics and making codes - and this year.
Prosperity without Growth - Economics for a Finite Planet by Tim Jackson
$35.99 NZD
Category: Economics | Reading Level: very good
Is more economic growth the solution? Will it deliver prosperity and well-being for a global population projected to reach nine billion? In this explosive book, Tim Jackson, a top sustainability adviser to the UK government, makes a compelling case against continued economic growth in developed nations. ...Show more
The Best American Science Writing 2011 by Rebecca Skloot (ed.); Floyd Skloot (ed.)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: good-very good
""The Best American Science Writing" series has been hailed as, contemporary science's best answers to ...eternal riddles". ("Fortune"); "praised for its breadth - It is rare to be offered such a diverse collection of science writing, ("Nature"); and appreciated for its intelligence and insight - The en ...Show more
Being Mortal - Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
$10.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: good
Laboratory Life - The Construction of Scientific Facts by Bruno Latour; Steve Woolgar; Jonas Salk (Editor)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
This highly original work presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scientist. Drawing on recent work in literary criticism, the authors study how the social world of the laboratory produces papers and other texts, ' and how the sci ...Show more
The Parrot's Lament and Other True Tales of Animal Intrigue, Intelligence, and Ingenuity by Eugene Linden
$8.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: good
A gorilla shrewdly sells back a missing key chain to the highest bidder. An orangutan picks a lock to let himself out of his zoo enclosure and two elephants adopt a tag-team strategy to keep their handlers from putting them back into theirs. In The Parrot's Lament, noted environmentalist Eugene Linden o ...Show more
The Parrot Who Owns Me -The story of a relationship by Joanna Burger
$6.00 NZD
Category: Natural History | Reading Level: good
Seventeen years ago, when she adopted a neglected, orphaned thirty-year-old parrot named Tiko, the internationally renowned ornithologist Joanna Burger entered one of the most complex relationships of her life. Sullen and hostile when he entered Dr. Burger
Wind Gardens - How to Create Beautiful Gardens in Exposed Places by Jacob De Ruiter
$20.00 NZD
Category: Gardening | Reading Level: good-very good
How to Create Beautiful Gardens in Exposed Places