Avian Illuminations: A Cultural History of Birds by Boria Sax
$57.99 NZD
Category: Science
An exquisitely illustrated journey through the complex and crucial relationship between humans and birds. Avian Illuminations examines the many roles birds have played in human society, from food, messengers, deities, and pets, to omens, muses, timekeepers, custodians, hunting companions, decorative mot ...Show more
Between Light and Storm by Esther Woolfson
$45.00 NZD
Category: Science
A landmark new book about the fraught relationship between humans and animals that takes us from Genesis to climate change. Beginning with the very origins of life on Earth, Woolfson considers pre-historic human-animal interaction and traces the millennia-long evolution of conceptions of the soul and co ...Show more
Birdgirl by Mya-Rose Craig
$40.00 NZD
Category: Nature
"Birdwatching has never felt like a hobby, or a pastime I can pick up and put down, but a thread running through the pattern of my life, so tightly woven in that there's no way of pulling it free and leaving the rest of my life intact." Meet Mya-Rose - otherwise known as 'Birdgirl'. Birder, environmenta ...Show more
Birds by Tim Flach
$100.00 NZD
Category: Science
Birds are a revelation. Radiating grace, intelligence and humour, they tantalise the human imagination. Working for years in his studio and in the field, internationally acclaimed photographer Tim Flach has portrayed nature's most alluring creatures alertly at rest and dramatically in flight, capturing ...Show more
Birds: The Art of Ornithology by Jonathan Elphick
$39.99 NZD
Category: Nature
Jonathan Elphick tells the remarkable story of the development of bird art through the centuries. The book features early, skilfully executed but often fanciful images of birds, scientific illustrations produced during the ages of exploration, and modern approaches capturing the essence of these freest ...Show more
Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation by Tim Birkhead
$32.00 NZD
Category: Nature
A sweeping and lyrical history of the relationship between birdlife and humankind over twelve millennia, exploring how birds have captured our imaginations and inspired our culture and our science. In Birds and Us, award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling jour ...Show more
Birds of New Zealand: A Photographic Guide by Paul Scofield (Hosted by); Brent Stephenson
$59.99 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
A must-have guide for anyone interested in the extraordinary birds in New Zealand New Zealand's birdlife developed extraordinary diversity as a consequence of evolving on isolated islands without mammalian predators. For many years, habitat destruction brought on by humans posed a distinct threat to the ...Show more
Bitch: A Revolutionary Guide to Sex, Evolution & the Female Animal by Lucy Cooke
$40.00 NZD
Category: Nature
In our fiercely contested social, political and cultural landscape, Lucy Cooke looks to the animal kingdom to ask what it means to be female. Mother. Daughter. Ruler. Provider. What does it mean to be female? The female species has never been more scrutinized or politicised. As we search to define our ...Show more
Black Hole Survival Guide by Janna Levin
$24.00 NZD
Category: Science
A very short book for readers of Carlo Rovelli that explains the science of Black Holes by taking the reader on a journey inside oneWhat would happen if you fell into a Black Hole?Black holes are found throughout the universe. They can be microscopic. They can be billions of times larger than our Sun. T ...Show more
Blue Machine: How the Ocean Shapes Our World by Helen Czerski
$40.00 NZD
Category: Nature
A timely and powerful examination of ocean physics. All of the Earth's ocean, from the equator to the poles, is a single engine powered by sunlight - a blue machine. Human history has been dictated by the ocean- the location of cities, access to resources and the gateways to new lands have all revolve ...Show more
Blue: The Science and Secrets of Nature's Rarest Color by Kai Kupferschmidt
$34.99 NZD
Category: Science
Now in paperback: a vivid exploration of this uniquely captivating color, which behaves like no other wavelength Blue is the most widely beloved color--but in nature, it's the rarest hue of all. True, physics paints the sea and sky blue, but we can't bottle this trick of the light. And blue pigment requ ...Show more
Contact by Carl Sagan
$29.99 NZD
Category: Science
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and astronomer Carl Sagan imagines the greatest adventure of all--the discovery of an advanced civilization in the depths of space.In December of 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who--or what--is out there ...Show more