The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization by Vince Beiser
35.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other-even more than oil. Every concrete building and paved road on Earth, every computer screen and silicon chip, is made from sand. From Egypt's pyramids to the Hubble telescope, from the world's tallest skyscraper to the ...Show more
Darwin's Most Wonderful Plants - Darwin's Botany Today by Ken Thompson
25.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Most of us think of Darwin at work on The Beagle, taking inspiration for his theory of evolution from his travels in the Galapagos. But Darwin published his Origin of Species nearly thirty years after his voyages and most of his labours in that time were focused on experimenting with and observing plant ...Show more
Seeing Science - How Photography Reveals the Universe by Marvin Heiferman
65.00 NZD
Category: Natural History
Seeing Science offers an insightful and reader-friendly collection of essays and pictures about photography’s role in visualizing science and building human knowledge—from micro to macro levels and everything in between. Photography and science have long been intertwined, helping to shape the way we loo ...Show more