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A Child Against All Odds by Robert M.L. Winston
$30.00 NZD
Category: General
Compared to the famously fecund rabbit, for whom a single act of coitus has a 90 per cent chance of creating a litter of up to 12 rabbits, humans are very infertile animals. Here in the UK, the average chance of conception is about 18 per cent per month. And in 98 per cent of cases, successful conceptio ...Show more
A Child of Our Time by Tessa Livingstone & foreword by Robert Winston
$50.00 NZD
Category: General
In 2005 the children from the BBC's groundbreaking Child of Our Time television series reach an important milestone as they turn five years old. Now familiar to millions of viewers who have watched their progress from birth, they have become an invaluable source of inspiration to thousands of parents wh ...Show more
All About Biology by Robert Winston
$24.00 NZD
Category: Children Non-Fiction | Series: All About
What makes Earth an ideal place for life to survive? Professor Robert Winston will take kids back to Earth's beginnings showing how organisms live and survive in All About Biology. From the very big to the microscopic, meet the animals, plants, fungi and bacteria that play an important role in sustainin ...Show more
All About Chemistry (PB) by Robert Winston
$24.00 NZD
Category: Children Non-Fiction | Series: All About
An explosive look at chemistry with Robert Winston, All about Chemistry answers all those intriguing questions your kids ask...Why are helium balloons lighter than air? What are the secrets of the Philosopher's Stone? All About Chemistry takes an amazing look at the what, why and how of science. From th ...Show more
Bad Ideas? An Arresting History of Our Inventions by Robert Winston
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
From the axe to the internet - the hidden dangers of man's impulse to invent. We are born with the instinct to create and invent. Indeed, our ability to do so is what separates us from the rest of the animal world. But have our creative ideas always produced desirable results? And have they always serv ...Show more
DK Human by Robert Winston
$59.90 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
What does it really mean to be human? How do we actually differ from apes? All your questions answered in this definitive visual guide to being Human. From biology to beliefs, evolution to our future, a team of expert writers and consultants - led by author and broadcaster Robert Winston - tell the comp ...Show more
Explanatorium of Science by Robert Winston
$65.00 NZD
Category: Children Non-Fiction
Open up this book to reveal how science really works! Watch as mixtures merge and matter changes state. Discover how some chemical changes can be reversed, yet others can't, and why some reactions produce a bang! See bacteria at work in the world around us, and even inside the human digestive system. Un ...Show more
Home Lab: Exciting Experiments for Budding Scientists by Robert Winston
$37.00 NZD
Category: Children Non-Fiction | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 4-6, Age 9-11
This award-winning science book is bubbling over with entertaining and educational experiments for budding scientists to follow at home or in the classroom. Build a soap-powered sailboat, recreate the Solar System out of rubber bands, construct your own colourful kaleidoscope, or make mouthwatering mo ...Show more
Human (Compact edition) by Dr Robert Winston
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
In the tradition of Animal and Earth, DK brings you a new definitive visual guide that takes a unique look at what it means to be a human being. This is the first book to cover all aspects of human life, from evolution and biology to society, culture, and the future of our aspects of human life, from ev ...Show more
Inventors by Robert Winston
$40.00 NZD
Category: Children Non-Fiction
Step into Leonardo da Vinci's workshop, relax on board Hideo Shima's speedy bullet train, and join movie star Hedy Lamarr to bounce ideas around in between takes. Inventors looks at the towering achievements of more than 50 inventors in great detail. From Lizzie Magie, who came up with the idea for the ...Show more
It's Elementary by Robert Winston
$35.00 NZD
Category: Children Non-Fiction
How do you make a dog? Why are helium balloons lighter than air? What are the secrets of the Philosopher's Stone? "It's Elementary!" takes an amazing look at the stuff that stuff is made of, with fantastic experiments to do, puzzles, quizzes and loads more. See what the elements are, how they were disco ...Show more