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  • Appetite for Destruction

    Food the Good, the Bad and the Fatal

    We are literally eating ourselves to death. In the move from cooking to convenience food we have given up control of what we eat. As a result our food is heavy on sugar, fat and salt, and light on the nutrients our body needs. This is causing a hidden health crisis that will swamp our hospitals just when the baby boomers want their hip operations. Gareth Morgan and Geoff Simmons latest book cuts ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hook, Line and Blinkers

    Everything Kiwis Never Wanted to Know about Fishing

    As his fish bins filled up on another successful raid on the Cook Strait groper fishery, economist and dedicated fisherman Gareth Morgan found himself wondering whether it could possibly be right that he should be allowed to do this. Is it still true, he wondered, that there are plenty more fish in the sea? He resolved to find out. Together with Geoff Simmons, he launched an in-depth investigation ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ice, Mice and Men

    The Issues Facing Our Far South

    In February 2012, Gareth Morgan trapped ten of New Zealand’s top experts on the region in a boat with 40 ordinary Kiwis for a month. Together with Geoff Simmons, he grilled them about the issues facing the region and Ice, Mice and Men is the result. What they found was startling. Our Far South – that part of New Zealand that extends from Stewart Island almost without interruption to the South Pole ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

    ***Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Science & Technology Book of the Year*In this scientifically informed account of the changes occurring in the world over the last century, award-winning broadcaster and natural historian shares a lifetime of wisdom and a hopeful vision for the future.**See the world. Then make it better.I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • In Defense of Food

    An Eater's Manifesto

    #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of This is Your Mind on Plants, How to Change Your Mind, The Omnivore's Dilemma, and Food RulesFood. There's plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend it?Because in the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion--most of what we’re consuming today is longer the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Six Degrees

    Our Future on a Hotter Planet

    by Mark Lynas ...
    An eye-opening and vital account of the future of our earth and our civilisation if current rates of global warming persist, by the highly acclaimed author of ‘High Tide’.Picture yourself a few decades from now, in a world in which average temperatures are three degrees higher than they are now. On the edge of Greenland, rivers ten times the size of the Amazon are gushing off the ice sheet into ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Spoon-Fed

    The Sunday Times bestselling guide to food and diet myths as seen on Channel 4's What Not to Eat

    by Tim Spector ...
    **THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE LEADING GUT-HEALTH EXPERT, FOUNDER OF ZOE AND AUTHOR OF FOOD FOR LIFE.**As seen on Channel 4’s What Not to Eat****This ground-breaking exploration debunks food myths, from what we should be eating for breakfast to whether we should really avoid ultra-processed foods.Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day?Is there any point in counting ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Our Final Warning

    Six Degrees of Climate Emergency

    by Mark Lynas ...
    This book must not be ignored. It really is our final warning.Mark Lynas delivers a vital account of the future of our earth, and our civilisation, if current rates of global warming persist. And it’s only looking worse.We are living in a climate emergency. But how much worse could it get? Will civilisation collapse? Are we already past the point of no return? What kind of future can our children ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Hothouse Earth

    An Inhabitant's Guide

    by Bill McGuire ...
    'It's a paradox but this was one of the most chilling books I've read this year. It's the definitive guide to where we're heading' ANTHONY HOROWITZ'The Earth is already in a dangerous phase of heating. Many scientists admit privately to actually being "scared" by recent weather extremes. But the public doesn't like pessimism, so we environment journalists hint at future optimism. This book ... Read more

    $14.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The World Is Blue

    How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One

    A Silent Spring for our era, this eloquent, urgent, fascinating book reveals how just 50 years of swift and dangerous oceanic change threatens the very existence of life on Earth. Legendary marine scientist Sylvia Earle portrays a planet teetering on the brink of irreversible environmental crisis. In recent decades we've learned more about the ocean than in all previous human history combined. But ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Brilliant Abyss

    Exploring the Majestic Hidden Life of the Deep Ocean, and the Looming Threat That Imperils It

    by Helen Scales ...
    A journey into the alien depths of the sea, and into our possible future, from a marine biologist known for "nature writing at its most engaging" ( Sunday Express).A golden era of deep-sea discovery is underway as revolutionary studies rewrite the very notion of life on Earth and the rules of what is possible. In the process, the abyss is being revealed as perhaps the most amazing part of our ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Big Fat Lies: How the diet industry is making you sick, fat & poor

    How the diet industry is making you sick, fat & poor

    'Diets and exercise won't help us lose weight. Vitamins and minerals are a waste of money and sometimes downright dangerous. Sugar makes us fat and sick. And polyunsaturated fat gives us cancer and works with sugar to give us heart disease. This book exists because I desperately hope that with a little knowledge we can all vote with out feet and change the rules of the game before the game kills ... Read more

    $22.79 USD