You Wouldn't Want to Explore with Captain Cook! by Mark Bergin
$19.99 NZD
Category: History and Pre-History | Series: You Wouldn't Want to Be...
The humorous cartoon-style illustrations and the narrative approach encourages readers to get emotionally involved with the characters, aiding their understanding of what life would have been like exploring with Captain Cook. Informative captions, a timeline, a map, a complete glossary and an index make ...Show more
You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Bacteria! by Roger Canavan
$20.00 NZD
Category: Science and Maths
Though most of them are too small to be seen with the naked eye, bacteria are everywhere. They appeared on Earth more than 3 billion years before the first dinosaurs. Some bacteria cause deadly diseases, but many of them are helpful to us. They fertilise the soil by breaking down dead material, and they ...Show more
You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Bees! by Alex Woolf; David Antram (Illustrator)
$19.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Series: You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Ser.
You Wouldn't Want to Live Without. It's hard to imagine what life would be like today without the inventions and natural phenomena we take for granted, from the bees that pollinate our crops to the numbers that allow us to calculate and build computers. Combining history with science, these titles explo ...Show more
You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Dentists! by Fiona MacDonald
$20.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Nowadays, going to the dentist is a safe and usually painless experience. But that wasn't always the case. In past centuries, the only cure for a decayed tooth was to yank it out - without anaesthetic, and with only the beating of a drum to numb your senses and drown out your screams. Read on, if you da ...Show more
You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Extreme Weather! by Roger Canavan
$19.99 NZD
Category: Geography and Travel
It's a nuisance when it rains on a picnic. It's a tragedy when a tornado destroys a neighbourhood. But our planet would be a very different place if it didn't have extremes of weather. Weather has shaped the world we live in, and humans have learned to live in almost every climate that can be found on E ...Show more
You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Fire! by Alex Woolf
$20.00 NZD
Category: History and Pre-History
Imagine a world without fire. There would be no cooked food, no artificial light and no way of keeping warm in a cool climate. Fire can be dangerous, but over thousands of years we have learned to tame it. We use it to make pottery, glass and metals. It enabled us to invent the steam engine, the interna ...Show more
You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Gravity! by Anne Rooney
$20.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Learn about gravity and all the useful things it does - such as keeping us on the Earth and holding the entire universe together! You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Gravity! is part of a brand-new science and technology strand within the internationally acclaimed You Wouldn't Want to Be series.
You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Immunisation! by ROONEY, ANNE
$20.00 NZD
Category: Science and Maths
Sleep, exercise and a healthy diet are all good for your immune system. Keep your jabs up to date. Some vaccinations have to be repeated at intervals. Immunisation can protect you from some of the worst diseases, but simply washing your hands is the best defense of all. Don't refuse vaccination -- i ...Show more
You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Insects! by Anne Rooney
$19.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Series: You Wouldn't Want to Live Without
Nasty stinging creatures that destroy crops and spread disease - if that's your opinion of insects, read this fascinating book to discover the other side of the story. Without insects to pollinate flowers, we would have no fruit. Without bees, we would have no honey. Maggots are not pretty, but they hel ...Show more
You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Pain! by Fiona Macdonald
$20.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
Learn the surprising truth about pain: how it actually helps keep us alive, healthy, and feeling good. You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Pain! is part of a brand-new science and technology strand within the internationally acclaimed You Wouldn't Want to Be series.
You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Plastic by Ian Graham; David Antram (Illustrator)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Science and Maths | Series: You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Ser.
The invention of plastics was one of the most important discoveries of the past century, revolutionising the way things are made, stored, and packaged. This book tells the story of plastics, from the science behind their creation, to their use across all aspects of society. You Wouldn't Want to Live Wit ...Show more
You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Poo! by Alex Woolf
$19.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction | Series: You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Ser.
We all do it. We usually don't like to talk about it, but going to the toilet is a natural and necessary part of our lives. We couldn't live without poo because there are some parts of our food that contain no nutrients that can be used by our bodies for energy, growth or health, and those parts have to ...Show more