30-Second Elements by Eric Scerri
$24.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE | Series: 30-Second
30-Second Elements presents you with the foundations of chemical knowledge, distilling the 50 most significant chemical elements into half-a-minute individual entries, using nothing more than two pages, 300 words and one picture. Divided into seven chapters, it includes the atomic details of the other 6 ...Show more
The Fated Sky - Astrology in History by Benson Bobrick
$29.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE
In a horoscope he cast in 1647 for Charles I, William Lilly, a noted English astrologer, made the following judgment: "Luna is with Antares, a violent fixed star, which is said to denote violent death, and Mars is approaching Caput Algol, which is said to denote beheading." Two years later the king's he ...Show more
Sunlight and Seaweed - Argument for How by Tim Flannery
$19.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE
''Sunlight and Seaweedis the beginning of a new way of helping the planet we live on.'' AU Review Acclaimed scientist Tim Flannery investigates exciting new technologies currently being developed to address our most pressing environmental threats in a book that presents a positive future for us and our ...Show more
Rise and Resist - How to Change the World by Clare Press
$32.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE
Rise & Resisttakes a wild trip through the new activism sweeping the world. The political march is back in a big way, as communities rally to build movements for environmental and social justice. But today?s context calls for increasingly creative strategies to make our voices heard. Crossing the gl ...Show more
Invisible Women - Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
$35.00 AUD
Category: SCIENCE | Reading Level: very good
You've heard all about the Gender Pay Gap... Welcome to the Gender Data Gap Our world is largely built for and by men, in a system that can ignore half the population. This book will tell you how and why this mattersIn her new book, Invisible Women, award-winning campaigner and writer Caroline Criado P ...Show more
A Field Guide to the Fungi of Australia by Tony Young; Kay Smith (Illustrator)
$39.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE
This beautiful book highlights an often overlooked, but remarkable, aspect of our natural world: Australia's fungi. Many are brightly coloured, some fluorescent, some are elegant, others squat, some fragrant, more still are highly toxic. This field guide showcases many of these species in all their sple ...Show more
21 Lessons for the 21st Century: 'Truly mind-expanding... Ultra-topical' Guardian by Yuval Noah Harari
$22.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE | Reading Level: very good
Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What ...Show more
Life's Greatest Secret: The Story of the Race to Crack the Genetic Code by Matthew Cobb
$49.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE
Everyone has heard of the story of DNA as the story of Watson and Crick and Rosalind Franklin, but knowing the structure of DNA was only a part of a greater struggle to understand life's secrets.Life's Greatest Secret is the story of the discovery and cracking of the genetic code, the thing that ultima ...Show more
On Our Watch: The Race to Save Australia's Environment by Nicola Markus
$29.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE
"Our stewardship of this country's natural assets over the past two hundred years has been appalling, and on the current trajectory of careless environmental pillaging, further massive decline would be a certainty The future of the environment is being decided on our watch Australia faces unique conserv ...Show more
Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm by Isabella Tree
$44.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE | Reading Level: new
'The remarkable story of an astounding transformation' George Monbiot, author of Feral.In Wilding, Isabella Tree tells the story of the 'Knepp experiment', a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex, using free-roaming grazing animals to create new habitats for wildlife. Part gripping memoir, part fa ...Show more
30 Second Whisky: The 50 essential elements of producing and enjoying the world's whiskies by Charles MacLean
$27.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE | Series: 30 Second
The bestselling 30-Second| series takes a revolutionary approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand. Each title selects a popular topic and dissects it into the 50 most significant ideas at its heart. Every idea, no matter how complex, is explained in 300 words and on ...Show more