50 Digital Ideas You Really Need to Know by Tom Chatfield
$19.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE | Reading Level: General Adult
We are in the throes of a technological and cultural revolution, yet the rapid pace of change makes it difficult to understand what's going on. 50 Digital Ideas You Really Need to Know provides a clear path through the misinformation surrounding the technologies that are transforming the world. Leadin ...Show more
Seeds, Sex and Civilization by Peter Thompson; Stephen Harris
$35.00 AUD
Category: SCIENCE
Seeds have influenced evolution, and for millennia they have influenced and sometimes determined where and how we live. This is an epic tale, given added enchantment by the fact that to most of us seeds mean little more than tiny objects in paper packets: who thinks first of rice, wheat, coffee, nuts, p ...Show more
Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat by Philip Lymbery; Isabel Oakeshott
$29.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE | Series: 100 Great Recipes Ser.
In the post-war years there was a humanitarian desire to feed people effectively and cheaply. But now the insidious creep of industrial agriculture, powered by the remorseless drive to get more for less, has taken hold. Farm animals have slowly disappeared from fields; the countryside is turning to wild ...Show more
The Full Catastrophe: Travels Among the New Greek Ruins by James Angelos
$24.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE
A transporting, good-humored, and revealing account of Greece s dire troubles, reported from the mountain villages, idyllic islands, and hardscrabble streets that define the country todayIn recent years, small Greece, often associated with ancient philosophers and marble ruins, whitewashed villages and ...Show more
The Sixth Extinction - An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
$29.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE | Reading Level: very good
Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions of life on earth. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. Elizabeth Kolbert combines brilliant ...Show more
The Element in the Room : Science-y Stuff Staring You in the Face by Helen Arney; Steve Mould
$29.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE
'Made me go Hydrogen Argon, Hydrogen Argon, Hydrogen Argon.' Rufus Hound As featured in Best stocking-filler books of 2017 - The Guardian 'Witty and clever writing, every topic is engaging, fun and in some cases laugh-out-loud funny...there are too many highlights to mention' - How it Works Why ...Show more
Australia's Volcanoes by Ferret Russel
$32.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE
Australia's Volcanoes will take you on a journey of discovery through Australia's volcanic upheaval. The book explains what happened all those years ago to create the volcanic landforms that you see today. Most of the sites featured are accessible by car or foot and maps are provided to help you find an ...Show more
Food of the Gods by Terence McKenna
$29.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE
"A journey is some of the Earth's most endangered people in the remote Upper Amazon. . . . a look at the rituals of the Bwiti cults of Gabon and Zaire. . . . . a field watch on the easting habits of 'stoned' apes and chimpanzees - these adventures are all a part of ethnobotanis t Terence McKenna's extra ...Show more
Underland - A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
$45.00 AUD
Category: SCIENCE | Reading Level: very good
In Underland, Robert Macfarlane delivers an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself. Traveling through the dizzying expanse of geologic time--from prehistoric art in Norwegian sea caves, to the blue depths of the Greenland ice cap, to a ...Show more
Rewilding - The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery by Paul Jepson; Cain Blythe
$19.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE | Series: Hot Science Ser.
The ground-breaking science behind ambitious new schemes for restoring lost natural systems.
Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking
$32.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE | Reading Level: very good
'A beautiful little book by a brilliant mind' Steven Poole, DAILY TELEGRAPH The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the universe's biggest questions in this brilliant posthumous work. Is there a God? How did it all begin? C ...Show more