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
Our Planet by Alastair Fothergill; Keith Scholey
$49.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE
With a foreword by Sir David Attenborough, this is the striking photographic companion to the groundbreaking NETFLIX original documentary series. With six hundred members of crew filming in fifty countries over four years, the directors that brought us the original Planet Earth and Blue Planet, take us ...Show more
The Astronomy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
$39.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE | Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
Explore the world of astronomy with key quotes and bold graphics to illustrate over 100 of the universe's biggest ideas. The Astronomy Book is an exciting voyage of discovery through the cosmos. Venture from ancient speculations about the nature of the universe, to the mind-boggling theories of recent s ...Show more
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics by Michael Pollan
$24.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE
Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most revered writers takes us on a mind-altering journey to the frontiers of human consciousness. 'It's as if we made entering gothic cathedrals illegal, or museums, or sunsets!' When LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it seemed to resea ...Show more
Illustrated Plant Glossary by Enid Mayfield
$69.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE
The Illustrated Plant Glossary is a comprehensive glossary of over 4000 terms related to plant sciences, featuring superb colour illustrations to aid comprehension of many of the plant terms.The topics covered in this glossary include anatomy, angiosperms, bryophytes, chemistry, cytology, ferns and fern ...Show more
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates
$39.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE | Reading Level: very good
Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions. Bill Gates explains why he cares so deeply about clim ...Show more
Field Guide to Useful Native Plants from Temperate Australia by Caton JM & Hardwick RJ
$49.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE
Detailed descriptions of over 150 useful plants from the temperate eco region.* More than 600 colour photos and drawings for ease of identification, as well as maps of localand Australia wide distributions.* Information on a wide range of uses for native plants as food, fibre and medicines, includingnot ...Show more
Adam Spencer's Top 100 by Adam Spencer
$34.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE | Reading Level: 4 Science
Australia's funniest mathematician returns in 2018 with more rollicking romps through the world of science, technology, numbers and all things nerdy. This terrific new fully illustrated title follows on from Adam's bestselling Big Book of Numbers (2014); World of Numbers (2015), Time Machine (2016), and ...Show more
Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry by Richard Flanagan
$24.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE
Is Tasmanian salmon one big lie? In a triumph of marketing, the Tasmanian salmon industry has for decades succeeded in presenting itself as world’s best practice and its product as healthy and clean, grown in environmentally pristine conditions. What could be more appealing than the idea of Atlantic sal ...Show more
The Origin of Species: and The Voyage of the Beagle (Vintage Classics) by Charles Darwin; Ruth Padel (Introduction by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE | Reading Level: very good
"WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DARWIN'S GREAT-GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER, RUTH PADEL When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board the H.M.S Beagle in 1836, he brought with him the notes and evidence which would form the basis of his landmark theory of evolution of species by a proc ...Show more
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics by Michael Pollan
$35.00 AUD
Category: SCIENCE
The No.1 New York Times Bestseller 'Gripping and surprising ... Pollan makes losing your mind sound like the sanest thing a person could do' The New York Times Book Review Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most admired writers takes us on a mind-altering journey to the fro ...Show more
Weather: an Illustrated History "From Cloud Atlases to Climate Change" by Andrew Revkin; Lisa Mechaley
$27.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE | Series: Sterling Illustrated Histories Ser.
"Beautifully illustrated . . . Think of this book like dining on tapas, boasting savory flavors, some unexpected, that constitute a satisfying whole." --Washington Post Andrew Revkin, strategic adviser for environmental and science journalism at the National Geographic Society and former senior climate ...Show more