Superpower: Australia's Low-Carbon Opportunity by Ross Garnaut
$29.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
'The fog of Australian politics on climate change has obscured a fateful reality- Australia has the potential to be an economic superpower of the future post-carbon world.'-Ross Garnaut We have unparalleled renewable energy resources. We also have the necessary scientific skills. Australia could be the ...Show more
How to Talk about Climate Change in a Way That Makes a Difference by Rebecca Huntley
$32.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE
A toolkit for understanding our emotional responses to climate change and how we can have meaningful conversations across dividing lines. 'The antidote to climate anxiety is action. Make your first action reading this book.' OSHER GUNSBERG'Rebecca Huntley has given us a great gift: an essential guide to ...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.
Sapiens A Graphic History, Volume 1: The Birth of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
$39.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE
The first volume of the graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's global phenomenon and smash Sunday Times #1 bestseller, with gorgeous full-colour illustrations and a beautiful package - the perfect gift for the curious beings in your life. One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species ...Show more
A Blueprint for a Safer Planet: How We Can Save the World and Create Prosperity by Nicholas Stern
$24.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE
"* Further substantial global warming is unavoidable and the risks to the natural world, the economy and our everyday lives are immense. The way we live in the next thirty years how we invest, use energy, organise transport and treat forests will determine whether these risks become realities. Stern s c ...Show more
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
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
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 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
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
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