Adam Spencer's Numberland by Adam Spencer
$34.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Australia's funniest mathematician returns in 2019 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), The ...Show more
Life: Selected Writings by Tim Flannery
$39.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE | Reading Level: near fine
Tim Flannery is one of the world's great thinkers, environmental scientists and writers. Sir David Attenborough once described him as being 'in the league of the all-time great explorers like Dr David Livingstone.' This definitive collection of his work brings together thirty years of essays, speeches a ...Show more
Marine Plants of Australia by John M. Huismann
$55.00 AUD
Category: SCIENCE
To most people, the mention of marine plants conjures up images of rotting seaweeds piled high on the beach, or slithering threateningly around bare ankles during a paddle in the shallows. Certainly, the seaweeds do not inspire the imagination or the romanticism that is usually associated with the sea. ...Show more
Beat of Life: A Surgeon Reveals the Secrets of the Heart by Reinhard Friedl
$34.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE
The heart is our most important - and perhaps most mysterious - organ. Every day it pumps 9000 litres of blood and beats around 100,000 times. But the heart is more than just a pump. In all major human cultures, it is seen as the source of love, sympathy, joy, courage, strength and wisdom. Why is this s ...Show more
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
Lifespan: Why We Age - and Why We Don't Have To by David Sinclair
$32.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE
In this paradigm-shifting book from acclaimed Harvard Medical School doctor and one of TIME magazine's 100 most influential people on earth, Dr. David Sinclair reveals that everything we think we know about ageing is wrong, and shares the surprising, scientifically-proven methods that can help readers l ...Show more
A History of the Universe in 100 Stars by Florian Freistetter
$22.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE
'Inventive [...] done beautifully' - TLSFrom the Big Bang to the Gaia Mission, this is a very personal history of the universe through the author's favourite 100 stars.Astronomer Florian Freistetter has chosen 100 stars that have almost nothing in common. Some are bright and famous, some shine so feebly ...Show more
The Best Australian Science Writing 2022 by Ivy Shih (Editor); Norman Swan (Foreword by)
$32.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE | Series: The\Best Australian Science Writing Seri Ser.
What can a microbial gravesite on a moon teach us? Why are a group of scientists risking their life to safeguard a seed bank? How does a virus detective story show us why we need to be vigilant about the next disease outbreak? Great science writing compels us to pay attention to parts of the world often ...Show more
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
Dead in the Water: A very angry book about our greatest environmental catastrophe. . . the death of the Murray-Darling Basin by Richard Beasley
$29.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE
Full-throated and provocative, this is a very personal battle cry to save our most precious natural resource. 'I LOVE IT.' Peter FitzSimons'With a deft mixture of outrage, humour and in-depth knowledge, only Beasley could make water policy a page turner.' Craig Reucassel'It's great to shed some more l ...Show more
Earth Detox: How and Why we Must Clean Up Our Planet by Julian Cribb
$20.95 AUD
Category: SCIENCE
Every person on our home planet is affected by a worldwide deluge of man-made chemicals and pollutants - most of which have never been tested for safety. Our chemical emissions are six times larger than our total greenhouse gas emissions. They are in our food, our water, the air we breathe, our homes an ...Show more
Soil: The Incredible Story of What Keeps the Earth, and Us, Healthy by Matthew Evans
$34.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE | Reading Level: very good
'A love letter to Mother Earth and entertaining must-read that goes to the heart of our survival' Charles Massy, author of Call of the Reed Warbler. What we do to the soil, we do to ourselves. Soil is the unlikely story of our most maligned resource as swashbuckling hero. A saga of bombs, ice ages and c ...Show more