Death As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal by Juan José Millás, Juan Luis Arsuaga
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
A dazzling follow-up to Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal. 'We would love to discover that each species has a biological clock in its cells, because, if that clock existed and if we were able to find it, perhaps we could stop it and thus become eternal,' Arsuaga tells Millás in this book, in wh ...Show more
Deep Water: The world in the ocean by James Bradley
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science
Through history, science, nature writing, and environmentalism, Deep Water invites you to explore the deepest recesses of our natural world. 'Teeming with mysteries, wonders and heartbreaking facts, this beautiful, lucid hymn to the sea is a reminder of what we still have, what we stand to lose, and why ...Show more
Dispersals: On Plants, Borders and Belonging by Jessica J. Lee
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography
A poetic and intimate essay collection on the lives of plants and their entanglement with our human worlds A seed slips beyond a garden wall. A seaweed drifts through an ocean. A tree is planted on a shifting border. A shrub is uprooted from its culture and its land. What happens when these plants leave ...Show more
Eight Improbable Possibilities: The Mystery of the Moon, and Other Implausible Scientific Truths by John Gribbin
$25.99 AUD
Category: Science
'Gribbin casts a wide net and displays his breadth of knowledge in packing a lot into each chapter . . . a brief read, but one that may inspire readers to dig deeper.' Giles Sparrow, BBC Sky at Night Magazine A mind-warping excursion into the wildly improbable truths of science. Echoing Sherlock Holme ...Show more
Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles by Samuel Graydon
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Walter Isaacson's Einstein meets Craig Brown's 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret, in this engaging and innovative biography of the famous physicist told in ninety-nine dazzling vignettes. Most of us would agree that Albert Einstein's name is synonymous with "genius" and that his likeness is often used as ...Show more
Emu Dreaming: An Introduction to Australian Aboriginal Astronomy by Ray Norris
$29.95 AUD
Category: Science
This book gives you an easy-to-read introduction to what we know about Aboriginal Astronomy, and the current state of research into this area.Each of the 400 different Aboriginal cultures in Australia has a distinct mythology, ceremonies, and art forms, some of which have a strong astronomical component ...Show more
Escape From Shadow Physics: The Quest To End the Dark Ages of Quantum Theory by Adam Forrest Kay
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
An engaging and razor-sharp attack on the orthodoxy of modern physics, and a bold new idea about the structure of reality. For 70 years, mathematical physicist Adam Kay argues, physics has laboured under delusions. 'When it comes to atoms,' the founding quantum physicist Neils Bohr once wrote, 'language ...Show more
Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
$27.99 AUD
Category: Science
The definitive guide to the Female Body, Eve is the book women all over the world have been waiting for. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FOYLE'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 LONGLISTED FOR BLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 A GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH and PROSPECT BEST BOOK OF 2023 How did wet nur ...Show more
Farts Aren't Invisible: Mind-Blowing Facts From Science, History, Sport and The Universe by Mick O'Hare
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Want to challenge your brain, tickle your sides and turn your world upside down all at once? Then this is the book for you! A mind-bending, brain-expanding cornucopia of facts for curious minds from the bestselling author of Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? and Does Anything Eat Wasps? Own the room with ...Show more
Fevered Planet - How Diseases Emerge When We Harm Nature by John Vidal
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
A timely and urgent investigation from John Vidal, Environment Editor of the Guardian for nearly thirty years, into how the destruction of nature is releasing disease into our societies'Urgent, fascinating and essential' GEORGE MONBIOT'A searing, vital work' BETTANY HUGHESCovid-19, mpox, bird flu, SARS, ...Show more
First Knowledges Box Set by First Knowledges
$125.00 AUD
Category: Science
Exploring practices such as Songlines, architecture and design, land management, astronomy, botany and law, this series brings together two very different ways of understanding the natural world: one ancient, the other modern. Each book is a collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers an ...Show more
H is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z by Elizabeth Kolbert and Wesley Allsbrook
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
Climate change resists narrative and yet we must see clearly what's happening in our world. Millions of lives are at stake, and upwards of a million species. We must act. In H Is for Hope, Elizabeth Kolbert investigates the history, and future, of climate change from A, for Svante Arrhenius, who created ...Show more