Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie
$36.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our planet? This book will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems - and how we can solve them We are bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won't be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, that ...Show more
Big Meg: The Story of the Largest and Most Mysterious Predator that Ever Lived by Tim Flannery, Emma Flannery
$35.00 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: near fine
Big Meg charts the evolution of megalodon, its super-predator status for about fifteen million years and its decline and extinction. It delves into the fossil record to answer questions about its behaviour and role in shaping marine ecosystems as well as its impact on the human psyche. It contains stori ...Show more
Stuff : Humanity's Epic Journey from Naked Ape to Nonstop Shopper by Chip Colwell
$49.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
The fascinating tale of humankind’s journey from owning nothing to being owned—by our stuff. Why, when and how did our needs become world-destroying addictions? The fascinating tale of humankind’s journey from owning nothing to being owned — by our stuff. Why, when and how did our needs become world-des ...Show more
Our Fragile Moment - How lessons from Earth's past can help us survive the climate crisis by Michael Mann
$35.00 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: ear fine
In this sweeping work of science and history, the renowned climate scientist and author of The New Climate War shows us the conditions on Earth that allowed humans not only to exist but thrive, and how they are imperilled if we veer off course. For the vast majority of its 4.54 billion years, Earth has ...Show more
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow
$26.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
'Pacey and potentially revolutionary' Sunday Times 'Iconoclastic and irreverent ... an exhilarating read' The Guardian 'This is not a book. This is an intellectual feast' Nassim Nicholas Taleb For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thu ...Show more
Plankton - A Guide to Their Ecology and for Water Quality by Iain M. Suthers (Editor); David Rissik (Editor); Anthony J. Richardson (Editor)
$79.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Healthy waterways and oceans are essential for our increasingly urbanised world. Yet monitoring water quality in aquatic environments is a challenge, as it varies from hour to hour due to stormwater and currents. Being at the base of the aquatic food web and present in huge numbers, plankton are strongl ...Show more
Illustrated Human Anatomy (HB) by Dana Gustafson; David Milnes; Sebastian Kaulitzki (Illustrator)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
The world's most precise scientific illustrations of the human body. Packed with astonishing facts and superb quality 3-D illustrations, Illustrated Human Anatomy is a state-of-the art guide to the human body that is destined to become the definitive illustrated human anatomy reference. Accessible text ...Show more
Half-Earth Socialism: A Manifesto to Save the Future by Troy Vettese; Drew Pendergrass
$19.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Our fossil fuel driven society has run out of time. Only by rapidly giving up our reliance on carbon can we pay down the debt of fossil capital and buy a liveable future without a mass extinction or global warming. In this visionary and incisive manifesto, environmental scholars Troy Vettese and Drew Pe ...Show more
Last Days of the Mekong by Brian Eyler
$29.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: Asian Arguments Ser.
Long known for its natural beauty, remoteness, and abundance of wildlife, the Mekong river basin runs through China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. It is home to more than seventy million people and has for centuries been one of the world's richest agricultural zones. Today however it i ...Show more
When the Trees Say Nothing : Writings on Nature by Thomas Merton; Kathleen Deignan (Editor); Thomas Berry (Foreword by); John Guiliani (Illustrator)
$45.00 AUD
Category: Pop Science
The first collection of Thomas Merton's nature writings serves as a primer on eco-spirituality. Thomas Merton: millions know him as the author of The Seven Storey Mountain, the international bestseller and a modern spiritual classic. Now, in the first collection of his writings on nature, Merton is reve ...Show more
The Plant Thieves: Secrets of the herbarium by Prudence Gibson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
The Plant Thieves reveals remarkable stories from the National Herbarium of New South Wales — its people, its archives and its most guarded specimens.Who gets to collect plants, name them, propagate them, extract their chemicals, sell them and use them? Whose knowledge is it? And what can the people tha ...Show more
The Fossil Book - A Record of Prehistoric Life by Patricia Vickers Rich; Thomas Hewitt Rich; Mildred Adams Fenton; Carroll Lane Fenton
$110.00 AUD
Category: Pop Science
"A readable . . . and remarkably comprehensive survey of the realm of prehistoric life." -- Chicago Sunday TribuneEarth's fossil records date back more than three-and-a-half billion years ago, providing extraordinary documentation of the evolution of life on this planet. From primitive one-celled organi ...Show more