The Vagina Bible: The vulva and the vagina - separating the myth from the medicine by Dr. Jennifer Gunter
$32.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Does eating sugar cause yeast infections? Does pubic hair have a function?Should you have a vulvovaginal care regimen?Will your vagina shrivel up if you go without sex?What's the truth about the HPV vaccine? So many important questions, so much convincing, confusing, contradictory misinformation! In th ...Show more
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin; Peter Garratt (Introduction by)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: Great Works That Shape Our World Ser.
Perhaps the most influential science book ever written, On the Origin of Species has continued to fascinate readers for more than a century after its initial publication. Its controversial theory that populations evolve and adapt through a process known as natural selection led to heated scientific, phi ...Show more
Astronomy 2023 Australia: Your Guide to the Night Sky by Glenn Dawes, Peter Northfield, Ken Wallace
$32.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
This annual gem (produced each year since 1991) continues to take the Australian stargazer on a wondrous journey of the night sky. This critically acclaimed work, produced by three well known experts in the field, takes a unique approach to explaining and identifying the Sun, Moon, planets and constella ...Show more
The Best Australian Science Writing 2022 by Ivy Shih (Editor); Norman Swan (Foreword by)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Pop 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
The Shallows - How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember by Nicholas Carr
$24.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
The 10th-anniversary edition of this landmark investigation into how the Internet is dramatically changing how we think, remember and interact, with a new afterword.
Voyager: The Constellations of Memory by Nona Fernandez
$22.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
One of the world's foremost spots for astronomical observation, the Atacama Desert in Chile is also where, in October 1973, twenty-six people were executed by Pinochet's Caravan of Death. Decades on, a petition gathers for a constellation's stars to be dedicated to them. Nona Fernndez is made a god-moth ...Show more
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher by Matthew Sands, Richard Feynman, Robert Leighton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
The six easiest chapters from Feynmans landmark work, Lectures on Physics specifically designed for the general, non-scientist reader.
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: very good
Malcolm Gladwell's provocative new #1 bestseller -- now in paperback. Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a pebble and a sling-and ever since, the names of David and Goliath have stood for battles between underdo ...Show more
Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding by George Monbiot
$22.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
How many of us sometimes feel that we are scratching at the walls of this life, seeking to find our way into a wider space beyond? That our mild, polite existence sometimes seems to crush the breath out of us?Feralis the lyrical and gripping story of George Monbiot's efforts to re-engage with nature and ...Show more
Being Mortal - Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
$24.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: Wellcome Collection Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty - every day was a roll of the dice. But now, as medical advances push the boundaries of survival further each year, we have become increasingly detached from the reality of being mort ...Show more
Noise by Daniel Kahneman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Wherever there is human judgement, there is noise.From the world-leaders in strategic thinking and the multi-million copy bestselling authors of Thinking Fast and Slow and Nudge, the next big book to change the way you think.Imagine that two doctors in the same city give different diagnoses to identical ...Show more
The Road to Gondwana - In search of the lost supercontinent by Bill Morris
$39.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: near fine
The Road to Gondwana traces the steps science took to find Gondwana, and the journey Gondwana itself took through 500 million years of Earth history. The road to Gondwana took western science many hundreds of years to travel. And like Scott's epic haul across the ice of Antarctica, it was a journey jagg ...Show more