A Most Improbable Journey: A Big History of Our Planet and Ourselves by Walter Alvarez
$38.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Big History, the field that studies the entire known past of our universe to give context to human existence, has so far been the domain of historians. In A Most Improbable Journey, Walter Alvarez-best known for his "Impact Theory" explaining dinosaur extinction-makes a compelling case for a new, scienc ...Show more
What Doesn't Kill Us: How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude, and Environmental Conditioning Will Renew Our Lost Evolutionary Strength by Scott Carney
$32.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
What Doesn't Kill Us, a New York Times bestseller, traces our evolutionary journey back to a time when survival depended on how well we adapted to the environment around us.Our ancestors crossed deserts, mountains, and oceans without even a whisper of what anyone today might consider modern technology. ...Show more
One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest by Wade Davis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
From the author of Into The Silence, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. In 1941, Richard Evans Schultes took a leave of absence from Harvard University and disappeared into the Northern Amazon of Colombia. The world's leading authority on the hallucinogens and medicinal plants of the re ...Show more
2062: The World that AI Made by Toby Walsh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Many people think the future is something we need to adjust to, rather than what we decide through the choices we make today. This book looks at the choices we are starting to make that will define this future. The majority of experts in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics predict we are likely to ...Show more
The Origin of Species: and The Voyage of the Beagle (Vintage Classics) by Charles Darwin; Ruth Padel (Introduction by)
$12.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: very good
"WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DARWIN'S GREAT-GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER, RUTH PADEL When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board the H.M.S Beagle in 1836, he brought with him the notes and evidence which would form the basis of his landmark theory of evolution of species by a proc ...Show more
Gemstones by Cally Hall; Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff
$22.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: DK Handbooks Ser.
Packed with more than 800 vivid full-color photographs of more than 130 varieties of cut and uncut stones, organic gemstones, and precious metals, this concise guide combines its stunning visuals with a systematic approach that enables you to recognize each gemstone instantly. Published by Dorling Kinde ...Show more
Science Without the Boring Bits: A Curious Chronology of Discovery, Invention and Wild Speculation by Ian Crofton
$29.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Forget Boyle's law, polymer chains, cellular respiration and fields of force - here's all the really interesting stuff you never learnt during science lessons at school. But this isn't fantasy, this is hard fact: Fact: The stethoscope owes its invention in 1816 to a young doctor who was too embarrassed ...Show more
The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
$42.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
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Gentle Giants by Isabelle Groc
$59.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
A volume of photographs that invites you to discover cetaceans, this book provides a surprisingly intense portrait of dolphin and whale life, and a fascinating journey through images (which does justice to these amazing animals, who are a symbol of the struggle involved in the preservation of the marine ...Show more
Sex at Dawn : The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality by Christopher Ryan; Cacilda Jethá
$27.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Since Darwin's day, we've been told that sexual monogamy comes naturally to our species. Mainstream science - as well as religious and cultural institutions - has maintained that men and women evolved in families in which a man's possessions and protection were exchanged for a woman's fertility and fide ...Show more
Duels and Duets: Why Men and Women Talk So Differently by John L. Locke
$34.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Why do men and women talk so differently? And how do these differences interfere with communication between the sexes? In search of an answer to these and other questions, John Locke takes the reader on a fascinating journey, from human evolution through ancient history to the present, revealing why me ...Show more
The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: good
What if society wasn't fundamentally rational, but was motivated by insanity? This thought sets Jon Ronson on an utterly compelling adventure into the world of madness.Along the way, Jon meets psychopaths, those whose lives have been touched by madness and those whose job it is to diagnose it, including ...Show more