The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age by Richard Louv
$24.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
For many of us, thinking about the future conjures up images of Cormac McCarthye(tm)s The Road: a post-apocalyptic dystopia stripped of nature. Richard Louv, author of the landmark bestseller Last Child in the Woods, urges us to change our vision of the future, suggesting that if we reconceive environme ...Show more
How to Think Like Sherlock: Improve Your Powers of Observation, Memory and Deduction by Daniel Smith
$19.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: How to Think Like Ser.
'You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear'. Such were the words of the master detective Sherlock Holmes to Dr Watson, as he noted how his friend failed to implement Holmes' techniques. In "How to think like Sherlock" you will learn how to increase your powers of observation, memory, ded ...Show more
Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own by David Toomey
$32.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Recently, scientists at the frontiers of biology have hypothesised the existence of life-forms that can only be called "weird": organisms that live off acid rather than water, microbes that thrive at temperatures and pressure levels so extreme that their cellular structures should break down, even organ ...Show more
Air: The Restless Shaper of the World by Bryant
$22.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Air sustains the living. Every creature breathes to live, exchanging and changing the atmosphere. Water and dust spin and rise, make clouds and fall again, fertilising the earth. Twenty thousand fungal spores and half a million bacteria travel in a square foot of summer air. The chemical sense of aphids ...Show more
Sync: How Order Emerges From Chaos In the Universe, Nature and Daily Life by Steven H. Strogatz
$27.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
The tendency to synchronize may be the most mysterious and pervasive drive in all of nature. It has intrigued some of the most brilliant minds of the 20th century, including Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Norbert Wiener, Brian Josephson, and Arthur Winfree. At once elegant and riveting, Sync tells th ...Show more
Darwin's Black Box by Michael J. Behe
$40.00 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: General Adult
Ten years ago, Darwin's Black Box launched the Intelligent Design movement: the argument that nature exhibits evidence of design, beyond Darwinian randomness. Today, the movement is stronger than ever, and the book is a classic and an international bestseller. At last, Michael Behe has updated the boo ...Show more
Vagina: A New Biography by Naomi Wolf
$19.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
An astonishing new work that radically changes how we think about, talk about and understand the vagina - and consequently how we think about women and sexuality - from Naomi Wolf, one of our most respected cultural critics and author of the modern classic, The Beauty Myth. Vagina: A New Biography combi ...Show more
Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist by Bill McKibben
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Category: Pop Science
Bestselling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben recounts the personal and global story of the fight to build and preserve a sustainable planetBill McKibben is not a person you'd expect to find handcuffed and behind bars, but that's where he found himself in the summer of 2011 after leading t ...Show more
The Sea Inside by Philip Hoare
$32.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
A startling new book, his most personal to date, from Philip Hoare, winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for 'Leviathan'. The sea surrounds us. It gives us life, provides us with the air we breathe and the food we eat. It is ceaseless change and constant presence. It covers two-thirds of our planet. ...Show more
Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending by Elizabeth Dunn
$35.00 AUD
Category: Pop Science
If you think money can't buy happiness, you're not spending it right. Two rising stars in behavioral science explain how money can buy happiness--if you follow five core principles of smarter spending. "Happy Money "offers a tour of new research on the science of spending. Most people recognize that the ...Show more
Child Psychology & Development For Dummies by Laura L. Smith
$24.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
A complete and comprehensive guide to why kids behave and think the way they do-and how to bring out the best in them. In the U.S., more than 10 of children are diagnosed with psychiatric disorders, while countless others remain undiagnosed. Defining what is "normal" and what is not is of great concern ...Show more
Unnatural Selection: Why The Geeks Will Inherit The Earth by Mark Roeder
$29.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Is Darwin's theory of evolution out of date? According to author Mark Roeder it is. In Charles Darwin's view, only the fittest of the species - the aplha males and females survived and evolved. But these days the game has changed. You no longer need physical strength and strong genes to make it - in fa ...Show more