Governomics by Miriam/McAuley, Ian Lyons
$32.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
People have many good reasons to want a decent public education system, to want a well-funded health system, and to live in a society where there is less disparity between the rich and the poor. What is not always clear is that, almost without exception, public sector involvement makes sound economics. ...Show more
Sex Myth by Rachel Hills
$32.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
From a bold new feminist voice, a book that will change the way you think about your sex life. Fifty years after the sexual revolution, we are told that we live in a time of unprecedented sexual freedom; that, if anything, we are too free now. But beneath the veneer of glossy hedonism, millennial journa ...Show more
Sufficiency Economy: Enough, for Everyone, Forever by Samuel Alexander
$49.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
In this second volume of collected essays, Samuel Alexander develops the provocative ideas contained in "Prosperous Descent: Crisis as Opportunity in an Age of Limits." Industrial civilisation promotes mistaken ideas of freedom and wellbeing, while placing unsupportable burdens on the biosphere. This be ...Show more
The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal about Being Human by Noah Strycker
$29.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
An entertaining and profound look at the lives of birds, illuminating their surprising world--and deep connection with humanity. Birds are highly intelligent animals, yet their intelligence is dramatically different from our own and has been little understood. As we learn more about the secrets of bird ...Show more
Nature of Sex: The Inns and Outs of Mating in the Animal Kingdom by Carin Bondar
$32.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
In Wild Sex, 'biologist with a twist' Carin Bondar presents the fascinating diversity of the reproductive habits of the animal kingdom, and through approachable explanations and humorous examples succeeds in making an eternally popular subject into a book of international appeal. Her web series of the s ...Show more
Astronomy 2016 Australia: Your Guide to the Night Sky by Ken Wallace
$27.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Best Australian Science Writing 2015 by Bianca Nogrady
$29.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
The annual collection celebrating the finest Australian science writing of the year. How does dust connect the cosmos with our bed sheets? Why do lobsters do the Mexican Wave backwards? And what makes us feel 'wetness' when there's no such thing as 'wet' nerve receptors? Now in its fifth year, The Best ...Show more
Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie: Australia, America, and the Environment by Corey J. A. Bradshaw
$42.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Though separated by thousands of miles, the United States and Australia have much in common. Geographically both countries are expansive-the United States is the fourth largest in land mass and Australia the sixth-and both possess a vast amount of natural biodiversity. At the same time, both nations are ...Show more
Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations: Processes of Creative Self-Destruction by Christopher Wright
$49.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Climate change is one of the greatest threats facing humanity, a definitive manifestation of the well-worn links between progress and devastation. This book explores the complex relationship that the corporate world has with climate change and examines the central role of corporations in shaping politic ...Show more
Why We Argue About Climate Change by Eric Knight
$19.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: Redback Ser.
A new perspective on a diabolical problem. Climate change is one of the most polarising issues of our time, but it doesn't have to be that way. In Why We Argue about Climate Change, Eric Knight unpicks the misconceptions that keep us arguing about, and stop us seeing, the true nature of the problem - an ...Show more
New History of Life by Peter Ward
$29.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
An estimated 4.6 billion years ago, the Earth and Moon were formed in a violent impact. On this, many agree, and even more that a long time after that, life began. However, few know that the first life on the Earth may not have emerged on this planet, but could, in fact, have begun on Mars, brought here ...Show more
Evolution by Michael Denton
$34.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
The idea of evolution is the keystone of our modern world view. Yet the theory propounded by Darwin and elaborated into accepted 'fact' by the scientific establishment is coming under increasing fire. This authoritative and remarkably accessible book by a molecular biologist shows how rapidly accumulati ...Show more