Electrified Sheep: Bizarre Experiments from the Bestselling Author of Elephants on Acid by Alex Boese
$17.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Benjamin Franklin was a pioneering scientist, leader of the Enlightenment and founding father of the USA. But perhaps less well known is that he was also the first person to use artificial respiration to revive an electric shock victim. Odder still, it was actually mouth-to-beak resuscitation on a hen t ...Show more
A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the Healing Arts of Greece and Rome by J. C. McKeown
$23.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: near fine
There are few disciplines as exciting and forward-looking as medicine. Unfortunately, however, many modern practitioners have rather lost sight of the origins of their discipline. A Cabinet of Ancient Medical Curiosities aspires to make good this lapse by taking readers back to the early days of Western ...Show more
The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century by George Friedman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
A fascinating, eye-opening and often shocking look at what lies ahead for the U.S. and the world from one of our most incisive futurists. In his thought-provoking new book, George Friedman, founder of STRATFOR--the preeminent private intelligence and forecasting firm--focuses on what he knows best, the ...Show more
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston
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Category: Pop Science
Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained-the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens. Ninety-six percent of the ancient redwood forests have been destroyed by logging, but the untouched fragments that ...Show more
Defiant Earth: The fate of humans in the anthropocene by Clive Hamilton
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Category: Pop Science
Forget everything you know. Nature is no longer nature. Humans are no longer humans. We have entered a new era - the Anthropocene. Everything has changed. Humans have become so powerful that we have disrupted the functioning of the Earth, bringing on a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. The stable ...Show more
Mine the Gap for Mathematical Understanding, Grades K-2: Common Holes and Misconceptions and What to Do About Them by John J. SanGiovanni
$67.00 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: Corwin Mathematics Series
Misconceptions and incomplete mathematical thinking often go undetected, as teachers are rarely trained to consider why or how an answer was generated. They often respond to incorrect answers by re-teaching the correct processes, and the underlying problem persists. Unrecognized misconceptions then beco ...Show more
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams
$38.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: General Adult
For centuries, poets and philosophers extolled the benefits of a walk in the woods: Beethoven drew inspiration from rocks and trees; Wordsworth composed while tromping over the heath; Nikola Tesla conceived the electric motor while visiting a park. Intrigued by our storied renewal in the natural world, ...Show more
Introducing Foucault: A Graphic Guide by Chris Horrocks, Zoran Jevtic
$12.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Michel Foucault's work was described at his death as 'the most important event of thought in our century'. As a philosopher, historian and political activist, he certainly left behind an enduring and influential body of work, but is this acclaim justified? "Introducing Foucault" places his work in its t ...Show more
How Emotions are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett
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Category: Pop Science | Series: Expert Thinking Ser. | Reading Level: very good
When you feel anxious, angry, happy, or surprised, what's really going on inside you? Most scientists would agree that emotions come from specific parts of the brain, and that we feel them whenever they're triggered by the world around us. The thrill of seeing an old friend, the sadness of a tear-jerker ...Show more
Selfie - How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing To Us by Will Storr
$32.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
We are living in an age of heightened individualism. Success is a personal responsibility. Our culture tells us that to succeed is to be slim, rich, happy, extroverted, popular--flawless. We have become self-obsessed. And our expectation of perfection comes at a cost. Millions are suffering under the to ...Show more
A Climate for Denial: Why Some People Still Reject Climate Change Science by Arek Sinanian
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Category: Pop Science
Why is it that despite overwhelming evidence and fundamental science, some people still don't accept that climate change is real and that human activity is contributing to it? Is it because the science is not being understood? Is it because it is difficult to accept that humans are capable of changing t ...Show more
Sugar: The World Corrupted: From Slavery to Obesity by James Walvin
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Category: Pop Science
The modern successor to Sweetness and Power, James Walvin's Sugar is a rich and engaging work on a topic that continues to change our world.How did a simple commodity, once the prized monopoly of kings and princes, become an essential ingredient in the lives of millions, before mutating yet again into t ...Show more