Origins: How the Earth Made Us by Lewis Dartnell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Why do so many of us eat cereal for breakfast?Is it because we like the taste? Or because 20 millions years ago, a certain species of plant colonised the same hospitable land that humanity did?Why is the world the way it is?If we follow chains of explanation as far back as they go - and keep asking, lik ...Show more
Drawing As a Way of Knowing in Art and Science by Gemma Anderson
$82.01 AUD
Category: Pop Science
In recent history, the arts and sciences have often been considered opposing fields of study, but a growing trend in drawing research is beginning to bridge this divide. Gemma Anderson's Drawing as a Way of Knowing in Art and Science introduces tested ways in which drawing as a research practice can enh ...Show more
Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change by Nathaniel Rich
$32.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
By 1979, we knew all that we know now about the science of climate change - what was happening, why it was happening, and how to stop it. Over the next ten years, we had the very real opportunity to stop it. Obviously, we failed. Nathaniel Rich's groundbreaking account of that failure - and how tantali ...Show more
Yearbook of Astronomy 2019 by Brian Jones
$44.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
An inspiration to amateur and professional astronomers alike, the Yearbook of Astronomy warrants a place on the bookshelf of all sky watchers and stargazers. Maintaining its appealing style and presentation, the Yearbook of Astronomy 2019 contains an authoritative set of sky charts and comprehensive jar ...Show more
The Basis of Everything: Rutherford, Oliphant and the Coming of the Atomic Bomb by Andrew Ramsey
$39.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: Antipodean Friendship & The Atomic Bomb | Reading Level: very good
The story that bonds Ernest Rutherford and Marcus Oliphant is as extraordinary as it is unlikely. They were kindred souls, schooled and steeped in the furthest frontiers of Britain's empire, whose restless intellect and tireless conviction fused in the crucible of discovery at Cambridge University's cel ...Show more
Origin Story: A Big History Of Everything by David Christian
$22.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: Australian
How did we get from the Big Bang to today's staggering complexity, in which seven billion humans are connected into networks powerful enough to transform the planet? And why, in comparison, are our closest primate relatives reduced to near-extinction?Big History creator David Christian gives the answers ...Show more
Dopesick - Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America by Beth Macy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
An instant New York Times and indie bestseller, Dopesick is the only book to fully chart the devastating opioid crisis in America: "a harrowing, deeply compassionate dispatch from the heart of a national emergency" (New York Times) from a bestselling author and journalist who has lived through it In thi ...Show more
A Monstrous Commotion: The Mysteries of Loch Ness by Gareth Williams
$23.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: General Adult
The Loch Ness Monster: a creature that should have died out with the dinosaurs, or a legend built on hoaxes and wishful thinking?Sir Peter Scott, internationally renowned naturalist and president of the World Wildlife Fund, was convinced that the Monster existed. So were senior scientists at London's Na ...Show more
Enchantment of the Long-Haired Rat: A Rodent History of Australia by Tim Bonyhady
$32.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: Rodent History of Australia
The Enchantment of the Long-haired Rat tells the story of a small Australian rodent known for its fast and prodigious spread after big rains: plagues for the European colonists who feared and loathed all rats; an abundance of food for the indigenous peoples who feasted with delight in these times of ple ...Show more
Longitude by Dava Sobel
$19.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: near fine
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma ...Show more
No.1 Book of Numbers: Exploring the Meaning by Ruth Binney
$27.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Why is 7 such a lucky number and 13 so unlucky? Why does a jury traditionally have '12 good men and true', and why are there 24 hours in the day and 60 seconds in a minute? This fascinating new book explores the world of numbers from pin numbers to book titles, and from the sixfold shape of snowflakes t ...Show more
The Art of Astrophotography by Ian Morison
$54.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
In The Art of Astrophotography, astronomer and Popular Astronomy columnist Ian Morison provides the essential foundations of how to produce beautiful astronomical images. Every type of astroimaging is covered, from images of the Moon and planets, to the constellations, star clusters and nebulae within o ...Show more