The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will be Nature's Salvation by Fred Pearce
$35.00 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Veteran environmental journalist Fred Pearce used to think of invasive species as evil interlopers spoiling pristine 'natural' ecosystems. Most conservationists would agree. But what if traditional ecology is wrong, and true environmentalists should be applauding the invaders? In The New Wild, Pearce go ...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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Claude Levi-Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory by Patrick Wilcken
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$21.99 (31% off)
Category: Pop Science
Claude Levi-Strauss, the 'father of modern anthropology' and author of the classic Tristes tropiques, was one of the most influential intellectuals of the second half of the twentieth century. Dislodging Sartre, Camus and de Beauvoir from the pinnacle of French intellectual life in the 1950s, he brought ...Show more
Woman Who Changed Her Brain by Barbara Arrowsmith-Young
$29.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Barbara Arrowsmith-Young was born with severe learning disabilities that caused teachers to label her slow, stubborn - or worse. As a child, she read and wrote everything backward, struggled to process concepts in language, continually got lost, and was physically uncoordinated. She could make no sense ...Show more
Everything Under the Sun: Toward a Brighter Future on a Small Blue Planet by David Suzuki
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Category: Pop Science
In this compilation of David Suzuki's latest thoughts and writings, the renowned scientist, author, and broadcaster explores the myriad environmental challenges the world faces and their interconnected causes. In doing so, Suzuki shows that understanding the causes - and recognizing that everything in n ...Show more
How to Thrive in the Digital Age (The School of Life series) by Tom Chatfield
$19.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: The School of Life | Reading Level: 16
Our world is, increasingly, a digital one. Over half of the planet's adult population now spend more of their waking hours 'plugged in' than not, whether to the internet, mobile telephony, or other digital media. To email, text, tweet and blog our way through our careers, relationships and even our fami ...Show more
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
This Idea Is Brilliant: Lost, Overlooked, and Underappreciated Scientific Concepts Everyone Should Know by John Brockman
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Category: Pop Science | Series: Edge Question Ser.
Brilliant but overlooked ideas you must know, as revealed by Steven Pinker, Jared Diamond, Lisa Randall, Richard Thaler, Carlo Rovelli, Richard Dawkins, Helen Fisher, Ian McEwen, and more of today's most innovative minds - A top-ten San Francisco Chronicle bestseller What scientific term or concept ough ...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
Psychology of Addiction by Jenny Svanberg
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Category: Pop Science | Series: The\Psychology of Everything Ser.
When does a harmless habit become an addition? Why do only some of us get addicted? What can make recovery possible? The Psychology of Addiction is a fascinating introduction to the psychological issues surrounding addiction and the impact they have on social policy, recovery and an addict's everyday ...Show more
Stand up Straight!: A History of Posture by Sander L. Gilman
$49.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Our bodies are not fixed. They expand and contract with variations in diet, exercise, and illness. They also alter as we age, changing over time to be markedly different at the end of our lives from what they were at birth. In a similar way, our attitudes to bodies, and especially posture--how people ho ...Show more
Phallacy - Life Lessons from the Animal Penis (HB) by Emily Willingham
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Category: Pop Science
A wry look at what the astonishing world of animal penises can tell us about how we use our own. The fallacy sold to many of us is that the penis signals dominance and power. But this wry and penetrating reveals that in fact nature did not shape the penis--or the human attached to it--to have the upper. ...Show more