The Climate Cure: Solving the Climate Emergency in the Era of COVID-19 by Tim Flannery
$24.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Australians are witnessing an unprecedented government response to crisis-swift decisive action to avert catastrophe. And the advice of scientists has informed every step of the way. But for decades the advice of scientists on the impending catastrophe that climate change will bring has been ignored, di ...Show more
Nature Is Never Silent by Madlen Ziege
$29.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
For readers of Entangled Life and The Hidden Life of Trees, a fascinating journey into the world of plants and animals, and the ways they communicate with each other.For readers of Entangled Life and The Hidden Life of Trees, a fascinating journey into the world of plants and animals, and the ways they ...Show more
Clouds That Look Like Things: From the Cloud Appreciation Society by GAVIN PRETOR-PINNEY
$27.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: very good
Clouds in the shape of dolphins, elephants, UFOs, even Alfred Hitchcock and Andy Murray...they're all here in this beautiful and hilarious collection of clouds photographed around the world by members of The Cloud Appreciation Society, selected and wittily captioned by Gavin Pretor-Pinney, winner of the ...Show more
Content and Consciousness by Daniel C. Dennett
$29.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: Routledge Classics
Content and Consciousnessis an original and ground-breaking attempt to elucidate a problem integral to the history of Western philosophical thought: the relationship of the mind and body. In this formative work, Dennett sought to develop a theory of the human mind and consciousness based on new and chal ...Show more
How to Find Fulfilling Work - The School of Life by Roman Krznaric
$19.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: The School of Life | Reading Level: 16
This is a book about how to take working life in new directions how to negotiate the labyrinth of choices, how to think about personal ambitions and motivations, and ultimately how to take concrete steps to finding a fulfilling career. It is a self-help book with a difference. Standard career guides are ...Show more
Great Migrations: Epic Animal Journeys by Karen Kostyal
$12.99 AUD
$44.95 (71% off)
Category: Pop Science
At a riverbank in Africa's Serengeti, thousands of migrating wildebeest try desperately to cross as terrifying crocs feast on the galloping herds - which must attempt the river for a chance at survival. In the Falkland Islands, the albatross - king of migrations - journeys thousands of miles to nest des ...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
The Great British Year: Wildlife Through the Seasons by Stephen Moss
$49.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Britain is a place of remarkable beauty and surprising extremes: nowhere else in the temperate world boasts such extreme variety in such a small area. Our humble island has over 10,000 miles of coastline; iconic animals and birds; and unique spectacles of migration that see wildlife from all corners of ...Show more
Alex's Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos
$24.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
The world of maths can seem mind-boggling, irrelevant and, let's face it, boring. This groundbreaking book reclaims maths from the geeks. Mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our lives: from the surprising geometry of the 50p piece to how probability can help you win in any casino. In se ...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
Cosmic Chronicles - A user's guide to the Universe by Fred Watson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: Users Guide to the Universe - Australian | Reading Level: near fine
Are we alone in the universe? Where didthe moon come from? How do we know what stars are made of? Could there reallybe a future in asteroid mining? In CosmicChronicles, Fred Watson - Australia'sAstronomer-at-Large and bestselling author - explores the hottest topics inspace science and astronomy. Watso ...Show more
My Penguin Year: Living with the Emperors. A Journey of Discovery by Lindsay McCrae
$32.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: near fine
Emperor penguins have the most extraordinary lifecycle. They march up to 100 miles over solid ice to reach their breeding grounds. They choose to breed in the depths of the worst winter on the planet; and in an unusual role reversal, the males incubate the eggs, fasting for over 100 days to ensure they ...Show more