Cave: Nature and Culture by Ralph Crane; Lisa Fletcher
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Earth Ser.
Shortlisted for the Tratman Award 2015 To enter caves is to venture beyond the realm of the everyday. From huge vaulted caverns to impassable, water-filled passages; from the karst topography of Guilin in China to the lava tubes of Hawaii; from tiny remote pilgrimage sites to massive tourism enterprise ...Show more
Invisible - The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen by Philip Ball
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
If you could be invisible, what would you do? The chances are that it would have something to do with power, wealth or sex. Perhaps all three. But there's no need to feel guilty. Impulses like these have always been at the heart of our fascination with invisibility: it points to realms beyond our senses ...Show more
A Buzz in the Meadow by Dave Goulson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
From the author of the Samuel Johnson Prize-shortlisted Sunday Times bestseller A Sting in the Tale In 2003 Dave Goulson bought a derelict farm in the heart of rural France, together with 33 acres of surrounding meadow. Over the course of a decade, he created a place for his beloved bumblebees to thrive ...Show more
Gluten Lie: and Other Myths About What You Eat by Alan Levinovitz
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
'An effective counter to the fearmongering and false promises purveyed by sensationalists masquerading as scientists. - Peter Gibson, MD, Director of Gastroenterology, Alfred Hospital and Monash University'Levinovitz shows us how to stop being afraid of food and how to get back to the joy of eating.' - ...Show more
The Water Book - The extraordinary story of our most ordinary substance by Alok Jha
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
Water is the most every day of substances. It pours from our taps and falls from the sky. We drink it, wash with it, and couldn't live without it. Yet, on closer examination it is also a very strange substance (it is one of only a very small number of molecules which expand when cooled). Look closer aga ...Show more
The Weather Experiment: The Pioneers Who Sought to See the Future by Peter Moore
$53.00 AUD
Category: Science
In 1865 a broken Admiral Robert FitzRoy locked himself in his dressing room and cut his throat. His grand meteorological project had failed. Yet only a decade later, FitzRoy's storm-warning system and 'forecasts' would return, the model for what we use today. In an age when a storm at sea was evidence o ...Show more
Human Universe by Andrew Cohen; Brian Cox
$23.00 AUD
Category: Science
Where are we? Are we alone? Who are we? Why are we here? What is our future? Human Universe tackles some of the greatest questions that humans have asked to try and understand the very nature of ourselves and the Universe in which we live. Through the endless leaps of human minds, it explores the extr ...Show more
The Triumph of Seeds How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History by Thor Hanson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
Winner of the 2016 PNBA Book Award A finalist for the 2016 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books, Young Adult Science Book category We live in a world of seeds. From our morning toast to the cotton in our clothes, they are quite literally the stuff and staff of life, supporting die ...Show more
Intercept: The Secret History of Computers and Spies by Gordon Corera
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
INTERCEPT is the previously untold - and previously highly classified - story of the melding of technology and espionage. Gordon Corera's compelling narrative, rich with historical details and characters, takes us from the Second World War to the internet age, with astonishing revelations about espionag ...Show more
Anatomy 101: From Muscles and Bones to Organs and Systems, Your Guide to How the Human Body Works by Kevin Langford
$28.00 AUD
Category: Science | Series: 101
An all-in-one guide to the human body! Anatomy 101 offers an exciting look into the inner workings of the human body. Too often, textbooks turn the fascinating systems, processes, and figures of anatomy into tedious discourse that even Leonardo Da Vinci would reject. This easy-to-read guide cuts out the ...Show more
Smashing Physics by Jon Butterworth
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
The discovery of the Higgs boson made headlines around the world. Two scientists, Peter Higgs and Francois Englert, whose theories predicted its existence, shared a Nobel Prize. The discovery was the culmination of the largest experiment ever run, the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Col ...Show more
This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein
$25.00 AUD
Category: Science
The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core "free market" ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems. In short, either we em ...Show more