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Animals Make Us Human by Leah Kaminsky; Meg Keneally
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
Through words and images, writers, photographers and researchers reflect on their connection with animals and nature. They share moments of wonder and revelation from encounters in the natural world- seeing a wild platypus at play, an echidna dawdling across a bush track, or the inexplicable leap of a t ...Show more
Windfall: Unlocking a Fossil-Free Future by Ketan Joshi
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
We've had a decade of distraction and inaction on climate change, but what made things go so very wrong in Australia? And what can the rest of the world learn from our mistakes – and opportunities? In Windfall, renewable energy expert Ketan Joshi examines how wind power inspired the creation of a weird, ...Show more
Dick Smith's Population Crisis by Dick Smith
$19.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
In 2011 the world's population exceeded 7 billion. Each year we add nearly 80 million people and by mid-century we will require twice as much food and double the energy we use today. Australia will be deeply affected by these trends - we have the fastest growing population of any developed nation. These ...Show more
FireWise, FireSafe-Updated Edition by Richard Whitaker
$12.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
Fully updated and revised, this is one of the most critical books for Australia by expert meteorologist of 30 years Richard Whitaker. 'Firewise, Fire-safe' tells you to how to protect yourself and your home from a bushfire. Bushfires are our most dangerous natural disaster, producing on average the high ...Show more
Extraterrestrial: The Search for Intelligent Life Beyond Earth by AVI. LOEB
$32.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
"Provocative and thrilling ... Loeb asks us to think big and to expect the unexpected."--Alan Lightman, New York Times bestselling author of Einstein's Dreams and Searching for Stars on an Island in MaineHarvard's top astronomer lays out his controversial theory that our solar system was recently visite ...Show more
Insane Mode: How Elon Musk's Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolution to End the Age of Oil by Hamish McKenzie
$22.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
A USA Today New and Noteworthy Title "You'll tell me if it ever starts getting genuinely insane, right?"--Elon Musk, TED interview Hamish McKenzie tells how a Silicon Valley start-up's wild dream came true. Tesla is a car company that stood up against not only the might of the government-backed ...Show more
Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
Have you ever seen something that wasn't really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing? Hallucinations don't belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness, or ...Show more
Perfect Motion: How Walking Makes Us Wiser by Jono Lineen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
In Perfect Motion, Jono Lineen investigates that transformation, and why walking has made us more creative, helped us to learn, constructed our perception of time, strengthened our resilience and provided a way of making sense of our life - and death. After the tragic loss of his younger brother, Linee ...Show more
The Weather Machine: How We See into the Future by Andrew Blum
$19.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
'Revelatory ... convey[s] the technical brilliance and political significance of an achievement that hides in plain sight' Telegraph From satellites circling the Earth, to weather stations far out in the ocean, through some of the most ingenious minds and advanced algorithms at work today - In this gri ...Show more
The Genes That Make Us: Human Stories from a Revolution in Medicine by Edwin Kirk
$32.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
Genes -- we all have them and we're all affected by them, often in unknown ways. Whether directly inherited or modified by our environment, genes control or significantly influence almost every aspect of our lives, from the success of our conception and the development of our sexual characteristics, to ...Show more
Written in Bone by Sue Black
$32.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
Our bones are the silent witnesses to the lives we lead. Our stories are marbled into their marrow. Drawing upon her years of research and a wealth of remarkable experience, the world-renowned forensic anthropologist Dame Sue Black takes us on a journey of revelation. From skull to feet, via the face, ...Show more
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness by Carlo Rovelli
$35.00 AUD
Category: Popular Science
One of the most inspiring and counter-intuitive thinkers of our age, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, transforms the way we think about the world with his reflections on science, history and humanity. In this collection of writings, the logbook of an intelligence always on the ...Show more