Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind by Peter Godfrey-Smith
$24.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
"Enthralling . . . breathtaking . . . Metazoa brings an extraordinary and astute look at our own mind's essential link to the animal world." --The New York Times Book Review(Editors' Choice)"A great book . . . [Godfrey-Smith is] brilliant at describing just what he sees, the patterns of behaviour of the ...Show more
The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins by Tom Higham
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Category: Popular Science
The story of us, told for the first time with its full cast of characters. 50,000 years ago, we were not the only species of human in the world. There were at least four others, including the Neanderthals, Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonesis and the Denisovans. At the forefront of the latter's ground-bre ...Show more
The Hidden World - How Insects Sustain Life on Earth Today and Will Shape Our Lives Tomorrow by George McGavin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
Insects conquered the Earth long before we did and will remain here long after we're gone. They outnumber us in the billions and are essential to many of the natural processes that keep us alive and that we take for granted. Yet, despite this, very few of us know much about the hidden world of insects ...Show more
Fire and Ice: The Volcanoes of the Solar System by Natalie Starkey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
A fascinating look at extraterrestrial volcanoes in our Solar System.The volcano - among the most familiar and perhaps the most terrifying of all geological phenomena. However, Earth isn't the only planet to harbour volcanoes. In fact, the Solar System, and probably the entire Universe, is littered with ...Show more
The Brain's Way of Healing by Norman Doidge
$32.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science | Series: The\Neuroplasticity Chronicles Ser.
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS 'BEST SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY BOOK' This book is about the discovery that the human brain has its own unique way of healing. For centuries we believed that the price we paid for our brain's complexity was that, compared to other organs, it was fixed and ...Show more
The River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks
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Category: Popular Science
In his previous books, Oliver Sacks had addressed questions of the brain and mind through the lens of case histories of individuals with neurological disorders. Recently, however, he had been reflecting on his experiences with such patients in the context of a lifetime of medical practice, and in light ...Show more
Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs by Michael T. Osterholm
$39.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
Every new development--from exploding human and animal populations to trade and travel--intensifies our susceptibility to a devastating epidemic. Ironically, a pandemic on the scale of the 1918 flu that killed perhaps a hundred million people would be deadlier today, despite a century of medical advance ...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
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? by Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
$55.00 AUD
Category: Popular Science
From the bestselling authors of Soonish, a brilliant and hilarious off-world investigation into space settlement Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away - no climate change, no war, no Twitter - beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp. Or is it ...Show more
The Best Australian Science Writing 2017 by Michael Slezak (Contribution by)
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Category: Popular Science
Would it be ethical to eat sentient aliens? What is the basis of differences between the sexes? Where do you find fossils of early multicellular life? Is there any hope for the Great Barrier Reef or Tasmanian forests in a warming climate? Were Aboriginal Australians the world's first astronomers? The Be ...Show more
A History of the Universe in 100 Stars by Florian Freistetter
$22.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
'Inventive [...] done beautifully' - TLSFrom the Big Bang to the Gaia Mission, this is a very personal history of the universe through the author's favourite 100 stars.Astronomer Florian Freistetter has chosen 100 stars that have almost nothing in common. Some are bright and famous, some shine so feebly ...Show more
White Holes: Inside the Horizon by Carlo Rovelli
$35.00 AUD
Category: Popular Science
A mesmerizing trip to the strange new world of white holes, from Carlo Rovelli, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics. Let us journey, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli, into the heart of a black hole. Let us slip beyond its boundary, the horizon, and tumble - on and on - down thi ...Show more