Who's Minding the Farm? In This Climate Emergency by Patrice Newell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
A vital account of how sustainable farming can address urgent issues such as climate change and water scarcity, health and nutrition, land stewardship, renewables vs. the coal industry, as well as meaningful and fulfilling rural employment. And a call to arms. You know who is minding the farm - our cons ...Show more
Dawn of the New Everything: A Journey Through Virtual Reality by Jaron Lanier
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
Jaron Lanier, 'the father of Virtual Reality a a high-tech genius' (Sunday Times), tells the extraordinary story of how in just over three decades Virtual Reality went from being a dream to a reality - and how its power to turn dreams into realities will transform us and our world.Virtual Reality has lo ...Show more
The Universe Next Door: A Journey Through 57 Alternative Realities, Parallel Worlds and Possible Futures (New Scientist) by New Scientist
$19.98 AUD
Category: Science
A journey through 55 alternative realities, parallel worlds and possible futures. It's lucky you're here. But for a series of incredible coincidences and roads not taken, your life could be very different. The same goes for reality. We live in just one of many possible worlds. In others, dinosaurs still ...Show more
The Unreality of Memory: Notes on Life in the Pre-Apocalypse by Elisa Gabbert
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
A literary guide to digital anxiety, The Unreality of Memory collects thought-provoking and playful essays on the Internet age's media-saturated disaster coverage and our addiction to viewing and discussing the world's ills. 'A work of sheer brilliance, beauty and bravery' - Andrew Sean Greer, author of ...Show more
The Future We Choose: The Stubborn Optimist's Guide to the Climate Crisis by Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
Climate change: it is arguably the most urgent and consequential issue humankind has ever faced. How we address it in the next thirty years will determine the kind of world we will live in and will bequeath to our children and to theirs. In The Future We Choose, Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Ca ...Show more
Human Anatomy Colouring Book by Margaret Ziemian and Joe Matt
$12.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Dover Children's Science Books
Including numerous views, cross-sections, and other diagrams, this entertaining instruction guide includes careful, scientifically accurate line renderings of the body's organs and major systems: skeletal, muscular, nervous, reproductive, and more. Each remarkably clear and detailed illustration is acco ...Show more
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
$16.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die...'. Darwin's theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no being or species has been specifically created; all are locked into a pitiless struggle for existence, with extin ...Show more
Catching Stardust: Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System by Natalie Starkey
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Icy, rocky, sometimes dusty, always mysterious - comets and asteroids are among the Solar System's very oldest inhabitants, formed within a swirling cloud of gas and dust in the area of space that eventually hosted the Sun and its planets. Locked within each of these extra-terrestrial objects is the 4.6 ...Show more
How to be Human : New Scientist by New Scientist Staff
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
If you thought you knew who you were, THINK AGAIN. Did you know that half your DNA isn't human? That somebody, somewhere has exactly the same face? Or that most of your memories are fiction? What about the fact that you are as hairy as a chimpanzee, various parts of your body don't belong to you, or t ...Show more
How to Measure Anything: The Science of Measurement by Christopher Joseph
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
A comprehensive, beautifully packaged reference guide to the systems used to measure just about anything you can think of.
2062: The World that AI Made by Toby Walsh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
Many people think the future is something we need to adjust to, rather than what we decide through the choices we make today. This book looks at the choices we are starting to make that will define this future. The majority of experts in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics predict we are likely to ...Show more