The Age of Seeds: How Plants Hacked Time and Why Our Future Depends on It by Fiona McMillan-Webster
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
Plants evolved seeds to hack time. Thanks to seeds they can cast their genes forward into the future, enabling species to endure across seasons, years, and occasionally millennia. When a 2000-year-old extinct date palm seed was discovered, no one expected it to still be alive. But it sprouted a healthy ...Show more
Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and its Role in the Climate Crisis by Annie Proulx
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx – whose novels are infused with her knowledge and deep concern for the earth – comes a riveting, revelatory history of our wetlands, their ecological role, and what their systematic destruction means for the planet. A lifelong environmentalist, Annie Proulx brings ...Show more
Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
What if everything we've been told about addiction is wrong? One of Johann Hari's earliest memories is of trying to wake up one of his relatives and not being able to. As he grew older, he realised there was addiction in his family. Confused, he set out on a three-year, thirty-thousand mile journey to ...Show more
Gemmology by Peter G. Read
$75.00 AUD
Category: Science
Since "Gemmology" was published, readers have used it to gain an in-depth appreciation of the science of gemmology, its history and practice.This third edition has been completely revised to cover the latest methods of gem enhancement and identification, as well as the latest test instruments and labora ...Show more
A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes by Stephen Hawking
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
From the Big Bang to the theory of relativity, Stephen W. Hawking will challenge your imagination and expand your grasp of the cosmos. This is the classic revelatory science book of the last century. Here is a landmark book written for those of us who prefer words to equations. Told by an extraordinary ...Show more
The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe by Theodore Gray, Nick Mann
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
The Elements has become an international sensation, with over one million copies in-print worldwide. The highly-anticipated paperback edition of The Elements is finally available. An eye-opening, original collection of gorgeous, never-before-seen photographic representations of the 118 elements in th ...Show more
In Search of Us: Twelve Adventures in Anthropology by Lucy Moore
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
The story of the pioneering anthropologists and their adventures among civilisations that were first thought of as being primitive and savage. What they discovered, however, would change the way we think about ourselves. ***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick*** The story of the pioneering anthropolog ...Show more
The Matter of Everything: Twelve Experiments that Changed Our World by Suzie Sheehy
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Category: Science
The astonishing story of twentieth-century physics, told through the twelve experiments that changed our world*SELECTED AS ONE OF WATERSTONES' BEST POPULAR SCIENCE BOOKS OF 2022*'A splendid idea, vividly carried out- I enjoyed this book enormously' PHILIP PULLMAN'A rich history of beautiful discoveries' ...Show more
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Donald Goldsmith
$32.95 AUD
Category: Science
Our true origins are not only human, or even terrestrial, but in fact cosmic. Drawing on recent scientific breakthroughs and cross-pollination among geology, biology, astrophysics, and cosmology, Origins illuminates the soul-stirring leaps in our understanding of the cosmos. This newly revised and updat ...Show more
Neuropedia: A Brief Compendium of Brain Phenomena by Eric H. Chudler
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
A fun and fact-filled A–Z treasury for anyone with a head on their shoulders. Neuropedia journeys into the mysteries and marvels of the three pounds of tissue between your ears — the brain. Eric Chudler takes you on a breathtaking tour of the nervous system with dozens of entries that explore the struct ...Show more
Astronomy: A Visual Guide by DK
$42.99 AUD
Category: Science
Take a look through the lens and discover the beauty and science of the magnificent night sky - and beyond.This stunningly illustrated handbook is split into eight sections which cover every aspect of astronomy. Learn about the history of discoveries in the field and astronomical phenomena, from the ear ...Show more
The Universe by Andrew Cohen, Professor Brian Cox
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Professor Brian Cox
THE UNIVERSE The biggest character of them all…the universe itself. Infinite in scale, and eternal, we tackle it’s biggest mysteries – where did it all come from and how did it begin? The answers lie at the Big Bang. STARS There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every planet in the s ...Show more