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Covid-19: Everything You Need to Know About the Coronavirus and the Race for the Vaccine by Michael Mosley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science - Popular
This book charts the trajectory of the COVID-19 virus, from its emergence in China at the end of 2019 to its rapid worldwide spread. Based on the latest scientific discoveries, Dr Mosley gives you a detailed understanding of the secrets of this coronavirus, how it spreads, how it infects your body and ...Show more
Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf by Oliver Sacks
$15.00 AUD
Category: Science - Popular
The bestselling author and "one of the greatest clinical writers of the twentieth century" (New York Times) explores the world of deafness and ponders the nature of human communication.
Witness Tree Seasons of Change with a Century-Old Oak by Lynda V. Mapes
$15.00 AUD
Category: Science - Popular
When our "witness tree" first rooted beside a low stone wall in rural Massachusetts, cars were just appearing on the roads. In the life of this one grand oak, we can see for ourselves the results of one hundred years of rapid environmental change. It's leafing out earlier, and dropping its leaves later ...Show more
The Carbon Club: How a Network of Influential Climate Sceptics, Politicians and Business Leaders Fought to Control Australia's Climate Policy by Marian Wilkinson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science - Popular
The inside story of how a network of influential climate sceptics, politicians and business leaders fought to control Australia's response to the climate crisis. As the climate crisis threatens more extreme bushfire seasons, droughts and floods, many Australians are demanding their leaders answer the qu ...Show more
How Are We Going to Explain This? by Jelmer Mommers
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science - Popular
An international bestseller, the first climate book that doesn't leave the reader depressed: realistic and hopeful, witty and clarifying.
Half Lives : The Unlikely History of Radium by Lucy Jane Santos
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science - Popular
The surprisingly macabre and mundane history of radium in everyday life.
The Secret Life Of The Mind by Mariano Sigman
$20.00 AUD
Category: Science - Popular
From a world-renowned leader in neuroscience, a provocative, enthralling journey into the depths of the human mind. Where do our thoughts come from? How do we make choices and trust our judgments? What is the role of the unconscious? Can we manipulate our dreams? In this mind-bending international best ...Show more
Windfall: Unlocking a Fossil-Free Future by Ketan Joshi
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science - Popular
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
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science - Popular
300,000 years ago, Homo sapienshad bigger skulls. Cooked food meant our heads shrunk; alongside a growing brain, our airways got narrower. Urbanisation then led us to breathe less deeply and less healthily. And so today more than 90% of us breathe incorrectly. So we might have been breathing all our lif ...Show more
Show Me Where It Hurts: Living with Invisible Illness by Kylie Maslen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science - Popular
My body dictates who I am. I work the way I do because of my body, I vote the way I do because of my body and I live the way I do because of my body. It is not my body that is at fault, but society's failure to deal with bodies like mine. I might be in pain, but I am whole. I refuse to have the difficul ...Show more
The Gilded Dinosaur: The Fossil War Between E.D. Cope and O.C. Marsh and the Rise of American Science by Mark Jaffe
$15.00 AUD
Category: Science - Popular
Provides a history of the scientific race that pitted two rival scientists against each other in the nineteenth century in the struggle to uncover evidence that dinosaurs once roamed the Earth.
The Genes That Make Us: Human Stories from a Revolution in Medicine by Edwin Kirk
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science - Popular
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