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A Letter to Layla - Travels to Our Deep Past and near Future by Ramona Koval
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science - Popular
How might the origins of our species inform the way we think about our planet? At a point of unparalleled crisis, can human ingenuity save us from ourselves? Much-loved writer and broadcaster Ramona Koval travels the globe in a quest to answer these difficult questions and more. She speaks with an emin ...Show more
The Best Australian Science Writing 2020 by Sara Phillips (Editor)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science - Popular
The annual collection – now in its tenth year – celebrating the finest voices in Australian science writing.Can fish feel pain? Does it matter if a dingo is different from a dog? Is there life in a glob of subterranean snot? Science tackles some unexpected questions. At a time when the world is buffeted ...Show more
2021 Australasian Sky Guide by Nick Lomb
$16.95 AUD
Category: Science - Popular
Compact, easy to use and reliable, this popular guide by well-known astronomer and author Dr Nick Lomb has been providing stargazers with everything they need to know about the southern night sky for over 30 years. The 2021 guide contains the latest information and clear explanations on the solar system ...Show more
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
Good Blood - A Doctor, a Donor, and the Incredible Breakthrough That Saved Millions of Babies by Julian Guthrie
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science - Popular
A remarkable, uplifting story about one of the greatest medical breakthroughs of the 20th century In 1951 in Sydney, Australia, a fourteen-year-old boy named James Harrison was near death when he received a transfusion of blood that saved his life. A few years later, and half a world away, a shy you ...Show more
Boneheads and Brainiacs - Heroes and Scoundrels of the Nobel Prize in Medicine by Moira Dolan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science - Popular
Even the greatest minds in medicine have been terribly, terribly wrong. The inventor of the lobotomy won a Nobel prize in medicine for destroying his patients' brains. Another Nobel laureate thought malaria cured syphilis. The discoverer of anaphylactic shock also researched the spirit world and ESP. A ...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
A Human's Guide to the Future by Jordan Nguyen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science - Popular
TECHNOLOGY IS EVOLVING AT THE FASTEST RATE WE'VE EVER SEEN, BUT IT MAY BE THE SLOWEST RATE WE'LL EVER SEE AGAIN! What does this mean for the future of the human race? Do we resist these changes or embrace them?Australian biomedical engineer, inventor and visionary Dr Jordan Nguyen has lived a life of cu ...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.
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
Marie Curie - The Pioneer, the Nobel Laureate by Richard Gunderman
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science - Popular | Series: Amazing Minds Ser.
When Marie Curie and her husband, Pierre, discovered the atomic nature of radioactivity, and isolated polonium and radium, they revolutionized modern science. Her work not only contributed to our understanding of the structure of the atom, but also laid the foundation for modern medical innovations such ...Show more