Getting to Know the Birds in Your Neighbourhood: A Field Guide by Darryl Jones
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
Interested in birds but don’t know where to start? Overwhelmed by the bird guides? Want to know more about the birds you see around you? Then this is the book for you!Getting to Know the Birds in Your Neighbourhood is the first complete beginners’ field guide to the birds you are most likely to see in t ...Show more
How To Speak Whale: A Voyage Into The Future Of Animal Communication by Tom Mustill
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
A thrilling investigation into whale science and animal communication, and a poignant look at how science may change our relationship with animals forever. In 2015, wildlife filmmaker Tom Mustill was whale watching when a humpback breached onto his kayak and nearly killed him. A video clip of the event ...Show more
The Anatomists' Library: The Books that Unlocked the Secrets of the Human Body by Colin Salter
$59.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature | Series: Liber Historica Ser.
The Anatomists Library is a lavishly illustrated compendium of the anatomical publications that have informed medicine over six centuries. The Anatomists Library is a fascinating chronological collection of the best anatomical books from six centuries, charting the evolution of both medical knowledge an ...Show more
The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us If We Let Them by Peter Wohlleben
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
The follow-up to the international bestseller The Hidden Life of Trees, offering compelling insights into the lungs of our planet and the fragility of our intertwined futures. Trees can survive without humans, but we can't live without trees. Even if human-caused climate change devastates our plant, tr ...Show more
Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
An ambitious, eye-opening, myth-busting and groundbreaking history of the evolution of the female body, by a brilliant new scientist and writer. How did wet nurses drive civilization? Are women always the weaker sex? Is sexism useful for evolution? And are our bodies at war with our babies? In Eve, Ca ...Show more
What the Trees See: A wander through millennia of natural history in Australia by Dave Witty
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
The trees around us - some we may walk past every day - tell a story. The mallee box by the twelfth hole of North Adelaide Golf Course evokes a time when Adelaide was clothed in mallee scrub and desert senna. Brisbane' s remnant blue gum, growing by the botanic gardens, indicates a time when the city wa ...Show more
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilisation by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time–war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, race, and tribalism–in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of ...Show more
The Basis of Everything: Before Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project there was the Cavendish Laboratory by Andrew Ramsey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
Before the Manhattan Project, before nuclear warfare and the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was the twentieth century's great scientific quest to fathom the secrets of the atom.The unlikely story of an Antipodean friendship that changed the world forever. Before the Manhattan Project, before n ...Show more
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our planet? This book will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems - and how we can solve them We are bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won't be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, that ...Show more
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee
$27.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene, the stunning odyssey of the cell - the key to life and ourselves**A NEW YORK TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, ECONOMIST, MAIL ON SUNDAY and GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR**'Will leave you in awe' GuardianFrom the dawn of ...Show more
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
Are trees social beings? In this international bestseller, forester and author Peter Wohlleben convincingly makes the case that, yes, the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree parents live together with their chi ...Show more
Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
'Astonishing ... an amazing book ... absolutely chocker full of things that we need to know' Chris Evans 'Matthew Walker is probably one of the most influential people on the planet' Evening Standard THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER TLS, OBSERVER, SUNDAY TIMES, FT, GUARDIAN, DAILY MAIL AND EVENING STANDAR ...Show more