Memory Code by Lynne Kelly
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
In the past, the elders had encyclopaedic memories. They could name all the animals and plants across the landscape, and the stars in the sky too. Yet most of us struggle to memorise more than a short poem. Using traditional Aboriginal Australian songlines as the key, Lynne Kelly has identified the powe ...Show more
Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive by Philipp Dettmer
$49.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
A gorgeously illustrated deep dive into the immune system that will forever change how you think about your body, from the creator of the wildly popular science YouTube channel Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell'A truly brilliant introduction to the human body's vast system for fighting infections and other thr ...Show more
Michael Muller: Sharks by Michael Muller (Essen)
$150.00 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
Lights, cables, and teeth: The ocean s endangered predator as never seen before This stunning monster shark book will eat you alive Maxim.comMichael Muller has carved a career out of impressive encounters. Famed for his portraits of the world s most elite actors, musicians, and sports stars, he has in t ...Show more
Creatura: Strange behaviours and special adaptations by Bec Crew
$29.95 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
Becky Crew is a Sydney-based science communicator with a love for weird and wonderful animals. From strange behaviours and special adaptations to newly discovered species and the researchers who find them, her topics celebrate how alien yet relatable so many of the creatures that live amongst us can be. ...Show more
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
A stunning account of this century's most intense urban fire, and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind In May 2016, Fort McMurray, Alberta, the hub of Canada's oil industry, was overrun by wildfire. The multi-billion-dollar disaster turned entire neigh ...Show more
Waters of the World: The Story of the Scientists Who Unravelled the Mysteries of Our Seas, Glaciers, and Atmosphere - and Made the Planet Whole by Sarah Dry
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
How is the climate where you are? And how did it get that way? How does the great complex global interaction of ice, ocean, and atmosphere combine to generate the rain that sustains us? And who figured all its secret processes out?From the glaciers of the Alps to the towering cumulonimbus clouds of the ...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
On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's final theory by Thomas Hertog
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
A new theory of the universe, twenty years in the making, by Stephen Hawking and his close collaborator Thomas Hertog. Perhaps the biggest question Stephen Hawking tried to answer in his extraordinary life was how the universe could have created conditions so perfectly hospitable to life. Pondering this ...Show more
The Science of Spin: How Rotational Forces Affect Everything From Your Body to Jet Engines to the Weather by Roland Ennos
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
Overlooked, under-explored and misunderstood this is the story of spin, the force which, quite literally, makes the world go round. In this comprehensive and wide-ranging book, Roland Ennos examines the seemingly infinite ways spin affects our lives, from the structure of galaxies to the way we walk. Ar ...Show more
World of Insects by New Holland Publishers Publishers
$26.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
Incorporating everything from dragonflies, stick insects and grasshoppers through to flies, fleas and beetles, the world's million or more insect species are essential for maintaining healthy ecosystems on our planet. World of Insects is a photographic celebration of the diversity of the planet's six-le ...Show more
Elixir - A Story of Perfume, Science and the Search for the Secret of Life by Theresa Levitt
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
'Dizzying and fragrant, elegant and riveting . . . truly a captivating achievement!' Aimee Nezhukumatathil'If you read this book you will be changed . . . this book feels like an actual elixir. Absolutely stunning' Kiese LaymonTwo friends in a Parisian perfume shop make a discovery that will transform o ...Show more
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science and Nature
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical--and accessible--plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effect ...Show more