Working Dog Heroes: How One Man Gives Shelter Dogs New Life and Purpose by Steve Austin
29.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
A great Aussie yarn packed with inspiring stories of shelter dogs that have been given new life and purpose - and turned around the lives of others. Steve Austin isn't your average dog trainer. In this feelgood, yarn-laden memoir he shares amazing stories from a career of rescuing and training shelter ...Show more
Playing by the Rules: How Our Obsession with Safety is Putting Us All at Risk by Tracey Brown
22.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Does an airline pilot really need to surrender his tweezers at airport security when he's about to board an aircraft equipped with an axe on the back of the cockpit door Can a mobile phone really cause a major explosion at a gas station And is there really a good reason why you should be be prevented fr ...Show more
Dog Diet by Kate Bendix
19.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
We are what we eat. And the same goes for our dogs...Over the past 20 years, our dogs' lives have come to mimic our own. They are overfed, under-exercised and stressed, and because of this they are increasingly taking on our shape and disease pattern. More than half the dogs in this country are now eith ...Show more
Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology by Jim Al-Khalili, Johnjoe McFadden
24.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
New York Times Bestseller and an Amazon Best Science Book of 2015, Life on the Edge alters our understanding of our world's fundamental dynamics through the use of quantum mechanics Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how did it come to be? Even in an age of cloning ...Show more
Ralf: How a Giant Schnauzer Brought Hope, Happiness and Healing to Sick Children by Anne Crawford
22.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Ralf the Giant Schnauzer was once a small puppy with a big barking problem. He was facing an uncertain future until Caroline Lovick and her loving family came along. They rescued Ralf from Tasmania and welcomed him into their family home in Melbourne...Ralf was the recipient of daily cuddles from Caroli ...Show more
Rust: The Longest War by Jonathan Waldman
22.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Rust has been called "the great destroyer," the "pervasive menace," and "the evil." "This look at corrosion-its causes, its consequences, and especially the people devoted to combating it-is wide-ranging and consistently engrossing" (The New York Times). It is the hidden enemy, the one that challenges t ...Show more
Inside of a Dog -- Young Readers Edition: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know by Alexandra Horowitz
26.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
From an animal behaviorist and dog enthusiast comes an adorable and informative guide to understanding how our canine friends see the world based on the #1 "New York Times" bestselling phenomenon, "Inside of a Dog" now adapted for a younger audience! Have you ever wondered what your dogs are thinking? W ...Show more
Field Guide to Australian Wildflowers: Over 1000 Common Australian Wildflowers by Denise Greig
45.00 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Over 1000 common Australian WildflowersField Guide to Australian Wildflowers describes more than 1000 of the most common species found in Australia, each listed alphabetically within their family group. Colour photography illustrates each species and, where helpful for identification purposes, line draw ...Show more
The Physics of Life: The Evolution of Everything by Adrian Bejan (Duke University, North Carolina Duke Univ. Duke Univ. Duke Univ. Duke Univ., Durham, North Carolina Duke University, Durham, NC University of Colorado, Boulder University of Colorado, Boulder University of Colorado, Boulder Duke Univ. Duke Univ.)
37.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
"The Physics of Life" explores the roots of the big question by examining the deepest urges and properties of living things, both animate and inanimate: how to live longer, with food, warmth, power, movement and free access to other people and surroundings. Bejan explores controversial and relevant issu ...Show more
Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code by Matthew Cobb
24.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Life's Greatest Secret is the story of the discovery and cracking of the genetic code. This great scientific breakthrough has had far-reaching consequences for how we understand ourselves and our place in the natural world. The code forms the most striking proof of Darwin's hypothesis that all organisms ...Show more
Maths Squared (100 Concepts You Should Know) by Marianne Freiberger
19.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: 100 Concepts You Should Know
For many of us, mathematics is a subject to be feared-a daunting world of schoolroom numbers and equations. Yet we often wish in everyday life that we could remember all those handy mathematical tools and tips that were once explained to us-Maths Squared provides the bite-sized solution. Everybody knows ...Show more
Hidden Nature : A Voyage of Discovery by Alys Fowler
29.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Leaving her garden to the mercy of the slugs, award-winning writer Alys Fowler set out in an inflatable kayak to explore Birmingham's canal network, full of little-used waterways where huge pike skulk and kingfishers dart. Her book is about noticing the wild everywhere and what it means to see beauty wh ...Show more