The Glass Universe: The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobel
24.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A peerless intellectual biography. The Glass Universe shines and twinkles as brightly as the stars themselves' The Economist #1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel returns with a captivating, little-known true story of women in science Before they even had the righ ...Show more
The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World by Anthony Brandt David Eagleman
32.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Our relentless drive to create makes us unique among living creatures. What is special about the human brain that enables us to innovate? Why don't cows choreograph dances? Why don't squirrels build elevators to their treetops? Why don't alligators invent speedboats?Weaving together the arts and science ...Show more
How the Zebra Got its Stripes: Tales from the Weird and Wonderful World of Evolution by Leo Grasset
19.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Why do giraffes have such long necks? Why are zebras striped? Why are buffalo herds broadly democratic while elephants prefer dictatorships? What explains the architectural brilliance of the termite mound or the complications of the hyena's sex life? And why have honey-badgers evolved to be one of natur ...Show more
The Zoomable Universe: A Step-by-Step Tour Through Cosmic Scale, from the Infinite to the Infinitesimal by Caleb Scharf
39.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Embark on a breath-taking, cutting-edge voyage through the enormity of our reality - travelling one 'power of ten' or order of magnitude at a time.Inspired by the classic 'Powers of Ten' film and bestselling book by Charles and Ray Eames, the award-winning astrobiologist Caleb Scharf and acclaimed artis ...Show more
Treknology: The Science of Star Trek from Tricorders to Warp Drive by Ethan Siegel
39.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Be amazed by 25 iconic pieces of tech from the Star Trek canon and the science behind how they function with Treknology. You will not believe how close we are to achieving some of them today. The name Star Trek conjures images of faster-than-light spacecraft, holographic crew members, and phasers set t ...Show more
Big Pacific by Rebecca Tansley
49.95 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
The Pacific Ocean has been the focus of our fascination for as long as we have lived beside and on it. It covers one-third of Earth's surface - greater than all of the planet's landmasses combined. It contains half of the world's water, hides its deepest places, and is home to some of the most dazzling ...Show more
Lion in the Living Room by Abigail Tucker
24.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
The correct reaction to a house cat isn't "awww." It's awe. We house and feed them, caress and obsess over them. How did these tiny creatures become so powerful? Science writer Abigail Tucker embarks on a remarkable adventure through history, evolutionary biology, and pop culture to discover the origins ...Show more
The Secret Life of Whales by Micheline Jenner (Contribution by)
29.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Marine biologist Micheline Jenner discovered humpback breeding grounds off the Kimberley coast, uncovered pygmy blue whale feeding spots, and, with her husband Curt, is one of very few people to witness a humpback whale giving birth. In The Secret Life of Whales she reveals the little-known world of the ...Show more
Painting by Numbers: The life and art of Ferdinand Bauer by David Mabberley
69.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Ferdinand Bauer is seen by many as the greatest natural history painter of all time. Hand-picked by Joseph Banks, in 1801-1805 Bauer accompanied Matthew Flinders during his circumnavigation of Australia, and lived in New South Wales and Norfolk Island. Already celebrated in Europe for the precision and ...Show more
Blowfish's Oceanopedia: 291 Extraordinary Things You Didn't Know About the Sea by Blowfish
32.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
The seas of our planet cover more than 70 per cent of the Earth, yet we know less about the ocean depths than the surface of the moon. Join marine biologist and fish-fanatic Tom "the Blowfish" Hird as he lifts the lid on a treasure chest of fascinating facts, to reveal just what we do know about what lu ...Show more
Reactions : An Illustrated Exploration of Elements, Molecules, and Change in the Universe (HB) by Theodore Gray; Nick Mann (Photography)
42.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
With Reactions bestselling author Theodore Gray continues the journey through our molecular and chemical world that began with the tour de force The Elements and continued with Molecules. In The Elements, Gray gave us a never-before-seen, mesmerizing photographic view of the 118 elements in the periodic ...Show more
Magnitude : The Scale of the Universe by Kimberly Megan; Arcand Watzke
39.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
In Magnitude, Kimberly Arcand and Megan Watzke take us on an expansive journey to the limits of size, mass, distance, time, and temperature in our universe, from the tiniest particle within the structure of an atom to the most massive galaxy in the universe; from the speed at which grass grows (about 2 ...Show more