Origins: How the Earth Made Us by Lewis Dartnell
35.00 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Why do so many of us eat cereal for breakfast?Is it because we like the taste? Or because 20 millions years ago, a certain species of plant colonised the same hospitable land that humanity did?Why is the world the way it is?If we follow chains of explanation as far back as they go - and keep asking, lik ...Show more
Human Origins - A Ladybird Expert Book by Alice Roberts
19.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Ladybird Expert Ser.
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Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory by Leonard Susskind and Art Friedman
22.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
In the first two books in his wildly popular The Theoretical Minimumseries, world-class physicist Leonard Susskind provided a brilliant first course in classical and quantum mechanics, offering readers not an oversimplified introduction, but the real thing - everything you need to start doing physics, a ...Show more
The Big Ones - How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do about Them) by Lucy Jones
29.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
When the forces that give our planet life exceed our ability towithstand them, they become disasters. Together they have shaped ourcities and architecture, elevated leaders and toppled governments, influencedthe way we think, feel, fight, unite and pray. The history of naturaldisasters is a history of ...Show more
Eye of the Shoal - A Fish-Watcher's Guide to Life, the Ocean and Everything by Helen Scales
29.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
There's something about fish that leaves a cold, slimy whiff in many people's minds. Either that, or fish are simply "food"; catching fish to eat is so deeply ingrained that we fish for fish, but we don't pigeon a pigeon or deer a deer. It's difficult to think of fish as wild, living things, partly beca ...Show more
The Book of Snakes - A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from Around the World by Mark O'Shea
59.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Book Of Ser.
There are over 3,700 species of snake found on every continent except for Antarctica, ranging in size from Barbados' tiny threadsnake to Southeast Asia's massive reticulated python. More than any other creature snakes are surrounded by dark, compelling myths and legend, unsurprising since many constrict ...Show more
Respecting Animals by David S. Favre
32.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
In this fresh approach to the animal rights debate, a legal scholar and expert on the humane treatment of animals argues for a middle ground between the extreme positions that often receive the most public attention. Professor Favre advocates an ethic of respectful use of animals, which finds it accepta ...Show more
The Knife's Edge by Stephen Westaby
32.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
An intimate and compelling exploration into the unique psyche of the heart surgeon, by one of the profession's most eminent figures. Although Professor Stephen Westaby was born with the necessary coordination and manual dexterity, it was a head trauma sustained during university that gifted him the qual ...Show more
The Grapes of Math - How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life by Alex Bellos
31.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
"A first-rate survey of the world of mathematics...Great reading for the intellectually curious," (Kirkus Reviews) from the bestselling author of Here's Looking at Euclid--a dazzling new book that turns even the most complex math into a brilliantly entertaining read. From triangles, rotations, and powe ...Show more
When Einstein Walked With Godel : Excursions to the Edge of Thought by Jim Holt
28.00 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
From Jim Holt, the New York Times bestselling author of Why Does the World Exist?, comes an entertaining and accessible guide to the most profound scientific and mathematical ideas of recent centuries in When Einstein Walked with G del Excursions to the Edge of Thought. Does time exist? What is infinit ...Show more
Who Can You Trust? How Technology Brought Us Together - and Why It Could Drive Us Apart by Rachel Botsman
22.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Nominated for the Business Book Awards 'Embracing Change' category ----- A ground-breaking exploration of how the digital era is revolutionising human trust If you can't trust those in charge, who can you trust? From government to business, banks to media, trust in institutions is at an all-time low. ...Show more
On Sheep: Diary of a Swedish Shepherd by Axel Lindén
19.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
'Axel Lindén is a shepherd-philosopher with James Herriot's knack for mishap and an almost Chekhovian deadpan humour.' Observer'Endearing and liberating.' Idler Magazine Why do we keep sheep? Alex Lindén ruminates as he watches his sheep ruminating. Naive and inexperienced, he has ditched his doctoral ...Show more