Influenza: The Hundred Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History by Jeremy Brown
32.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Jeremy Brown, a veteran ER doctor, explores the troubling, terrifying, and complex history of the flu, from the origins and lessons of the Great Flu that killed millions to vexing questions like: are we prepared for the next epidemic, should you get a flu shot, and are we close to finding a cure?
The Best Australian Science Writing 2018 by John Pickrell (Editor)
29.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: The\Best Australian Science Writing Seri Ser. | Reading Level: 4 Science
This popular yearly anthology gives a snapshot of the very best science writing Australia has to offer, including everything from the most esoteric philosophical questions about ourselves and the universe, through to practical questions about the environment in which we live.Now in its eighth year, The ...Show more
Celestial Atlas: A Journey in the Sky Through Maps by ELENA PERCIVALDI
79.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Travel across the celestial skies courtesy of the most stunning star atlases ever created during three centuries of mapmaking. Featuring splendid illustrations of the most famous, rare, and impressive star atlases ever realized from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, this gorgeous book leads yo ...Show more
The Wolf by Nate Blakeslee
22.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
A New Statesman Book of the Year All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. ' Margaret Atwood The wolf stands at the forefront of the debate about our impact on the natural world. In one of the most celebrated successes of modern conservation, it has ...Show more
On the Infinite, the Universe and the Worlds - Five Cosmological Dialogues by Giordano Bruno; Scott Gosnell (Translator)
31.50 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Giordano Bruno Collected Works
In 1584, while living in the household of Michel de Castelnau, the French Ambassador to the court of Queen Elizabeth of England, Giordano Bruno completed three books of cosmological dialogues: The Ash Wednesday Supper; On Cause, Principle and Unity; and the current volume, On the Infinite, the Universe ...Show more
Turning the Tide on Plastic - How Humanity (and You) Can Make Our Globe Clean Again by Lucy Siegle
22.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Enough plastic is thrown away every year to circle the world 4 timesMore than 8 million tonnes of plastic enter the oceans each year300 million tonnes of new plastic is produced every yearAn estimated 15-51 trillion pieces of plastic now litter the world's oceans38.5 million plastic bottles are used eve ...Show more
The Amoeba in the Room - Lives of the Microbes by Nicholas P. Money
42.95 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
A cup of seawater contains 100 million cells, which are preyed upon by billions of viruses. Fifty million tons of fungal spores are released into the atmosphere every year. And the human gut is home to somewhere between 500 and 1,000 species of bacteria. The more we learn about microbial biodiversity, t ...Show more
Five Photons - Remarkable Journeys of Light Across Space and Time by James Geach
37.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
The story of the universe is written in the light that travels through it--the light that we can capture, that is. Nearly everything we know about how the universe works on its grandest scale comes from the analysis of light, of photons that may have journeyed for nearly fourteen billion years to reach ...Show more
Shoot for the Moon by Richard Wiseman
32.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
20th July 1969: Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to walk on the Moon. We all recognize this to be one of mankind's greatest achievements. Yet what did it take to make John F. Kennedy's dream a reality? In this remarkable book, Professor Richard Wiseman presents a pioneering study of the mindset t ...Show more
Digital Minimalism: Living Better with Less Technology by Cal Newport
32.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Most of us know that addiction to digital tools is costing us both productivity and peace. But giving them up completely isn't realistic. We're addicted to texting, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter not because we're stupid or shallow, but because they provide real value in the form of connection, commun ...Show more
Adventures in Human Being by Gavin Francis
22.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Wellcome Ser.
Sunday Times bestsellerWe have a lifetime's association with our bodies, but for many of us they remain uncharted territory. In Adventures in Human Being, Gavin Francis leads the reader on a journey through health and illness, offering insights on everything from the ribbed surface of the brain to the s ...Show more
The Ash Wednesday Supper by Giordano Bruno; Hilary Gatti (Introduction by)
85.00 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
Giordano Bruno's The Ash Wednesday Supper is the first of six philosophical dialogues in Italian that he wrote and published in London between 1584 and 1585. It presents a revolutionary cosmology founded on the new Copernican astronomy that Bruno extends to infinite dimensions, filling it with an endles ...Show more