Everything You Know about the World Is Wrong by Matt Brown
22.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Everything You Know Is Wrong Ser.
A fascinating and humorous read that debunks the surprising myths about the world we always believed. The latest addition to the popular Everything You Know series, this book will blow apart your beliefs in the world's physical and social landscape, leaving you staggered by astounding facts about our ...Show more
Whippet - Whippet Dog Complete Owners Manual by George Hoppendale; Asia Moore
27.95 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Dogs Unleashed by Tamsin Pickeral
29.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Everything you need to know about that puppy in the window. One glance around the local park will confirm that man's best friend comes in many varieties. As the first animal domesticated by humans, dogs have been selectively bred for tens of thousands of years to be herders, hunters, guard dogs, and ...Show more
30 Second Weather by Adam Scaife
19.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: 30 Second
If you only have 30 seconds, there is time - using this book - to make sense of the science behind the seeming vagaries of the weather, the controversies, predictions and forecasts for climate change that shape our day-to-day experiences of the great outdoors. Ever since Aristotle first tried to explain ...Show more
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What they Teach Us by Frans De Waal
32.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Frans de Waal has spent four decades at the forefront of animal research. Following up on the best-selling Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, which investigated animal intelligence, Mama's Last Hug delivers a fascinating exploration of the rich emotional lives of animals.Mama's Last Hug ...Show more
Shapeshifters - On Medicine and Human Change by Gavin Francis
22.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Wellcome Collection
'Stylish and exhilarating... from a wide-ranging mind and a profound humanity... inspiring' Hilary MantelUnreliable bodies and shifting symptoms are all in a day's work for a GP.In his years of practising, Gavin Francis has seen it all: the promising law student trapped under the spell of anorexia; the ...Show more
What It's Like To Be a Dog by Gregory Berns
22.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
What is it like to be a dog' A bat' Or a dolphin' To find out, neuroscientist Gregory Berns and his team began with a radical step- they taught dogs to go into an MRI scanner-completely awake. They discovered what makes dogs individuals with varying capacities for self-control, different value systems, ...Show more
The Snow Leopard Project by Alex Dehgan
39.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
The remarkable story of the heroic effort to save and preserve Afghanistan's wildlife-and a culture that derives immense pride and a sense of national identity from its natural landscape. Postwar Afghanistan is fragile, volatile, and perilous. It is also a place of extraordinary beauty. Evolutionary bi ...Show more
Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything by Robert Hazen
34.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Reading Level: 4 Science
An enchanting biography of the most resonant – and most necessary – chemical element on Earth. Carbon. It's in the fibres in your hair, the timbers in your walls, the food that you eat and the air that you breathe. It's worth billions as a luxury and half a trillion as a necessity, but there are still m ...Show more
Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age Transformed the West and Shaped the Present by Phillipp Blom
44.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
'Europe where the sun dares scarce appear For freezing meteors and congealed cold.' - Christopher Marlowe In this innovative and compelling work of environmental history, Philipp Blom chronicles the great climate crisis of the 1600s, a crisis that would transform the entire social and political fabric ...Show more
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond by Michio Kaku
24.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The #1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind traverses the frontiers of astrophysics, artificial intelligence, and technology to offer a stunning vision of man's future in space, from settling Mars to traveling to distant galaxies. We are entering a new Golden Age of spa ...Show more
Whales, Dolphins and Seals - A Field Guide to the Marine Mammals of the World by Brett Jarrett (Illustrator); Hadoram Shirihai
39.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
This new field guide is a complete and convenient reference to every species of cetacean, pinniped and sirenian in the world, along with the Marine and Sea Otters and the Polar Bear. Every species is illustrated with magnificent colour paintings and a stunning collection of photographs, chosen to illust ...Show more