Lithium - A Doctor, a Drug, and a Breakthrough by Walter A. Brown
27.95 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
From insulin comas and lobotomy to incarceration to exile, Brown chronicles the troubling history of the diagnosis and (often ineffective) treatment of bipolar disorder through the centuries, before the publication of a groundbreaking research paper in 1949. Cade's "Lithium Salts in the Treatment of Psy ...Show more
Computer Science for the Curious by Joshi, Vaidehi
49.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
The Remarkable Life of the Skin: An intimate journey across our surface by Monty Lyman
19.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
- Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2019 - A Sunday Times 'MUST READ' - 'An exciting introduction to a little-known microscopic universe.' Sunday Times - 'A seriously entertaining book.' Melanie Reid, The Times - As read on RADIO 4's BOOK OF THE WEEK _______________ How does our diet ...Show more
The Divine Feline: A Chic Cat Lady's Guide to Woman's Best Friend by DRAYTON,CATHERINE; ALEXANDRA,BELIND
35.00 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
A charming and beautifully-written gift book about cats and the women who love them, from internationally bestselling novelist Belinda Alexandra.
Our Wild Calling - How Connecting with Animals Can Transform Our Lives--And Save Theirs by Richard Louv
24.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
"A book that offers hope." --The New York Times Book Review "Richard Louv has done it again. A remarkable book that will help everyone break away from their fixed gaze at the screens that dominate our lives and remember instead that we are animals in a world of animals." --Bill McKibben, author of Falt ...Show more
Stargazing for Beginners: Explore the Wonders of the Night Sky by DK
34.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Discover the wonders of the Universe with this complete introduction to observing and understanding the night sky. This practical guide explains and demystifies stargazing, teaching you to recognize different kinds of objects and showing you how they move through the sky over the course of the night an ...Show more
A Polar Affair - Antarctica's Forgotten Hero and the Secret Love Lives of Penguins by Lloyd Spencer Davis
32.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
A captivating blend of true adventure and natural history by one of today's leading penguin experts and Antarctic explorers George Murray Levick was the physician on Robert Falcon Scott's tragic Antarctic expedition of 1910. Marooned for an Antarctic winter, Levick passed the time by becoming the first ...Show more
Einstein's War by Stanley, Matthew
22.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
'Deeply researched and profoundly absorbing . . . Matthew Stanley traces one of the greatest epics of scientific history . . . An amazing story' Michael Frayn, author of Tony Award-winning Copenhagen In 1916, Arthur Eddington, a war-weary British astronomer, opened a letter written by an obscure German ...Show more
Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell
19.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Pelican Bks.
Melanie Mitchell separates science fact from science fiction in this sweeping examination of the current state of AI and how it is remaking our world No recent scientific enterprise has proved as alluring, terrifying, and filled with extravagant promise and frustrating setbacks as artificial intellige ...Show more
Contagion: Plagues, Pandemics and Cures from the Black Death to Covid-19 and Beyond by Dr. Richard Gunderman
32.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
As the outbreak of a new and deadly form of coronavirus dominates headlines and triggers fear and global recession, now is a good time to reflect on the history and science of transmissible diseases. Behind every disease is a story, from the natural history of the disease and its course in the individua ...Show more
In Praise of Famous Horses by Sean Magee
39.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Horses is an A-Z companion to perhaps the most loved of all domesticated animals. The book's entries include a wealth of unexpected, fascinating and serendipitous information, from horse-slang phrases to horses in British pub signs, and from the horse in advertising to the horse as a food item. Themes s ...Show more
Lonely Planet Lonely Planet's Natural World by Lonely Planet
45.00 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Lonely Planet Ser.
There's something purely magical about being in nature; it transforms us, it renews us. Yet, in a world where high rises, dense population and technology have become virtually inescapable, immersing oneself in nature is seemingly out-of-reach. Lonely Planet's Natural World invites you to reconnect with ...Show more