Galaxies: Inside the Universe's Star Cities by David Eicher
55.00 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Have you ever wanted to explore the Milky Way? Are you curious about how black holes form (and what really happens if you get stuck in one)? Do you want to learn how to read the night sky from your back garden? Tour the most dazzling, fascinating, and unusual galaxies in the universe with the editor in ...Show more
The Moon: A History for the Future by Oliver Morton
22.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
An intimate portrait of the Earth's closest neighbor--the Moon--that explores the history and future of humankind's relationship with it Every generation has looked towards the heavens and wondered at the beauty of the Moon. Fifty years ago, a few Americans became the first to do the reverse--and sh ...Show more
Some Assembly Required - Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA by Neil Shubin
36.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
The author of the bestselling Your Inner Fish gives us a brilliant, up-to-date account of the great transformations in the history of life on Earth. Over billions of years, fish evolved to walk on land, reptiles transformed into birds that fly, and ape-like primates changed into humans who walk on two ...Show more
Field Guide to the Frogs of Australia by Michael J. Tyler; Frank Knight (Illustrator)
49.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Throughout much of the world, frog populations are declining, with the survival of many species under threat. In Australia, several species have become extinct in the past 35 years. This second edition of Field Guide to the Frogs of Australia provides fully updated accounts of all the known frogs of ...Show more
At the Edge of Time: Exploring the My... by Dan Hooper
44.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Science Essentials Ser.
A new look at the first few seconds after the Big Bang--and how research into these moments continues to revolutionize our understanding of our universe Scientists in the past few decades have made crucial discoveries about how our cosmos evolved over the past 13.8 billion years. But there remains a cr ...Show more
Vesper Flights - New and Collected Essays by Helen Macdonald
35.00 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Reading Level: very good
Animals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves. From the internationally acclaimed author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to th ...Show more
Dr Karl's Little Book of Climate Change Science by Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki
14.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Australia's favourite science guru explains the facts about climate change - and how we can fix it How do Greenhouse Gas molecules shimmy and shake to trap 400,000 Hiroshima atom bombs' worth of the Sun's heat each day? Who did the early research into Climate Change and then spent billions trying to ...Show more
How to Talk about Climate Change in a Way That Makes a Difference by Rebecca Huntley
32.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
A toolkit for understanding our emotional responses to climate change and how we can have meaningful conversations across dividing lines. 'The antidote to climate anxiety is action. Make your first action reading this book.' OSHER GUNSBERG'Rebecca Huntley has given us a great gift: an essential guide to ...Show more
The Seafarers - A Journey among Birds by Stephen Rutt
22.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Reading Level: very good
'A beautifully illuminating portrait of lives lived largely on the wing and at sea' - Julian Hoffman, author of Irreplaceable and The Small Heart of Things The British Isles are remarkable for their extraordinary seabird life: spectacular gatherings of charismatic Arctic terns, elegant fulmars and stoic ...Show more
Finding Resilience ... by Brian Walker
59.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Floods, fires, famines, epidemics and disasters of all kinds are on the increase, and as their frequency rises so does the call for greater resilience. But what does that mean? The word is used differently in psychology, ecology, economics and engineering and runs the risk of becoming meaningless ja ...Show more
How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness and Community in a Globalised World in Crisis by Paolo Giordano
6.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
'Sublimely elegant, provocatively simple, deeply troubling. In one short hour, in the midst of this difficult moment, Giordano reinforced my sense of hope in humanity, in the one and the many' Philippe Sands, author of East West Street The Covid-19 pandemic is the most significant health emergency of ou ...Show more
Outbreaks and Epidemics by Meera Senthilingam
19.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Hot Science Ser.
The latest title in Icon's Hot Science series, exploring the cutting edge of science and technology. For centuries mankind has waged war against the infections that, left untreated, would have the power to wipe out communities, or even entire populations. Yet for all our advanced scientific knowledge, o ...Show more