The Origins of Everything in 100 Pages, More or Less by David Bercovici
27.95 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
With wonder, wit, and flair-and in record time and space-geophysicist David Bercovici explains how everything came to be everywhere, from the creation of stars and galaxies to the formation of Earth's atmosphere and oceans, to the origin of life and human civilization. Bercovici marries humor and legiti ...Show more
Ten Million Aliens by Simon Barnes
21.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Life on planet earth is not weirder than we imagine. It's weirder than we are capable of imagining.And we're all in it together: humans, blue whales, rats, birds of paradise, ridiculous numbers of beetles, molluscs the size of a bus, bdelloid rotifers who haven't had sex for millions of years and creatu ...Show more
Death by Video Game - Tales of Obsession from the Virtual Frontline by Simon Parkin
27.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Whether it's Space Invaders, Candy Crush Saga or Grand Theft Auto, video games draw us in and don't let go. In Taiwan, a spate of deaths at gaming cafes is raising a question: why is it that some of us are playing games beyond the limits of our physical wellbeing? Death by Video Game uncovers the r ...Show more
Rescue Dogs: Heartwarming Tales of Dumped Dogs That Have Found Their Forever Homes by EDWARDS, CAREY
39.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Reading Level: General Adult
This feel-good book will tug on the heartstrings of dog-lovers everywhere, with 150 photos of joyous rescue dogs and tales of their happy-ever-afters, from Australian Working Dog Rescue. Featured in these pages are Australia's classic working breeds - kelpies, cattle dogs, border collies, koolies - tha ...Show more
Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything by Philip Ball
19.95 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
There was a time when curiosity was condemned. Through curiosity, our innocence was said to be lost. Ye this hasn't deterred us. Today we spend vast sums trying to recreate the first instants of creation in particle accelerators, out of pure desire to know. There seems now to be no question too vast or ...Show more
Otter Country: In Search of the Wild Otter by Miriam Darlington
24.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Over the course of a year, Miriam Darlington travelled around Britain in search of wild otters; from her home in Devon to the wilds of Scotland; to Cumbria, Wales, Northumberland, Cornwall, Somerset and the River Lea; to her childhood home near the Ouse, the source of her watery obsession. Otter Country ...Show more
Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics by Jim Al-Khalili
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Category: Science & Natural History | Reading Level: very good
A fun and fascinating look at great scientific paradoxes. Throughout history, scientists have come up with theories and ideas that just don't seem to make sense. These we call paradoxes. The paradoxes Al-Khalili offers are drawn chiefly from physics and astronomy and represent those that have stumped so ...Show more
Heat: How We Can Stop the Planet Burning by George Monbiot
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Category: Science & Natural History | Reading Level: very good
Started to worry about just how hot our world is going to get, and whether you can do anything about it? As the effect of climate change grows by the day, so does the amount of hot air and bluster spouted by politicians and businessmen on what we should do about it. What with the excuses, the lies, the ...Show more
Earthmasters: Playing God with the Climate by Clive Hamilton
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Category: Science & Natural History
While Washington, London and Canberra fiddle, the planet burns. It has become painfully clear that the big democracies won't take the hard decisions to halt climate change. Climate scientists now expect the worst, and they're considering a response which sounds like science fiction: climate engineering. ...Show more
Mad Science 2: Experiments You Can Do at Home, But Still Probably Shouldn't by Theodore Gray
29.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Theo Gray's Mad Science
Best-selling author Theodore Gray is back with all-new, spectacular experiments that demonstrate basic principles of chemistry and physics in thrilling, and memorable ways. For nearly a decade, Theodore Gray has been demonstrating basic principles of chemistry and physics through exciting, sometime ...Show more
Cleo: How a Small Black Cat Helped Heal a Family by Helen Brown
22.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
For all those people who say they aren't cat people, but deep down know they are.Helen Brown wasn't a cat person, but her nine-year-old son Sam was. So when Sam heard someone mention that her cat had just had a litter, he pleaded to go and see them. Helen was powerless to resist and the deal was done - ...Show more
The Moral Arc How Science and Reason Lead Humanity toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom by Michael Shermer
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Category: Science & Natural History
From Galileo and Newton to Thomas Hobbes and Martin Luther King, Jr., thinkers throughout history have consciously employed scientific techniques to better understand the non-physical world. The Age of Reason and the Enlightenment led theorists to apply scientific reasoning to the non-scientific discipl ...Show more