A Year in Numbers by Kyle D. Evans
29.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Did you know:-Only around 100 people have ever lived beyond a million hours (that's about 114 years)-Around 7% of everyone who has ever lived is currently alive-The '12 days of Christmas' song, when sung in full, results in 364 gifts being given - one for every day... except ChristmasBroken down into 12 ...Show more
In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonder of Complex Systems by Giorgio Parisi
39.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, an enlightening and personal journey into the practice of ground-breaking science - a #1 bestseller in ItalyThe world is shaped by complexity. In this enlightening book, Nobel Prize winner Giorgio Parisi guides us through his unorthodox yet exhilarating work ...Show more
Everything You Need to Know About Snakes: And Other Scaly Reptiles by DK
22.99 AUD
Category: Animals
All the basics of these amazing creatures are covered in this beautiful and informative photographic book on snakes and other reptiles. Anatomy, along with habitat and behaviour, and lots of fascinating facts about reptiles that every child will just love reading about. See how they survive in forests, ...Show more
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis
22.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
From the global bestselling author of The Big Short, the gripping story of the maverick scientists who hunted down Covid-19'It's a foreboding,' she said. 'A knowing that something is looming around the corner. Like how when the seasons change you can smell Fall in the air right before the leaves change ...Show more
Data Grab: The new Colonialism of Big Tech and how to fight back by Ulises A. Mejias, Nick Couldry
36.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
If you're not paying for the product, then you are the product. In the past, colonialism was a landgrab of natural resources, exploitative labour and private property from developing countries. It made shiny promises to modernise and civilise, but actually sought to control. It made native populations s ...Show more
Birds: The Art of Ornithology by Jonathan Elphick
34.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Jonathan Elphick tells the remarkable story of the development of bird art through the centuries. The book features early, skilfully executed but often fanciful images of birds, scientific illustrations produced during the ages of exploration, and modern approaches capturing the essence of these freest ...Show more
Shells - A Natural and Cultural History by Fabio Moretzsohn
44.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
A stunningly illustrated scientific and cultural history of shells. Shells have captivated humans from the dawn of time: the earliest known artwork was made on a shell. As well as containers for food, shells have been used as tools, jewellery and decorations for dwellings, and to bring good luck or to w ...Show more
Ten Trips: The Reality of Psychedelics by Andrew Mitchell; Andy Mitchell
35.00 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
In Ten Trips neuropsychologist Andy Mitchell takes ten different psychedelic drugs in ten different settings, puncturing the hype while providing the fullest picture yet of their limitlessly fascinating possibilities.Once demonised and still largely illegal, psychedelic drugs are now officially a 'break ...Show more
Silk and Venom: The incredible lives of spiders by James O'Hanlon
32.99 AUD
Category: Animals
There are more than 50 000 species of spiders. They surround us in our daily lives and, contrary to popular belief, the vast majority are completely harmless to humans.In Silk & Venom, James O’Hanlon takes us from his backyard to all corners of the globe (and even outer space!) to explore these fasc ...Show more
Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval by Gaia Vince
45.00 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
An urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change- how it will force us to change where - and how - we live. We are facing a species emergency. With every degree of temperature rise, a billion people will be displaced from the zone in which humans have lived for t ...Show more
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
24.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Bryson | Reading Level: very good
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him.A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got ...Show more
White Holes: Inside the Horizon by Carlo Rovelli
35.00 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
A mesmerizing trip to the strange new world of white holes, from Carlo Rovelli, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics. Let us journey, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli, into the heart of a black hole. Let us slip beyond its boundary, the horizon, and tumble - on and on - down thi ...Show more