The Knowledge Machine: How an Unreasonable Idea Created Modern Science by Michael Strevens
49.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
A groundbreaking and timely analysis of how science works and how we can preserve its power to grow our knowledge Over the last three centuries, huge leaps in our scientific understanding and, as a result, in our technology have completely transformed our way of life and our vision of the universe. Why ...Show more
Different: What Apes Can Teach Us About Gender by Frans de Waal
39.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
How different are men and women? Is gender uniquely human or do other primates also learn gendered roles? Drawing on decades of observing other primates, especially our closest living relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, world renowned primatologist Frans de Waal explores what we know of biological sex ...Show more
How to Train Your Dog: The complete guide to raising a confident and happy dog, from puppy to adult by Jennifer Tate, Ryan Tate
32.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Whether you're looking to train a new puppy or to teach an older dog some new behavioural tricks, this easy-to-follow guide is for you.Jen and Ryan Tate are expert animal trainers with years of experience helping dog owners to develop happy and confident pets.In this informative book they distil all the ...Show more
Perfect Planet by Huw Cordey
59.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
There is no place like home.The conditions of Earth are not just good for life, they are perfect. Everything about our planet - its size, its distance from the Sun, its spin and tilt, its moon - is perfectly suited to our existence, and our planet's forces serve to nurture its spectacular biodiversity. ...Show more
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates
39.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Reading Level: very good
Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions. Bill Gates explains why he cares so deeply about clim ...Show more
The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates by Robin Lane Fox
49.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Medicine is one of the great fields of achievement of the Ancient Greeks. Hippocrates is celebrated worldwide as the father of medicine and the Hippocratic Oath is admired throughout the medical profession as a founding statement of ethics and ideals. In the fifth century BC, Greeks even wrote of medici ...Show more
Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams; Mark Carwardine
22.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Douglas Adams' genius was in using comedy to make serious points about the world - Independent After years of reflecting on the absurdities of life on other planets, Douglas Adams teamed up with zoologist Mark Carwardine to find out what was happening to life on this one. Together they lead us on an un ...Show more
A Pocket History of Human Evolution - The Apes, the Others, and Us by Silvana Condemi; François Savatier
24.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Why aren't we more like other apes? How did we win the evolutionary race? Find out how "wise" Homo sapiens really are. Prehistory has never been more exciting: New discoveries are overturning long-held theories left and right. Stone tools in Australia date back 65,000 years--a time when, we once though ...Show more
Blue Planet II by James Honeyborne; Mark Brownlow; David Attenborough (Foreword by)
59.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Take a deep breath and dive into the mysteries of the ocean. Our understanding of ocean life has changed dramatically in the last decade, with new species, new behaviours, and new habitats being discovered at a rapid rate. Blue Planet II, which accompanies an epic 7-part series on BBC1, is a ground-bre ...Show more
Urban Wild: The Aussie animals that share our backyards, our cities and our lives. by Australian Geographic
59.95 AUD
Category: Animals
Australia is the most urbanised nation on earth and yet we share our built environment with a cavalcade of amazing native creatures. This book examines some of the issues around our complex relationship with nature. In Australia, we are fortunate that so many wild species can be seen without us having t ...Show more
The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg
55.00 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
It seems like an impossible task - secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed that the world has never seen, in the face of vast and powerful forces -not just oil tycoons and governments, but the changing climate system itself. The odds are against us, and we are running out of time. B ...Show more
Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith
32.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Reading Level: very good
From the human being to the octopus, the shark to the humble sea squirt, all animals are physical beings made up entirely of cells. And yet they can think, to varying degrees. How did this come to be? How did a mind first grow from the matter that is the body? And at what stage did that clump of cells b ...Show more