Unsettled (Updated and Expanded Edition) What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters by Steven E. Koonin
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
"Greenland's ice loss is accelerating.""Extreme temperatures are causing more fatalities.""Rapid 'climate action' is essential to avoid a future climate disaster."You've heard all this presented as fact. But according to science, all of these statements are profoundly misleading.With the new edition of ...Show more
Deep Water: The world in the ocean by James Bradley
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science
Through history, science, nature writing, and environmentalism, Deep Water invites you to explore the deepest recesses of our natural world. 'Teeming with mysteries, wonders and heartbreaking facts, this beautiful, lucid hymn to the sea is a reminder of what we still have, what we stand to lose, and why ...Show more
Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe by Philip Plait
$31.95 AUD
Category: Science
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel the universe? How would Saturn's rings look from a spaceship sailing just above them? If you were falling into a black hole, what's the last thing you'd see before getting spaghettified? While traveling in person to most of these amazing worlds may ...Show more
Great Quotes from Great Scientists by Chris Ferrie
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Discover the wisdom of famous scientific figures and modern groundbreakers alike in Great Quotes from Great Scientists by best-selling author and scientist Chris Ferrie.Blending history's most famous scientists with the innovators of today, this thought-provoking collection explores important life lesso ...Show more
Brief Answers to the Big Questions: 'A beautiful little book by a brilliant mind' DAILY TELEGRAPH by Stephen Hawking
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. 'A beautiful little book by a brilliant mind'- DAILY TELEGRAPH. 'Effortlessly instructive, absorbing, up to the minute and - where it matters - witty'- GUARDIAN. The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final t ...Show more
Soil: The incredible story of what keeps the earth, and us, healthy by Matthew Evans
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
'A love letter to Mother Earth and entertaining must-read that goes to the heart of our survival' Charles Massy, author of Call of the Reed Warbler. What we do to the soil, we do to ourselves. Soil is the unlikely story of our most maligned resource as swashbuckling hero. A saga of bombs, ice ages and c ...Show more
The History of the Internet in Byte-Sized Chunks by Chris Stokel-Walker
$27.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Bite-Sized Chunks Ser.
The internet is everywhere. But how did it start? How has it changed? And what will it look like in the future? No development in human history has changed the world as radically, or as quickly, as the advent of the internet. There's almost no aspect of 21st-century life that it hasn't shaped or funda ...Show more
Platypus Matters - The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals (HB) by Jack Ashby
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
Scientifically informed and funny, a firsthand account of Australia's wonderfully unique mammals--and how our perceptions impact their future.Think of a platypus: They lay eggs (that hatch into so-called platypups), produce milk without nipples and venom without fangs, and can detect electricity. Or a w ...Show more
'Seasons Alter : How to Save Our Planet in Six Acts' by Philip Kitcher; Evelyn Fox Keller
$35.95 AUD
Category: Science
As the icecaps melt and the sea levels rise around the globe--threatening human existence as we know it--climate change has become one of the most urgent and controversial issues of our time. For most people, however, trying to understand the science, politics, and arguments on either side can be dizzyi ...Show more
The Best Australian Science Writing 2023 by Donna Lu (Editor)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: The\Best Australian Science Ser.
The annual collection — now in its thirteenth year — celebrating the finest voices in Australian science writing.Should we alter animals’ DNA to save them from extinction? What secrets will old ice reveal to us about the Earth’s deep past? How is the world’s most expensive — and explosive — substance ma ...Show more