2024 Guide to the Night Sky Southern Hemisphere: A Month-by-Month Guide to Exploring the Skies Above Australia, New Zealand and South Africa by Storm Dunlop, Wil Tirion, Collins Astronomy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
The ideal gift for all amateur and seasoned astronomers. A comprehensive handbook to the planets, stars and constellations visible from the southern hemisphere. 6 pages for each month covering January–December 2024. Diagrams drawn for the latitude of southern Australia, but including events visible from ...Show more
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
$24.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: good-very good
THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Sapiens shows us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond - from ove ...Show more
Warriors and Worriers: The Survival of the Sexes by Joyce F. Benenson
$29.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
The question of exactly what sex differences exist and whether they have a biological foundation has been one of our culture's favorite enduring discussions. It should. After a baby is born, a parent's first concern is for its physical health. The next concern is its sex. Only in the most modern societi ...Show more
Backlash Australia's Conflict of Values Over Live Exports by Bidda Jones and Julian Davies
$23.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
An in-depth investigation of the live export trade and an analysis of the intense public drama of 2011. The backstory of this powerful industry and the campaign to bring it to an end are revealed, including aspects of the inner political story that have not been told until now. Bidda Jones, head of scie ...Show more
Chemistry For Dummies by John T. Moore
$30.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: For Dummies
This is the hardcover format of Chemistry For Dummies, 2nd EditionSee how chemistry works in everything from soaps to medicines to petroleum We're all natural born chemists. Every time we cook, clean, take a shower, drive a car, use a solvent (such as nail polish remover), or perform any of the countle ...Show more
Powering Up: Unleashing the Clean Energy Supply Chain by Alan Finkel
$34.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Former chief scientist Alan Finkel shares his compelling insights and expertise and makes the case for Australia leading the way in the global transition to clean energy. The clean energy transition is humanity's biggest ever economic challenge. In Powering Up, former Australian chief scientist Alan F ...Show more
The Blue Commons: Rescuing the Economy of the Sea by Guy Standing
$26.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
An expose of the plunder of the world's oceans, and the devastating economic and environmental impact this is having across the globeThe sea provides more than half the oxygen we breathe, food for billions of people and livelihoods for hundreds of millions. But giant corporations are plundering the worl ...Show more
Diprotodon: A Megafauna Journey by Bronwyn Saunders
$24.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Age range 6 to 9Diprotodon leaves the protection of his family herd to find his own place in the world. He is vulnerable, and survival will be challenging. Follow him as he discovers his surroundings and encounters other creatures along the way.Diprotodon: A Megafauna Journey features the largest marsup ...Show more
An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family by Alison Bashford
$29.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
In his early twenties, poor, depressed, stranded in the Coral Sea on the seemingly endless survey mission of HMS Rattlesnake, hopelessly in love with the young Englishwoman Henrietta Heathorn, Thomas Henry Huxley was a nobody. And yet together he and Henrietta would return to London and go on to found o ...Show more
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
$27.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: good
From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution--a #1 international bestseller--that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human." One hundred thousand years ago, at least six ...Show more
Earth Almanac - A Year of Witnessing the Wild, from the Call of the Loon to the Journey of the Gray Whale by Ted Williams; Verlyn Klinkenborg (Foreword by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Noted nature writer Ted Williams invites readers along on a year-long immersion in the wild and fleeting moments of the natural world, from winter candy and spring quackers to summer's scarlet farewell and autumn reveilles. This beautifully crafted collection of short, seasonal essays combines in-depth ...Show more
The Hidden Kingdom of Fungi: Exploring the microscopic world around us by Keith Seifert
$32.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
An enthralling look at our relationship with fungi, from an author who has spent more than forty years studying them on five continents.Fungi are essential to all life on Earth and yet fungal diseases lead to over one million deaths each year. How can we strike a better balance with our microbial cousin ...Show more