The Philosopher's Dog by Raimond Gaita
$25.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Filled with wonderful stories about domestic and wild animals, about friendship and love, about the experience of mountaineering and the metaphysical contemplation of landscape, The Philosopher's Dog is a wonderful and moving work.
The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will be Nature's Salvation by Fred Pearce
$35.00 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Veteran environmental journalist Fred Pearce used to think of invasive species as evil interlopers spoiling pristine 'natural' ecosystems. Most conservationists would agree. But what if traditional ecology is wrong, and true environmentalists should be applauding the invaders? In The New Wild, Pearce go ...Show more
Absolute Recoil - Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism by Slavoj Zizek
$39.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
"In this major new work the leading philosopher Slavoj Zizek argues that philosophical materialism has failed to meet the key scientific, theoretical and political challenges of the modern world, from relativity theory and quantum physics to Freudian psychoanalysis and the failure of twentieth-century C ...Show more
Great Transition: Shifting From Fossil.. by Lester R. Brown
$29.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
As oil insecurity deepens, the extraction risks of fossil fuels rise, and concerns about climate instability cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new world energy economy is emerging. The old economy, fueled by oil, natural gas, and coal is being replaced with one powered by wind, solar, and geother ...Show more
Governomics by Miriam/McAuley, Ian Lyons
$32.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
People have many good reasons to want a decent public education system, to want a well-funded health system, and to live in a society where there is less disparity between the rich and the poor. What is not always clear is that, almost without exception, public sector involvement makes sound economics. ...Show more
Why Isn't My Brain Working? A revolutionary understanding of brain decline and effective strategies to recover your brain's health by Datis Kharrazian
$64.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: very good
Losing your memory? Can't focus or concentrate? Do you have brain fog or tire easily? Have you lost your zest for life or motivation? Do people tell you this is all a normal part of aging? If so, your brain may be growing old too fast, or degenerating. Modern diets, a stressful lifestyle, and environmen ...Show more
Our Primate Family: Stories of Conservation and Kin by Lou Grossfeldt
$27.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
In Our Primate Family Lou Grossfeldt writes about her love of and work with primates. I have known and admired Lou since 2008 when I first visited the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia where she has worked as a primate keeper for much of her life. When I visit Australia I always look forward to spending ...Show more
The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos by Leonard Mlodinow
$39.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
In this fascinating and illuminating work, Leonard Mlodinow guides us through the critical eras and events in the development of science, all of which, he demonstrates, were propelled forward by humankind's collective struggle to know. From the birth of reasoning and culture to the formation of the stud ...Show more
Sex Myth by Rachel Hills
$32.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
From a bold new feminist voice, a book that will change the way you think about your sex life. Fifty years after the sexual revolution, we are told that we live in a time of unprecedented sexual freedom; that, if anything, we are too free now. But beneath the veneer of glossy hedonism, millennial journa ...Show more
Sufficiency Economy: Enough, for Everyone, Forever by Samuel Alexander
$49.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
In this second volume of collected essays, Samuel Alexander develops the provocative ideas contained in "Prosperous Descent: Crisis as Opportunity in an Age of Limits." Industrial civilisation promotes mistaken ideas of freedom and wellbeing, while placing unsupportable burdens on the biosphere. This be ...Show more
The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal about Being Human by Noah Strycker
$29.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
An entertaining and profound look at the lives of birds, illuminating their surprising world--and deep connection with humanity. Birds are highly intelligent animals, yet their intelligence is dramatically different from our own and has been little understood. As we learn more about the secrets of bird ...Show more
Nature of Sex: The Inns and Outs of Mating in the Animal Kingdom by Carin Bondar
$32.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
In Wild Sex, 'biologist with a twist' Carin Bondar presents the fascinating diversity of the reproductive habits of the animal kingdom, and through approachable explanations and humorous examples succeeds in making an eternally popular subject into a book of international appeal. Her web series of the s ...Show more