Atlas of the Southern Sky - 5th edition by Steve Massey; Steve Quirk
$45.00 AUD
Category: Pop Science
If you ever needed a book to help you explore the wonderful nightskies from down under, be it Australia, South America, South Africaor New Zealand, this is it!. With hundreds of full colour star chartsand maps of the Moon and planets of our Solar System, this bookwill ensure you get the most out of a pa ...Show more
Out of the Wreckage by George Monbiot
$19.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
How can we rebuild our society? In Out of the Wreckage, George Monbiot outlines how both democracy and economic life can be radically reorganized from the bottom up, enabling us to take back control and overthrow the forces that have thwarted our ambitions for a better society. Book jacket.
Climate Capitalism: Winning the Global Race to Zero Emissions by Akshat Rathi
$34.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
What if the solution to the climate crisis is . . . capitalism? Our age will be defined by the climate emergency. But contrary to the doomist narrative that's taken hold, the world has already begun deploying the solutions needed to deal with it. On a journey across five continents, Climate Capitalism ...Show more
Outliers: The Story of Success0 by Malcolm Gladwell
$26.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: very good
In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful ...Show more
White Holes: Inside the Horizon by Carlo Rovelli
$35.00 AUD
Category: Pop Science
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
The Hidden Life of Trees (Illustrated Edition) by Peter Wohlleben
$49.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
In his international bestseller, The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben opened readers? eyes to the wonders and amazing processes at work in the forest. Now this new, breathtakingly illustrated edition brings those wonders to life like never before. With compelling selections from the original book a ...Show more
Death As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal by Juan José Millás, Juan Luis Arsuaga
$32.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
A dazzling follow-up to Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal. 'We would love to discover that each species has a biological clock in its cells, because, if that clock existed and if we were able to find it, perhaps we could stop it and thus become eternal,' Arsuaga tells Millás in this book, in wh ...Show more
The Carbon Almanac by Seth Godin
$37.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
When it comes to the climate, we don't need more marketing or anxiety. We need established facts and a plan for collective action. The climate is the fundamental issue of our time, yet it seems we can barely agree on what is really going on, let alone what needs to be done. We urgently need facts, not o ...Show more
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia MD
$35.00 AUD
Category: Pop Science
This is the ultimate manual for longevity.For all its successes, mainstream medicine has failed to make much progress against the diseases of ageing that kill most people- heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and type 2 diabetes. Too often, it intervenes with treatments too late, prolonging lifes ...Show more
The Language of Trees: How Trees Make Our World, Change Our Minds and Rewild Our Lives by Katie Holten
$35.00 AUD
Category: Pop Science
The Language of Trees is a gorgeously illustrated homage to the hidden wonders of the forest and our indelible connection to trees, filled with prose, poetry and art from over fifty collaborators, including Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Macfarlane, Zadie Smith, Radiohead, Elizabeth Kolbert, Amitav Ghosh, Ri ...Show more
Australian Deserts: Ecology and Landscapes by Steve Morton
$59.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Australian Deserts: Ecology and Landscapes is about the vast sweep of the Outback, a land of expanses making up three-quarters of the continent – the heart of Australia. Steve Morton brings his extensive first-hand knowledge and experience of arid Australia to this book, explaining how Australian desert ...Show more
21 Lessons for the 21st Century: 'Truly mind-expanding... Ultra-topical' Guardian by Yuval Noah Harari
$22.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: very good
Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What ...Show more