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
Astronomy 2016 Australia: Your Guide to the Night Sky by Ken Wallace
$27.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Best Australian Science Writing 2015 by Bianca Nogrady
$29.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
The annual collection celebrating the finest Australian science writing of the year. How does dust connect the cosmos with our bed sheets? Why do lobsters do the Mexican Wave backwards? And what makes us feel 'wetness' when there's no such thing as 'wet' nerve receptors? Now in its fifth year, The Best ...Show more
Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie: Australia, America, and the Environment by Corey J. A. Bradshaw
$42.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Though separated by thousands of miles, the United States and Australia have much in common. Geographically both countries are expansive-the United States is the fourth largest in land mass and Australia the sixth-and both possess a vast amount of natural biodiversity. At the same time, both nations are ...Show more
Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations: Processes of Creative Self-Destruction by Christopher Wright
$49.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Climate change is one of the greatest threats facing humanity, a definitive manifestation of the well-worn links between progress and devastation. This book explores the complex relationship that the corporate world has with climate change and examines the central role of corporations in shaping politic ...Show more
Why We Argue About Climate Change by Eric Knight
$19.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: Redback Ser.
A new perspective on a diabolical problem. Climate change is one of the most polarising issues of our time, but it doesn't have to be that way. In Why We Argue about Climate Change, Eric Knight unpicks the misconceptions that keep us arguing about, and stop us seeing, the true nature of the problem - an ...Show more
New History of Life by Peter Ward
$29.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
An estimated 4.6 billion years ago, the Earth and Moon were formed in a violent impact. On this, many agree, and even more that a long time after that, life began. However, few know that the first life on the Earth may not have emerged on this planet, but could, in fact, have begun on Mars, brought here ...Show more
Evolution by Michael Denton
$34.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
The idea of evolution is the keystone of our modern world view. Yet the theory propounded by Darwin and elaborated into accepted 'fact' by the scientific establishment is coming under increasing fire. This authoritative and remarkably accessible book by a molecular biologist shows how rapidly accumulati ...Show more
You May Also Like: Why Your Favourite Colour is Blue, Your Polo Shirt Doesn't Have a Zipper, You Don't Like Heavy Metal, and Other Mysteries of Taste by Tom Vanderbilt
$32.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
We all have tastes. For instance, Tom Vanderbilt doesn't particularly care for white cars or fennel - even if he doesn't quite know why. Taste is an incredible fuzzy construct: Everyone has likes and preferences, but what do actually know about them? How do we acquire tastes, and how do they change? Why ...Show more
Darwin and Design by Michael Ruse
$53.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
controversial issue, the book makes its own substantial contribution to the ongoing debate about the relationship between science and religion, and between evolution and its religious critics.
The Case Against Fluoride: How Hazardous Waste Ended Up in Our Drinking Water and the Bad Science and Powerful Politics That Keep it There by Paul Connett
$45.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
When the US Public Health Service endorsed water fluoridation in 1959, there was little evidence of its safety. Now, siz decades later and after most countries have rejected the practice, more than 70 per cent of Americans, as well as 200 million people worldwide, are drinking fluoridated water. The C ...Show more