What's Wrong with Climate Politics and How to Fix It by Paul G. Harris
$32.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: Polity What's Wrong Series
Governments have failed to stem global emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases causing climate change. Indeed, climate-changing pollution is increasing globally, and will do so for decades to come without far more aggressive action. What explains this failure to effectively tackle one of ...Show more
Geometry in Nature by John Blackwood
$54.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
From the simplest observations in nature to detailed measuring of intricate forms, we find geometry everywhere in the world around us. In this magnificent book, John Blackwood explores different kinds of symmetry in the diverse realms of nature. He considers the fundamental forms of minerals, plants, a ...Show more
Out of Time: The Pleasures and Perils of Ageing by Lynne Segal
$39.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
A brave book with a polemical argument on the paradoxes, struggles and advantages of aging. "How old am I? Don't ask, don't tell." As the baby boomers approach their sixth or seventh decade, they are faced with new challenges and questions of politics and identity. In the footsteps of Simone de Beauvoir ...Show more
How to Deal with Adversity: The School Of Life by Christopher Hamilton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: The\School of Life Ser.
In How to Deal with Adversity, Christopher Hamilton explores how we face trials and tribulations in everyday life, and why adversity, from small setbacks to larger, more life-defining problems, affects and shapes us so fundamentally. In this book from The School of Life series, drawing upon history, phi ...Show more
Going Viral by Karine Nahon
$29.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
We live in a world where a tweet can be instantly retweeted and read by millions around the world in minutes, where a video forwarded to friends can destroy a political career in hours, and where an unknown man or woman can become an international celebrity overnight. Virality: individuals create it, go ...Show more
Mapping Our World by Peter Barber
$49.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
The cover image, World Map by Fra Mauro c. 1450, is one of the most important and famous maps of all time. This monumental map of the world was created by the monk Fra Mauro in his monastery on the island of San Michele in the Venetian lagoon. Now the centrepiece of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in ...Show more
The Handy Religion Answer Book by John Renard, PhD
$29.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: Handy Answer Books (Paperback)
Providing detailed descriptions of the beliefs, rituals, history, and organization of the world's eight major religious traditions, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Taoism, and Shinto, this fully revised and updated edition is an easy-to-use comparative guide for ...Show more
Four Fields by Tim Dee
$52.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
In his first book since the acclaimed The Running Sky Tim Dee tells the story of four green fields. Four fields spread around the world: their grasses, their hedges, their birds, their skies, and their natural and human histories. Four real fields - walkable, mappable, man-made, mowable and knowable, bu ...Show more
2014 Australasian Sky Guide by Dr Nick Lomb
$16.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Compact, easy to use and reliable, this popular guide contains everything you need to know about the southern night sky with monthly astronomy maps, viewing tips and highlights, and details of all the year’s exciting celestial events. Wherever you are in Australia or New Zealand, easy calculations all ...Show more
Handy Psychology Answer Book by Lisa J. Cohen
$34.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Featuring more than 800 answers to questions of how the human mind and the science of psychology really work, this fascinating discussion gives readers the real facts of modern psychology in a fun, approachable way. Avoiding the entertainment fluff of pop psychology and the mind-numbing dullness of over ...Show more
A Brief History of Time: 10th Anniversary Ed by Stephen Hawking
$28.00 AUD
Category: Pop Science
An anniversary edition of a now-classic survey of the origin and nature of the universe features a new introduction by the author and a new chapter on the possibility of time travel and "wormholes" in space.
Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older: How Memory Shapes Our Past by Douwe Draaisma
$22.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: Canto Classics
Entertaining and educational, Douwe Draaisma's Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older raises almost as many questions as it answers. Draaisma applies a blend of scholarship, poetic sensibility and keen observation in exploring the nature of autobiographical memory, covering subjects such as deja-vu, near d ...Show more