A History of Knowledge by Charles Lincoln Van Doren
$29.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Covers every aspect of knowledge--scientific, intellectual, and historical--from the beginning of the human experience into the twenty-first century and beyond.
Demonic Males by Richard Wrangham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: good
The findings are based on 30 years of field research on the behaviour and ecology of chimpanzees and other mammals in Africa.
Older and Bolder Life After 60 by Renata Singer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
For the first time in history, women can expect to live well from their sixties for another three decades. A drab existence of retirement, disease and disconnection is not an option for this generation of women. In Older and Bolder, Renata Singer contrasts the stories of the pioneers of active, producti ...Show more
What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World by Jon Young
$27.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
A guide to listening to songbirds--the key to observing nature in a whole new way. Includes audio of bird vocalizations! A lifelong birder, tracker, and naturalist, Jon Young is guided in his work and teaching by three basic premises: the robin, junco, and other songbirds know everything important abo ...Show more
Cave: Nature and Culture by Ralph Crane; Lisa Fletcher
$29.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: Earth Ser.
Shortlisted for the Tratman Award 2015 To enter caves is to venture beyond the realm of the everyday. From huge vaulted caverns to impassable, water-filled passages; from the karst topography of Guilin in China to the lava tubes of Hawaii; from tiny remote pilgrimage sites to massive tourism enterprise ...Show more
The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox: Mending the Gap Between Science and the Humanities by Stephen Jay Gould
$32.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
In his ?nal book and his ?rst full-length original title since Full House in 1996, the eminent paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould offers a surprising and nuanced study of the complex relationship between our two great ways of knowing: science and the humanities, twin realms of knowledge that have been div ...Show more
The Ceremonial Animal: A New Portrait of Anthropology by Wendy James
$157.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Adapting Wittgenstein's concept of the human species as 'a ceremonial animal', Wendy James writes vividly and readably. Her new overview advocates a clear line of argument: that the concept of social form is a primary key to anthropology and the human sciences as a whole. Weaving memorable ethnographic ...Show more
Foolproof by Greg Ip
$35.00 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Over the past century, we have learned a staggering amount about human nature and how to deal with disaster - yet we keep having car crashes, floods and financial crises. Why is this so? The answer is partly that our desire to make life safer inevitably comes into conflict with the equally irrepressible ...Show more
Generation Less: How Australia is Cheating the Young by Jennifer Rayner
$22.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
A country that makes no room for the young is a country that will forfeit a fair future. This must not become Australia. Today's young Australians are the first generation since the Great Depression to be worse off than their parents. And so, just as we have seen the gap between rich and poor widen ...Show more
Isaac Newton (Pocket Giants) by Andrew May
$17.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Isaac Newton believed everything in the physical universe could be described using mathematical relationships. His law of gravity explained why objects fall downwards, how the moon causes the tides, and why planets and comets orbit the sun. While his work has been added to over the years, his basic appr ...Show more
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution by Professor Lansdowne Chair in Humanities David Wootton (University of Victoria)
$52.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
We live in a world made by science. How and when did this happen? The Invention of Science tells the story of the extraordinary intellectual and cultural revolution that gave birth to modern science, and mounts a major challenge to the prevailing orthodoxy of its history.Before 1492, all significant kno ...Show more
Adam's Curse by Bryan Sykes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Genetically speaking, the only difference between men and women is that where women have two X chromosomes, men have one X and one Y. It is surprising that one chromosome difference out of our total of forty-six can have such an important consequence, but it does. Is this relatively small genetic varian ...Show more