12000 Canaries Can't be Wrong : What's Making Us Sick and What Can We Do About it by John Molot
$39.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
How does our environment impact our health, and what can we do about it? 12,000 Canaries Can't Be Wrong is a culmination of Dr. Molot's 30 years of experience seeing more than 12,000 patients with environmentally linked illnesses. He explains how the environment contributes to the development and progre ...Show more
Creatures of the Deep: In Search of the Sea's "Monsters" and the World They Live in (HB) by Erich Hoyt
$44.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
In this revised and updated edition of Creatures of the Deep, award-winning nature and science writer Erich Hoyt gives readers a glimpse of the amazing variety of creatures found in the deepest parts of the ocean. Weaving together details from the latest scientific research about sharks, giant squid, dr ...Show more
The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown by Daniel Coyle
$19.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: very good
"Talent. You've either got it or you haven't.' Not true, actually. In The Talent Code, award-winning journalist Daniel Coyle draws on cutting-edge research to reveal that, far from being some abstract mystical power fixed at birth, ability really can be created and nurtured. In the process, he considers ...Show more
The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet by Kristin Ohlson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Thousands of years of poor farming and ranching practices--and, especially, modern industrial agriculture--have led to the loss of up to 80 percent of carbon from the world's soils. That carbon is now floating in the atmosphere, and even if we stopped using fossil fuels today, it would continue warming ...Show more
Invisible History of the Human Race: How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures the by Christine Kenneally
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Category: Pop Science
We are doomed to repeat history if we fail to learn from it, but how are we affected by the forces that are invisible to us? In The Invisible History of the Human Race Christine Kenneally draws on cutting-edge research to reveal how both historical artifacts and DNA tell us where we come from and where ...Show more
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