Micro Life: Miracles of the Miniature World Revealed by DK
$59.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
This book combines graceful design and beautiful photography to provide an elegant introduction to microscopic nature. Explore the everyday miracle of the microscopic world. With spectacular macro photography and microscope images, this book reveals a hidden, living world full of intricate structures be ...Show more
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates
$24.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical--and accessible--plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effect ...Show more
Quiet: The power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking by Susan Cain
$24.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: very good
The little book with a very big idea that has everyone talking Quiet, the Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller by Susan Cain, will permanently change how we see introverts - and how you see yourself. Our lives are driven by a fact most of us can't name and don't understand- whether we're an introv ...Show more
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher by Matthew Sands, Richard Feynman, Robert Leighton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
The six easiest chapters from Feynmans landmark work, Lectures on Physics specifically designed for the general, non-scientist reader.
Noise by Daniel Kahneman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Wherever there is human judgement, there is noise.From the world-leaders in strategic thinking and the multi-million copy bestselling authors of Thinking Fast and Slow and Nudge, the next big book to change the way you think.Imagine that two doctors in the same city give different diagnoses to identical ...Show more
Papa Goose - One Year, Seven Goslings, and the Flight of My Life by Michael Quetting
$29.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: very good
Michael Quetting is exhausted and covered in goose shit. One moment a gosling is sleeping soundly under his sweater and the next, there?s one tugging at his shoelaces. Being father to a gaggle of goslings that won?t let you out of their sight is a full-time job. As a laboratory director at the Max Planc ...Show more
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: Useless Self Help Guide | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling What If? and Thing Explainer For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever try i ...Show more
The Brain that Changes Itself: stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science by Norman Doidge
$32.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: The Neuroplasticity Chronicles | Reading Level: very good
An astonishing new scientific discovery called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the adult human brain is fixed and unchanging. It is, instead, able to change its own structure and function, even into old age. Psychiatrist and researcher Norman Doidge, MD, travelled around th ...Show more
Your Life, Your Planet by Geoff Ebbs
$39.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
The toolkit you need to nurture yourself and the environment that nurtures you. Unless we look after ourselves, each other and the natural world in a balanced and harmonious manner we will continue to go from crisis to crisis. The tips in this book will help you to reduce your environmental footprint an ...Show more
The Plant Hunters: The Adventures of the World's Greatest Botanical Explorers by Carolyn Fry
$39.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
"The Plant Hunters" tells the story of our fascination with plants and the discovery of new species. From ancient times, when Alexander the Great included naturalists in his entourage, this intriguing story moves across the world, as plants such as coconut trees, roses and numerous fruits and vegetables ...Show more
Big Meg: The Story of the Largest and Most Mysterious Predator that Ever Lived by Tim Flannery, Emma Flannery
$35.00 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: near fine
Big Meg charts the evolution of megalodon, its super-predator status for about fifteen million years and its decline and extinction. It delves into the fossil record to answer questions about its behaviour and role in shaping marine ecosystems as well as its impact on the human psyche. It contains stori ...Show more
Underground Lovers: Encounters with fungi by Alison Pouliot
$29.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
'Mists waft gently around me and slowly drizzle water through the fronds of tree ferns. Lichens wrap around twisted blackwood limbs like ornate scarves. In the gloom of the forest floor, fallen branches are sheathed with fungal stripes of yellow and purple. But beneath the colourful surface, the fallen ...Show more