A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough
$22.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
*Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Science & Technology Book of the Year* In this scientifically informed account of the changes occurring in the world over the last century, award-winning broadcaster and natural historian shares a lifetime of wisdom and a hopeful vision for the future. See the ...Show more
Status Anxiety by Alain De Botton
$27.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: very good
In Status Anxiety, bestselling author Alain de Botton sets out to understand our universal fear of failure - and how we might change. We all worry about what others think of us. We all long to succeed and fear failure. We all suffer - to a greater or lesser degree, usually privately and with embarrassme ...Show more
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change by Charles Duhigg
$24.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: near fine
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - This instant classic explores how we can change our lives by changing our habits. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal - Financial Times In The Power of Habit, award-winning business reporterCharles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of sc ...Show more
The Hidden Kingdom of Fungi: Exploring the microscopic world around us by Keith Seifert
$32.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
An enthralling look at our relationship with fungi, from an author who has spent more than forty years studying them on five continents.Fungi are essential to all life on Earth and yet fungal diseases lead to over one million deaths each year. How can we strike a better balance with our microbial cousin ...Show more
All About Love by Bell Hooks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: Love Song to the Nation
THE ACCLAIMED FIRST VOLUME IN HER "LOVE SONG TO THE NATION" "The word 'love' is most often defined as a noun, yet . . . we would all love better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, the ...Show more
Cosmos: The Story of Cosmic Evolution, Science and Civilisation by Carl Sagan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: Abacus Science Greats Ser.
Narrado con la proverbial habilidad que tenía Sagan para conseguir que las ideas científicas fuesen comprensibles y apasionantes, Cosmos trata de la ciencia en su contexto humano más amplio y explica cómo la ciencia y la civilización se desarrollan conjuntamente. La obra aborda también el tema de las mi ...Show more
TED: When Strangers Meet: How People You Don't Know Can Transform You by Kio Stark
$19.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: Ted 2
Part of the TED series: When Strangers Meet Our lives are increasingly insular. We are in a hurry, our heads are down, minds elsewhere, we hear only the voices we already recognize and rarely take the effort to experience something or someone new. When Strangers Meet argues for the pleasures and transfo ...Show more
Finding Sanity: John Cade, Lithium and the Taming of Bipolar Disorder by Greg de Moore; Ann Westmore
$32.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
In 1948, there was no medication for bipolar illness. Sufferers from the illness would live their lives--if they survived--in and out of asylums accumulating life's wreckage around them. But late in 1948 that changed, when an Australian doctor, John Cade, discovered a treatment that has become the gold ...Show more
Weird Dinosaurs - The strange new fossils challenging everything we thought we knew by John Pickrell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: very good
We¿re in a golden age of discovery ¿ and the fossils coming to light show dinosaurs were stranger, bigger, scarier and more diverse than we ever imagined. From outback Australia to the Gobi Desert and the savanna of Madagascar, award-winning science writer John Pickrell sets out on a world tour of new d ...Show more
Boost Your Brain Power in 60 Seconds by Michelle Schoffro Cook
$22.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
A new disease is emerging as the leading killer of North Americans: Scientists are predicting that within eight years, brain disease will kill or disable more people than cancer and heart disease combined. Given this shocking new research, we urgently need to know how to protect and improve our brain he ...Show more
Buddha (Pocket Giants) by Tony Morris
$19.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Why is the Buddha a giant? Because he founded Buddhism. Because Buddhism is one of the five great religions of the world, with over 350 million practitioners in every country on the planet and a history stretching back over 2500 years. Because Buddhism is one of the world's great thought-systems, full ...Show more
Evolution: A Visual Record by Robert Clark
$49.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Stunning images to reawaken us to the scientific process that drives the amazing diversity of life on earth Evidence of evolution is everywhere. Through 200 revelatory images, award-winning photographer Robert Clark makes one of the most important foundations of science clear and exciting to everyone. E ...Show more