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
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh
$44.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: Berlin Family Lectures | Reading Level: General Adult
Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability at the level of literature ...Show more
A Most Improbable Journey: A Big History of Our Planet and Ourselves by Walter Alvarez
$38.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Big History, the field that studies the entire known past of our universe to give context to human existence, has so far been the domain of historians. In A Most Improbable Journey, Walter Alvarez-best known for his "Impact Theory" explaining dinosaur extinction-makes a compelling case for a new, scienc ...Show more
One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest by Wade Davis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
From the author of Into The Silence, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. In 1941, Richard Evans Schultes took a leave of absence from Harvard University and disappeared into the Northern Amazon of Colombia. The world's leading authority on the hallucinogens and medicinal plants of the re ...Show more
2062: The World that AI Made by Toby Walsh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Many people think the future is something we need to adjust to, rather than what we decide through the choices we make today. This book looks at the choices we are starting to make that will define this future. The majority of experts in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics predict we are likely to ...Show more
The Secret Code: The Mysterious Formula That Rules Art, Nature, and Science by Priya Hemenway
$35.00 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Deals with the Divine Proportion, a secret code that rules art, nature, and science; known by many names: Golden Mean, Sacred Cut and Phi are only a few.
Sapiens A Graphic History, Volume 1: The Birth of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
$39.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
The first volume of the graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's global phenomenon and smash Sunday Times #1 bestseller, with gorgeous full-colour illustrations and a beautiful package - the perfect gift for the curious beings in your life. One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species ...Show more
Freedom: The End of the Human Condition by JEREMY GRIFFITH
$34.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
The fastest growing realization everywhere is that humanity can't go on the way it is going. Indeed, the great fear is we're entering endgame where we appear to have lost the race between self-destruction and self-discovery-the race to find the psychologically relieving understanding of our 'good and ev ...Show more
The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors by David George Haskell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
The acclaimed author of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Forest Unseen visits with nature's most magnificent networkers - trees.In The Songs of Trees, David George Haskell brings his acute powers of observation to the biological networks that surround all species, including humans. He visits a dozen trees ar ...Show more
Aerial Geology : A High-altitude Tour of North America’s Spectacular Volcanoes, Canyons, Glaciers, Lakes, Craters, and Peaks by Mary Caperton Morton
$49.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
"Get your head into the clouds with Aerial Geology." --The New York Times Book ReviewAerial Geology is an up-in-the-sky exploration of North America's 100 most spectacular geological formations. Crisscrossing the continent from the Aleutian Islands in Alaska to the Great Salt Lake in Utah, Mary Caperton ...Show more
All In The Mind: the new book from the popular ABC radio program and podcast by Lynne Malcolm
$34.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Inspiring and transformational stories from the forefront of brain science -- from the popular ABC Radio program and podcast Understanding the human mind remains one of the most alluring challenges we face. Now pioneering investigations and technologies are enabling science to gain new insights into the ...Show more