The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence In History And Its Causes by Steven Pinker
$24.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
"If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be this--the most inspiring book I've ever read."--Bill Gates (May, 2017) A provocative history of violence--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Stuff of Thought, The Blank Slate, and Enlightenment Now. Believe it or not, tod ...Show more
The App Generation: How Today's Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World by Howard Gardner
$34.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
No one has failed to notice that the current generation of youth is deeply - some would say totally - involved with digital media. Professors Howard Gardner and Katie Davis name today's young people The App Generation, and in this spellbinding book they explore what it means to be "app-dependent" versus ...Show more
Ancient Futures : Learning from Ladakh by Helena Norberg-Hodge
$27.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Ladakh, or 'Little Tibet', is a wildly beautiful desert land in the western Himalayas, a place of few resources and an extreme climate. Yet for more than a thousand years it has been home to a thriving culture. Now centuries of ecological balance and social harmony are under threat from the pressures of ...Show more
The Man Who Couldn't Stop: OCD and the True Story of a Life Lost in Thought by David Adam
$32.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
This book offers an intimate look at the power of intrusive thoughts, how our brains can turn against us and what it means to live with obsessive compulsive disorder. Have you ever had a strange urge to jump from a tall building, or steer your car into oncoming traffic? You are not alone. In this captiv ...Show more
Seedtime: On the History, Husbandry, Politics and Promise of Seeds by Scott Chaskey
$27.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Scott Chaskey--working farmer, poet, and spiritual father of the community farming movement--considers "the web of biodiversity and resilience at the heart of our cultural inheritance" by masterfully weaving history, politics, botany, literature, mythology, and memoir into a beautiful and instructive bo ...Show more
Complexity and the Arrow of Time by Charles H. Lineweaver
$49.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
There is a widespread assumption that the universe in general, and life in particular, is 'getting more complex with time'. This book brings together a wide range of experts in science, philosophy and theology and unveils their joint effort in exploring this idea. They confront essential problems behind ...Show more
Why Evolution is True by Jerry A. Coyne
$20.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: Oxford Landmark Science Ser.
For all the discussion in the media about creationism and 'Intelligent Design', virtually nothing has been said about the evidence in question - the evidence for evolution by natural selection. Yet, as this succinct and important book shows, that evidence is vast, varied, and magnificent, and drawn from ...Show more
The Tell-Tale Brain - Unlocking the Mystery of Human Nature by V. S. Ramachandran
$19.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: very good
John, aged sixty, suffered a stroke and recovered fully, except in one respect: although he can see perfectly, he can no longer recognise faces, even his own reflection in a mirror. Whenever Francesca touches a particular texture, she experiences a vivid emotion: denim = extreme sadness; wax = embarrass ...Show more
Settling the Earth: The Archaeology of Deep Human History by Clive Gamble
$51.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
In this worldwide survey, Clive Gamble explores the evolution of the human imagination, without which we would not have become a global species. He sets out to determine the cognitive and social basis for our imaginative capacity and traces the evidence back into deep human history. He argues that it wa ...Show more
30-Second Elements by Eric Scerri
$19.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: 30-Second
30-Second Elements presents you with the foundations of chemical knowledge, distilling the 50 most significant chemical elements into half-a-minute individual entries, using nothing more than two pages, 300 words and one picture. Divided into seven chapters, it includes the atomic details of the other 6 ...Show more
Social Ecology by David Wright
$76.00 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: Social Ecology & Change
Social ecology provides a holistic framework for change, based on the interrelationships between the personal, social, environmental and 'spiritual'. It helps understand how we got here, and how to realise more sustainable, caring futures. Students from all disciplines can use this valuable resource to ...Show more
The Science Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
$39.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
All the big ideas in science, simply explained Part of the popular Big Ideas series, The Science Book explores the history of science, how scientists have sought to explain our incredible universe and how amazing scientific discoveries have been made. Discover how Galileo worked out his scientific theor ...Show more