Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl by Mary Mycio
$49.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
When a titanic explosion ripped through the Number Four reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant in 1986, spewing flames and chunks of burning, radioactive material into the atmosphere, one of our worst nightmares came true. As the news gradually seeped out of the USSR and the extent of the disaster was r ...Show more
The Ends of the World - Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions by Peter Brannen
$45.00 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: very good
As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history, award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a wild ride through the planet's five mass extinctions and, in the process, offers us a glimpse of our incr ...Show more
Mask of the Sun: The Science, History and Forgotten Lore of Eclipses by John Dvorak
$39.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
What do Virginia Woolf, the rotation of hurricanes, Babylonian kings and Einstein's General Theory Relativity all have in common? Eclipses. Always spectacular and, today, precisely predicable, eclipses have allowed us to know when the first Olympic games were played and, long before the first space prob ...Show more
Immune: How Your Body Defends and Protects You by Catherine A. Carver
$27.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
The human body is like an exceedingly well-fortified castle, defended by billions of soldiers - some live for less than a day, others remember battles for decades, but all are essential in protecting us from disease. This hidden army is our immune system, and without it we could not survive the eternal ...Show more
Nature's Harmonic Unity: A Treatise on Its Relation to Proportional Form by Samuel Colman
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Category: Pop Science
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, li ...Show more
Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity by Sandra Postel
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Category: Pop Science
We have disrupted the natural water cycle for centuries in an effort to control water for our own prosperity. Yet every year, recovery from droughts and floods costs billions of dollars, and we spend billions more on dams, diversions, levees, and other feats of engineering. These massive projects not on ...Show more
Taste Matters: Why We Like the Foods We Do by John Prescott
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Category: Pop Science
Why do we like the foods that we do? What happens when we eat not for nutrient intake but for sensory pleasure? How far are our food preferences determined by genetic inheritance, by maternal diet, by cultural practice? These are some of the questions that sit at the heart of John Prescott's Taste Matte ...Show more
The Mask of Sanity: An Attempt to Clarify Some Issues about the So-Called Psychopathic Personality by Hervey Cleckley
$42.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
2015 Reprint of 1950 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This classic account of the Psychopathic Personality was first published in 1941. We reprint herein the expanded Second Edition of 1950. Cleckley describes clinical interviews with pat ...Show more
Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle by Thor Hanson
$36.50 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Now in paperback, this is Thor Hanson's critically-acclaimed natural and cultural history of nature's finest invention. Feathers are an evolutionary marvel: aerodynamic, insulating, and beguiling. Their story begins in the Jurassic period and leads through the development of flight to high fashion - fro ...Show more
The Angel of Death : The Story of Smallpox by Gareth Williams
$150.00 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Angel of Death is a lively and powerful account of our battle against smallpox, the only disease that mankind has successfully eradicated from the planet. By weaving previously unrecorded voices in with the personal experiences of colourful historical figures such as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Edward ...Show more
Climate Change and the Health of Nations - Famines, Fevers, and the Fate of Populations by Anthony McMichael
$38.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
When we think of climate change, we often picture human-made global warming, caused by greenhouse gas emissions. But natural climate change has occurred throughout human history, and populations have had to adapt to the climate's vicissitudes. Anthony J. McMichael, a renowned epidemiologist and a pionee ...Show more