Mind Blown by Dan Marshall
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science and Natural History
Did you know space is only an hour's drive away? Did you know there is a jellyfish that is biologically immortal? Or that of all life that has ever existed on Earth, 99.9% of it is extinct? Dan Marshall's slick new book is packed to the brim with facts that will BLOW YOUR MIND. Delightful illustrations ...Show more
Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car by Davies, Alex
$26.99 AUD
Category: Science and Natural History
Wired editor Alex Davies tells the dramatic, colorful story of the quest to develop driverless cars--and the fierce competition between Google, Uber, and other companies in a race to revolutionize our lives. The self-driving car has been one of the most vaunted technological breakthroughs of recent yea ...Show more
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Environment
In We Are the Weather, New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Safran Foer explores the central global dilemma of our time in a surprising, deeply personal, and urgent new way. Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. B ...Show more
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science and Natural History | Reading Level: very good
'We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us.' Bill Bryson sets off to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ab ...Show more
How to Talk about Climate Change in a Way That Makes a Difference by Rebecca Huntley
$32.99 AUD
Category: Environment
A toolkit for understanding our emotional responses to climate change and how we can have meaningful conversations across dividing lines. 'The antidote to climate anxiety is action. Make your first action reading this book.' OSHER GUNSBERG'Rebecca Huntley has given us a great gift: an essential guide to ...Show more
Dr Karl's Little Book of Climate Change Science by Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki
$14.99 AUD
Category: Environment
Australia's favourite science guru explains the facts about climate change - and how we can fix it How do Greenhouse Gas molecules shimmy and shake to trap 400,000 Hiroshima atom bombs' worth of the Sun's heat each day? Who did the early research into Climate Change and then spent billions trying to ...Show more
Landscapes of Our Hearts by Matthew Colloff
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science and Natural History
On this ancient continent, waves of people have made their mark on the landscape; in turn, it too has shaped them. If we look afresh at our history through the land we live on, might Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians find a path to a shared future? An epic exploration of our relationship with th ...Show more
Feeding the Birds at Your Table: A guide for Australia by Darryl Jones
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science and Natural History | Series: Guide for Australia | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Feeding the Birds at Your Table is designed to provide detailed, comprehensive advice and suggestions for people wishing to feed wild birds in Australia from their own backyards and balconies. Millions of Australians feed wild birds in their gardens. Yet there is currently little information or advice o ...Show more
Coastal Guide to Nature and History 2: Mornington Peninsula's ocean shore, Western Port, Phillip Island & French Island by Graham Patterson
$30.00 AUD
Category: Science and Natural History
On holiday? Walking? Just visiting the coast for a short outing?This book will enrich your appreciation of what you see: * Local history - the first Australians, explorers and early settlers on the coast.* Common coastal animals and plants - with lots of photos to help you identify them* Coastal landfor ...Show more
Coastal Guide to Nature and History: Port Phillip Bay by Graham Patterson
$30.00 AUD
Category: Science and Natural History
On holidays? Walking? Just visiting the coast for a short outing? This book will enrich your appreciation of what you see. Common coastal animals and plants - with lots of photos Landforms - how they are influenced by geology Local history How to get to lesser-known spots
30-Second Zoology - The 50 Most Fundamental Categories and Concepts from the Study of Animal Life by Mark Fellowes
$28.00 AUD
Category: Science and Natural History | Series: 30 Second Ser.
Endowed with abundant water, extraordinary ecoystems, varied climates and biomes, our planet is teeming with creatures, great and small. What produced this rich diversity? How have so many species formed, evolved and adapted? What effects are humans having on the rest of the animal kingdom and on the ...Show more
Body Count: How Climate Change is Killing Us by Paddy Manning
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science and Natural History
'Our house is on fire,' 16-year-old Swedish school strike activist Greta Thunberg told world leaders in 2019. Across an angry year of weather, Australians watched it in real-time: record heatwaves and worsening drought, unprecedented fish kills in the Murray-Darling Basin and devastating wildfires acros ...Show more