Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
From renowned historian and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari comes the story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world. For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions and conquests, we now find ...Show more
Sing Like Fish by Amorina Kingdon
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science
Sing Like Fish: how sound rules life under water. A captivating exploration of how underwater animals tap into sound to survive, and a clarion call for humans to address the ways we invade these critical soundscapes - from an award-winning science writer. For centuries humans ignored sound in the 'sile ...Show more
When Dinosaurs Roamed Australia by Sarah Jane Lightfoot
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Millions of years before you and me, living in wetlands and by the sea, lurking in lakes and green forest floors, Australia was home to DINOSAURS! Journey back in time to the Cretaceous period and meet the dinosaurs that roamed Australia millions of years ago. From the bestselling creator of Down the Ro ...Show more
Voyagers: Our Journey into the Anthropocene by Lauren Fuge
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science
From the beginning, humans have been wanderers. Our feet carried us out of Africa and propelled us to far-flung corners of the world, often through incredible feats of innovation and imagination. These explorations yielded great rewards: land and resources, food and knowledge. But in every landscape we ...Show more
Everything Is Water: A River-Walking Journey by Simon Cleary
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
Four weeks, 344km and one inspiring river journeyWhen writer and hiking enthusiast Simon Cleary sets off to follow the course of a river that has so influenced his life, he hopes that by walking its banks he will better understand the power and impact of this immense waterway on the environment and comm ...Show more
Good Nature: The New Science of How Nature Improves Our Health by Kathy Willis
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
A revolutionary, science-based look at the ways nature can improve our lives that will do for the natural world what Tim Spector's Food for Life did for food.Fifteen years ago, University of Oxford Professor Kathy Willis read a study that radically changed her view of our relationship to the natural wor ...Show more
The Knowledge Gene: The Incredible Story of the Supergene That Gives Us Human Creativity by Lynne Kelly
$36.99 AUD
Category: Science
Drawing on a major discovery with tremendous implications, an Australian researcher has uncovered the source of human creativity and learning in the functioning of a supergene she calls the knowledge gene. Over 500,000 years ago, a single gene mutated. It spread over time, becoming critical in the jour ...Show more
How to Build a Universe by Brian Cox; Robin Ince; Alexandra Feachem
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
The Infinite Monkey Cage, the legendary BBC Radio 4 programme, brings you this irreverent celebration of scientific marvels. Join us on a hectic leap through the grand and bizarre ideas conjured up by human imagination, from dark matter to consciousness via neutrinos and earthworms. Professor Brian Cox ...Show more
Relativity - 100Th Anniversary Ed by Albert Einstein
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
A handsome annotated edition of Einstein's celebrated book on relativity After completing the final version of his general theory of relativity in November 1915, Albert Einstein wrote Relativity. Intended for a popular audience, the book remains one of the most lucid explanations of the special and gene ...Show more
Gemstones by Cally Hall
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
A compact, comprehensive guide to over 130 gemstones from around the world, featuring vivid photographs and concise textThe clearest and cleanest-cut photographic field guide to over 130 gemstones from around the worldThis compact visual guide is packed with more than 800 vivid full-colour photographs o ...Show more
Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
The instant Sunday Times bestseller -- a dazzling story of rebellion and science. In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, had retreated to the treeless, wind-battered island of Helgoland in the North Sea in order to think. Walking all night, by dawn he had wrest ...Show more
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
Are trees social beings? In this international bestseller, forester and author Peter Wohlleben convincingly makes the case that, yes, the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree parents live together with their chi ...Show more