Golden Section: Nature's Greatest Secret by Scott Olsen
14.95 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
What was the golden secret known to Leonardo da Vinci, Kepler, Plato and the ancient magicians? Can there really be a key to nature and life itself? In this small but compact volume, internationally renowned divine proportion supersleuth Dr. Olsen unravels perhaps the greatest mystery of all time, a cod ...Show more
Climate Aotearoa: What's Happening and What We Can Do About It by Helen Clark (ed)
34.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
The science on climate change in Aotearoa New Zealand now and in the future, and what changes we all need to make. Contributions from a range of climate scientists and commentators Rob Bell, Jason Boberg, Adelia Hallett, Sophie Handford, Rhys Jones, Haylee Koroi, Matt McGlone, Jamie Morton, Rod Oram, Ji ...Show more
Anaximander: And the Nature of Science by Carlo Rovelli
29.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics tells the thrilling story of one of the greatest intellectual leaps of all time Over two millennia ago, a Greek philosopher had a number of wondrous insights that paved the way to cosmology, physics, geography, meteorology and biology, setting in ...Show more
Photographic Guide to Sea Fishes of Australia by Kuiter Rudie
19.95 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Photographic Guides
A guide for the diver, traveller, fishing enthusiast, or layperson, which aims to provide easy identification of the 222 species of fish covered. Photographs and distribution maps accompany each description, and some show juvenile and adult, or sex variations.
NeuroTribes: The legacy of autism and how to think smarter about people who think differently by Steve Silberman
24.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
What is autism: a devastating developmental condition, a lifelong disability, or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is all of these things and more - and the future of our society depends on our understanding it. Following on from his ground ...Show more
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
24.99 AUD
32.99 (24% off)
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: HarperPerennial Modern Classics Ser.
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley. Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see. What she sees are astonishing incidents of "beauty tangled in a rapture with violence."Her personal narrative highlights one year's exploration on foot in the Virginia re ...Show more
The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski
24.95 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Dr Jacob Bronowksi's "The Ascent of Man" traces the development of human society through our understanding of science. First published in 1973 to accompany the groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one of the first works of 'popular science', illuminating the historical and social conte ...Show more
Wild Design - The Architecture of Nature by Kimberly Ridley
49.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Wild Design reveals the wonders of the natural world as never seen before, through the stunning, extraordinary, and functional forms created by animals, plants, and other organisms all around us. Art and science beautifully intertwine in this fascinating exploration of structures and shapes found in nat ...Show more
One Medicine: How understanding animals can save our lives by Matt Morgan
24.99 AUD
Category: Animals
It all started with a Hob Nob. As Dr Matt Morgan, an intensive care consultant, examined a patient who had suffered a cardiac arrest after inhaling some biscuit crumbs, he saw a flock of birds fly past the window. They must inhale objects all the time when flying, how do they survive? he thought to hims ...Show more
Flight Paths: How the mystery of bird migration was solved by Rebecca Heisman
34.99 AUD
Category: Animals
For the past century, scientists and naturalists have been steadily unravelling the secrets of bird migration. How and why birds navigate the skies, traveling from continent to continent-flying thousands of miles across the earth each fall and spring-has continually fascinated the human imagination, but ...Show more
The Body Illustrated: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
65.00 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
A new, beautifully illustrated edition of the Number One Bestseller and Sunday Times Science Book of the Year, which takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. A directory of wonders' - Guardian 'Jaw-dropping' -The Times 'It is a feat of narrative skill to bake so many facts in ...Show more
140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth by Hans Ulrich Obrist (ed.); Kostas Stasinopoulos (ed.)
16.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Reading Level: very good
An urgent and entertaining guide to tackling the climate emergency at home, within your community and within yourself, from some of the best artistic minds of our generation Through 140 drawings, thought experiments, recipes, activist instructions, gardening ideas, insurgences and personal revolutions, ...Show more