Wise Animals: How Technology Has Made Us What We Are by Tom Chatfield
36.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Combining compelling storytelling with erudite, compassionate and often profound insight about the human condition, this book will transform how you navigate the world.' - Richard Fisher, author of The Long View Wise Animals explores the history of our relationship with technology, and our deep involve ...Show more
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
24.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
From the bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold book that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility Why should we never listen to people who explain rather than do? Why do companies go bust? How is it that we have mor ...Show more
Darwin's Love of Life: A Singular Case of Biophilia by Karen L. Harel
32.95 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Biophilia-the love of life-encompasses the drive to survive, a sense of kinship with all life-forms, and an instinct for beauty. In this unconventional book, Kay Harel uses biophilia as a lens to explore Charles Darwin's life and thought in deeply original ways. In a set of interrelated essays, she cons ...Show more
Shark: the World's Most Misunderstood Predator by Paul de Gelder
24.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
From shark attack survivor to the shark's biggest advocate, Paul de Gelder tells us just why these majestic diverse animals need our help as much as we need them.Something happens to you the first time you dive with sharks...We have a perennial fascination with sharks. Portrayed in the media and popular ...Show more
H is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z by Elizabeth Kolbert and Wesley Allsbrook
34.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Climate change resists narrative and yet we must see clearly what's happening in our world. Millions of lives are at stake, and upwards of a million species. We must act. In H Is for Hope, Elizabeth Kolbert investigates the history, and future, of climate change from A, for Svante Arrhenius, who created ...Show more
Why Animals Talk: The New Science of Animal Communication by Arik Kershenbaum
45.00 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Why Animals Talk is a scientific journey through the untamed world of animal communication. From the majestic howls of wolves and the enchanting chatter of parrots to the melodic clicks of dolphins and the spirited grunts of chimpanzees, these diverse and seemingly bizarre expressions are far from mere ...Show more
The Bird Book - The Stories, Science, and History of Birds by DK
65.00 AUD
Category: Animals
Delve into the fascinating world of birds through astonishing photography and clear explanations, in this absorbing global guideBirds are dinosaurs, with a history going back millions of years. Our fascination with them runs deep in history and our close association is reflected in creation stories, myt ...Show more
Around the Ocean in 80 Fish and other Sea Life by Helen Scales
55.00 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
This is an inspiring tour of the world's oceans and 80 of its most notable inhabitants. Beautifully illustrated, the book includes fascinating stories of the fish, shellfish and other sea life that have somehow impacted human life - whether in our medicine, culture or folklore - in often surprising and ...Show more
The Compact Australian Bird Guide by Jeff Davies, Peter Menkhorst, Danny Rogers, Rohan Clarke, Peter Marsack, Kim Franklin
34.99 AUD
Category: Animals
The Compact Australian Bird Guide is an easy-to-use and beautifully illustrated quick identification guide to all bird species regularly occurring in Australia. The content has been carefully designed to provide the reader with key information to enable rapid identification of a bird, in a convenient fo ...Show more
Getting to Know the Birds in Your Neighbourhood: A Field Guide by Darryl Jones
34.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Interested in birds but don’t know where to start? Overwhelmed by the bird guides? Want to know more about the birds you see around you? Then this is the book for you!Getting to Know the Birds in Your Neighbourhood is the first complete beginners’ field guide to the birds you are most likely to see in t ...Show more
The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality by Andy Clark
24.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worlds'One of the most important books yet published this century' SpectatorFor as long as we've studied the mind, we've believed that information flowing from our senses determines what our mind perceives. But as our understa ...Show more
Nursery Earth - The Hidden World of Baby Animals and the Amazing Ingenuity of Life by Danna Staaf; Richard Strathmann (Foreword by)
32.99 AUD
Category: Animals
Entire ecosystems rest on the shoulders (or tentacles, or jointed exoskeletons) of animal babies; it's time we paid them more attention. In Nursery Earth, researcher Danna Staaf invites readers to explore these tiny, secret lives, revealing some of nature's strangest and most ingenious workings. A salam ...Show more