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
Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality by Manjit Kumar
24.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Reading Level: very good
For most people, quantum theory is a byword for mysterious, impenetrable science. And yet for many years it was equally baffling for scientists themselves. In this magisterial book, Manjit Kumar gives a dramatic and superbly-written history of this fundamental scientific revolution, and the divisive deb ...Show more
Miniature Lives: Identifying Insects in Your Home and Garden by Michelle Gleeson
39.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Miniature Lives provides a range of simple strategies that people can use to identify and learn more about the insects in their homes and gardens. Featuring a step-by-step, illustrated identification key and colour photographs, the book guides the reader through the basics of entomology (the study of in ...Show more
Dog Speak by Rockpool Publishing
22.99 AUD
Category: Animals
Bond with your pooch and learn to train them the fun and easy way with this illustrated card deck. You'll have your pet leaping through hoops in no time! Learning to understand what your dog is telling you is half the battle when training them to be a great companion. Whether you want to teach y ...Show more