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
Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
34.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Have you ever wondered why you have a brain? Let renowned neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett demystify that big grey blob between your ears. In seven short essays (plus a bite-sized story about how brains evolved), this slim, entertaining and accessible collection reveals mind-expanding lessons from t ...Show more
All In The Mind: the new book from the popular ABC radio program and podcast by Lynne Malcolm
34.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Inspiring and transformational stories from the forefront of brain science -- from the popular ABC Radio program and podcast Understanding the human mind remains one of the most alluring challenges we face. Now pioneering investigations and technologies are enabling science to gain new insights into the ...Show more
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
31.95 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Reading Level: very good
# 1 New York Times BestsellerLibraryReads PickSMLWhat is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? Today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. Now Neil deGrasse Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, within sp ...Show more
The Master Builder: How the New Science of the Cell is Rewriting the Story of Life by Alfonso Martinez Arias
34.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
What defines who we are? Until now, the biological answer has been our genes. Leading biologist Alfonso Martinez Arias breaks with popular tradition to make a bold argument: what defines us is our cells. Drawing on groundbreaking research, he reveals that we are composed of a thrillingly complex, cons ...Show more
Deep Blue - My Ocean Journeys by Steve Backshall
24.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Take a deep breath Steve Backshall was nine years old the first time he saw a shark, while on holiday with his family in Malaysia. It was the beginning of a life-long fascination with these 'lords of the sea', and the oceanic life around them. His career as one of the world's most popular naturalists an ...Show more
The Dinosaur Hunters by Lowell Dingus; American Museum of National History
39.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Dinosaur bones had been found centuries before scientists understood what they were and what creatures they came from; ancient Chinese writings spoke of "dragon" bones, and large fossils discovered in the UK were thought to belong to human giants. It was only with the exploration and meticulous research ...Show more
Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death by Nick Lane
24.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
For decades, biology has been dominated by the study of genetic information. Information is important, but it is only part of what makes us alive. Our inheritance also includes our living metabolic network, a flame passed from generation to generation, right back to the origin of life. In Transformer, b ...Show more