A Year in Numbers by Kyle D. Evans
29.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Did you know:-Only around 100 people have ever lived beyond a million hours (that's about 114 years)-Around 7% of everyone who has ever lived is currently alive-The '12 days of Christmas' song, when sung in full, results in 364 gifts being given - one for every day... except ChristmasBroken down into 12 ...Show more
Climate Clangers: The Bad Ideas Blocking Real Action by Jennifer Rayner
19.95 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
The climate assertions that only prevent effective action, and what could replace them The impacts of climate change keep getting worse, but the typical framing of the problem and the solutions so far being pursued are seriously insufficient. As a result, the steps we’re taking to build a clean energy e ...Show more
The Trials of Life: A Natural History of Animal Behaviour by David Attenborough
26.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough's classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet , ecology, and now The Trials of Life tackles ethology, the study of how animals behave. 'This is, quite simply, the best thing I've ever done.' Sir David Attenborough on the ...Show more
How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology by Philip Ball
36.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
A cutting-edge new vision of biology that will revise our concept of what life itself is, how to enhance it, and what possibilities it offers. Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Several aspects of the standard picture of how life works—the idea of the genome as a blueprint, of g ...Show more
The Weight of Nature by Clayton Aldern
55.00 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
It is now inarguable that climate change threatens the future of life on Earth. But in The Weight of Nature, award-winning journalist and neuroscientist Clayton Page Aldern shows that the warming climate is not just affecting our planet - it is affecting our brains and bodies too. Drawing on six years o ...Show more
A Year Of Birdsong: 52 Tales of Song Birds by Dominic Couzens
32.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
One of the world's leading bird experts and writers Dominic Couzens takes you on a journey around the world to listen to 52 amazing birdsongs, one for every week of the year. From the Nightingale's song that has inspired the finest poetry to the mating song of the Lyrebird in Australia, from caged bird ...Show more
Our Familiars - The Meaning of Animals in Our Lives by Anne Coombs
29.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
How do animals guard, serve, and care for us? And how and why do we love them so much?Anne Coombs spent her entire life working to understand the profound answers that come from these two deceptively simple questions. Before her death in late 2021 she researched the topic extensively and reflected deepl ...Show more
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks by Scott Shapiro
27.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Fancy Bear was hungry. Looking for embarrassing information about Hillary Clinton, the elite hacking unit within Russian military intelligence broke into the Democratic National Committee network, grabbed what it could, and may have contributed to the election of Donald Trump. Robert Morris was curious. ...Show more
Dark Matter: The New Science of the Microbiome by James Kinross
35.00 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
A groundbreaking tour through the past, present and future of human ecology, from a world expert on the microbiome The microbiome comprises the vast genetic universe of bacteria, yeasts, viruses and parasites that live within us. It influences every aspect of our health, even the way we think and feel, ...Show more
Escape From Shadow Physics: The Quest To End the Dark Ages of Quantum Theory by Adam Forrest Kay
39.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
An engaging and razor-sharp attack on the orthodoxy of modern physics, and a bold new idea about the structure of reality. For 70 years, mathematical physicist Adam Kay argues, physics has laboured under delusions. 'When it comes to atoms,' the founding quantum physicist Neils Bohr once wrote, 'language ...Show more
The Complete Language of Birds: A Definitive and Illustrated History by Wellfleet Press
45.00 AUD
Category: Animals | Series: Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia Ser.
Expand your bird knowledge with this gorgeous encyclopedia of over 500 bird species around the world, unique for its inclusion of both their physical and mythological characteristics. If you're a nature lover who thrives on bird videos and photography, go beyond the scope of standard field guides wi ...Show more
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
24.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Reading Level: very good
'We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us.' Bill Bryson sets off to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ab ...Show more