The NASA Archives. 40th Ed. by Piers Bizony, Andrew Chaikin, Roger Launius
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Category: Science & Natural History | Series: 40th Edition Ser.
On October 1, 1958, the world's first civilian space agency opened for business as an emergency response to the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik a year earlier. Within a decade, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, universally known as NASA, had evolved from modest research teams experimen ...Show more
Scientifica Historia: How the World's Great Science Books Chart the History of Knowledge by Brian Clegg
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Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Liber Historica Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
Scientifica Historica is a unique, essay-based review of those books that marked the development of science from classical times to the new millennium. The result is a fascinating chronological exploration of human endeavour within the context of society, politics and even the military, where the twists ...Show more
Zen Dogs by Alex Cearns
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Category: Science & Natural History | Reading Level: General Adult
Award-winning animal photographer Alex Cearns celebrates the peace, calm, and joy dogs bring to our lives with this unique full-color collection capturing eighty dogs in their most relaxed and contented moments. When Alex Cearns caught Suzi the Sharpei on film with eyes closed and an endearing smile on ...Show more
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023 by Carl Zimmer; Jaime Green
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Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Best American Ser.
Award-winning writer, columnist, and journalists Carl Zimmer selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in 2022. "What's most compelling about a scientific story is the way it challenges us to think about the concepts we take for granted," writes gue ...Show more
Mapping the Darkness: How a Band of Maverick Scientists Discovered the Secrets of Sleep by Kenneth Miller
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Category: Science & Natural History
Thirty-two days underground. No heat. No sunlight. 4 June 1938. Nathaniel Kleitman and his research student make their way down the seventy-one steps leading to the mouth of Mammoth Cave. They are about to embark on one of the most intrepid and bizarre experiments in medical history, one which will chan ...Show more
Carbon City Zero - A Collaborative Game: Can You Work Together for a Carbon Neutral Future? by Possible; Rami Niemi (Illustrator)
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Category: Science & Natural History
PLAY AND LEARN: learn about climate action as you play this new board game for all the family SCREEN-FREE FUN for 2-4 players aged 8 and up SOMETHING TO TREASURE: this is a quality product made to last, with bespoke illustration and stylish packaging (on FSC stocks)Carbon City Zero is a collaborative c ...Show more
Ground Breaking by Philip Mulvey, Freya Mulvey
34.95 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
Practical solutions for agricultural management, enabling the restoration of landscape, climate and community. Reaching zero emissions alone won't stop the Earth heating up. There's another factor at play, even bigger than rising greenhouse gas levels: agricultural land use, and it is turning th ...Show more
Planta Sapiens: Unmasking Plant Intelligence by Paco Calvo, Natalie Lawrence
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Category: Science & Natural History
What is it like to be a plant?It's not a question we might think to contemplate, even though many of us live surrounded by plants. Science has long explored the wonderful ways in which plants communicate, behave and shape their environments: from chemical warfare to turning their predators to cannibalis ...Show more
Ferdinand Bauer's Remarkable Birds by Jonathan Elphick
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Category: Science & Natural History
A richly illustrated volume, which reproduces one of the finest collections of eighteenth-century ornithological art in its entirety. In 1786, Austrian natural history artist Ferdinand Bauer traveled to Italy and the Levant. The watercolors he created from meticulous drawings made during the trip are a ...Show more
The Golden Mole: and Other Vanishing Treasure by Katherine Rundell
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Category: Animals
A gloriously illustrated and fascinating bestiary of the world's most extraordinary endangered animals. The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. 'Rare and magical book.' - Bill Bryson 'A witty, intoxicating paean to Earth's most wondrous creatures.' ...Show more
Most Delicious Poison: From Spices to Vices - The Story of Nature's Toxins by Noah Whiteman
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Category: Science & Natural History
A deadly secret lurks within our kitchens, medicine cabinets and gardens. Scratch beneath the surface of a coffee bean, a red pepper flake or an apple seed, and we find a bevy of strange chemicals. We use these to greet our days (caffeine), titillate our tongues (capsaicin) and even kill our enemies (cy ...Show more
Trippy: The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics by Ernesto Londono
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Category: Science & Natural History
A moving, tender and thoughtful exploration of a complicated subject. Johann Hari, Sunday Times bestselling author of Stolen Focus and Lost ConnectionsA compulsively readable romp through a burgeoning scene that has immense potential for both harm and healing.Dan Harris, New York Times bestselling autho ...Show more