Earth in Our Hands: Photos from the International Space Station by THOMAS PESQUET
$49.95 AUD
Category: Science
Take a trip around Earth, with a front-row seat on the International Space Station and an astronaut as your guide The Earth in Our Hands is a work of amazing breadth and beauty Astronaut Thomas Pesquet brought his camera along for the ride when he was deployed to the International Space Station, and f ...Show more
Jellyfish Age Backwards Nature's Secrets to Longevity by Nicklas Brendborg
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
This eye-opening book offers a revelatory scientific deep dive into how plants and animals have already unlocked the secrets to immortality-and the lessons they hold for us all. Recent advances in medicine and technology have expanded our understanding of aging across the animal kingdom, and our own tim ...Show more
How Zoologists Organize Things - The Art of Classification by David Bainbridge
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
Discover how categorisation has shaped our view of the natural world with How Zoologists Organize Things. The book unveils wild truths and even wilder myths about animals, as perpetuated by zoologists - revealing how much more there is to learn, and unlearn.
Field Guide to Frogs of Australia: From Port Augusta to Fraser Island Including Tasmania by Martyn Robinson
$28.99 AUD
Category: Science
Will help you to identify all the frogs hopping and croaking their way around New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, southern South Australia and southern Queensland. A key, with drawings of distinguishing features, plus a colour photograph and distribution map of each frog, will help you to identify your ...Show more
Brief Answers to the Big Questions: the final book from Stephen Hawking by Stephen Hawking
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. 'A beautiful little book by a brilliant mind'- DAILY TELEGRAPH. 'Effortlessly instructive, absorbing, up to the minute and - where it matters - witty'- GUARDIAN. The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final t ...Show more
The Secret Lives of the Elements by Kathryn Harkup
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
'A delightful and engaging treasure trove of a book that brings the chemical elements to life and gives them personalities of their own. A wonderful read for young and old alike to get you inspired by chemistry.' Jim Al-Khalili'The perfect book to escape our human-sized existence and take a tour of the ...Show more
The Body Illustrated: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
$65.00 AUD
Category: Science
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
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Donald Goldsmith
$32.95 AUD
Category: Science
Our true origins are not only human, or even terrestrial, but in fact cosmic. Drawing on recent scientific breakthroughs and cross-pollination among geology, biology, astrophysics, and cosmology, Origins illuminates the soul-stirring leaps in our understanding of the cosmos. This newly revised and updat ...Show more
Ways of Being - Animals, Plants, Machines - The Search for a Planetary Intelligence by James Bridle
$26.99 AUD
Category: Science
Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle's Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence--plant, animal, human, artificial--and how they transform our understanding of humans' place in the cosmos. What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something uni ...Show more
Tree Stories: How trees plant our world and connect our lives by Stefano Mancuso
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
The remarkable stories of trees that have shaped human history - from the wooden ladder that solved a crime to France's revolutionary Liberty Trees. Trees have played countless roles in human history - by turns hopeful symbols of freedom, pioneering space travellers, keepers of ancient history and acces ...Show more
Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era by James Barrat
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
'I wish it was science fiction, but I know it's not.' Jaan Tallinn, co-founder of Skype'If you read just one book that makes you confront scary high-tech realities that we'll soon have no choice but to address, make it this one.' Washington PostCorporations and government agencies around the world have ...Show more
What a Mushroom Lives For - Matsutake and the Worlds They Make by Michael J. Hathaway
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
What a Mushroom Lives For pushes today's mushroom renaissance in compelling new directions. For centuries, Western science has promoted a human- and animal-centric framework of what counts as action, agency, movement, and behavior. But, as Michael Hathaway shows, the world-making capacities of mushrooms ...Show more