A Short History of the World According to Sheep by Sally Coulthard
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
'This book deserves a place in your bookcase next to Harari's Sapiens. It's every bit as fascinating and is surely destined to be just as successful' - Julian Norton. An addictively free-ranging survey of the massive impact that the domesticated ungulates of the genus Ovis have had on human history. Fro ...Show more
Between Light and Storm by Esther Woolfson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
A landmark new book about the fraught relationship between humans and animals that takes us from Genesis to climate change. Beginning with the very origins of life on Earth, Woolfson considers pre-historic human-animal interaction and traces the millennia-long evolution of conceptions of the soul and co ...Show more
The Human Age - How Humankind Created a New Geological Epoch by Gisli Palsson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
The Human Ageis an intrepid exploration of the new geological epoch in which we now find ourselves: the Anthropocene. Defined as the Age of Man, this is the epoch in which human beings have become the driving forces that mould, transform and destroy Earth. Where natural occurrences once controlled clima ...Show more
Marie Curie - The Pioneer, the Nobel Laureate by Richard Gunderman
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Amazing Minds Ser.
When Marie Curie and her husband, Pierre, discovered the atomic nature of radioactivity, and isolated polonium and radium, they revolutionized modern science. Her work not only contributed to our understanding of the structure of the atom, but also laid the foundation for modern medical innovations such ...Show more
The Accidental Countryside by Stephen Moss
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
The fascinating and remarkably uplifting story of how Britain's wildlife has co-opted the most unlikely corners of our manmade landscape, turning them into teeming havens of (un)natural beauty.
Clean - The New Science of Skin by James Hamblin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
"Fun, interesting and credible." -New York Times Book Review A preventative medicine physician and staff writer for The Atlantic explains the surprising and unintended effects of our hygiene practices in this informative and entertaining introduction to the new science of skin microbes and probiotics. ...Show more
Numb and Number by William Hartston
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
'A wise, witty and insightful guide to clear thinking amid a deluge of percentages and probabilities.' Ian StewartLike it or not, our lives are dominated by mathematics. Our daily diet of news regales us with statistical forecasts, opinion polls, risk assessments, inflation figures, weather and climate ...Show more
Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old by Andrew Steele
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Ageing is the biggest cause of disease in our society. Cancer, heart disease, dementia, flu: the risk of all increase staggeringly rapidly as we near the end of life. What if we could slow down the process - or even stop it? Ageless introduces us to the cutting-edge research that is paving the way for a ...Show more
Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease by Charles Kenny
$27.99 AUD
Category: Science
A vivid, sweeping history of mankind's battles with infectious disease, for readers of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Yuval Harari's Sapiens and John Barry's The Great Influenza.For four thousand years, the size and vitality of cities, economies, and empires were heavily determined by infection. Stri ...Show more
The Future of Nutrition: An Insider's Look at the Science, Why We Keep Getting It Wrong, and How to Start Getting It Right by T. Colin Campbell; Nelson Disla (As told to)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Science
Why, despite the many advances in science and technology over the past few decades, does our health only seem to be getting worse? Why, despite so much time and energy spent studying the foods we eat, are we more confused than ever about nutrition--what good nutrition looks like, and what it can do for ...Show more
Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Life by DK
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: DK Handbooks Ser.
A comprehensive pocket guide to dinosaurs and prehistoric animals and the world they inhabited millions of years ago. Packed with more than 700 full-colour illustrations, this definitive pocket guide paints a vivid portrait of extraordinary dinosaurs and prehistoric animals, and the ecosystems they live ...Show more
The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything by Michio Kaku
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
This is the story of a quest: to find a Theory of Everything. Einstein dedicated his life to seeking this elusive Holy Grail, a single, revolutionary 'god equation' which would tie all the forces in the universe together, yet never found it. Some of the greatest minds in physics took up the search, from ...Show more