The Ghost in the Garden: In Search of Darwin's Lost Garden by Jude Piesse
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
The forgotten garden that inspired Charles Darwin becomes the modern-day setting for an exploration of memory, family, and the legacy of genius. Darwin never stopped thinking about the garden at his childhood home, The Mount, in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. It was here, under the tutelage of his green-finge ...Show more
Fungi - Gems of Nature by Joanna Bentley (Editor); Peter Roberts; Shelley Evans
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Gems of Nature Ser.
Fungi introduces you to 75 fascinating fungi from around the world.
Gems of Nature Birds A Species Guide by Joanna Bentley (Editor); Mark E. Hauber
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Gems of Nature Ser.
Birds introduces you to 75 fascinating species from around the world.
The Spike: An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds by Mark Humphries
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Princeton ANZ Paperbacks Ser.
The story of a neural impulse and what it reveals about how our brains workWe see the last cookie in the box and think, can I take that? We reach a hand out. In the 2.1 seconds that this impulse travels through our brain, billions of neurons communicate with one another, sending blips of voltage through ...Show more
30-Second Universe by Charles Liu; Karen Masters; Sevil Salur
$27.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: 30 Second Ser.
The universe literally encompasses everything we were, are and will be, everything we knew, know and can know. When we decide to understand the universe as a whole, new truths come to light, and unexpected perspectives illuminate our take on life. 30-Second Universe explains all the tantalising concepts ...Show more
The Oak Papers by James Canton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Oaks are born and die on the same patch of earth. It is that sure-footedness that is so appealing. Ancient oaks hold a powerful sense of the longevity of life. The sense of security, of attachment to place, enchants us. You can stand beneath a grand oak and know that your more distant ancestors did so t ...Show more
Testosterone - The Story of the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us by Carole Hooven
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
Through riveting personal stories and the latest research, Harvard evolutionary biologist Carole Hooven shows how testosterone drives the behaviour of the sexes apart and how understanding the science behind this hormone is empowering for all.'With all the talk about testosterone in sex, sports and poli ...Show more
We, Hominids: An anthropological detective story by Frank Westerman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
A roving philosophical journey into what makes us human. In We, Hominids, one of Holland's greatest non-fiction writers hunts down answers to humanity's most fundamental questions- Who are we? What makes us different from animals? With an ancient skull as his starting point, he travels the globe, traci ...Show more
The Chloroformist by Christine Ball
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
The historical biography of Joseph Clover and the invention of anaesthesia Operating with bare hands, dressed in his street clothes, he had taken those first steps that every training surgeon must take-gripping the handle of a scalpel and making the first, irrevocable cut into live human flesh. For th ...Show more
The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins by Tom Higham
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
50,000 years ago, we were not the only species of human in the world. There were at least four others, including the Neanderthals, Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonesis and the Denisovans. At the forefront of the latter's ground-breaking discovery was Oxford Professor Tom Higham. In The World Before Us, he ...Show more
Youniverse: A Short Guide to Modern Science by ELSIE BURCH DONALD
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Your guide to science, from the Big Bang to AI. Whether you wish to discover the basics of science or catch up on its latest developments, this short accessible guide is for you. YOUNIVERSE describes in simple terms the world you are inseparably a part of: what it is, how it works and your place in it i ...Show more
Frogs: The Animal Answer Guide by Mike Dorcas & Whit Gibbons
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Animal Answer Guides: Q&A for the Curious Naturalist
Frogs are amazingly diverse, ranging from the massive Goliath frog, which weighs several pounds, to the recently discovered gold frog, which measures a mere three-eighths of an inch when fully grown. Frogs have inhabited the earth for more than 200 million years. Today, however, these amphibians face mo ...Show more