Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped the World - and Us by Patrick Roberts
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
'A bold, ambitious and truly wonderful history of the world' Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees'A fascinating story and a crucial revision of the momentous importance of tropical forests to human history' Lewis Dartnell, author of Origins_________________________Jungle tells the remarka ...Show more
Ground Breaking by Philip Mulvey, Freya Mulvey
$35.95 AUD
Category: Science
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
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
$16.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die...'. Darwin's theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no being or species has been specifically created; all are locked into a pitiless struggle for existence, with extin ...Show more
Planet of Microbes: The Perils and Potential of Earth's Essential Life Forms by Ted Anton
$49.99 AUD
Category: Science
We live in a time of unprecedented scientific knowledge about the origins of life on Earth. But if we want to grasp the big picture, we have to start small--very small. That's because the real heroes of the story of life on Earth are microbes, the tiny living organisms we cannot see with the naked eye. ...Show more
Shaman: A Novel of the Ice Age by Kim Stanley Robinson
$19.98 AUD
Category: Science
Kim Stanley Robinson, the New York Times bestselling author of science fiction masterworks such as the Mars trilogy and 2312, has, on many occasions, imagined our future. Now, in Shaman, he brings our past to life as never before. There is Thorn, a shaman himself. He lives to pass down his wis ...Show more
1001 Inventions That Changed The World by Jack Challoner
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
Have you ever wondered who came up with a staircase that moved, leading eventually to the creation of the escalator? The genius of some inventions is their simplicity: the paperclip, rivets, boomerangs. Many of the items, processes, concepts, medical firsts, and discoveries in this book are life-saving ...Show more
The Art of Naming by Michael Ohl (Museum fuer Naturkunde)
$59.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: The Art of Naming
From Tyrannosaurus rex to Heteropoda davidbowie: scientific naming as a joyful and creative act. Tyrannosaurus rex. Homo sapiens. Heteropoda davidbowie. Behind each act of scientific naming is a story. In this entertaining and illuminating book, Michael Ohl considers scientific naming as a joyful and cr ...Show more
Catching Stardust: Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System by Natalie Starkey
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
Icy, rocky, sometimes dusty, always mysterious - comets and asteroids are among the Solar System's very oldest inhabitants, formed within a swirling cloud of gas and dust in the area of space that eventually hosted the Sun and its planets. Locked within each of these extra-terrestrial objects is the 4.6 ...Show more
The Cosmic Tourist The 100 Most Awe-Inspiring Places in the Universe by Brian May
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
Take your seats for an out-of-this-word tour through the Cosmos! Brian May, Patrick Moore, and Chris Lintott--authors of Bang!--fly us from Earth to the farthest-out galaxies. Along the way, we stop and gaze at 100 amazing sights, from asteroids to zodiacal dust. And each of our three tour guides has a ...Show more
Dawn of the New Everything: A Journey Through Virtual Reality by Jaron Lanier
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
Jaron Lanier, 'the father of Virtual Reality a a high-tech genius' (Sunday Times), tells the extraordinary story of how in just over three decades Virtual Reality went from being a dream to a reality - and how its power to turn dreams into realities will transform us and our world.Virtual Reality has lo ...Show more