When the Sahara Was Green - How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be by Martin Williams
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
The little-known history of how the Sahara was transformed from a green and fertile land into the largest hot desert in the world The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, equal in size to China or the United States. Yet, this arid expanse was once a verdant, pleasant land, fed by rivers and la ...Show more
Wired for Music: A Search for Health and Joy Through the Science of Sound by Adriana Barton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
In this captivating blend of science and memoir, a health journalist and former cellist explores music as a source of health, resilience, connection, and joy. Music isn't just background noise or a series of torturous exercises we remember from piano lessons. In the right doses, it can double as a mild ...Show more
Underground Lovers: Encounters with fungi by Alison Pouliot
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
'Mists waft gently around me and slowly drizzle water through the fronds of tree ferns. Lichens wrap around twisted blackwood limbs like ornate scarves. In the gloom of the forest floor, fallen branches are sheathed with fungal stripes of yellow and purple. But beneath the colourful surface, the fallen ...Show more
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
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
Dust: The Story of the Modern World in a Trillion Particles by Jay Owens
$34.99 AUD
Category: Science
DUST is unmistakably a major book in the making. This is a book with an extraordinary global story to tell, but - and - also with an ethical argument to advance. - Robert Macfarlane Four-and-a-half billion years ago, Planet Earth was formed from a vast spinning nebula of cosmic dust, the detritus left ...Show more
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
Earth: Over 4 Billion Years in the Making by Chris Packham
$55.00 AUD
Category: Science
‘Combines the natural history of programmes such as David Attenborough’s Planet Earth with the planetary focus of Brian Cox’s Universe’ Guardian A beautiful, full colour book to accompany the 5 part BBC TV series telling the most important story of all, the deep history of our own planet. With the trade ...Show more
Birds - Deluxe Series: Deluxe Series by Simon Papps
$49.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Deluxe Ser.
The second title in the new and lavish ‘Deluxe’ natural history series from Reed New Holland, this book is packed with sumptuous photography of more than one hundred of the world’s most amazing bird species. So many people watch birds, perhaps because they can be seen almost anywhere. Look out of any wi ...Show more
Quantum Supremacy: How Quantum Computers will Unlock the Mysteries of Science - and Address Humanity's Biggest Challenges by Michio Kaku
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
"The runaway success of the microchip processor may be nearing its end, with profound implications for our economy, society and way of life, even leaving Silicon Valley as a new Rust Belt, its technology obsolete. Step forward the quantum computer, which harnesses the power and complexity of the atomic ...Show more
A Year in Numbers by Kyle D. Evans
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
Did you know:-Only around 100 people have ever lived beyond a million hours (that's about 114 years)-Around 7% of everyone who has ever lived is currently alive-The '12 days of Christmas' song, when sung in full, results in 364 gifts being given - one for every day... except ChristmasBroken down into 12 ...Show more