Nomad Century by Gaia Vince
$24.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE
We are facing a species emergency. With every degree of temperature rise, a billion people will be displaced from the zone in which humans have lived for thousands of years. From Bangladesh to Sudan to the western United States, and in cities from Cardiff to New Orleans to Shanghai, the quadruple threat ...Show more
A Book of Noises: Notes on the Auraculous by Caspar Henderson
$36.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE
A wide-ranging exploration of the sounds that shape our world in invisible yet significant ways.The crackling of a campfire. The scratch, hiss, and pop of a vinyl record. The first glug of wine as it is poured from a bottle. These are just a few of writer Caspar Henderson's favorite sounds. In A Book of ...Show more
Darwin's Sacred Cause : Race, slavery & the quest for human origins by Adrian J. Desmond & James Moore
$40.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
This book, by Darwin's most celebrated modern biographers, gives a completely new explanation of how he came to his shattering theories about human origins. Until now, Desmond and Moore argue, the source of the moral fire which gives such intensity and urgency to Darwin's ideas has gone unnoticed. By ex ...Show more
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia MD
$35.00 AUD
Category: SCIENCE
This is the ultimate manual for longevity.For all its successes, mainstream medicine has failed to make much progress against the diseases of ageing that kill most people- heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and type 2 diabetes. Too often, it intervenes with treatments too late, prolonging lifes ...Show more
Fevered Planet: How Diseases Emerge When We Harm Nature by John Vidal
$34.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE
A timely and urgent investigation from John Vidal, Environment Editor of the Guardian for nearly thirty years, into how the destruction of nature is releasing disease into our societies 'Urgent, fascinating and essential' GEORGE MONBIOT 'A searing, vital work' BETTANY HUGHES Covid-19, mpox, bird flu, ...Show more
In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonder of Complex Systems by Giorgio Parisi
$39.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE
From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, an enlightening and personal journey into the practice of ground-breaking science - a #1 bestseller in ItalyThe world is shaped by complexity. In this enlightening book, Nobel Prize winner Giorgio Parisi guides us through his unorthodox yet exhilarating work ...Show more
Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life: The definitive visual guide to prehistoric animals by DK
$65.00 AUD
Category: SCIENCE
"Visitors to a natural history museum could not explore the number of examples contained here" - BooklistFascinating and authoritative, this book is an unprecedented survey of millions of years of life on planet Earth. Featuring an incredible mix of 3-D reconstructions, extraordinary skeletons, and amaz ...Show more
Interstellar - The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future Beyond Earth by Avi Loeb
$34.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE
'LOEB IS AN ASTRONOMICAL SHERLOCK HOLMES' Washington Post'A JOY IN CONJECTURE AND AN OMNIVOROUS SPIRIT OF INQUIRY. . . CARL SAGAN WOULD HAVE LIKED THIS BOOK' The TimesIn 2017, Avi Loeb, Chair of Harvard's Astronomy Department, went public with a theory that shook the scientific community - our solar sys ...Show more
Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth by Avi Loeb
$22.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE
New York Times Bestseller Wall Street Journal Bestseller Publishers Weekly Bestseller Publishers Marketplace 2020 Buzz Book Amazon Best Book of the Year Longlisted for the 2022 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "Provocative and thrilling ... Loeb asks us to think big and to expect the u ...Show more
What If?2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
$24.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE
'Nerd royalty' Ben Goldacre'Laugh-out-loud funny' Bill Gates'Totally brilliant' Tim HarfordWHAT IF you still had so many more strange questions about the universe?And WHAT IF Randall Munroe, former NASA roboticist and xkcd creator, were prepared to move mountains, fill the solar system with soup and alt ...Show more