How to Thrive in the Digital Age (The School of Life series) by Tom Chatfield
$19.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: The School of Life | Reading Level: 16
Our world is, increasingly, a digital one. Over half of the planet's adult population now spend more of their waking hours 'plugged in' than not, whether to the internet, mobile telephony, or other digital media. To email, text, tweet and blog our way through our careers, relationships and even our fami ...Show more
How to Find Fulfilling Work - The School of Life by Roman Krznaric
$19.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: The School of Life | Reading Level: 16
This is a book about how to take working life in new directions how to negotiate the labyrinth of choices, how to think about personal ambitions and motivations, and ultimately how to take concrete steps to finding a fulfilling career. It is a self-help book with a difference. Standard career guides are ...Show more
Atlas of the Southern Night Sky (3rd ed) by Steve Massey
$45.00 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Released to coincide with the transit of Venus on June 5-6 2012, "Atlas of the Southern Night Sky" allows you to unlock the wonder of the cosmos with all the maps and photographs needed to guide you. This new and revised edition is packed with useful information, including information on telescopes and ...Show more
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations by David R. Montgomery
$40.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Dirt, soil, call it what you want--it's everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence, supporting our feet, our farms, our cities. This fascinating yet disquieting book finds, however, that we are running out of dirt, and it's no laughing matter. An engaging natural and cultural history of soil that ...Show more
Great Migrations: Epic Animal Journeys by Karen Kostyal
$12.99 AUD
$44.95 (71% off)
Category: Pop Science
At a riverbank in Africa's Serengeti, thousands of migrating wildebeest try desperately to cross as terrifying crocs feast on the galloping herds - which must attempt the river for a chance at survival. In the Falkland Islands, the albatross - king of migrations - journeys thousands of miles to nest des ...Show more
Sentinel Chickens: What Birds Tell Us About the World and Our Health by Peter Doherty
$29.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
"The idea of 'sentinel chickens' seemed pretty incongruous when I first heard the phrase as a young undergraduate...The notion of the humble chicken waiting like a trained soldier, alert and focused, for some unseen and approaching enemy just didn't seem likely. Hens en garde!" And yet guard they do. No ...Show more
My Inventions & Other Writings by Nikola Tesla
$29.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Nikola Tesla's life is as interesting for his idiosyncrasy as it is for his brilliance. The inventor's mind knew no limits and his incredible sense of possibility rings through his memoir. This authoritative volume of "My Inventions" includes three additional articles by Tesla which were published in "T ...Show more
Bigger or Better? Australia's Population Debate by Ian Lowe (Griffith University, Queensland)
$34.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
A comprehensive and detailed analysis of the controversial debate about Australia's population numbers. When Kevin Rudd responded to a government forecast that the Australian population could reach 36 million by 2050 by saying he believed in 'a big Australia', there was a strong public reaction. One ins ...Show more
Train Your Brain for Success by R. Seip
$29.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Train your mind to achieve new levels of success! Professionals and entrepreneurs do a great job of keeping up appearances. But if they're honest with themselves, they're short on living the life they really want. Train Your Brain For Success provides the perspective to analyze how you got where you are ...Show more
Survivors - The Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind by Richard Fortey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: good-very good
An awe-inspiring journey through the eons and across the globe in search of visible traces of evolution in the living creatures that have survived from earlier times. In this groundbreaking book, prize-winning science writer Richard Fortey chronicles life's history not through the fossil record, but thr ...Show more
2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years by Jorgen Randers
$32.50 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Forty years ago, The Limits to Growth study addressed the grand question of how humans would adapt to the physical limitations of planet Earth. It predicted that during the first half of the 21st century the ongoing growth in the human ecological footprint would stop-either through catastrophic "oversho ...Show more
2013 Australian Sky Guide by Nick Lomb
$16.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Compact easy to use and reliable, this popular guide contains everything you need to know about the southern night sky with monthly star maps, diagrams and details of all the year's exciting celestial events.