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.
Unintelligent Design : Why God isn't as smart as She thinks She is by Robyn Williams
$17.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Why make the earth, the solar system, our galaxy and all the rest when the Garden of Eden was all that was wanted? And then there's lifespan. During long periods of human history, the life expectancy of men was a mere 22 years and children were lucky to toddle, let alone grow up. Why the waste? And shou ...Show more
Fire: Nature and Culture by Stephen J. Pyne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: Earth S.
Fire has been an integral feature of our planet for over 400 million years. It has defined human culture from the beginning; it is something without which we cannot survive. While among the most destructive forces on Earth, fire displays equally tremendous powers of cleansing and renewal. Whether huntin ...Show more
QI: The Book of the Dead by John Lloyd
$19.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
'"The QI Book of the Dead" is a book about life. What an awful thing life is. It's like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless' - Gustave Flaubert. Around 90 billion people have existed since the human race began. From this huge number, the bestselling QI team s ...Show more
Music and the Mind: Ballentine Books Edition by Anthony Storr
$24.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: From 2 to 12
Why does music have such a powerful effect on our minds and bodies? It is the most mysterious and most intangible of all forms of art. Yet, Anthony Storr believes, music today is a deeply significant experience for a greater number of people than ever before. In this challenging book, he explores why th ...Show more
The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age by Richard Louv
$24.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
For many of us, thinking about the future conjures up images of Cormac McCarthye(tm)s The Road: a post-apocalyptic dystopia stripped of nature. Richard Louv, author of the landmark bestseller Last Child in the Woods, urges us to change our vision of the future, suggesting that if we reconceive environme ...Show more
How to Think Like Sherlock: Improve Your Powers of Observation, Memory and Deduction by Daniel Smith
$19.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: How to Think Like Ser.
'You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear'. Such were the words of the master detective Sherlock Holmes to Dr Watson, as he noted how his friend failed to implement Holmes' techniques. In "How to think like Sherlock" you will learn how to increase your powers of observation, memory, ded ...Show more
Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own by David Toomey
$32.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Recently, scientists at the frontiers of biology have hypothesised the existence of life-forms that can only be called "weird": organisms that live off acid rather than water, microbes that thrive at temperatures and pressure levels so extreme that their cellular structures should break down, even organ ...Show more
Air: The Restless Shaper of the World by Bryant
$22.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Air sustains the living. Every creature breathes to live, exchanging and changing the atmosphere. Water and dust spin and rise, make clouds and fall again, fertilising the earth. Twenty thousand fungal spores and half a million bacteria travel in a square foot of summer air. The chemical sense of aphids ...Show more
Sync: How Order Emerges From Chaos In the Universe, Nature and Daily Life by Steven H. Strogatz
$27.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
The tendency to synchronize may be the most mysterious and pervasive drive in all of nature. It has intrigued some of the most brilliant minds of the 20th century, including Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Norbert Wiener, Brian Josephson, and Arthur Winfree. At once elegant and riveting, Sync tells th ...Show more
Darwin's Black Box by Michael J. Behe
$40.00 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Reading Level: General Adult
Ten years ago, Darwin's Black Box launched the Intelligent Design movement: the argument that nature exhibits evidence of design, beyond Darwinian randomness. Today, the movement is stronger than ever, and the book is a classic and an international bestseller. At last, Michael Behe has updated the boo ...Show more
Vagina: A New Biography by Naomi Wolf
$19.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
An astonishing new work that radically changes how we think about, talk about and understand the vagina - and consequently how we think about women and sexuality - from Naomi Wolf, one of our most respected cultural critics and author of the modern classic, The Beauty Myth. Vagina: A New Biography combi ...Show more