How Are We Going to Explain This? by Jelmer Mommers
$22.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
An international bestseller, the first climate book that doesn't leave the reader depressed: realistic and hopeful, witty and clarifying.
Outbreaks and Epidemics by Meera Senthilingam
$19.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: Hot Science Ser.
The latest title in Icon's Hot Science series, exploring the cutting edge of science and technology. For centuries mankind has waged war against the infections that, left untreated, would have the power to wipe out communities, or even entire populations. Yet for all our advanced scientific knowledge, o ...Show more
The Ethical Omnivore: A Practical Guide ..and 60 nose-to-tail recipes for sustainable meat eating by Laura Dalrymple; Grant Hilliard
$39.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Can you have your meat and eat it too? An ethical cookbook for readers of Michael Pollan, Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals, Fergus Henderson, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Matthew Evans. We live in an affluent era marked by an increasingly fraught relationship to food, and meat is arguably the mo ...Show more
Entangled Life - How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
$58.00 AUD
Category: Pop Science
A mind-bending journey into the hidden universe of fungi, "one of those rare books that can truly change the way you see the world around you" (Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk). "Dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing . . . a remarkable work by a remarkable writer, which succeeds in springing l ...Show more
Body Count: How Climate Change is Killing Us by Paddy Manning
$32.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
'Our house is on fire,' 16-year-old Swedish school strike activist Greta Thunberg told world leaders in 2019. Across an angry year of weather, Australians watched it in real-time: record heatwaves and worsening drought, unprecedented fish kills in the Murray-Darling Basin and devastating wildfires acros ...Show more
Desert Notebooks - Journals for the End of Time by Ben Ehrenreich
$47.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Layering climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences, National Magazine Award winner Ben Ehrenreich "has built a potent memorial to our own ongoing end-times" (The New York Times Book Review). As inhabitants of the Anthropocene, what might some of our own histories tell us abo ...Show more
The Comedy of Error: Why Evolution Made Us Laugh by Jonathan Silvertown
$29.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
What is humour? Why do we laugh? And why is the root of a good joke almost always error? Good jokes, bad jokes, clever jokes, dad jokes -- the desire to laugh is universal. But why do we find some gags hilarious, whilst others fall flat? Why does explaining a joke make it less amusing rather than more s ...Show more
Boneheads and Brainiacs - Heroes and Scoundrels of the Nobel Prize in Medicine by Moira Dolan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Even the greatest minds in medicine have been terribly, terribly wrong. The inventor of the lobotomy won a Nobel prize in medicine for destroying his patients' brains. Another Nobel laureate thought malaria cured syphilis. The discoverer of anaphylactic shock also researched the spirit world and ESP. A ...Show more
The Climate Cure: Solving the Climate Emergency in the Era of COVID-19 by Tim Flannery
$24.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Australians are witnessing an unprecedented government response to crisis-swift decisive action to avert catastrophe. And the advice of scientists has informed every step of the way. But for decades the advice of scientists on the impending catastrophe that climate change will bring has been ignored, di ...Show more
Ecocide - Kill the Corporation Before It Kills Us by David Whyte
$22.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science | Series: Manchester University Press Ser.
We have reached the point of no return. The existential threat of climate change is now a reality. The world has never been more vulnerable. Yet corporations are already planning a life beyond this point. The business models of fossil fuel giants factor in continued profitability in a scenario of a five ...Show more
The Citizen's Guide to Climate Success - Overcoming Myths That Hinder Progress by Mark Jaccard
$36.95 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Sometimes solving climate change seems impossibly complex, and it is hard to know what changes we all can and should make to help. This book offers hope. Drawing on the latest research, Mark Jaccard shows us how to recognize the absolutely essential actions (decarbonizing electricity and transport) and ...Show more
Climate Emergency Atlas by .
$24.99 AUD
Category: Pop Science
Our house is on fire - it's time to wake up to the climate crisis facing planet Earth before it's too late. Which countries generate the highest CO2 emissions? Which coastal cities are most vulnerable to rising sea levels? What will the polar ice caps look like in 10 years' time? Which countries have su ...Show more