Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin and the Victorian War Between Science and Religion by Michael Taylor
$39.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
Impossible Monsters is the captivating story of the discovery of the dinosaurs and how it upended our understanding of the origins of the world - overturning the literal reading of the Bible, liberating science from the shackles of religion, and giving birth to the secular age.In 1811, a twelve-year-old ...Show more
Managing the Local Climate - A Third Way to Respond to Climate Change by Femke van Woesik; Frank van Steenbergen; Francesco Sambalino; Hugo Jan de Boer; Jean Marc Pace Ricci; Wim Bastiaanssen
$59.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Drawing on practical examples supported by scientific evidence, this book demonstrates how preserving and managing local climates can complement global mitigation and adaptation as a third way to address the effects of climate change. The book outlines the mechanisms that shape the local climate compone ...Show more
Four Ways of Thinking: Statistical, Interactive, Chaotic and Complex by David Sumpter
$39.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
How can we see through the chaos and complexity of our lives?Beyond all the facts and figures, there is just one question at the heart of science- what is the best way to think about the world? Yet in our everyday lives, this is something we rarely consider. How often do we wonder about our own thinking ...Show more
Water - A Natural History by Alice Outwater
$70.00 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
An environmental engineer turned ecology writer relates the history of our waterways and her own growing understanding of what needs to be done to save this essential natural resource. Water: A Natural History takes us back to the diaries of the first Western explorers; it moves from the reservoir to t ...Show more
Water in Plain Sight - Hope for a Thirsty World by Judith Schwartz
$49.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
Water scarcity is on everyone's mind. Long taken for granted, water availability has become dependent on economics, politics, and people's food and lifestyle choices. But as anxiety mounts--and even as a swath of California farmland has been left fallow, and extremist groups worldwide exploit the desper ...Show more
Earth: Over 4 Billion Years in the Making by Chris Packham
$55.00 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
‘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
The Fires Next Time: Understanding Australia's Black Summer by Peter Christoff
$35.00 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
Following a three-year drought and during the hottest and driest year on record, a flume of scorching air set the Australian continent aflame. Australia's Black Summer fires were unprecedented. Over six months in 2019-20 they burned more than ten million hectares of Australia's southern and eastern fore ...Show more
Our Fragile Moment - How lessons from Earth's past can help us survive the climate crisis by Michael Mann
$35.00 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment | Reading Level: ear fine
In this sweeping work of science and history, the renowned climate scientist and author of The New Climate War shows us the conditions on Earth that allowed humans not only to exist but thrive, and how they are imperilled if we veer off course. For the vast majority of its 4.54 billion years, Earth has ...Show more
Life on our Planet by Dr Tom Fletcher
$59.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
Accompanying an 8-part Netflix series from Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment and George Lucas's Industrial Light and Magic, a new 'Walking with Dinosaurs' that offers a stunning re-examination of prehistoric life on Planet Earth. Today there are 20 million species on our planet. Yet what we see is ...Show more
365 Awesome Science Experiments
$99.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
From understanding the smallest molecules, to learning about the vastness of the solar system, science has never been more fun. Build a volcano; make a tornado in a bottle; build a mini rocket; make your own bubbles and much more! For parents there are symbols with every experiment to help guide childre ...Show more
Engineering : An Illustrated History From Ancient Craft To Modern Technology by Tom Jackson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment | Series: Ponderables Ser.
From ancient aqueducts to soaring skyscrapers, explore engineering milestones over the centuries. Combining engaging text with captivating images and helpful diagrams, renowned science writer Tom Jackson guides readers through the history of Engineering in this engaging installment of the groundbreaking ...Show more
The Handover by David Runciman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
Does it matter if we are ceding power to AI? Especially if we have been there before. 'The Singularity' is what Silicon Valley calls the idea that, eventually, we will be overrun by machines that are able to take decisions and act for themselves. What no one says is that it happened before. A few hundr ...Show more