Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment | Reading Level: very good
First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. "Silent Spring became a runaway bestseller, with international re ...Show more
Back from the Brink: How Australia's Landscape Can be Saved by Peter Andrews; John Williams (Foreword by); Gerry Harvey (Foreword by)
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Category: Popular Science/Environment
Peter Andrews is a racehorse breeder and farmer credited with remarkable success in converting degraded, salt-ravaged properties into fertile, drought-resistant pastures. His methods are so at odds with conventional scientific wisdom that for 30 years he has been dismissed and ridiculed as a madman. He ...Show more
Mapping the Universe : The Interactive History of Astronomy by Paul Murdin
$59.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
Tells the story of man's quest through the ages to unlock the secrets of our universe, understand where we come from and where we are going. This title follows this journey for knowledge from the first musings of Stone Age people on the position of the stars and planets in the sky, to Galileo's first vi ...Show more
Cooler, Smarter: Practical Steps for Low-carbon Living by Union of Concerned Scientists
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Category: Popular Science/Environment
How can each of us live Cooler, Smarter? While the routine decisions that shape our days - what to have for dinner, where to shop, how to get to work - may seem small, collectively they have a big effect on global warming. But which changes in our lifestyles might make the biggest difference to the clim ...Show more
Frozen Planet by Alastair Fothergill & Vanessa Berlowitz
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Category: Popular Science/Environment
"Frozen Planet" is the exciting successor to the ground-breaking "Planet Earth" and "Blue Planet" series, and has been created by the same award-winning team. Most of us will never travel to these great wildernesses and, even for those lucky enough to have gone, this portrait of our polar regions will s ...Show more
The Southern Sky Guide by David Ellyard
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Category: Popular Science/Environment
A unique handy reference to the skies visible from the countries in the Southern Hemisphere.Features 24 charts of the whole southern sky showing what is visible early and late each month,The ideal companion volume to A Walk throught the Southern sky
Rocks and Minerals (Eyewitness Expert) by .
$45.00 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
Grow a real crystal and find out how a mountain is made. Through an exciting mix of experiments, information, and hands-on projects, five to eight year olds can investigate the intriguing world of rocks and minerals for themselves. Pack includes real rock and mineral specimens and a magnifying glass; 80 ...Show more
The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe by Theodore Gray, Nick Mann
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Category: Popular Science/Environment
The Elements has become an international sensation, with over one million copies in-print worldwide. The highly-anticipated paperback edition of The Elements is finally available. An eye-opening, original collection of gorgeous, never-before-seen photographic representations of the 118 elements in th ...Show more
The Complete World of Human Evolution by Chris Stringer
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Category: Popular Science/Environment
Human domination of our earth is now so complete that it is easy to forget how recently our role in the history of our planet began: the earliest apes evolved around 20 million years ago, yet homo sapiens has existed for a mere 160,000 years. In the intervening period, dozens of species of early ape and ...Show more
Memoirs of An Addicted Brain - A Neuroscientist Examines His Former Life on drugs by Marc Lewis
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Category: Popular Science/Environment | Series: The\Addicted Brain Ser.
A gripping, ultimately triumphant memoir that's also the most comprehensive and comprehensible study of the neuroscience of addiction written for the general public. FROM THE INTRODUCTION: "We are prone to a cycle of craving what we don't have, finding it, using it up or losing it, and then craving it ...Show more