Frozen Planet by Alastair Fothergill & Vanessa Berlowitz
$55.00 AUD
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
$29.99 AUD
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
$29.99 AUD
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
$39.99 AUD
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
$29.99 AUD
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
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond
$29.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment | Reading Level: very good
'A grand sweep from a master storyteller of the human race' DAILY MAIL 'Riveting, superb, terrifying' OBSERVER From the ghostly stone heads of Easter Island to crumbling Mayan cities hidden deep in the jungle, the mysterious ruins of lost worlds and vanished civilizations continue to haunt us. How could ...Show more
A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionised the Cosmos by Dava Sobel
$35.00 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment | Reading Level: very good
During the 1530s, rumours of a potentially revolutionary theory of how the heavens worked emanating from a small city in Poland began to spread throughout Europe. The architect of this theory was a Polish cleric named Nicolaus Copernicus. In around 1514 Copernicus had written and hand-copied an initial ...Show more
Born in Africa: The Quest for the Origins of Human Life by Martin Meredith
$39.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
Africa does not give up its secrets easily. Buried there lie answers about the origins of humankind and the dawn of civilisation. Through a century of archaeological investigation, scientists have transformed our understanding of the beginnings of human life, although vital clues still remain hidden. I ...Show more
The Magic of Reality - How We Know What's Really True by Richard Dawkins; Dave McKean (Illustrator)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment | Reading Level: very good
Richard Dawkins, the world's most famous evolutionary biologist, presents a gorgeously lucid, science book examining some of the nature's most fundamental questions both from a mythical and scientific perspective. Science is our most precise and powerful tool for making sense of the world. Before we dev ...Show more