How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics by Michael Pollan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science & Nature
Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most revered writers takes us on a mind-altering journey to the frontiers of human consciousness. 'It's as if we made entering gothic cathedrals illegal, or museums, or sunsets!' When LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it seemed to resea ...Show more
White Holes: Inside the Horizon by Carlo Rovelli
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science & Nature
A mesmerizing trip to the strange new world of white holes, from Carlo Rovelli, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics. Let us journey, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli, into the heart of a black hole. Let us slip beyond its boundary, the horizon, and tumble - on and on - down thi ...Show more
An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family by Alison Bashford
$59.99 AUD
Category: Science & Nature
'This is history with the engaging intimacy of a novel. Bashford brilliantly marries intellectual history with the story of four generations in a literary tour de force' Professor Jim Secord, author of Visions of Science 'Packed with insights ... tells a magnificent story about the huge personalities a ...Show more
Full of Life: Exploring Earth's Biodiversity by Isabel Thomas
$34.95 AUD
Category: Science & Nature
Science meets design in this graphically stunning introductory tour of Earth's amazing biodiversity This artful and accessible guide to Earth's Tree of Life - the reference tool used by scientists to organize the incredible variety of living things on our planet - helps young readers understand how ever ...Show more
Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change by Nathaniel Rich
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Category: Science & Nature
By 1979, we knew all that we know now about the science of climate change - what was happening, why it was happening and how to stop it. Over the next ten years, we had the very real opportunity to stop it. Obviously, we failed. Nathaniel Rich's groundbreaking account of that failure - and how tantalis ...Show more
To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Lindsey N. Walker
$54.99 AUD
Category: Science & Nature
Linked to a special mini season of the award-winning StarTalk podcast, this enlightening illustrated narrative by the world's most celebrated astrophysicist explains the universe from the solar system to the farthest reaches of space with authority and humor. No one can make the mysteries of the univers ...Show more
Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
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Category: Science & Nature
An ambitious, eye-opening, myth-busting and groundbreaking history of the evolution of the female body, by a brilliant new scientist and writer. How did wet nurses drive civilization? Are women always the weaker sex? Is sexism useful for evolution? And are our bodies at war with our babies? In Eve, Ca ...Show more
The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us If We Let Them by Peter Wohlleben
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Category: Science & Nature
The follow-up to the international bestseller The Hidden Life of Trees, offering compelling insights into the lungs of our planet and the fragility of our intertwined futures. Trees can survive without humans, but we can't live without trees. Even if human-caused climate change devastates our plant, tr ...Show more
Phaenomena: Doppelmayr's Celestial Atlas by Giles Sparrow
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Category: Science & Nature
A beautiful showcase of Johann Doppelmayr's magnificent Atlas Coelestis that deconstructs its intricately drawn plates and explores its influential ideas. Showcasing Johann Doppelmayr's magnificent 1742 map of the cosmos, Atlas Coelestis, this spectacular guide to the heavens is also a superb introducti ...Show more
Why Do Birds Do That?: Over fifty answers to the most often asked questions by Grainne Cleary
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science & Nature
An entrancing, informative book filled with answers to many of the common questions we ask about birds and their lives. For thousands of years birds have fascinated us. We've observed what they do - their behaviours, their characteristics, their survival skills, the food they eat and their habitats - an ...Show more
Humanity's Moment: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope by Joëlle Gergis
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Category: Science & Nature
Acknowledging that the world as we know it is coming apart is an act of courage. If I live to look back at this troubled time, I want to say that I did all that I could, that I was on the right side of history. The question is, do you want to be part of the legacy that restores our faith in humanity? Wh ...Show more
Mage Merlin's Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries by Satyan Devadoss, Matt Harvey
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Category: Science & Nature
Sixteen of today's greatest unsolved mathematical puzzles in a story-driven, illustrated volume that invites readers to peek over the edge of the unknown.Most people think of mathematics as a set of useful tools designed to answer analytical questions, beginning with simple arithmetic and ending with ad ...Show more