Wildhood by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, Kathryn Bowers
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
A revelatory investigation of human and animal adolescence and young adulthood from the New York Times bestselling authors of Zoobiquity. Teenagers- behind the banter, the tediously repetitive games and clicks, the shouting and screaming, the fast living, and the strutting and preening lie the rules of ...Show more
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death by Caitlin Doughty
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
What happens if someone dies on a plane?Can we give Grandma a Viking funeral?Why don't animals dig up all the graves?Will my hair keep growing in my coffin after I'm buried?Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. In this book she offers factual, hilarious an ...Show more
Women on Nature: 100+ Voices on Place, Landscape & the Natural World
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
'An entertaining and eclectic anthology of nature writing by women about the ‘east Atlantic archipelago’ or British isles.…For readers in search of a new take on the genre, this is a great place to start.' — Publishers WeeklyNow in paperback — a landmark gathering of writing, by women, about the natural ...Show more
Wonders of the Solar System by Brian Cox; Andrew Cohen
$39.99 AUD
Category: Science
Taking readers on a breathtaking visual and scientific adventure, renowned physicist Brian Cox reveals the Solar System as you have never seen it before: from Saturn's moons, where giant ice fountains spout into space and oceans are made of liquid methane, to Jupiter, where storms rage that are twice th ...Show more
Working With Nature by Jeremy Purseglove
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science
From cocoa farming in Ghana to the orchards of Kent and the desert badlands of Pakistan, taking a practical approach to sustaining the landscape can mean the difference between prosperity and ruin. Working with Nature is the story of a lifetime of work, often in extreme environments, to harvest nature a ...Show more
Worlds in Shadow: Submerged Lands in Science, Memory and Myth by Patrick Nunn
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science
The traces of much of human history and that which preceded it lie beneath the ocean surface; broken up, dispersed, often buried and always mysterious. This is fertile ground for speculation, even myth-making, but also a topic on which geologists and climatologists have increasingly focused in recent de ...Show more
Written In Bone by Sue Black
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science
From the world's foremost forensic anthropologist and bestselling author of All That Remains, this book is an exploration - from skull to feet - of how our bones reveal all that happens to us in life.THE TIMES- BEST MEMOIRS OF THE YEAR. WINNER OF THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION'Gripping from the sta ...Show more
You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How artificial intelligence works and why it's making the world a weirder place by Janelle Shane
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: near fine
'I can't think of a better way to learn about artificial intelligence, and I've never had so much fun along the way' Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Originals and Option B AI is everywhere. It powers the autocorrect function of your iPhone, helps Google Translate understand the complexi ...Show more
Your Life In My Hands: A Junior Doctor's Story by Rachel Clarke
$16.99 AUD
Category: Science
'I am a junior doctor. It is 4 a.m. I have run arrest calls, treated life-threatening bleeding, held the hand of a young woman dying of cancer, scuttled down miles of dim corridors wanting to sob with sheer exhaustion, forgotten to eat, forgotten to drink, drawn on every fibre of strength that I possess ...Show more
Our Extreme Earth by Anne Rooney
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science
From the otherworldly landscapes of the Atacama Desert to the thundering Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, journey to jaw-dropping habitats around the world and learn about the people and creatures that have adapted to living in such extreme environments. With mind-blowing facts to be amazed by, incredible p ...Show more