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Strange Harvests: The Hidden Histories of Seven Natural Objects
$12.00
Author: Edward Posnett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 "[Strange Harvests is] an impressive addition to the modern travelogue, painting some of the world's most remote terrain in visceral and...
Animals of Australia
Author: Jo Parker Format: Board book Number of Pages: 14 Explore the Australian Outback to find koalas, kangaroos, crocodiles, and more! Did you know kangaroos can jump 10 feet high?...
Beautiful Pigs: Portraits of champion breeds
Author: Andy Case Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 Featuring commissioned studio photography of fine breeds styled from snout to tail, the animals showcased here just love to...
The Magicians: Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science
Author: Marcus Chown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Marcus Chown rocks!' - Brian May How does it feel to know something about the universe that no one...
Primate Change: How the world we made is remaking us
Author: Vybarr Cregan-Reid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'A work of remarkable scope' - Guardian FT Best science books of 2018 PRIMATE CHANGE has been adapted into...
The Hidden Mathematics of Sport
Author: Rob Eastaway Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 This fascinating book explores the mathematics involved in all your favourite sports. The Hidden Mathematics of Sport takes a unique and...
What Does Rain Smell Like?: Discover the fascinating answers to the most curious weather questions from two expert meteorologists
Author: Simon King, OBE Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Why doesn't rain fall all at once? Can technology change the track of a hurricane? What's the weather like on...
Beautiful Sheep: Portraits of champion breeds
Author: Kathryn Dun Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 This stunning collection of portraits shows sheep as you've never seen them before. Featuring commissioned studio photography of champion...
The Trials of Life: A Natural History of Animal Behaviour
Author: David Attenborough Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough's classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet , ecology,...
Wild Life: 50 Projects to Rewild Your Life From the Home to Outdoors
Author: Anna Carlile Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Wild Life is an achingly beautiful gift book that introduces the concept of rewilding. No matter whether you live in the...
The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience
$17.50
Author: Matthew Cobb Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 An "elegant", "engrossing" (Carol Tavris, Wall Street Journal) examination of what we think we know about the brain and why --...
The Sydney Harbour Bridge (Revised edition)
Author: Peter Spearritt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 '...clear, concise and vibrant history takes the reader on the journey from 19th-century dreams to 20th-century reality.' - Troy Lennon, Daily...
Blue: A Scientist's Search for Nature's Rarest Colour
Author: Kai Kupferschmidt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A globe-trotting quest to find blue in the natural world - and to understand our collective obsession with this bewitching colour....
To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration
Author: Edward Larson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a "suspenseful" (WSJ) and "adrenaline-fueled" (Outside) entwined narrative of...
How Long is a Piece of String?: More hidden mathematics of everyday life
Author: Rob Eastaway Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 A fascinating book, from a leading maths educator and demystifier, that shows how maths is relevant to our everyday lives. Have...
Wild Child: Coming Home to Nature
Author: Patrick Barkham (Y) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From climbing trees and making dens, to building sandcastles and pond-dipping, many of the activities we associate with a happy...
The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
$15.00
Author: Jon Gertner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic...
How to Build a Healthy Brain: Reduce stress, anxiety and depression and future-proof your brain
Author: Kimberley Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'A practical manual for your brain.' - Dr Megan Rossi, author of Eat Yourself Healthy A groundbreaking science-based guide...
Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals
Author: Jack Ashby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Winner of the Whitley Award for Best Natural History Book 2022 A compelling, funny, first-hand account of Australia's wonderfully...
The Mathematics Devotional: Celebrating the Wisdom and Beauty of Mathematics
Author: Clifford A. Pickover Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 392 From the ingenious author of The Math Book and The Physics Book comes an inspirational volume that celebrates the beauty...
Plagues and Pandemics: Black Death, Coronaviruses and Other Killer Diseases Throughout History
Author: Douglas Boyd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 216 All you need for a plague to go pandemic are population clusters and travellers spreading the bacterial or viral pathogens. Many...
Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians
$20.00
Author: Dr Ian Stewart (University of Warwick) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A celebrated mathematician traces the history of math through the lives and work of twenty-five pioneering mathematicians...
Epic Expeditions: 25 Great Explorations into the Unknown
Author: Ed Stafford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 262 'A fascinating and unique look at these celebrated expeditions.' -Sir Ranulph Fiennes Explorer and survival expert Ed Stafford looks...
Sharks: A History of Fear in Australia
Author: Callum Denness Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 For as long as people have lived in Australia, the shark has loomed large in our fears. From the...
Slime: A Natural History
Author: Susanne Wedlich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Slime is an ambiguous thing. It exists somewhere between a solid and liquid. It inspires revulsion even while it compels our...
Space Dogs: The Story of the Celebrated Canine Cosmonauts
Author: Martin Parr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 This fascinating book tells the story of the Soviet space dogs, illustrated with legendary photographer Martin Parr's vintage space-dog...
30-Second Climate: The 50 most topical events, measures and conditions, each explained in half a minute
Author: Joanna D Haigh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Weather and climate are not the same. Weather is what occurs outdoors on a daily basis and is unpredictable from...
Mathematical Intelligence: What We Have that Machines Don't
Author: Junaid Mubeen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 There's so much talk about the threat posed by intelligent machines that it sometimes seems as though we should surrender to...
Why It's Not All Rocket Science: Scientific Theories and Experiments Explained
Author: Robert Cave Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Robert Cave examines 100 extraordinary projects, theories and experiments that have been conducted in the name of science. Some, including various...
3-Minute Stephen Hawking: Digesting his life, theories and influence in 3-minute morsels
Author: Paul Parsons Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 The 3-Minute series offers the essence of the world's most important figures with all the padding removed. It divides up their...
100 Things to See in the Southern Night Sky: From Planets and Satellites to Meteors and Constellations, Your Guide to Stargazing
Author: Dean Regas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 A handy field guide for the optimum stargazing experience, whether you're travelling, camping, or in your own backyard! The night sky...
The Hawk's Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty
Author: Sy Montgomery Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 A splendid and luminous celebration of one of nature's most perfect and mysterious creatures-the hawk-from the New York Times bestselling author...
Flames of Extinction: The race to save Australia's threatened wildlife
Author: John Pickrell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Scientists estimate more than three billion native animals were killed or displaced during Australia's Black Summer bushfire season. Many species -...
Astroquizzical - The Illustrated Edition: Solving the Cosmic Puzzles of our Planets, Stars, and Galaxies
Author: Jillian Scudder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Looking up at the night sky, it is almost impossible to imagine that we can trace our common ancestry with the...
Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World
Author: Emma Marris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Winner of the 2022 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award * Winner of the 2022 Science in Society Journalism Award (Books) *...
The Earth: From Myths to Knowledge
Author: Hubert Krivine Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Our planet's elliptical orbit around the Sun and its billions-of-years existence are facts we take for granted, matters every literate high...
How Are We Going to Explain This?: Our Future on a Hot Earth
Author: Jelmer Mommers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Over five years covering climate change, Jelmer Mommers has learned that the subject is a great way to ruin...
The Car: The rise and fall of the machine that made the modern world
Author: Bryan Appleyard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 More than any other technology, cars have transformed our culture. Cars have created vast wealth as well as novel dreams of...
The Planets
Author: Professor Brian Cox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'So staggering you go "whoa!" every few seconds' Guardian 'Really impressive' Eamonn Holmes, ITV This Morning A companion book to...
Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
$12.00
Author: Gaia Vince Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In the tradition of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Sapiens, a winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books shows...
The Deep History Of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains
Author: Joseph LeDoux Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A leading neuroscientist offers a history of the evolution of the brain from unicellular organisms to the complexity of animals and...
The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age
$15.00
Author: Gino Segre Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo. Called the Pope...
30-Second Space Travel: 50 key ideas, inventions, and destinations that have inspired humanity toward the heavens
Author: Charles Liu Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 As Space X works to reduce the barriers of access to space and Virgin Galactic forges a path to commercial spaceflight...
Horrible Geography of the World
$8.00
Author: Anita Ganeri Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 Geography with the gritty bits left in! Inside you'll find out what happens when a volcano turns nasty whether you'd survive...
H is for Hawk
Author: Helen Macdonald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 **WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR** **WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION** **WINNER OF THE PRIX DU...
What Do You Think You Are?: The Science of What Makes You You
Author: Brian Clegg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Popular science master Brian Clegg's new book is an entertaining tour through the science of what makes you you. From the...
The Language of Butterflies: How Thieves, Hoarders, Scientists, and Other Obsessives Unlocked the Secrets of the World's Favorite Insect
$15.00
Author: Wendy Williams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 In this "deeply personal and lyrical book" (Publishers Weekly) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Horse, Wendy Williams...
Bush Life: Stories from the beating heart of rural Australia
Author: Beauty in the Bush Collective Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 There's an authenticity to bush life - an appreciation of raw beauty, simple rituals and genuine people. A...