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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...
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...
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,...
Secrets in the Skies: Galileo and the Astonishing Solar System
Author: James Weston Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 48 Secrets in the Skies delves deep into the life and discoveries of the world's most famous stargazer, Galileo Galilei, and...
Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
Author: Kermit Pattison Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 "Riveting. ... Pattison's uncanny ability [is] to write evocatively about science. ... In this, he is every bit as...
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....
The Science That Changed the World: Remarkable Discoveries and Breakthroughs
Author: Stuart Kumar-Terry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 72 History is full of men and women who asked big questions and found exciting answers. People are still making incredible discoveries...
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...
Flight of the Budgerigar: An Illustrated History
Author: Penny Olsen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 260 *Longlisted for the ABIA Book Awards 2022: Small Publishers' Adult Book of the Year* The Budgerigar is arguably Australia's best-known bird....
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...
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...
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 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...
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 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...
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...
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to...
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...
Urban Arboreal: A Modern Glossary of City Trees
Author: Michael Jordan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Trees are an important part of the life of many cities. Whether in avenues or parks they provide shade, a green...
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...
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...
Around the World in 80 Birds
Author: Mike Unwin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 This beautiful and inspiring book tells the stories of 80 birds around the world: from the Sociable Weaver Bird in Namibia...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey Into Space
$15.00
Author: Stephen Walker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 "This remarkable account of the 1961 race into space is a thrilling piece of storytelling. . . . It is high...
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...
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...
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 Right Stuff
Author: Tom Wolfe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 What is it, I wondered, that makes a man willing to sit on top of an enormous Roman Candle,...
Out There: A Scientific Guide to Alien Life, Antimatter, and Human Space Travel (For the Cosmically Curious)
Author: Michael Wall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 We've all asked ourselves the question. It's impossible to look up at the stars and NOT think about it: Are we...
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...
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) *...
Uluru: Kata Tjuta and Watarrka National Parks Field Guide
Author: Anne Kerle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 202 This handy guide is your key to the secrets of the most famous National Parks of Australia's Red Centre. It will...
Why do Buses Come in Threes?: The hidden mathematics of everyday life
Author: Rob Eastaway Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 An entertaining guide to how maths is relevant to our everyday lives. An entertaining guide to how maths is relevant to...
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 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...
The Magic of Reality: How we know what's really true
Author: Richard Dawkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 An inspiring introduction to science and a fascinating exploration of the natural world. Magic takes many forms. The ancient...
Proof!: How the World Became Geometrical
$15.00
Author: Amir Alexander Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 An eye-opening narrative of how geometric principles fundamentally shaped our world On a cloudy day in 1413, a balding young man...
fforest: Being, doing & making in nature
Author: Sian Tucker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Calming to the soul and good for us all, spending time outdoors offers us precious breathing space away from the stresses...
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...
Dinomania: Why We Love, Fear and Are Utterly Enchanted by Dinosaurs
Author: Boria Sax Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 At once reptilian and avian, dinosaurs enable us to imagine a world far beyond the usual boundaries of time, culture and...