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Many Things Under a Rock: The 'mind-blowing' book that reveals the mysteries of the octopus, perfect for all science enthusiasts and fans of David Attenborough
Author: David Scheel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Scheel brings the world of the octopus vividly alive. The best nature books do not just describe animals: they give us...
The Hydrogen Revolution: a blueprint for the future of clean energy
Author: Marco Alvera Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A Financial Times BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 'Engaging, authoritative and very timely. Marco Alvera spells Hydrogen's critical role as an...
Chronic Pain: A Drug-Free Way to Feel Better
Author: Phil Sizer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 'Buy this book and make sure your doctor reads it too!' Dr Steve Gilbert, former Lead Clinician for Chronic Pain in...
Identically Different: Why You Can Change Your Genes
Author: Professor Tim Spector Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 *A brand new and updated edition for 2024, including the latest insights on diet and weight management drugs, gene editing,...
Cambridge Prescriber's Guide in Psychiatry
Author: Sepehr Hafizi (Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust and University of Cambridge) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 720 Based on the best-selling Stahl's Prescriber's Guide, this essential guide to...
Understanding Genes
Author: Kostas Kampourakis (Universite de Geneve) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 230 What are genes? What do genes do? These questions are not simple and straightforward to answer; at the...
Food or War
Author: Julian Cribb Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 350 Ours is the Age of Food. Food is a central obsession in all cultures, nations, the media, and society. Our future...
Falls in Older People: Risk Factors, Strategies for Prevention and Implications for Practice
Author: Stephen R. Lord Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 500 This third edition of a trusted resource brings together the latest literature across multiple fields to facilitate the understanding and...
Dispatches from the Land of Alzheimer's
Author: Daniel Gibbs (Emeritus of Oregon Health and Science University) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 228 In 2006, Daniel Gibbs, author of A Tattoo on my Brain: A Neurologist's Personal...
No Miracles Needed: How Today's Technology Can Save Our Climate and Clean Our Air
Author: Mark Z. Jacobson (Stanford University, California) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 454 The world needs to turn away from fossil fuels and use clean, renewable sources of energy as...
The Cosmic Revolutionary's Handbook: (Or: How to Beat the Big Bang)
Author: Luke A. Barnes (Western Sydney University) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 290 Free yourself from cosmological tyranny! Everything started in a Big Bang? Invisible dark matter? Black holes? Why...
Contraception: The Answers You've Been Looking For
Author: Paula Briggs Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 150 Choosing the right method of contraception can be confusing: you need to consider your lifestyle, personal preference, any health conditions you...
Wild Cities: Discovering New Ways of Living in the Modern Urban Jungle
Author: Chris Fitch Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'Mind-shifting, heart-lifting' ISABELLA TREE 'Inspiring and essential' ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS 'As entertaining as it is enlightening' INDEPENDENT The majority of the world...
The Genetic Age: Our Perilous Quest To Edit Life
Author: Professor Matthew Cobb Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 A TIMES ENVIRONMENT AND SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 'The ideal guide to what is not just a fiendishly...
From 0 to Infinity in 26 Centuries: The Extraordinary Story of Maths
Author: Chris Waring Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Like it or not, maths is a part of everyday life. Whether we learned only basic arithmetic, or went on to...
The Maps We Carry: Psychedelics, trauma and our new path to mental health
Author: Rose Cartwright Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'Rose Cartwright breaks all our old certainties and liberates us to approach our mental struggles with new humanity and creativity. The...
Introducing Quantum Theory: A Graphic Guide
Author: J.P. McEvoy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Quantum theory confronts us with bizarre paradoxes which contradict the logic of classical physics. At the sub-atomic level, one particle seems...
Zoo Ethics
Author: Jenny Gray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 If you've visited a zoo and come face-to-face with a magnificent creature, such as a tiger, elephant or gorilla, you may...
Volcanoes & Earthquakes
Author: Chiara Maria Petrone Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Volcanoes & Earthquakes features the earth sciences at their most spectacular. It reveals the massive internal forces that create and...
The Great Barrier Reef
Author: Pat Hutchings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 488 The iconic and beautiful Great Barrier Reef Marine Park is home to one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world....
The Book of Rest: How to find calm in a chaotic world
Author: James Reeves Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Impossibly wonderful' Daily TelegraphRevised and updated with a brand new chapter. Find peace in a restless world. 'James's heartfelt gentleness and...
Tasmanian Mayflies: Identification, Ecology, Behaviour and Imitation
Author: Ron Thresher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 228 Mayflies are one of the world's most diverse, abundant and important aquatic insects. Famous for their brief adult life spans, mayflies...
Shark Attacks
Author: Blake Chapman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 280 Humans spend more time in or on the water than ever before; we love the beach. But for many people, getting...
Rocky Outcrops in Australia: Ecology, Conservation and Management
Author: Damian Michael Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 184 Rocky outcrops are landscape features with disproportionately high biodiversity values relative to their size. They support specialised plants and animals, and...
Plants of Subtropical Eastern Australia
Author: Andrew Benwell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Plants of Subtropical Eastern Australia describes the rich flora of this biogeographically distinct region located on the east coast of Australia,...
Plant Names: A Guide to Botanical Nomenclature
Author: Roger Spencer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 168 Plant Names is an invaluable guide to the use of scientific, commercial and common names for plants and the conventions for...
Natural Asset Farming
Author: David B. Lindenmayer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 204 Farm dams, creeklines, vegetation and rocky outcrops are natural assets that are essential for healthy, sustainable farms. Protecting and enhancing...
Insects of South-Eastern Australia: An Ecological and Behavioural
Author: Roger Farrow Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Insects of South-Eastern Australia is a unique field guide that uses host plants and behavioural attributes as the starting point for...
Guide to Native Orchids of Victoria
Author: Gary Backhouse Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 328 This comprehensive guide describes the 447 species of wild orchids that occur in Victoria, Australia. This region is one of the...
Guide to Introduced Pest Animals of Australia
Author: Peter West Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Australia's introduced vertebrate pest species cost at least $1 billion annually in economic, environmental, and social impacts. The Guide to Introduced...
Gemstones- A Concise Reference Guide
Author: Robin Hansen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Gemstones have been a source of fascination for Millenia, from the icy brilliance of diamond and the soft iridescence of pearl,...
Geelong's Changing Landscape: Ecology, Development and Conservation
Author: David S. Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 344 Geelong's Changing Landscape offers an insightful investigation of the ecological history of the Geelong and Bellarine Peninsula region. Commencing with...
Field Guide to the Seashores of South-Eastern Australia
Author: Christine Porter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 228 The types of plants and animals that live on seashores in temperate regions are similar around the globe, but many of...
Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the
Author: Tom Chivers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024 'Fascinating, witty and perspective-shifting . . . I finished it not...
Drought Country
Author: Robert Godfree Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Droughts have lurked behind Australia's major nation-shaping moments from European settlement at Port Jackson to Federation. They have caused catastrophic damage...
Cornerstones of Impact Management
Author: Anne-Maree Dowd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 340 Cornerstones of Impact Management is a comprehensive and practical guide to all aspects of impact management. It provides insights and expertise...
Coral Reefs of Australia
Author: Sarah M. Hamylton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 344 Australia's coral reefs stretch far and wide, covering 50 000 square kilometres from the Indian Ocean in the West to...
Building An Innovation Hotspot
Author: Alicia Cameron Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 How can you increase innovation at local levels and build new technology hotspots? Building an Innovation Hotspot outlines the approaches governments,...
Birds in Their Habitats: Journeys with a Naturalist
Author: Ian Fraser Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 This is a book of the discovery of birds and the places they live. Everywhere we go there are birds, and...
Bees of Australia
Author: Mr James Dorey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Bees are the darlings of the insect world. It is a great joy to see these tenaciousinsects hard at work,...
Beachcombing- A guide to seashores of the Southern Hemisphere
Author: Ceridwen Fraser Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 116 If you've ever walked along a beach or rocky shore and peered, poked or wondered at the things cast upon it...
Australasian Eagles and Eagle-like Birds
Author: Stephen Debus Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Eagles are awe-inspiring birds that have influenced much human endeavour. Australia is home to threeeagle species, and in Melanesia there are...
A Guide to Crickets of Australia
Author: David Rentz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Cricket song is a sound of the Australian bush. Even in cities, the rasping calls signify Australia's remarkable cricket biodiversity. Crickets...
A Bat's End
Author: John Woinarski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 280 On the evening of 26 August 2009, the last known pipistrelle emerges from its day-time shelter on Christmas Island. Scientists, desperate...
Scientists on Survival: Personal Stories of Climate Action
Author: Scientists for XR Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 In this important and timely book, scientists from a broad range of disciplines detail their personal responses to climate change...
Foolproof: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity
Author: Sander van der Linden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Winner of British Psychological Society Best Book Prize (Popular Science) 2023 Nature's Top 10 Books of 2023 A Financial...
360 Fertility: A twelve-week plan for optimising your chance of conception
Author: Liberty Mills Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 '360 Fertility brings the overwhelming and often heartbreaking process of a fertility struggle into manageable and relatable chapters' Katie Rollings, CEO...
Hubris Maximus: The Shattering of Elon Musk
Author: Faiz Siddiqui Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Once heralded as a modern-day Edison, Elon Musk has taken up a new role in public consciousness, with his growing desire...