The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature by Daniel Levitin
$22.99 AUD
Category: science environment
Dividing the sum total of human musical achievement, from Beethoven to The Beatles, Busta Rhymes to Bach, into just six fundamental forms, Levitin illuminates, through songs of friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion and love, how music has been instrumental in the evolution of language, thought a ...Show more
A Cloud A Day (HB) by Gavin Pretor-Pinney
$34.99 AUD
Category: science environment | Series: A\Day Ser.
Cloudspotter and bestselling author Gavin Pretor-Pinney delivers a moment of calm atmospheric contemplation to members of his Cloud Appreciation Society by sharing a cloud image and story every day. A Cloud a Day urges all of us to keep our heads in the clouds with 365 fascinating formations from his e ...Show more
climate change and the cargo cult by chris cunningham
$37.99 AUD
Category: science environment
Climate Change is a major threat to our way of life, and requires urgent political action to remedy its many threats, but is it a symptom rather than the disease? This book argues that the problem lies deep in our commitment to the quest for ever increasing economic growth. At some time in the 1970s the ...Show more
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics by Michael Pollan
$22.99 AUD
Category: science environment
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
Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester
$24.99 AUD
Category: science environment
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018 Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson. Precision is the key to everything. It is an in ...Show more
Australian Birds of Prey in Flight: A Photographic Guide by Richard Seaton; Mat Gilfedder; Stephen Debus
$39.99 AUD
Category: science environment
Identify the eagles, hawks, kites and falcons flying high above you with this photographic guide. Birds of prey spend most of their time in flight and, when viewed from the ground, they are notoriously hard to identify. Australian Birds of Prey in Flight is a photographic guide to the eagles, hawks, kit ...Show more
Universe Explained: A Cosmic Q and A by COUPER / HENBEST
$24.95 AUD
Category: science environment
Answers to the most popular astronomy questions of today. Over the course of their illustrious work in astronomy, Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest collected hundreds of the most popular astronomy questions that they've been asked. In this book they explain the scientific answers to these questions with ...Show more
The Hidden Life of Trees (Illustrated Edition) by Peter Wohlleben
$49.99 AUD
Category: science environment
In his international bestseller, The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben opened readers? eyes to the wonders and amazing processes at work in the forest. Now this new, breathtakingly illustrated edition brings those wonders to life like never before. With compelling selections from the original book a ...Show more
Woo's Wonderful World of Maths by Eddie Woo
$29.99 AUD
Category: science environment
Why is a rainbow curved? Why aren't left-handers extinct? How is a sunflower like a synchronised swimmer? Why is 'e' a magic number?The answer to these questions is contained within one simple word: MATHS. Because maths is all about patterns, and our universe is extraordinarily patterned.With enthusiasm ...Show more
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations by David R. Montgomery
$40.95 AUD
Category: science environment
Dirt, soil, call it what you want--it's everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence, supporting our feet, our farms, our cities. This fascinating yet disquieting book finds, however, that we are running out of dirt, and it's no laughing matter. An engaging natural and cultural history of soil that ...Show more
Life On Earth 40th Anniversary Edition by Sir David Attenborough
$49.99 AUD
Category: science environment | Series: Anniversary Ed.
A new, beautifully illustrated edition of David Attenborough's groundbreaking Life on Earth. David Attenborough's meeting with gorillas was one of the most unforgettable moments for millions of television viewers. With Life on Earth, Attenborough created a book and TV series that became a benchmark of q ...Show more
The Righteous Mind - Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
$27.99 AUD
Category: science environment
In this "landmark contribution to humanity's understanding of itself" (The New York Times Book Review) social psychologist Jonathan Haidtchallenges conventional thinking about morality, politics, and religion in a way that speaks to conservatives and liberals alike. Drawing on his twenty-five years of ...Show more