How the Body Works: The Facts Simply Explained
$37.99 AUD
Category: science environment
How the Body Works is a fascinating exploration of the weird and wonderful processes that occur within the human body, often without us knowing. This title helps us understand how our bodies keep us alive and thriving and get to the bottom of such niggling questions as why we get dizzy, why we get butte ...Show more
52 Ways to Walk: The Surprising Science of Walking for Wellness and Joy, One Week at a Time by Annabel Streets
$22.99 AUD
Category: science environment
'Fascinating ... Connected both to old wisdom and new scientific frontiers of discovery' Lauren Laverne 'We can all learn something from 52 Ways to Walk. I know I can.' Michael Ball, BBC Radio 2 Walking strengthens our bodies, calms our minds and lifts our spirits. But it does so much more than this. ...Show more
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia MD
$35.00 AUD
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This is the ultimate manual for longevity.For all its successes, mainstream medicine has failed to make much progress against the diseases of ageing that kill most people- heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and type 2 diabetes. Too often, it intervenes with treatments too late, prolonging lifes ...Show more
Gemstones: Understanding, Identifying, Buying by KEITH WALLIS
$49.99 AUD
Category: science environment | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
-A new, updated edition of this bestselling guide to understanding, identifying and buying gemstones -Includes many new images, updated text and a new section on jewelry -A clear, uncomplicated approach to the subject, illustrated in color throughout, making the identification of gems simple Whether buy ...Show more
Plant Magick. The Library of Esoterica by Jessica Hundley
$75.00 AUD
Category: science environment
The fourth volume in The Library of Esoterica explores the historic roots of plants in myth, religion, and magickal practices. Through essays, interviews, and more than 400 images—from ancient Egyptian stonework to 18th-century botanical illustrations—Plant Magick chronicles the beautifully symbiotic ...Show more
Cornerstones: Wild forces that can change our world by Benedict Macdonald
$34.99 AUD
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BY THE WAINWRIGHT-CONSERVATION-PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF REBIRDING Transform your understanding of the natural world forever and discover the wild forces that once supported Britain's extraordinary natural riches, and could again. Our precious archipelago is ravaged by climate change, bereft of natural ...Show more
Happy Planet Living: Simple Ways to Live a Climate Positive Lifestyle and Make a Big Difference by Mia Swainson
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Category: science environment
Happy Planet Living will empower and inspire you to take practical action and be a part of the solution to our planet’s climate and sustainability crises. Change really does start in the home—gain practical ideas to live life in a way that is more sustainable and reduces your impact on climate change. M ...Show more
Gemstones: A Concise Reference Guide by Robin Hansen
$34.99 AUD
Category: science environment
Gemstones have been a source of delight and fascination for many thousands of years, from the icy brilliance of diamond and the soft iridescence of pearl, to tough jade gems once used in weapons and pink topaz that was popular in Victorian jewellery. This book looks at each of the world’s known types of ...Show more
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World by Simon Winchester
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From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for it and gave it back. In 1889, thousands of hopeful people raced southward from the Kansas state line and westward from the Arkansas boundary to stake claims ...Show more
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
$24.99 AUD
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When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi provide a key to understanding the p ...Show more
Man and Nature - Or, Physical Geography As Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh
$16.99 AUD
Category: science environment | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
An essential read for the next generation of environmentalists and climate scholars, this landmark text analyzes the impact of human action on nature by linking the environmental degradation of ancient Mediterranean civilization to the United States of the 1800s. Profoundly topical today as it was in 18 ...Show more
Soil: The Incredible Story of What Keeps the Earth, and Us, Healthy by Matthew Evans
$34.99 AUD
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'A love letter to Mother Earth and entertaining must-read that goes to the heart of our survival' Charles Massy, author of Call of the Reed Warbler. What we do to the soil, we do to ourselves. Soil is the unlikely story of our most maligned resource as swashbuckling hero. A saga of bombs, ice ages and c ...Show more