Astronomy Demystified by Stan Gibilisco
36.95 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
This book can enable people with an interest in astronomy or aerospace engineering to get a grasp of fundamentals and general concepts without formal training. Another important feature of this book is its top-down approach. Most astronomy textbooks seem to be built up from a base of intimidating formu ...Show more
Harmony: A New Way of Looking at Our World by HRH the Prince of Wales
29.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
HRH The Prince of Wales reveals how the solutions to our most pressing modern challenges, from climate change to poverty, can only be found in regaining a balance with nature.For decades, The Prince of Wales has studied a wide array of disciplines in his quest to understand how modern industrialization ...Show more
Among the Great Apes: Adventures on the Trail of Our Closest Relatives by Paul Raffaele
29.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
The great apes - gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans - are our closest relatives, with whom we share most of our DNA. For centuries, we humans have been drawn to study the great apes to learn more about ourselves and to see the unique way in which their lives reflect ours. While great scientis ...Show more
The Utterly, Completely, and Totally Useless Science Fact-o-pedia: A Startling Collection of Scientific Trivia You'll Never Need to Know by Wendy M. Leonard
22.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
Calling all trivia buffs! Loaded with over 200 entries and almost 2,000 bits of trivia, this book will arm you with hundreds of useless scientific tidbits - perfect for curious minds. Organized from A ("Amino Acids") to Z ("Zombie Etiquette"), and packed with great cartoons, The Useless Science Fact-o-P ...Show more
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick
35.00 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
James Gleick, the author of the bestsellers Chaos and Genius, brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become the modern era's defining quality--the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike ou ...Show more
Hoping for a Home : How a Woman with a Big Heart Gave New Lives to Animals in Need by Janie Ritson
24.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
A collection of unique and heart-warming stories from the life of an RSPCA rescue worker. Janie Ritson shows us the full and wondrous lives of those animals neglected and forgotten. A new talent from Authonomy, HarperCollins' own talent-spotting website, Janie Ritson writes about her and her husband's ...Show more
David Attenborough's First Life: A Journey Back in Time with Matt Kaplan by Sir David Attenborough
59.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
The epic story of the beginning of life on Earth from the much loved and respected naturalist, writer and broadcaster, Sir David Attenborough. Spanning billions of years, First Life reveals the extraordinary story of the evolution of the first life on Earth and how it then evolved into multicellular lif ...Show more
Life Stories by Sir David Attenborough
39.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
A personal view of the natural world "I daresay my mind would wander over a range of animals remarkable for the extravagance of their reproductive techniques" - Sir David Attenborough, when asked which animal he would like to be if he returned to Earth This fantasy reincarnation was reserved only when i ...Show more
Connected: The Amazing Power of Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives by Nicholas A. Christakis
21.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
Is happiness catching? Are your friends making you fat? Can your sibling make you smart? Is wealth contagious? Where is true love found? Does free will exist? Based on exciting discoveries in mathematics, genetics, psychology and sociology, 'Connected' is an innovative and fascinating exploration of ho ...Show more
Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society by Bill Bryson (ed.)
49.99 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE | Reading Level: very good
Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, and with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, David Attenborough, Martin Rees and Richard Fortey amongst others, this is a remarkable volume celebrating the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society. On a damp weeknight in November, 350 years ago, a doz ...Show more
The World of Mining by Richard Woldendorp et al
80.00 AUD
Category: SCIENCE & NATURE
In this truly unique celebration of mining, breathtaking aerial photographs by award-wining photograpers Jim Wark and Richard Woldendorp accompany ground-level pictures of mines, mine-side oddities, and mine communities. Informed but breezy narratives by mining experts John Trudinger and Karlheinz Spitz ...Show more